Beloit College Faculty - Richard Goldstone, Edward Hoagland, George Ellery Hale, Merle Curti, John Ostrom, Bei DAO, Miles P. Squire (Paperback)

Chapters: Richard Goldstone, Edward Hoagland, George Ellery Hale, Merle Curti, John Ostrom, Bei Dao, Miles P. Squire, Crawford Gates, Scott Sanders, Robley Wilson, Robert O. Fink, Lou B. Noll, Sally Ball, Roc Ordman, Arthur M. Chickering. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard J. Goldstone (born October 26, 1938) is a South African former judge. He served on the Transvaal Supreme Court and Appellate Division of the Supreme Court from 1980 to 1991. During the transition from apartheid to multiracial democracy he headed the influential Goldstone Commission into political violence in South Africa and was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to the newly-established Constitutional Court of South Africa. . He also served as the chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda from 15 August 1994 to September 1996, and in 2009 led an independent fact-finding mission created by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate international human rights and humanitarian law violations related to the Gaza War. Richard Goldstone is a third-generation South African who was born in 1938 into a Jewish family in Boksberg near Johannesburg. He is married to Noleen Goldstone. They have two daughters and four grandsons. While still a child, Goldstone was encouraged by his grandfather to study law. He later recalled: "My grandfather decided when I was about 4 I was going to be a barrister, so I just always assumed I was. It turned out to be a wise decision." He was educated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg and subsequently undertook a six-year legal studies course at the University of the Witwatersrand, from which he graduated in 1962 with a BA LLB cum laude. At the university Golds...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=61965