Allan Gotlieb has been named Legal Adviser, and Acting Assistant Undersecretary of State for External Affairs, it was announced by External Affairs Minister Paul Martin.
Mr. Gotlieb, 39, was born in Winnipeg, educated at the University of California, at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and Harvard University, where he was on the board of editors of the Harvard Law Review. He lectured in law at Oxford. Author of Disarmament and International Law, and visiting professor of political science at Carleton University here, he served in 1962 on the Canadian delegation to the 18-power disarmament conference in Geneva.
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