Talk:Marc Weller (professor)

Re his Notability
Notability (academics) 1. The person's research has made significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources.

His Kosovo book is recommended by Sean D. Murphy, George Washington University - Law School, to be read by anybody interested in the background to the landmark International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1702443

Book Review of Marc Weller, Contested Statehood: Kosovo’s Struggle for Independence, Oxford University Press, 2009 (321 pp.)

Sean D. Murphy George Washington University - Law School

2011

George Washington International Law Review, 2011 GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 519 GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 519

Abstract: How an area measuring no more than about 11,000 square kilometers could become arguably “ground zero” for the formation of post-Cold War international law is a bit of a mystery, but the province (and now country) of Kosovo, in the late twentieth/early twenty-first centuries, somehow managed to pull off that feat. In Contested Statehood: Kosovo’s Struggle for Independence Marc Weller provides the best history to date of the Kosovo crisis from the end of the Cold War up to the point that Kosovo’s independence was declared in February 2008. In its July 2009 advisory opinion on that legality of that Declaration, the International Court of Justice avoided a lengthy account of Kosovo’s contemporary history, hewing closely to just those facts and law necessary to answer the narrow question before it. As such, anyone interested in the backdrop for the Court’s advisory opinion would do well to keep Contested Statehood close at hand.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 14

Keywords: international law, Security Council, Kosovo, International Court of Justice, declaration of independence

JEL Classification: K33

Accepted Paper Series --- Notability (academics) 7. The person has made substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity.

Noam Chomsky quotes him as "Albanian Kosovar legal adviser Marc Weller" http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20000314.htm

Kosovo was an extremely ugly place last year. About 2000 people were killed according to NATO, mostly Albanians, in the course of a bitter struggle that began in February with Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) actions that the United States denounced as "terrorism" and a brutal Serb response. By summer the KLA had taken over about 40% of the province, eliciting a vicious reaction by Serb security forces and paramilitaries, targeting the civilian population. According to Albanian Kosovar legal adviser Marc Weller, "within a few days [after the withdrawal of the monitors on 20 March 1999] the number of displaced had again risen to over 200,000," figures that conform roughly to US intelligence reports (1). -- Notability (academics) 7. The person has made substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity.

He is the legal expert chosen by the BBC website to explain the legal aspects of the Crimean crisis to its readers.

BBC News - Analysis: Why Russia's Crimea move fails legal test www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26481423

On Crimea, besides the BBC, he's also interviewed and quoted by Becky Anderson of CNN (http://connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/12/russia-ukraine-whose-side-is-law-on/ ), and quoted by Patrick Worrall of Channel4 (http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-crimea-myth-reality/17855 ), and Mark Sappenfield of Christian Science Monitor (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/2014/0309/Obama-refuses-to-recognize-a-Russian-Crimea.-But-is-secession-illegal-video ). -- Notability (academics) 7. The person has made substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity.

He is one of only 2 books cited for further reading in Kosovo status process: Further reading[edit]

James Ker-Lindsay (2009). Kosovo: The Path to Contested Statehood in the Balkans. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-012-5. Marc Weller (2009). Contested Statehood: Kosovo's Struggle for Independence. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-956616-7.

External links[edit]

UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo. Contact Group press statements on Kosovo. Ahtisaari's Proposal on Kosovo Negotiating the final status of Kosovo, by Marc Weller, Chaillot Paper No. 114, December 2008, European Union Institute for Security Studies --- Google hits: "marc weller" Kosovo Books: 3,260 Web: 20,300

Google hits: "marc weller" Crimea Books: 1200 Web: 18,100 (though some of the books are saying 'crimes' rather than 'Crimea', and I'm not clear how many) --- Notability (academics) 7. The person has made substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity.

http://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/about-us/the-fellowship/?fellow=MarcWeller

During 2011/12 he served in the Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat in New York. In the role of Senior Mediation Expert, mainly covering in the areas of international and constitutional law, he advised on the transitions in Cote d’Ivoire and Egypt. He supported mediation efforts during the armed conflict in Libya and served on the United Nations pre-planning team for the transition that ensued. He was also a member of the negotiation team that facilitated the transition in Yemen, and drafted the agreement that facilitated the departure from office of the long-serving President. He was involved in the drafting of a law on transitional justice and the design of a national dialogue process leading to constitutional reform in Yemen. Moreover he served on the United Nations high-level mission seeking to stabilize situation in the Maldives after a sudden change in government early in 2012 and he contributed to the mediation efforts of the Joint Special Envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan. Professor Weller also served as an advisor in the Doha negotiations on a peaceful settlement of the Darfur crisis, leading to the adoption of the Doha Document on Peace in Darfur which is now being implemented. He also supported the final phase of the transition in Somalia, including planning for the completion of the constitutional process and other key tasks, and he advised on constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Previously, Professor Weller served as legal consultant for the African Union in the pre-referendum negotiations between North and South Sudan on independence. Before that he was a legal advisor on the Kosovo peace process, starting with the 1992 London Conference on Yugoslavia, continuing with the 1999 Rambouillet Conference on Kosovo and provisionally concluding with the UN-led Vienna process of Final Status Negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia of 2006/7.

That's Cambridge University that's saying all that, and if true would (I think) automatically make him notable. I'm no expert on libel law, but I suspect that implying it isn't true might well be libelous, as well as an extreme violation of WP:BLP. The BBC basically says the same in summary. Cambridge University and the BBC are normally considered reliable sources.

As far as I'm concerned all the above establishes notability as per the criteria, and/or as per WP:IAR if some nitpicker wants to argue that the criteria are not met for various technical reasons.

Furthermore, I expect that a number of other supporting quotes would arise if I were to research all those other areas mentioned above, but I have better ways of wasting my time. Tlhslobus (talk) 19:49, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

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