Gerald L. Neuman is J. Sinclair Armstrong

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of International, Foreign, and

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. He was previously Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal

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at Columbia Law School. He is an expert on international

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, comparative constitutional law, and

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and nationality law. Prof. Neuman was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in September 2010 and served on the Committee until December 2014. He graduated from

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and earned a PhD in Mathematics from the

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in 1977.

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