White Plains, NY (February 14, 2001): -- Professor Harold G. Maier, an internationally recognized authority on the application of United States regulatory legislation to foreign business activity, will examine the future of the trade embargo against Cuba in a lecture at Pace Law School on Thursday, February 15, entitled, “The Cuban Democracy Act: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease.” The lecture is part of the School’s Annual Sloan Lecture Series on International Law and will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Room C-101 of the Classroom Building on the Pace Law School campus in White Plains at 78 North Broadway.  The lecture and a reception with the speaker are open to the public at no charge.

Maier holds the David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School, where he has taught since 1965. He founded the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and serves as its faculty advisor. Maier has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, George Washington University, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Georgia. He has done advanced research at the Brookings Institution and the Max-Planck Institute in Munich, Germany. He has served on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law and is currently a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Comparative Law. Among his many scholarly publications is an important article, "Trade Embargo as an International Political Instrument," published in the New England Law Review (1999). 

 In addition to his accomplished academic career, Maier has served as a counselor on international law to the Legal Adviser, United States Secretary of State (1983-84) and as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of the Army on the Panama Canal Treaty Negotiations (1976).  He has testified on several occasions before congressional committees and commissions, and served as an expert witness for the U.S. Government on international law in Garcia v. Smith (The Mariel Cubans Case, 1985).

 The Sloan Lecture series honors Blaine Sloan, Professor Emeritus of International Law and Organization at Pace Law School, who founded the School’s program in international law.  Sloan contributed significantly to the development of private and public international law during his three decades as a member of the United Nations Legal Office and as Director of its General Legal Division.