Richard Gardner

Richard N. Gardner, Professor of Law and International Organization, continues to teach his seminar in Legal Aspects of US Foreign Economic Policy, the longest running seminar at the Law School, which he began teaching when he was appointed to the Faculty in 1957. Over the years he has taught the basic International Law course and also seminars in Defense Policy and Arms Control, International Organization and the Human Environment, and International Organization for Peace and Security.

Professor Gardner served as US Ambassador to Italy from 1977 to 1981 and as US Ambassador to Spain from 1993 to 1997. From 1961 to 1965 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs.

A former member of the President’s Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN), he is currently a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy.

Professor Gardner holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Yale Law School, a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Economics from Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA degree in Economics from Harvard. His Oxford thesis, published by the Oxford University Press as Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy, has been described as the “classic” study of Anglo-American economic collaboration in the creation of the Bretton Woods institutions and GATT.

He is the author of four other books on international affairs, including In Pursuit of World Order: US Foreign Policy and International Organization. His latest book, Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War, was published in Italian in September 2004 by Mondadori and in English in September 2005 by Rowman & Littlefield.

In 2000, Professor Gardner served as a public delegate to the 55th Millennium United Nations General Assembly. He served as Special Advisor to the United Nations at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, as he did in 1972 to the UN Conference on the Human Environment.

Both of Professor Gardner’s two children are graduates of the Law School: Nina Gardner, an international consultant in Washington, DC, and Anthony Gardner, Director of Structured Finance in the private equity firm of Palamon Capital Partners in London.