Reading Room Document

Membership of Judge Parker on the International Law Commission

This opinion concludes that the Constitution does not prohibit John J. Parker, Chief Judge of the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit, from serving concurrently as a member of the International Law Commission in the U.N. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at https://justice.gov/olc/page/file/935731/download.

November 27, 1953