Dr. Brown Weiss was appointed to the Panel in September 2003, which acts as an advisory body that oversees the Bank?s international projects. She is the Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where she has been on the faculty since 1978, and where she has taught and published widely on issues of international law and global policies, including environmental and compliance issues. Before Georgetown, she was a professor at Princeton University. Dr. Brown Weiss has served as President of the American Society of International Law and as Associate General Counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she established the Division of International Law. She is a member of 10 editorial boards, including those of the American Journal of International Law and the American Journal of International Economic Law. She has been a board member, trustee, or advisor for a number of organizations including the Japanese Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, the Cousteau Society, the Center for International Environmental Law, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Dr. Brown Weiss has been a Special Legal Advisor to the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, the Water Science and Technology Board and the Committee on Sustainable Water Supplies in the Middle East. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. Dr. Brown Weiss has won many prizes for her work, books and articles including the Elizabeth Haub prize from the Free University of Brussels and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for international environmental law, and the 2003 American Bar Association Award in recognition of distinguished achievements in Environmental Law and Policy. Dr. Brown Weiss received a bachelor's of arts degree from Stanford University with Great Distinction, an LL.B. (J.D.) from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
