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The American Society of International Law is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to advancing the study and use of international law.  As a non-partisan association, the ASIL is open to all points of view in its endeavors, and does not take positions on substantive issues. 

However, to make sure that the press has access to informed sources of information on issues of international law, we have compiled a directory of knowledgeable professionals in the field who are willing to talk with journalists to provide facts and insight in particular areas, and we have grouped them according to topic expertise.

For additional information or to be put in touch with experts on other international law issues, please contact:

Sheila Ward
Coordinator of External Relations
The American Society of International Law (ASIL)
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Directory of Experts by Topic

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Biographies

José E. Alvarez (UN and International Organizations)
A professor at Columbia Law School since 1999, Professor Alvarez was formerly a professor of law and the first director of the International and Comparative Law Center at the University of Michigan Law School.  Prior to coming to Michigan in 1994, Professor Alvarez was an associate professor at the George Washington University's National Law Center and an adjunct instructor at Georgetown Law Center.  At Columbia he teaches courses on international law, foreign investment, international legal theory, and international organizations.  Prior to entering academia in 1989, Professor Alvarez was an attorney adviser with the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State.  While in the State Department, he worked on arbitrations before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, served on the negotiation teams for bilateral investment treaties and the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and was legal adviser to the administration of justice program in Latin America coordinated by the Agency of International Development.  Educated at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Oxford University, Professor Alvarez has also been in private practice and was a judicial clerk to the late Hon. Thomas Gibbs Gee of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.  He has served on a number of advisory bodies at the national level, including the ABA Task Force on the establishment of the ad hoc tribunal to adjudicate war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and the UN Association's National Advisory Committee for UN Financing. Professor Alvarez also has been active in various capacities within the American Society of International Law, having served on its Executive Council, as co-chair of its 1997 Annual Meeting, and presently as President Elect.  He is presently on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of International Law.  Professor Alvarez has published numerous scholarly articles, including analyses of U.S. laws and treaties governing foreign investment, war crimes tribunals, the UN Security Council, the World Trade Organization, and the International Court of Justice; annual surveys of legal issues before the UN's General Assembly; and review essays on international jurisprudence and the use of evidence in international arbitration.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Andersen (Human Rights)

Elizabeth “Betsy” Andersen is Executive Director and Executive Vice President of the American Society of International Law (www.asil.org), the United States’ premier institution for advancing the study and use of international law.  ASIL was founded in 1906 by Elihu Root, who served as both Secretary of War and Secretary of State for President Theodore Roosevelt.

Ms. Andersen first joined the Society in 1995 and became its Executive Director in October 2006.  Most recently she has served as the Executive Director of the American Bar Association’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA CEELI), where she had worked since 2003.  Prior to her position at the ABA CEELI, Andersen was the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia Division, where she had also worked as a researcher and director of advocacy for a total of eight years.  Before joining Human Rights Watch, she served as Legal Assistant to Judge Georges Abi-Saab of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and as a law clerk to Judge Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York.

Anthony Clark Arend (Iraq Conflict)
Anthony Clark Arend is Professor in the Department of Government and the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.  He is a director of the Institute for International Law and Politics in the Department of Government at Georgetown.  Dr. Arend's main research and teaching interests are in the areas of international law relating to the use of military force, national security law, and international organization.  His publications include six books, among them, Legal Rules and International Society, (1999) and International Law and the Use of Force: Beyond the United Nations Charter Paradigm (1993, co-author).  He has also written a wide variety of law review articles, including "International Law and the Preemptive Use of Military Force," The Washington Quarterly, 2003 and "International Law and Rogue States: The Failure of the Charter Framework," New England Law Review, 2002.  Dr. Arend has made numerous media appearances, including NBC's The Today Show, NBC's Dateline, CNN's Burden of Proof, CNN's Talk Back Live and a variety of other international, national, and local programs.  He has written or co-written opinion pieces for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor.  He has also testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Dr. Arend is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, and Who's Who in the East.

M. Cherif Bassiouni (International Criminal Law, ICC, and Tribunals)
M. Cherif Bassiouni, Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law serves as president of DePaul's International Human Rights Law Institute, the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Siracusa, Italy, and the International Association of Penal Law in Paris, France.  In 1992, he was appointed a member, and later chairman, of the U.N. Commission to Investigate International Humanitarian Law Violations in the former Yugoslavia.  From 1995-1998, he was elected vice-chairman of the U.N. General Assembly's Committee for the Establishment of an International Criminal Court and in 1998, he was elected chairman of the Drafting Committee of the U.N. Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court.  Professor Bassiouni is the author and editor of 54 books and 176 law review articles published in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.  He has received numerous honors, including the Order of Merit of the Austrian Republic (1990) and the Italian Republic (1979). Egypt has awarded him the Order of Scientific Merit (1984) and the Order of Military Valor (1956).  In 1999, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his lifelong work to establish an International Criminal Court.

Raj Bhala (Development, Health, and Foreign Aid)
Raj Bhala is the Rice Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas School of Law in Lawrence, Kansas.  At Kansas, he teaches courses in international trade regulation and Islamic law.  Before his appointment to a University Chair at Kansas, Raj taught at George Washington University (1998-2003), where he held the Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law.  Raj served as GW's Associate Dean for International and Comparative Legal Studies (2000-02).  Before joining GW, Raj was on the William & Mary faculty (1993-98).  Before teaching, Raj was an attorney on Wall Street for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1989-93).  He worked in international banking law, principally wire transfers and foreign exchange.  His service as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) earned a Letter of Commendation from the State Department.  He played an important role in prosecuting BCCI.  He is admitted in the New York, D.C., and Colorado bars.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, England's Royal Society for Asian Affairs, and the American Law Institute.  He has consulted for the World Bank, IMF, Government of Laos, Saudi Aramco, and the U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council, and been a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Japan.  His text, International Trade Law (2^nd ed. 2001), is a leading casebook.   It is used at roughly 100 law schools in the U.S. and abroad, including Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Berkeley, USC, Penn, Duke, Arizona, Emory, Iowa, Singapore, Sydney, Amsterdam, and Kent.  He co-authored the treatise, World Trade Law (with Professor Kevin Kennedy).  His latest book is Modern GATT Law: A Treatise on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Sweet & Maxwell 2005).

Daniel M. Bodansky (International Environmental Law)
Internationally recognized for his work on global climate change, Daniel M. Bodansky joined the University of Georgia School of Law as the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law in the fall of 2002. He teaches public international law, international environmental law, and foreign affairs and the Constitution.  Prior to joining the University of Georgia faculty, Bodansky had been a faculty member of the University of Washington School of Law since 1989. He served in the US Department of State as the Climate Change Coordinator from 1999 to 2001 and as an attorney-advisor from 1985 to 1989, and has consulted for the United Nations in the areas of climate change and tobacco control. He has taught as an adjunct professor at the George Washington School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center. Bodansky also clerked for Judge Irving Goldberg of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Bodansky's scholarship includes over 25 publications, four book reviews and over 20 papers and presentations. He earned his Juris Doctor from Yale University where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal. He obtained his master's in the history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University in 1981 and his bachelor's magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1979. He is the recipient of a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs, and a Jean Monet Fellowship from the European University Institute in Florence.  Bodansky currently serves on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law, and is the U.S.-nominated arbitrator under the Antarctic Environment Protocol. In addition, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Society of International Law.

Daniel Bradlow (Foreign Investment and Finance)
Daniel Bradlow is Professor of Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Program at American University- Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. where he specializes in international economic law.  His current scholarship focuses on the international financial institutions, the international legal aspects of sustainable and equitable development, and the legal aspects of debt and financial management.  He is a Senior Special Fellow in the Legal Aspects of Debt and Financial Management Programme of the United National Institute on Training and Research (UNITAR) and a member of the Interim Governing Board of the African Law Institute.  He has worked as a Consultant to the World Dams Commission, MEFMI (The Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute for Eastern and Southern Africa), Pole-Dette, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, and the MacArthur Foundation and served as an advisor to the Rethinking Bretton Woods Project.  In 1996 he was a Visiting Professor at the Community Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.  He has lectured in the United States and many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America on both the public and private aspects of international economic and financial law and on the negotiating and structuring of international economic transactions.  His publications include books and articles on international financial law, the international financial institutions, foreign investment, the World Bank Inspection Panel, regulatory frameworks for dams and dam safety, globalization and its implications for global economic governance and the changing responsibilities of the World Bank and the IMF in the management of the global economy.  Professor Bradlow, a South African, holds degrees from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, and Northeastern University and Georgetown University in the USA and is a member of the New York and District of Columbia Bars.

Michael Byers (Terrorism)
Michael Byers, PhD, holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He writes and teaches on issues of military force, the laws of war, terrorism, international criminal law, human rights, the United Nations, and international politics. He is the author of War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict (Grove/Atlantic) and editor of  The Role of Law in International Politics (Oxford University Press) and United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law (Cambridge University Press). He has extensive international media experience and is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.

Lan Cao (Development, Health, and Foreign Aid)
Professor Cao is Professor of Law at William and Mary Law School.  She has published widely in a range of topics, such as privatization in transitional economies, particularly China, globalization and U.S. trade laws, ethnicity and economic development, and law and economics. In 1996, Professor Cao was invited by the Ministry of Education of Vietnam to deliver a series of lectures on international business law at the University of Ho Chi Minh City Law Faculty and the University of Hanoi Law Faculty.  Professor Cao also writes fiction. Her novel, Monkey Bridge, published in 1996 by Viking (hardback) and in 1997 by Penguin (paperback), is one of the first novels about Vietnam written by a Vietnamese American and published by a major publishing house.  It has been critically acclaimed in literary reviews by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Publishers' Weekly, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, among others.  She has recently finished a second novel, tentatively titled Chinaman's Chance, about human smuggling from Fujian, China, to Chinatown in New York City.

David D. Caron (UN and International Organizations)
David D. Caron is C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.  Following graduation from Boalt, David Caron served as a legal assistant to Judges Richard Mosk and Charles Brower at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague.  He was a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law from 1985 to 1986.  He practiced with the San Francisco firm of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro before joining the Boalt faculty in 1987.  Caron was a visiting professor at Cornell Law School (1990) and Hastings College of the Law (1996).  He also served as director of studies (1987) and director of research (1995) at the Hague Academy of International Law.  He is a member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law and received the 1991 Deak Prize of the American Society of International Law for outstanding scholarship by a younger academic.  He presently serves as a member of the precedent panel of the U.N. Compensation Commission for claims arising out of the Gulf War and is also a member of the Department of State Advisory Committee on Public International Law. Caron's recent publications include "The ILC Articles on State Responsibility: The Paradoxical Relationship Between Form and Authority" in the American Journal of International Law (2002); "The United Nations Compensation Commission: Practical Justice, Not Retribution" in the European Journal of International Law (2002); "War and International Adjudication: Reflections on the 1899 Peace Conference" in the American Journal of International Law (2000); International Law and Catastrophes (coedited with Charles Leben, 2001), to which he was also a contributor; and The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and the Process of International Dispute Resolution (coedited with John Crook, 2000), to which he was also a contributor.

Steve Charnovitz (WTO, NAFTA and Trade)
Steve Charnovitz is Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Before joining the law school faculty in 2004, Professor Charnovitz was an attorney at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in Washington, D.C. From 1995 to 1999, he was Director of the Global Environment & Trade Study (GETS), which he helped to establish in 1994.  From 1991 to 1995, he was Policy Director of the U.S. Competitiveness Policy Council in Washington, D.C.  The Council issued four reports to the U.S. Congress and President.  From 1987 to 1991, he was a Legislative Assistant to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.  Early in his career, he was an analyst at the U.S. Department of Labor where his projects included worker rights in U.S. trade negotiations, trade adjustment assistance, and technical cooperation with Saudi Arabia.  Mr. Charnovitz received a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from Yale University and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University.  A collection of his essays, Trade Law and Global Governance, was recently published by Cameron May.  In 2004, he is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.  He is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and New York.

Marcella David (Human Rights)
Marcella David is Professor of Law and International Studies at the University of Iowa College of Law.  Professor David joined the law faculty in 1995.  From 1991-92, she studied Human Rights and Comparative Law as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law at the Harvard Law School.  In that capacity, she participated in an investigatory mission to Iraq, traveled through South Africa, and researched the impact of economic sanctions in both countries.  Her research interests include the use of economic and other sanctions, international criminal law, and questions related to international organizations. In addition to serving as a Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard, before coming to Iowa Professor David clerked for Judge Louis H. Pollak of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, was a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and visited at the University of Chicago School of Law where she taught Contracts and Equal Protection.  She has also visited at The University of Pennsylvania.  At Iowa, Professor David teaches, among other subjects, Introduction to Public International Law, International Organizations, US Foreign Relations Law, and Human Rights.  She is a member and past chair of the Governing Board of the Worker Rights Consortium, a non-governmental organization that assists in ensuring that university-logoed goods are manufactured under conditions that respect the rights of workers.  Her publications include a chapter on "The US Government and Women" in a multi-volume sourcebook on The International Rights of Women (Transnational Press), and articles published in Harvard International Law Journal, Michigan Journal of International Law and Human Rights Quarterly. She recently served as guest editor to a symposium edition of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems addressing economic sanctions on Iraq.   Professor David is a member of the New York Bar. Her international destinations include Iraq, South Africa, Europe, India, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia and Cuba.

Mark Drumbl (Terrorism)
Associate Professor and Ethan Allen Faculty Fellow, Washington & Lee University, School of Law; expert in terrorism, war crimes, post-conflict reconstruction, and public international law generally.  Professor Drumbl has served as defense counsel in genocide trials in Rwanda, has taught international law to Afghan lawyers, and advises on projects that reconcile local customary and religious laws with international human rights norms.  His scholarly publications have appeared in many academic journals.  He lectures widely and has been interviewed by a variety of media, including national television, radio, and newspapers in the United States and abroad.

Jeffrey L. Dunoff (International Environmental Law)
Jeffrey L. Dunoff is the Charles Klein Professor of Law and Government and Director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy at Temple Law School. He has written widely on international law, international trade and international environmental issues. Before joining the Temple faculty, he represented developing country governments in international litigations and arbitrations and before the political branches of the U.S. government. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School, Ford Foundation Fellow at Georgetown University, Visiting Fellow at the Center of International Studies at Princeton, and as a Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute in Japan. In 2005, he will be a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University.

Tom J. Farer (War and Armed Conflict)
Tom J. Farer, Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies of the University of Denver is the former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States and of the University of New Mexico. He is Honorary Professor of Peking University and permanent Guest Professor of People's University and Director of the Center for China-United States Cooperation. Within the United states Government, he has served as special assistant first to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense and then to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He has taught law at Columbia University, Rutgers, Tulane and Harvard and international relations at Cambridge University, Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. And he has been a Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has published 11 books and monographs and over 100 articles and book chapters primarily concerning issues of international and comparative law, foreign policy, human rights and international institutions. His most recent book, Transnational Crime in the Americas, was published by Routledge in 1999. His articles have appeared in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York and London Review of Books, International Organization, World Politics and the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews. Shorter pieces have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune and The Washington Post. He has lectured widely at universities in the United States, Europe, Africa, Japan and China. Dean Farer is a Magna cum Laude graduate of Princeton and the Harvard Law School where he served as Note Editor of the Law Review. In his final year at Harvard he was appointed clerk for Judge Learned Hand.

Gregory H. Fox (UN and International Organizations)
Gregory H. Fox is an Associate Professor of Law at Wayne State University School of Law.  Prior to joining the Wayne State faculty, Professor Fox was an Assistant Professor of Law at Chapman Law School in Orange, California.  Prior to teaching, Professor Fox worked in the litigation department of Hale & Dorr in Boston and held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Public International Law in Heidelberg, Germany and at the Schell Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School.  He is also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation/Social Science Research Council Fellowship in International Peace and Security.  His most recent article is "The Occupation of Iraq" (Georgetown International Law Journal
2005). Much of his scholarship has focussed on international law's role in promoting democratic transitions, including Democratic Governance and International Law (Cambridge 2000, with Brad Roth). Professor Fox was co-counsel to the State of Eritrea in the Zuqar-Hanish Islands arbitration with Yemen, and has served as counsel in several international human rights cases in US courts.  He is a graduate of Bates College (BA 1982 phi beta kappa, with highest honors) and New York University (JD 1986).

Thomas M. Franck (UN and International Organizations)
Thomas M. Franck is Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law Emeritus at New York University School of Law.  Professor Franck is a recognized expert on the United Nations and public international law.  He has written seminal articles and books on the topics of fairness and legitimacy in international relations.  Besides teaching at NYU, Professor Franck also teaches and lectures at institutions around the world.  Professor Franck has acted as counsel to the governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Chad before the International Court of Justice, and was selected as an ad hoc judge on the ICJ for the Sovereignty over Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan (Indonesia/Malaysia) case.  He is former President and is currently an Executive Council Member of the American Society of International Law.

David J. Gerber (European Union)
David J. Gerber is Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Program in International and Comparative Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law.  Professor Gerber works in the areas of comparative and international law.  He holds a bachelor's degree from Trinity College, a master's degree from Yale University, and a law degree from the University of Chicago.  He was formerly associated with the Frankfurt, Germany, law firm of Peltzer and Riesenkampff and the New York law firm of Casey, Lane & Mittendorf.  Professor Gerber has taught law at the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University and Washington University in the United States, as well as at the University of Stockholm and the University of Uppsala in Sweden and at the University of Freiburg and the University of Munich in Germany.  He also spent a year working with the Institute of International and Comparative Law at the University of Freiburg.  He is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and has been a member of the executive committee of the American Society of Comparative Law.  His book, Law and Competition in Twentieth Century Europe, was published by Oxford University Press in 1998 (paperback 2001).

Michael J. Glennon (War Powers/Constitutional Issues)
Michael J. Glennon is professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. Prior to going into teaching, he was Legal Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1977-1980) and Assistant Counsel in the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the United States Senate (1973-1977).  He served as a consultant to various departments and agencies of the federal government, congressional committees, foreign governments and the International Atomic Energy Agency.  Professor Glennon is the author of numerous articles on constitutional and international law as well as a number of books.  He has testified before the International Court of Justice and various congressional committees.  A frequent commentator on public affairs, he has spoken widely within the United States and overseas and appeared on Nightline, The Today Show, NPR's All Things Considered and other national news programs.  His op-ed pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, International Herald-Tribune, Financial Times, and Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung.

Andrew Guzman (Foreign Investment and Finance)
Professor Guzman joined the Boalt faculty in 1998.  Prior to this, Professor Guzman was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Juan R. Torruella, Chief Judge of the First Circuit Court of Appeals in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1996, where he was Commentaries Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1996.  Professor Guzman works and has written in the fields of international trade, international regulation, international law (public and private), arbitration, foreign direct investment, and choice of law.

Malvina Halberstam (Arab/Israeli Conflict)
Malvina Halberstam is professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.  She has also taught at Loyola (L.A.) U.S.C., the University of Virginia, the University of Texas and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  She served as Counselor on International Law in the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Advisor and in that capacity headed the U.S. delegation to negotiations on the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, a treaty on terrorism on the high seas.  She has lectured and published on International law, International Criminal Law, the Constitution and U.S. Foreign Affairs, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Human Rights, Women’s Rights and Terrorism.  Her publications on the Arab-Israeli Conflict include: Articles: The Jerusalem Embassy Act, 19 Fordham Int. Law. J. 1379 (1996); Nationalism and the Right to Self-Determination: The Arab-Israeli Conflict, 26 N.Y.U.J. of Int. L and Politics 1001 (1994); The Myth that Israel’s Presence in Judea and Samaria is Comparable to Iraq’s Presence in Kuwait, 19 Syracuse J. Int. L and Com. 1 (1993); Questions of Sovereignty and Self-Determination in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 6 International Litigation Quarterly 131 (1990); Self-Determination in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Meaning, Myth, and Politics, 21 N.Y.U. J. of Int. L and Politics 465 (1989); International Law and Solutions to the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1989 Proceedings, American Society of International Law 487, Excluding Israel from the General Assembly by Rejection of its Credentials, 78 Am. J. Int. L. (1984).  Book Reviews: Jerusalem in America’s Foreign Policy, 1947-1997, by Shlomo Slonim, 94 Am. J. Int. L. 610 (2000); The Kirkpatrick Mission: Diplomacy Without Apology – America at the United Nations 1981-1985, by Allan Gerson, 14 Cardozo L. Rev 407 (1992); A Mandate For Terror: The United Nations and the PLO, by Harris O. Schoenberg, 86 Am. J. Int. L. 424 (1992).

Hurst Hannum (Human Rights)
Hurst Hannum is Professor of International Law, teaching courses in international organizations, international human rights law, peacekeeping, and nationalism and ethnicity.  From 1980 to 1989, he served as Executive Director of The Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute, in Washington, DC, and he was a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow of the United States Institute of Peace in 1989-90.  Professor Hannum has served as counsel in cases before the European and Inter-American Commissions on Human Rights and the United Nations; he also has been a member of the boards of several international human rights organizations.  He has written about and/or participated in meetings concerned with minority rights generally, as well as particular situations in the Russian Federation (Tatarstan and Chechnya), Cyprus, Turkey, Northern Ireland, South Tyrol, India, Sri Lanka, East Timor, Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia), Greenland, the Balkans, Tibet, and U.S. dependent territories.  He has served as a consultant to the United Nations regarding East Timor, Western Sahara, Afghanistan, and minority rights.

Laurence R. Helfer (Human Rights)
Laurence R. Helfer joined the Vanderbilt Law School faculty in 2004 and was named Director of the law school's International Legal Studies Program in 2005. He teaches Public International Law, International Human Rights, International Civil Litigation in U.S. Courts, Copyright, and International Copyright. He has published numerous articles and lectured widely on these and other subjects. Professor Helfer is a member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed Journal of World Intellectual Property and serves as an expert advisor to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. He also provides advice and assistance to non-governmental organizations that engage in human rights advocacy. He recently received an grant from the Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt to support an interdisciplinary research project on “The Politics of Intellectual Property Disputes in the Andean Community.” He will be a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School during the Spring 2008 semester.

Christopher C. Joyner (Iraq Conflict)
Christopher C. Joyner is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and also serves as the Director of its Institute for International Law and Politics. He teaches courses on international law, international organizations, American foreign policy, and international environmental law. His current research concerns the Iraq situation, international criminal law, economic sanctions, terrorism, and legal problems affecting common space regimes. He has served twice on the American Society of International Law's Executive Committee, was the former Vice-Chair of the Academic Council of the United Nations System, and is the newly elected national Vice-President of the International Studies Association. He has published more than 300 articles in international law journals, and among his recent books are Governing the Frozen Commons: The Antarctic Regime and Environmental Protection, Antarctica and the Law of the Sea, The United Nations and International Law, and International Law for the 21^st Century: Legal Rules for Global Governance.

Frederic L. (Rick) Kirgis  (UN and International Organizations)
ASIL Insights Editor, ASIL Secretary and Executive Council Member; Professor Emeritus, Washington and Lee University School of Law; expert in public international law, international organizations, foreign relations. Professor Kirgis has published much on topics of public international law, the United Nations and international organizations, and has taught at law schools all over the United States.

John H. Knox (International Environmental Law)
John H. Knox is a professor of law at Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches international environmental law and international trade law.  He graduated from Rice University magna cum laude in 1984 and from Stanford Law School with distinction in 1987.  After a federal clerkship, he served as an attorney-adviser in the State Department, where, among other things, he participated in the negotiation of the NAFTA environmental side agreement.  Since 1999, he has chaired an EPA national advisory committee on North American environmental cooperation.  He has written on a variety of international environmental and trade/environment topics, and co-edited Greening NAFTA (2003), an evaluation of the first ten years of the NAFTA environmental commission.  He was awarded the 2003 Francis Deak Prize by the American Society of International Law for his article on transboundary environmental impact assessment.

Charlotte Ku (U.S. Foreign Policy and International Law)

Charlotte Ku is the Acting Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University and, from 1994 through September 2006, was the Executive Director of the American Society of International Law in Washington, DC.  Dr. Ku has been a visiting fellow in the MIT-Harvard arms control program, at Beijing Normal University (China), and at the Academia Sinica (Taiwan).  She has taught international law and international organizations at the University of Virginia and at the Johns Hopkins University Nanjing Center (China).  Dr. Ku has published in the areas of US foreign policy, public international law, and international organizations and is a frequent commentator on these issues.  She is co-editor of Democratic Accountability and the Use of Force in International Law, published in 2003.  She holds a Ph.D. and two master’s degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a B.A. from The American University, Washington, DC.

Michael Matheson (War and Armed Conflict)
Michael Matheson is a member of the international law faculty of George Washington University School of Law. He has taught various courses in international law, including international criminal law, and international law and conflict resolution. He was the American member of the UN International Law Commission from 2003-2006. He served in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. State Department from 1972-2000, including ten years as Acting Legal Adviser or Principal Deputy Legal Adviser.  While in the State Department, he led the efforts to create the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia, the UN Compensation Commission and the UN Landmines Protocol; and he handled the legal aspects of the Gulf War and the conflicts concerning Bosnia and Kosovo.  He has written widely on international law topics, particularly with respect to armed conflict and international organizations. Most recently, he was author of Council Unbound:The Growth of UN Decision Making on Conflict and Postconflict Issues after the Cold War.

Mary Ellen O'Connell (Iraq Conflict)
Mary Ellen O'Connell is the Robert & Marion Short Chair in Law at Notre Dame Law School.  She teaches courses on international law, international dispute resolution, international law and the use of force, and the law of contracts.  She holds an MSc. in international relations from the London School of Economics, an LL.B. in international law from Cambridge University, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.  She was the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, as well as grants from the Humboldt Stiftung, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Mershon Center.  Prior to joining the faculty at Notre Dame, she taught at Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati College of Law, the University of Munich, and the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.  She has also been an associate professor on the faculties of Indiana University-Bloomington and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany .  She was an attorney associate at the law firm of Covington & Burling.  She is the author of International Law and the Use of Force, editor of International Dispute Settlement, a co-editor of Politics, Values and Functions, International Law in the 21^st Century, Essays in Honor of Professor Louis Henkin, co-author of International Law and the Use of Force and author of numerous articles on international law, especially on the use of force.

Jordan Paust (Terrorism)
Professor Paust joined the University of Houston Law Center faculty in 1975 as an International Law expert.  He was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Salzburg (Austria), a Ford Foundation Fellow at Yale University and visiting Ball Eminent Scholar University Chair at Florida State University.  Professor Paust has written several books and over 140 articles and essays addressing a wide array of international legal issues.  He is often asked to provide expert advice to various media and organizations on international legal matters and he has served in numerous leadership capacities in local, national and international groups dealing with International Law, Human Rights, and International Criminal Law.  He has chaired the International Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools and the Committee on International Law and the Use of Force of the ABA.  He has also served on the President's Committee and Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and is currently Co-Chair of the ASIL's International Criminal Law Interest Group.

Steven R. Ratner (War and Armed Conflict)
Steven R. Ratner is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Prior to joining the Law School in 2004 Prof. Ratner was the Albert Sidney Burleson Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law. Prior to joining the Texas faculty in 1993, he was an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. State Department. His research focuses on ethnic conflict, territorial borders, implementation of peace agreements, international humanitarian law, and accountability for human rights violations. He has contributed extensively to The Crimes of War, a handbook for journalists and the public on the law of war, as well as its accompanying web site, and has given numerous media interviews on the law of war. Among his publications are three books: The New UN Peacekeeping: Building Peace in Lands of Conflict After the Cold War (St. Martin's, 1995); Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy (Oxford, 1997 and 2001) (co-author); and International Law: Norms, Actors, Process (Aspen, 2002) (co-author). A member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, in 1998-1999 he served as a member of the Secretary-General's 3-person Group of Experts for Cambodia.

Kal Raustiala (U.S. Foreign Policy and International Law)
Kal Raustiala is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law.  He teaches Public International Law and International Environmental Law as well as an undergraduate course in global environmental politics.  He holds a joint appointment with UCLA's Institute of the Environment, a campus-wide multidisciplinary program.  In addition to UCLA, Professor Raustiala has taught international law at Princeton, Brandeis, and the University of Chicago Law School.  He was a fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., a Peccei Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems in Vienna, Austria, and a fellow in the Program on Law and Public Affairs at Princeton.  He is a member of the American Society of International Law and the Council on Foreign Relations and has served as a consultant on legal matters to the UN Environment Programme, the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation, and the US government.  Professor Raustiala's most recent publications include "The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources," forthcoming in International Organization (Spring 2004) (with David Victor); "Rethinking the Sovereignty Debate in International Economic Law," forthcoming in the Journal of International Economic Law (Winter 2004); "The Architecture of International Cooperation: Transgovernmental Networks and the Future of International Law," Virginia Journal of International Law (Fall 2002); and, with Anne-Marie Slaughter, "Compliance, International Relations, and International Law," in The Handbook of International Relations (W. Carlsnaes, T. Risse, and B. Simmons, eds., 2002).

Leila N. Sadat (International Criminal Law, ICC, and Tribunals)
Leila N. Sadat is the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law, where she has taught since 1992. A leading authority in international criminal law and human rights, Sadat is particularly well-known for her expertise on the International Criminal Court.   Named to chair the International Law Association committee on the Court in 1995, she authored or edited several monographs both in her capacity as chair, and writing individually.  In addition, she was an NGO delegate to the U.N. Preparatory Committee and to the 1998 U.N. diplomatic conference in Rome at which the Court was established.  In March 2000, her article The New International Criminal Court: An Uneasy Revolution, was published in the Georgetown Law Journal.  In 2002 she published a monograph, The International Criminal Court and the Transformation of International Law: Justice for the New Millennium, which was supported by a grant from the United States Institute of Peace and won the "Book of the Year" award from the International Association of Penal Law (American National Section). More recently she has published several essays on U.S. foreign policy and international criminal law including  Terrorism and the Rule of Law, which was published in volume 3 of the Washington University Global Studies Law Review.  Her most recent article, Exile, Amnesty and International Law will appear in volume 81 of the Notre Dame Law Review. From May 2001 until September 2003, Professor Sadat served as a Congressional appointee to the nine-member U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom.  More recently, she was tapped to participate in an International Bar Association project to train Iraqi lawyers, judges and prosecutors in human rights. At the School of Law, Sadat teaches international, comparative and U.S. law courses.  Sadat has also established a war crimes research program for students who are working directly with the Special Court for Sierra Leone, drafting memos on research topics assigned by the Court's Prosecutor. Professor Sadat is often heard on national media, and has an active speaking schedule.  Sadat was recently elected Secretary of the American Society of Comparative Law, and Vice-President and Co-Director of Studies of the International Law Association.   She is also a member of the American Law Institute and the International Academy of Comparative Law, and has been a member of the Executive Council and Executive Committee of the American Society of International Law.

Michael P. Scharf (International Criminal Law, ICC, and Tribunals)
Michael P. Scharf is Professor of Law and Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.  Formerly Attorney Adviser for United Nations Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, Scharf teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Public International Law, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, the Law of International Organizations, International Human Rights Law, and a War Crimes Research Lab.  In 2004, Scharf was one of five international experts selected to train the judges who will be presiding over the trial of Saddam Hussein. Scharf is the author of over fifty scholarly articles and seven books, including Balkan Justice, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which was awarded the American Society of International Law's Certificate of Merit for the Outstanding book in International Law in 1999, Peace with Justice, which won the International Association of Penal Law Book of the Year Award for 2003, and casebooks on The Law of International Organizations and International Criminal Law.  Scharf has testified as an expert before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee; his Op-Eds have been published by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and International Herald Tribune; and he has appeared as a commentator on ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, ABC News' Nightline with Ted Kopple, Fox News' "The O'Reilley Factor," PBS's "The Charlie Rose Show," PBS's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," CNN News, Court TV, the BBC's "The World," and National Public Radio's "Morning Edition."  In 2005, as Co-Founder of the Public International Law and Policy Group, Scharf was nominated by eight governments and an international criminal tribunal for the Nobel Peace Prize for "significantly contributing to the promotion of peace throughout the globe by providing crucial pro bono legal assistance to states and non-state entities involved in peace negotiation and in bringing war criminals to justice."

Beth Simmons (Foreign Investment and Finance)
Beth Simmons is Professor of Government at Harvard University.  Professor Simmons' fields of interest and course subjects are International Relations, International Political Economy, and International Law.  Her current research focus is on the effects of international law and institutions on state behavior and policy choice.  Her publications include Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1923-1939 (Princeton University Press, 1994), winner of the 1995 American Political Science Association Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book published in the previous year in government, politics, or international relations.  She has also published articles on international institutions in International Organization and World Politics.

Anne-Marie Slaughter (U.S. Foreign Policy and International Law)
ASIL President and Executive Council Member; Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; World Peace Foundation trustee; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; expert in international law and relations, international tribunals, dispute resolution, international organizations, global governance, international litigation in domestic courts.  A highly regarded expert on international law with a strong commitment to the interrelation of law and public policy, Professor Slaughter is a frequent presenter at scholarly conferences and debates.  She was a leading participant in two Woodrow Wilson School conferences on universal jurisdiction, which developed principles to guide the prosecution of war crimes and other serious crimes under international law when there are no jurisdictional links to the victims or perpetrators.  The principles, which have sparked discussion around the world, were designed to help bring war criminals to justice.  Prior to her appointment at the Woodrow Wilson School, Professor Slaughter taught at Harvard Law School for 8 years, teaching a variety of topics including International Litigation and Arbitration, European Community Law, Foreign Affairs and the Constitution, and Perspectives on American Law.  She also founded the Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs. Among numerous media appearances, Professor Slaughter has been a commentator on CNN and has had opinion pieces published in the Washington Post and New York Times.

Peter J. Spiro (U.S. Foreign Policy and International Law)
Peter J. Spiro joined the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law in the Fall of 2004 as holder of the Dean and Virginia Rusk professorship in international law. Before coming to Georgia Law, he spent 10 years at Hofstra University School of Law serving as a tneured professor and associate dean for faculty development. A former law clerk to Justice David H. Souter, attorney‑adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser, United States Department of State, and staff member of the National Security Council, Professor Spiro is a leading expert on U.S. debates on international law and participation in international institutions.  He has also written widely on the implications of globalization for international law.  In 1993‑94 he was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, during which he studied the role of nongovernmental actors in international decisionmaking.  He was also awarded a 1998‑99 Open Society Institute Individual Project Fellowship to undertake an examination of the law of United States citizenship.  In 2001, he was a visiting professor at the University of Texas Law School.  Professor Spiro has published scholarly articles in a wide variety of law journals, and his work has also appeared in such publications as Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic.  Professor Spiro is now writing a book on citizenship and the American national identity, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Chantal Thomas (Development, Health, and Foreign Aid)
Chantal Thomas is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. Prior to joining Cornell, she served on the law faculties of University of Minnesota, and of Fordham University in New York City. Professor Thomas teaches in the areas of International Law and Developing Countries, International Trade Law, Corporations, Contracts, and Law and Globalization. She has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, on the International Trade Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, as an International Trade Specialist with the Africa Law Initiative of the American Bar Association, and on the Board of Directors of the American Foreign Law Association. Professor Thomas focuses her scholarship on the relationship between international law, political economy, and global social justice in a variety of contexts.

Joel P. Trachtman (WTO, NAFTA and Trade)
Joel P. Trachtman is Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.  At The Fletcher School, he is responsible for courses in the field of international economic and business law, including international trade law, international business transactions law, international business regulation law, international financial and fiscal law and legal aspects of international economic integration.  From 1998 to 2001, he was Academic Dean of the Fletcher School, and during 2000 and 2001, he served as Dean ad interim.  In 2002, he was Manley O. Hudson Visiting Professor of Law and in 2004 he was Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School.  Professor Trachtman's research interests are in international trade, international business regulation, international finance regulation and legal aspects of international economic integration, and he is the author of numerous articles in scholarly journals and contributions to books on these topics.  He has consulted for the United Nations, the OECD, APEC, the World Bank, the Organization of American States, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the International Law Institute.  Prior to joining the faculty of The Fletcher School in 1989, he spent nine years in the private practice of international finance and business law with Shearman & Sterling in New York and Hong Kong.  His practice included a wide variety of international and domestic financing, acquisition and commercial transactions.

Ruth Wedgwood (War and Armed Conflict)
Ruth Wedgwood is the Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.  She was appointed from the faculty of Yale, where she was Professor of Law.  At Yale and Johns Hopkins, Dr. Wedgwood has taught the law of armed conflict and war crimes, public international law, international arbitration, United Nations politics and law, constitutional law, evidence, and the law of contracts.  Dr. Wedgwood currently serves on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law, and the Central Intelligence Agency's Historical Review Panel.  She is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a director of Freedom House, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the American Law Institute.  She serves as an independent expert on the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva.  Dr. Wedgwood is on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law (recently chairing a symposium on problems of post-war civil reconstruction).  She formerly served as Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I., assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Supreme Court law clerk.  Dr. Wedgwood has commented frequently on National Public Radio, the PBS Lehrer News Hour, the BBC, and other media, and has testified before the Senate on issues of war crimes, Presidential war powers, and the International Criminal Court.

Joseph H.H. Weiler (European Union)
J.H.H. Weiler is University Professor and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair at NYU School of Law. He serves as Chairman of the NYU Global Law School Program and is, too, Director of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice. He is also Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges  Prior to his NYU appointment he was the Manley Hudson Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a founding editor of the European Journal of International Law and the World Trade Review. He serves, too, as a WTO and NAFTA panelist and has acted as consultant to the Institutions of the European Union. He writes in the fields of International Law, the Law of the European Union, and comparative constitutional law. His recent books include The Constitution of Europe (CUP). www.jeanmonnetprogram.org

Adrien K. Wing (Arab/Israeli Conflict)
Adrien K. Wing is Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law the University of Iowa College of Law, where she has taught for twenty years. She is also Asociate Dean for Faculty Development. Prior to joining the College of Law faculty, Dean Wing spent five years in practice in New York City with Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle and with Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Leiberman, specializing in international law issues regarding Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. She has served as an advisor to the Palestinian Legislative Council relative to Palestine's future constitutional options and as an advisor to the Eritrean Ministry of Justice on human rights treaties. She has also advised the Rwandan Constitutional Commission on a post-genocide constitution. Author of nearly 100 publications, her courses include Law in the Muslim World, Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, Human Rights, Comparative Law, and Comparative Constitutional Law. She is a member of the NY Bar and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

David Wippman (Human Rights)
David Wippman is Vice Provost for International Relations and Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.  An accomplished authority in international law, human rights, and ethnic conflict, Prof. Wippman took a year away from Cornell Law School's faculty to serve the Clinton Administration as Director of the National Security Council's Office of Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs from 1998-99.  During his tenure at the White House, Prof. Wippman assisted in the formulation of U.S. policy on war crimes, UN political issues, and economic sanctions.  After graduation from Yale Law School he clerked for Hon. Wilfred Feinberg, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  He practiced in Washington, D.C. from 1983 until joining Cornell Law School's faculty in 1992.