H.E. Douglas W. Kmiec
th
April 2011
Look out for upcoming public lectures being hosted by the Department of International Relations delivered by the following participants
Dr Naveed Sheikh , Keele University; author of The New Politics of Islam: Pan-Islamic Foreign Policy in a
World of States (2007) and Saudi State, Wahabi World: The Globalization of Muslim Radicalism (2009)
Dr Marc Sageman , consultant to the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence; author of
Understanding Terror Networks (2004)
For further information please contact the Department of International Relations on 2340 3083 or valentina.cassar@um.edu.mt

Ambassador Douglas W. Kmiec
Biography
Douglas W. Kmiec (born September 24, 1951) was sworn in as
U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Malta on September 2, 2009, and presented his credentials to H.E. Dr. George Abela, President of Malta, on September 17, 2009.
An American legal scholar and author, he has written widely on constitutional law; jurisprudence; and the importance of interfaith understanding to successful diplomacy. When nominated by
President Obama in 2009, he held the Caruso Family Chair in
Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University School of Law.
Ambassador Kmiec received his undergraduate degree with honors from Northwestern University in 1973 and his law degree from the University of Southern California in 1976. He was a member of the school's law review and was awarded the Legion
Lex Commencement Prize for Legal Writing.
Ambassador Douglas W. Kmiec
Ambassador Kmiec served on the faculty at University of Notre Dame Law School from 1980 to 1999, with several leaves to serve in the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). Having served as Deputy Assistant Attorney
General in OLC from 1985-88, he was nominated by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the Senate in 1988 as head of OLC. He returned to Notre Dame in 1989, where he directed the Thomas White Center on Law & Government and founded the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy . Ambassador
Kmiec then served as the Dean and St. Thomas More Professor of the law school at the Catholic University of America until he assumed the endowed chair at Pepperdine, 2003-2009.
A White House Fellow and a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar on the Constitution in Asia, Ambassador
Kmiec's published works include The Attorney General's Lawyer (1992), Can a Catholic Support Him? (2008), three books on the American Constitution, a two-volume legal treatise, related books, and hundreds of published articles and essays. As head of OLC, he authored the opinion underlying the extension of the U.S. territorial sea from 3 to 12 miles and an opinion that brought AIDS victims within the protection of federal laws. His comparative analysis of EU-U.S. market integration was the subject of a recent seminar for members of the ECJ and U.S. Supreme Court in Brussels.
Ambassador Kmiec is married to a university administrator who was recently named "person of the year" in
Malibu, California. Mrs. Kmiec helped pioneer and sustain a fine arts program that annually brought 10,000 disadvantaged children to the university for a day in the arts. The Kmiecs have five children, including a former clerk to the U.S. Chief Justice, presently doing human rights work in the Congo; a deputy counsel of a major California county; a director of music marketing for a prominent entertainment firm, and still in college, an architect and trial lawyer to be.