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Edwin Brown Firmage

Dr. Edwin Firmage is professor of law at the University of Utah College of Law. A magna cum laude graduate of BYU and a Hinckley Fellow, he was National Honors Scholar at the University of Chicago where he graduated with the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees. Dr. Firmage has served as a White House Fellow on the staff of Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey, and attended the arms control negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1971 after having been appointed Visiting Scholar at the United Nations the preceding year. His writings on international law have been widely published in books and legal journals. His most recent publication, “The War of National Liberation and the Third World,” in Moore, ed., Law and Civil War in the Modern World will be published by Johns Hopkins press later this year.