Publications & Opinions of the former Secretariat for Legal Affairs
(1998 - September 15, 2004)

• Reports & Documents

• International Law

• Seminar "The New OAS Legal Agenda and the Caribbean Region". The OAS Charter and the New Agenda of the Organization of American States".  September 17-18, 2002.  Nassau, Bahamas.

• Opening Speech 58th Regular Sessions of the Inter-American Juridical Committee.

• Remarks, International Conference on Dispute Resolution in the Global Marketplace. Sponsored by the American Bar Association.

• International Gathering of Experts on "The Role of Legal Institutions in the Economic Development of the Americas".

• Dr. Keith Highet: Greatness of spirit; Excellence as Jurist.

• Private International Law

• Legal Harmonization in the Americas: Business Transactions, Bijuralism and the OAS.

• Fight Against Corruption

• Remarks at the National Conference on the "Inter-American Convention Against Corruption and its Implementation in Suriname". Paramaribo, Suriname, December 15, 2003.

• Conference on Integrity Organized by the United States Customs Service. The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Fight Against Corruption. Miami - 1999.

• Modernization of the Justice System in the Americas

• Opening Speech at the Meeting to Improve Mutual Legal Assistance in the Hemisphere. Ottawa, Canada, April 30 - May 2, 2003.

• Judicial Reform of Criminal Justice in Latin America.

• Legal aspects of Integration in the Americas

• The Coexistence of Legal Systems in the Americas from an OAS Perspective. University of Ottawa (Canada) Faculty of Law, October 2000.

• Jeannette M.E. Tramhel, "Symposium: International Law in the Americas: Rethinking National Sovereignty in an Age of Regional Integration: Articles & Essays: Free Trade in the Americas: A Perspective From the Organization of American States," 19 Houston Journal of International Law 595 (Spring 1997).

• Publications

• Enrique Lagos and Timothy D. Rudy, “In Defense of Democracy,” 35 University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 283 (2004).

• Enrique Lagos and Timothy D. Rudy, "Preventing, Punishing, and Eliminating Terrorism in the Western Hemisphere: A Post-9/11 Inter-American Treaty," 26 Fordham International Law Journal 1619 (2003).

• Kluwer Law International “OAS” (International Encyclopedia of Laws series, Intergovernmental Organizations part, Suppl. 9, 2001, by Dr. Enrique Lagos, Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs)  (a 136 - page document). (This use made available through the kind permission of Kluwer Law International).

• Enrique Lagos and Timothy D. Rudy, “The Third Summit of the Americas and the Thirty-First Session of the OAS General Assembly,” 96 American Journal of International Law 173 (January 2002) (a law review article on the democracy clause adopted at the Quebec Summit and an earlier version of the proposed Inter-American Democratic Charter).

• "An Overview of Modernization Projects - A Perspective from the Organization of American States," by Dr. Enrique Lagos, Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs and Jeannette Tramhel,  Journal of International Arbitration, Geneva, March 1996, vol. 13, no.1.

Kindly visit the Spanish version of this page for additional reports, documents and publications.

The American Bar Association’s chair of the Section of International Law and Practice has appointed Tim Rudy, a lawyer in the Office of the Assistant Secretary, as the official liaison between the ABA section and the Organization of American States.  Any member of the ABA seeking information about OAS legal research and activities, or any OAS employee or consultant seeking information about ABA research, programs and activities, is urged to contact Tim Rudy for assistance.  He can be reached at (202) 458-3095 or TRudy@oas.org.