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The Risk Of International Justice: A Tribute To Aryeh Neier, Rosa Brooks

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Aryeh Neier has a talent for risk and a talent for trust.

The first time I met Aryeh I was a bored child, glumly tagging along with my mother to a workshop at the New York Institute for the Humanities, where she was a fellow. I don’t think I was older than ten or eleven, but Aryeh introduced himself to me as gravely as if I were a visiting dignitary–an emissary from the far-off planet of childhood.

The second time I met Aryeh, I was twenty-five or so, and only a little bit wiser than I had been at ten. …