Monroe Leigh (1919–2001) was a prominent American political philosopher and diplomat.
His time in law school was interrupted by service in the Army Air Forces during World War II.
He was also NATO mission envoy, and president of the American Society of International Law.
He was a prolific writer on the subject of international law, with his influential criticism of the United States' refusal to sign the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court being published in 2000, the year before he died.
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