Rights Centre Annual Public Lecture; his topic: The United States and

Australia's Commitment to Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific. The complete lecture can be found here http://www.youtube.com/unsw#p/u/7/Z_mN_SnOEL4

He previously served as Special Counsel to the President at the White

House. From 1995 to 2009, he was a litigation partner in the San

Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, where he was

recognised as one of the nation's top lawyers. After clerking for Judge

Howard Holtzmann at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and acting as Special

Rapporteur to the International Court of Arbitration, he assisted the

Special Prosecutor for the International Tribunal for the

Former-Yugoslavia. Ambassador Bleich received his B.A. from Amherst

College, his Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University and his

law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught

international human rights at UC Berkeley School of Law, and written and

lectured extensively on the international criminal court.