The Australia/US Relationship

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The event will start on: Tuesday, 05 April 2011 6:00 PM

And will end on: Tuesday, 05 April 2011 7:30 PM

At Harris Terrace, Brisbane

46 George Street , Brisbane Queensland

    qld.branch@aiia.asn.au

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Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich will speak at Harris Terrace on Tuesday the 5th of April on 'The Australia/US Relationship'.  There will be a significant question and answer component to this presentation, rather than a simple address.

Jeffrey Bleich was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 20, 2009, to be the U.S. Ambassador to Australia and presented his credentials in Canberra on November 26, 2009.  Ambassador Bleich previously served as Special Counsel to the President at the White House.

From 1995 to 2009, he was a litigation partner in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP.   Previously, after clerking for Judge Howard Holtzmann at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and acting as Special Rapporteur to the International Court of Arbitration, he assisted the Special Prosecutor for the International Tribunal for the Former-Yugoslavia.  He has taught international human rights at UC Berkeley's School of Law, and written and lectured extensively on the international criminal court.

Mr. Bleich received his B.A. from Amherst College, his Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University, and his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.   He received his certificate in Public International Law from the Hague Academy in 1993. Following graduation from law school, he clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist on the United States Supreme Court as well as Judge Abner J. Mikva of the D.C. Circuit.