Pledge of $1.5 million will endow chair honoring alumnus Warren Christopher
O'Melveny & Myers, an international law firm, and a number of its current and retired partners have committed $1.5 million over five years to endow the Warren Christopher Professorship of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy, a joint chair of the Law School and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI).
The professorship was established as a visiting position in autumn 2003 to pay tribute to Warren Christopher, a Law School alumnus and former U.S. secretary of state. Allen Weiner, a former State Department attaché and legal counselor for the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, was appointed the inaugural Warren Christopher Professor.
William H. Taft IV, a former deputy secretary of defense and U.S. ambassador to NATO, currently holds the chair.
