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Edward Monroe Leigh

Birth	:	15 Jul 1919 Virginia, USA
Death	:	27 Nov 2001 District of Columbia, USA
Burial	:	Saint Johns Episcopal Church Cemetery, Halifax, Halifax County, USA
Coordinate	:	36.7674400, -78.9320500
Description	:	Monroe Leigh Dies Washington Post December 1, 2001 Monroe Leigh, 82, a leading authority in international and human rights law who was legal adviser to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and who served as president of the American Society of International Law, died of congestive heart failure Nov. 27 at George Washington University Hospital. Mr. Leigh, who lived in Bethesda and Hillsboro, Va., died after collapsing in his office at the Washington law firm of Steptoe & Johnson. He had worked on Kissinger's staff during the Ford administration. He was a principal author of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, the law establishing... Read More	Monroe Leigh Dies Washington Post December 1, 2001 Monroe Leigh, 82, a leading authority in international and human rights law who was legal adviser to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and who served as president of the American Society of International Law, died of congestive heart failure Nov. 27 at George Washington University Hospital. Mr. Leigh, who lived in Bethesda and Hillsboro, Va., died after collapsing in his office at the Washington law firm of Steptoe & Johnson. He had worked on Kissinger's staff during the Ford administration. He was a principal author of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, the law establishing the jurisdiction and rules of procedure for bringing foreign governments before U.S. courts. From 1975 to 1980, he was a U.S. member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and from 1986 to his death, he served on the panel of arbitrators for the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes. In the 1980s, he served as president of the American Society of International Law and on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law. Mr. Leigh was a member of government advisory groups on the law of the sea, international investment and trade and international law. He was president of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American branch of the International Law Association. His honors included the American Bar Association's Theberge Medal. He taught courses in international trade law at the University of Virginia, wrote articles for the American Journal of International Law and books that included a three-volume series on treaty law. Mr. Leigh was a native of Halifax, Va., and a magna cum laude graduate of Hampden-Sydney College. He taught high school Latin before World War II and served in the Army Air Forces in Europe during the war. After graduating from the University of Virginia law school, he was associated for three years with the Washington law firm of Covington & Burling, then went to work for the State Department, where he was assigned to the U.S. mission to the North Atlantic Council. In 1953, he joined the Defense Department, where he became assistant general counsel for international affairs and helped negotiate treaties. In 1959, he joined Steptoe & Johnson to specialize in international trade law, international dispute resolution, and U.S. regulations involving national security and foreign policy interests. He was managing partner of the firm's international law department. He represented foreign investors in disputes over properties seized after the Cuban revolution. His clients included Texaco. He organized a group of multinational corporations into the Rule of Law Committee, which acted to promote principles of law in international economic relations. After the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, he led a team of lawyers representing the interests of U.S. businesses pursuing claims against the Iranian government before the United States-Iran Claims Tribunal in The Hague. Mr. Leigh later chaired the American Bar Association's Task Force on War Crimes in the former Yugoslavia and represented the group at the Rome conference that drafted a treaty establishing the International Criminal Court. He had been a visiting scholar at Wolfson College of Cambridge University and president of the board of trustees of the Potomac School. He was a founder of the Between the Hills Conservation Council, which worked to preserve open space in western Loudoun County. He was a member of the Metropolitan, Cosmos and Chevy Chase clubs and the Council on Foreign Relations. Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Mary Gallaher Leigh of Bethesda and Hillsboro; three children, Edward Leigh, Parker Leigh and Elizabeth Leigh, all of Washington; and three grandchildren.

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Edward Monroe Leigh's memorial is located at: Saint Johns Episcopal Church Cemetery, Halifax, Halifax County, USA.
When did Edward Monroe Leigh death?
Edward Monroe Leigh death on 27 Nov 2001 in District of Columbia, USA
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Latitude: 36.7674400
Longitude: -78.9320500

Family Members:

Parent

Leander Faulkner Leigh

(1891 - 1962)

Elizabeth Edmunds “Bessie” Monroe Leigh

(1893 - 1970)

Siblings

Thomas Watkins “Tom” Leigh

(1918 - 2001)

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