Somalia RPCV Martin R. Ganzglass delivered paper entitled `Operation Restore Hope: Lessons Learned-Restoring the Somali Justice System'
Martin R. Ganzglass is a partner in O'Donnell, Schwartz & Anderson in Washington, D.C. He graduated in 1961 from the City College of New York with a BA and from Harvard Law School in 1964 with an LLB. From 1966 to 1968, he was a US Peace Corps Volunteer, serving as Legal Advisor to the Somali National Police Force and to the Minstry of Justice and Religious Affairs. From 1980 to 1987 he represented the Somali Ministry of Mineral and Water Resources in negotiations with foreign petroleum companies for exploration and concession agreements. From approximately 1989 until 1992, he drafted the comments for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights on the US Department of State's Report to Congress on the status of human rights in Somalia. In April 1993, in connection with Operation Restore Hope, Mr Ganzglass served as special consultant to the US Department of State and the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative in Somalia on ways to rebuild the Somali judicial system. He participated in a conference on Operation Restore Hope at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in April 1995 where he delivered a paper entitled `Operation Restore Hope: Lessons Learned-Restoring the Somali Justice System'; in a UN Conference on lessons learned from Somalia in September 1995; and in April 1996, in a conference of the US Joint Military Intelligence College entitled `Challenges to National Security: Sovereignty and Self-Determination After the Cold War'. He is the author of The Somali Penal Code: Cases, Commentary and Examples (1971), and Constitutions of the World: Somalia (1971, 1979, and 1981). He currently is legal counsel to the Government of Eritrea and is part of team drafting the Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure.
