David Rivkin, ALI Council member and International Bar Association President, was profiled in a recent edition of The National Law Journal for his ambitious agenda for the IBA, including topics such as human rights, trafficking, climate change, and judicial integrity and corruption. He is the first American to lead the IBA in decades, an association founded in 1947 including approximately 50,000 attorneys worldwide.
“Obviously, we cannot engage in every situation,” he said. “We have to decide when and where we can be most effective, and then devote our resources to those areas. The Human Rights Institute of the IBA is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and it has a distinguished council of leading human rights practitioners throughout the world who discuss areas where the institute should focus.”
Rivkin is a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton and co-chair of the firm’s International Dispute Resolution Group. He also serves as an Adviser on the Restatement of the Law, The U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration and as a Counselor on the Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States.
Read more in The National Law Journal.