Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy; Director of the International Law and Organizations Program
Expertise by Geographic Area:
Afghanistan; Africa; Asia; Balkans; East Asia; Iraq Expertise by Issue:
Diplomacy; Human Rights; International Crimes and Tribunals; International Law; Rule of Law; Strategic and Security Issues; Terrorism; Treaty Negotiations; U.S. Congress and Foreign Policy; United Nations; Use of Force; Weapons of Mass Destruction Background and Education:
U.S. member of the U.N. Human Rights Committee; member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee for International Law, the Defense Policy Board and the CIA Historical Review Panel; U.S. public delegate to Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Warsaw Human Dimension Meeting; independent expert for International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; former professor at Yale Law School, director of studies at the Hague Academy for International Law in the Netherlands, visiting professor at University of Paris I (Sorbonne), Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy and Charles H. Stockton Professor at the U.S. Naval War College; former member of the Hart-Rudman Commission on National Security in the 21st Century, senior fellow for international organizations at the Council on Foreign Relations and chief of staff to the head of the criminal division in the U.S. Department of Justice, chairing the attorney general’s working group on informant and undercover investigative guidelines; served as federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York (investigations and trials of public corruption, weapons smuggling, racketeering, landlord arson and espionage); vice president of American Society of International Law, vice president of International Law Association-American Branch and on the board of editors for American Journal of International Law, World Policy Journal and American Interest; director of Freedom House and member of the advisory council of National Interest; served as law clerk to Judge Henry Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Harry Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court and as executive editor of the Yale Law Journal; commentator for BBC, NPR and PBS; J.D., Yale University Publications:
International Criminal Justice (2007); "Post-Conflict Reconstruction" in American Journal of International Law Symposium, editor (2001); After Dayton: Lessons of the Bosnian Peace Process, editor (1999); The Revolutionary Martyrdom of Jonathan Robbins (1990); articles in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy |
