At Home Abroad: Friendship First

The authors of this book – judges, lawyers, educators, researchers, and administrators – provide personal insights into international cooperative efforts to promote the rule of law in emerging democracies throughout the world. The progress made and the challenges ahead are described with equal doses of idealism and reality. It has been said of many reform efforts that they are not for the faint of heart. Readers will soon discover that the authors of this book are of stout heart. With more than one hundred and fifty years of combined experience, the writers’ accounts serve as a roadmap for those who wish to follow in their footsteps and will truly help them to feel at home abroad.

Justice Nadeau is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Dartmouth College, and Boston University School of Law. He was appointed Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court in 1981 and served as Chief Justice of that court from 1991 until he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 2000. He retired at the end of 2005 to continue twenty-five years of international judicial activities. He has participated in Rule of Law programs in Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, the Soviet Union, and Ukraine.