Hardy Cross Dillard

Hardy Cross Dillard was the son of Avarene Lippincot Budd and James Hardy Dillard, an educator who devoted his life to the education of African Americans and former Dean of Tulane University. Hardy Cross Dillard was also cousin of civil engineer Hardy Cross – originator of the Hardy Cross method.Meador, Daniel J 1995, "Hardy C. Dillard: Writings & Speeches", University of Virginia Law School Foundation, p.2.

Dillard attended the Virginia Episcopal School and later the U.S. Military Academy where he graduated in 1924. Upon graduation, Dillard was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Infantry. However, with the First World War fading in to the background, fresh West Point graduates were encouraged to leave the service. Thus, like many of his classmates, Dillard resigned his commission two months after graduation. He subsequently entered the University of Virginia Law School and served on the editorial board of the Virginia Law Review and was also president of the law school student body. Due to his legal ability, the law faculty took the unusual step of asking him to stay after graduation to serve as an instructor. He taught primarily international law for two years before leaving to become an associate in the New York City law firm of Gregg & Church. After only a year with the law firm, he was awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to study international law at the University of Paris.Meador, Daniel J 1995, "Hardy C. Dillard: Writings & Speeches," University of Virginia Law School Foundation, p. 4.

Upon completion of the program, Dillard accepted an appointment as assistant professor of law at the University of Virginia. He returned to New York City in the summers of 1932 and 1933 and worked as an associate at Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner and Reed. In 1934 he became the university's director of Institute of Public Affairs – an assignment in addition to his law duties. The institute brought prominent speakers to the university from government, business and academia to discuss topics of national and international interest. As the director, Dillard became acquainted with some of the leading figures of the day such as Senator Robert A. Taft, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, Ambassador Paul V McNutt, Owen Lattimore, Thurman Arnold, Max Lerner, David Sarnoff, Rexford Guy Tugwell, Major George Fielding Eliot, Max Eastman, Quincy Howe, and William L. Shirer. Dillard, however, drew controversy by inviting communists such as Earl Browder to speak. A former president of the university's Alumni Association protested in a letter to the Alumni News that Dillard went "beyond freedom of speech" when he offered a rostrum from which the general secretary of the American Communist Party and the Soviet Ambassador could, "spread subversive doctrines." Dillard responded that where controversial topics are selected, "both sides should be fairly heard." A spokesman for Germany was also invited to speak.Meador, Daniel J 1995, "Hardy C. Dillard: Writings & Speeches", University of Virginia Law School Foundation, p.8.

On 27 October 1970, The U.N. General Assembly and U.N. Security Council elected Dillard to a nine-year term on The International Court of Justice.Kahn, E.J. 1970, "Judge Dillard", The New Yorker, 28 March, p.27. During his tenure on the Court, Dillard adjudicated seven contentious and three advisory cases. According to his peers, Judge Dillard's ICJ decision's were resolute and consistent with jurisprudence depicted in writings during his years as a legal scholar.Oliver, Covey T. 1983, "Professor - Judge Hardy Cross Dillard & International Law", Virginia Journal of International Law, 23 (3), p. 381.Kolb, Charles E.M. 1978, "Jurisprudence of Judge HCD", Vanderbilt Journal of International Law,11, p. 650. Dillard's international jurisprudence espoused an interlocking of law and diplomacy whereby law serves as an "ordering device" which helps in dispute settlement and at the same time leaves room for the parties to play a major role in the final determination. He believed that international law should be realistic, creative, axiologically orientedSchachter, Oscar 1982, "Hardy Cross Dillard (1902 - 1982), American Journal of International Law, 76, p. 589. and also serve as an indicator of emerging norms.Oliver, Covey T. 1983, "Professor - Judge Hardy Cross Dillard & International Law", Virginia Journal of International Law 23 (3), p.381. Judge Dillard also stressed that the leaders of national governments – described by him as the "wielders of power" – must understand that effective international law is,"essential to the long range national interests of all the components of the international community." Powell, Lewis F. Jr. 1983, "Judge Hardy Cross Dillard", Virginia Law Review, 69 (5), p.808. Judge Dillard's multi method jurisprudence is reflected in an adage he often used and first noticed on a sign outside of a Unitarian Church in London during the Second World War – between dogmatism on one hand and skepticism on the other, there is a middle way, which is our way - open minded certainty.Meador, Daniel J. 1995, "Hardy C.Dillard: Writings & Speeches", University of Virginia Law School Foundation, p.96.

Dillard was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II along with four other ICJ judges to a court of arbitration separate from the ICJ in order to mediate the long running territorial dispute between Chile and Argentina.Meador, Daniel J. 1995, "Hardy C.Dillard: Writings & Speeches", University of Virginia Law School Foundation, p.19. The dispute involved the three tiny and resource rich islands of Lennox, Nueva & Picton.Brechter, Michael & Wilenfeld, Jonatha 1997, "A Study of Crisis", University of Michigan Press, p. 517. The arbitrators lived in Geneva for six months holding hearings and studying voluminous documents. A unanimous judgment was handed over to Queen Elizabeth II on 2 May 1977 awarding the three channel islands to Chile.Kacowicz, Arie M. & Bar-Simon-Tov, Yaacov & Elgstrom, Ole &, Jerneck Magnus 2012, "Stable Peace Among Nations", Rowman & Little, p. 207. The Argentine government, however, repudiated the court's verdict and the two countries moved to the brink of war.

At the start of Dillard's tenure the court's decision processes were extraordinarily protracted and cumbersome, involving numerous exchanges of individual memoranda, conferences, oral hearings, and repeated circulation of opinions, jointly and individually authored. In order to encourage states to look more often to the ICJ for the resolution of disputes, the court appointed a committee of its judges to simplify its rules of procedure. Dillard served on the committee and became its chairman. The committee's major innovation was to give parties an option to submit a case to a "chamber" of five judges instead of to the full court of fifteen, thereby making possible a more expeditious procedure.Meador, Daniel J 1995, "Hardy C. Dillard: Writings & Speeches" University of Virginia Law School Foundation, p.19.

In April 1950 Dillard, under the auspices of the state department, was placed on active duty in the international section of the Pentagon as Legal Adviser to the High Commissioner for Occupied Germany. In this role, Dillard educated the German Judiciary throughout the American zoneStaff report 1950, "Professor Hardy Dillard Notes Surprising Recovery in Germany's Western Zone", Virginia Law Weekly, 3 (2), p.1. on the constitutional framework of U.S. foreign policy. Specifically, his talks analyzed constitutional issues involved in the NATO, Yalta & Potsdam Agreements. He also addressed the issue of public opinion in shaping (U.S.) policy.Staff 1950, "Professor Hardy Dillard Notes Surprising Recovery in Germany's Western Zone", Virginia Law Weekly, 3 (2), P.4.

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