CENTENNIAL TOASTS TO THE SOCIETY American Society of International Law. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting | January 1, 2006| | Copyright American Society of International Law 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

The following toasts were made at the ASIL Annual Dinner on the evening of Friday, March 31, by ASIL Past Presidents Anne-Marie Slaughter and Thomas Franck.

Toast by Anne-Marie Slaughter

This morning I proposed that the Society engage in a ritual rereading of Elihu Root every year on its birthday. Root himself was the epitome of a man of the world-it is hard to imagine a more worldly career than serving as Secretary of War, Secretary of State, Senator, presidential counselor, and all-purpose sage and elder statesman. Yet his writings on international law have a remarkably unworldly-indeed, ...

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