This book lecture by Arthur T. Downey on his recent work "The Cold War: Law, Lawyers, Spies and Crises" took place at The Institute of World Politics on September 19, 2016.
About the author:
Arthur T. Downey (Washington, D.C.) has lectured at the Smithsonian, taught at Georgetown University Law Center, and is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia. He lived through the Cold War as a student, lawyer, diplomat, and government official. He is the author of Civil War Lawyers (ABA: 2010). Mr. Downey also served on the National Security Council from 1969-1972, as the director of the Bureau of East-West Trade at the Commerce Department, and as a lawyer for the State Department. He is the author of Civil War Lawyers, and The Creole Affair: The Slave Rebellion that led the US and Britain to the Brink of War.
