United States Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich gives the Australian Human
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
Jeffrey Bleich became the United States Ambassador to Australia in 2009.
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.