Professor Bernard H. Oxman, the Richard A. Hausler Professor of Law, recently gave the keynote address at the U.S. Naval War College’s Cushing Conference: International Law and Conflict at Sea. At the University of Miami, he regularly teaches conflict of laws, international law, law of the sea, and torts. He served as associate dean of the Law School from 1987 to 1990, and currently is the Faculty Chair of the Law School's Master of Laws Program in Maritime Law. He has been a member of the University's Faculty Senate since 1996. He is immediate past editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law published by the American Society of International Law, and a member of the American Law Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the only American lawyer ever appointed to serve as judge ad hoc before both the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the International Court of Justice.