Participant Biographies
Workshop on the
Performance of International Courts and Tribunals
Temple University | October 8-9, 2015
Workshop on the Performance of International Courts and Tribunals | Participant Biographies
Steinar Andresen Research Professor Fridtjof Nansen Institute
Professor Andresen’s main research focus is on international agreements, regimes and international organizations, especially in the area of environment, but also international resource policy and international health issues. Some empirical examples are the climate regime, the whaling regime and various UN bodies. He also focuses on the effectiveness of the agreements and organizations and the significance of 'institutional design', leadership and the relation between science and policy.
Daniel Friedrich Behn Postdoctoral Research in International Investment Law and Arbitration UiO – Department of Public and International Law
Dr. Daniel Behn, LLM, JD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Investment Law and Arbitration at PluriCourts, where his research focuses broadly on theoretical issues in public international law with a specialized interest in international dispute settlement and adjudication. Currently his work deals with the development of investment treaty arbitration as a form of legitimate international adjudication and how issues of justice and fairness influence and motivate the manner in which international legal orders evolve. His previous working experience includes legal consultancy positions for the World Bank and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). He received his PhD from the University of Dundee.
Pamela Bookman Assistant Visiting Professor of Law Temple University Beasley School of Law
Pam Bookman’s research interests lie at the intersection of civil procedure and international business law. Her recent work focuses on the challenges of adapting the U.S. domestic judicial system to the complexities of modern transnational disputes. Previously, she was an Academic Fellow at Columbia Law School, an attorney at WilmerHale, and a law clerk to President Rosalyn Higgins and Judge Thomas Burgenthal at the International Court of Justice.
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William Burke-White Richard Perry Professor and Inaugural Director, Perry World House Deputy Dean and Professor of Law University of Pennsylvania Law School
William Burke-White, an expert on international law and global governance, served in the Obama Administration from 2009-2011 on Secretary Clinton’s Policy Planning Staff, providing the Secretary direct policy advice on multilateral diplomacy and international institutions. He was principal drafter of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), Secretary Clinton’s hallmark foreign policy and institutional reform effort. Burke-White has written extensively in the fields of international law and institutions, with focus on international criminal and international economic law. His work has addressed issues of post-conflict justice; the International Criminal Court; international human rights, and international arbitration. His current research explores gaps in the global governance system and the challenges of international legal regulation in a world of rising powers and divergent interests. In 2008 he received the A. Leo Levin Award and in 2007 the Robert A. Gorman award for Excellence in Teaching.
Cosette Creamer Visiting Assistant Professor Boston University School of Law
Cosette Creamer is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston Unviersity School of Law, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard, and a participant in the University’s JD/PhD coordinated program. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School (2010), M.A. from the University of Chicago in International Relations (2004), and B.A. from the University of Chicago in International Studies (2002). Her research and teaching interests rest broadly at the intersection of international and comparative law, politics, and the empirical analysis of law. The substantive focus of her research spans international trade, human rights, criminal law and procedure, the laws of war, and comparative policing practices. Her work combines legal analysis with mixed empirical methods.
Margaret M. deGuzman Associate Professor of Law Temple University Beasley School of Law
Professor Margaret M. deGuzman’s writings focus on the role of international criminal law in the global legal order, with a particular emphasis on the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Recent publications address how the concept of gravity of crimes affects the legitimacy of international criminal law, the relationship between international criminal law and the responsibility to protect doctrine, proportionate international sentencing, and the selection of cases and situations for ICC investigation and prosecution. She is currently participating in an international expert group studying the proposed addition of criminal jurisdiction to the mandate of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Previously, she served as a legal advisor to the Senegal delegation at the Rome Conference where the ICC was created and as a law clerk in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Darou N’diar, Senegal.
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Nicole De Silva Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Politics & International Relations University of Oxford
Nicole De Silva focuses on the politics of international courts, in particular their relations with states and non-state actors, such as international organizations, NGOs, and domestic civil society, to explain their strategies for promoting compliance with international law and increasing their impact. She has conducted archival and interview research at various global and regional courts, such as the International Court of Justice, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, International Criminal Court, East African Court of Justice, and African Court on Human and Peoples Rights. For this research, she was recently awarded the International Studies Association’s Lawrence S. Finkelstein Award. She is also researching states’ attempts to contest and control international courts, particularly in the area of human rights (e.g. African Union and East African Community proposals for regional alternatives to the International Criminal Court).
Jeffrey Dunoff Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law Temple University Beasley School of Law
Jeff Dunoff is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple Law School, where his research and writing focus on public international law, international regulatory regimes, international courts, international organizations, and interdisciplinary approaches to international law. Recent publications include Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art (coeditor, with Mark A. Pollack, Cambridge University Press 2013); Ruling the World? Constitutionalism, International Law, and Global Governance (coeditor, with Joel P. Trachtman, Cambridge University Press 2009); and International Law: Norms, Actors, Process (with Steven Ratner and David Wippman, Aspen 2015). Previously, he has served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and as a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre at Cambridge University. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Global Constitutionalism, the Irish Yearbook of International Law, and a book series on The Politics of Transnational Law.
Benjamin Faude Research Fellow, Global Governance Research Unit WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Benjamin Faude is a research fellow at the Global Governance Research Unit of the Social Science Research Center, Berlin, and a Ph.D. candidate at the Otto-Friedrich-University, Bamberg, Germany. His publications include The Dynamics of Regime Complexes: Microfoundations and Systemic Effects (with Thomas Gehring), and Paradoxe Verrechtlichtung. Wie Streitschlichtungsmechanismen interagieren and Judicial Integration in the Americas? A Comparison of Dispute Settlement in NAFTA and MERCOSUR (with Sebastian Krapohl and Julia Dinkel).
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Andreas Føllesdal Professor, Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order UiO – Department of Public and International Law
Andreas Føllesdal is Professor of Political Philosophy, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo; Principal Investigator, European Research Council Advanced Grant MultiRights 2011-16, on the Legitimacy of Multi-Level Human rights Judiciary; and Co-Director of PluriCourts, a Centre of Excellence for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order. He is a prolific and influential author in the field of political philosophy, with a particular focus on issues of international political theory, globalisation/Europeanisation, Human Rights, and Socially Responsible Investing. He received his doctorate in Philosophy from Harvard University.
Chiara Giorgetti Associate Professor of Law Faculty Director, LL.M. Program Richmond School of Law
Chiara Giorgetti teaches and writes in the areas of international law, international arbitration, international dispute resolution, and state failure and fragility. She has authored over a dozen publications on these topics, and her J.S.D. doctoral dissertation resulted in the publication of her book, A Principled Approach to State Failure, International Community Actions in Emergency Situations, in 2010. Prior to joining the Richmond Law faculty, she practiced international arbitration in Washington, D.C. and Geneva, Switzerland. Professor Giorgetti also worked extensively with the United Nations in New York and Somalia, where she oversaw the implementation of United Nations Development Programme governance programs. She has served as a consultant for various international organizations and non-governmental organizations and taught advanced international courses at Georgetown Law Center. Professor Giorgetti clerked at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. She co-chaired ASIL’s 2011 annual meeting, and founded and co-chairs ASIL's Interest Group on International Courts and Tribunals
Nobuo Hayashi Senior Legal Advisor International Law and Policy Institute
Nobuo Hayashi specializes in the law of armed conflict, particularly the fundamental principles, conduct of hostilities and protection of victims; international criminal law, especially war crimes and modes of liability including command/superior responsibility; and public international law, in particular recourse to force and state responsibility. He serves as a Visiting Professor at the International University of Japan (2005-present) and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Turin Law Faculty/UN Interregional Criminal Justice Research Institute (2007-present). Previously, he has served as a Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo (2008-12); Legal Advisor, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (2006-8); Legal Officer, Prosecutions Division, Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2004-6); and Associate Legal Officer, ICTY OTP Legal Advisory Section (2000-3).
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Ruth Mackenzie Senior Lecturer in International Law University of Westminster
Ruth Mackenzie is Senior Lecturer in International Law, with expertise in international environmental and natural resources law and in the law and policy of international courts and tribunals. She has held research grants from the European Commission's Seventh Framework programme (Impact of International Courts on Domestic Criminal Procedures in Mass Atrocity Cases – DOMAC) and the Department for International Development (Globalisation and the International Governance on Modern Biotechnology). She has acted as a consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme and the UN University Institute of Advanced Studies on issues related to biodiversity and biotechnology, and is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. She also serves as co-editor of the Oxford University Press monograph series on International Courts and Tribunals. Previously, she was Principal Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals at University College London, and Director of the Biodiversity and Marine Resources programme at the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development.
Mark Pollack Professor of Political Science and Law Temple University
Mark A. Pollack is Professor of Political Science and Law and Jean Monnet Chair at Temple University, where he also serves as Director of Temple’s new Global Studies Program and major. His research focuses on the role of international institutions and international law in regional and global governance. His publications include The Engines of European Integration: Delegation, Agency and Agenda Setting in the EU (Oxford University Press, 2003), and When Cooperation Fails: The Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (with Gregory Shaffer) (Oxford University Press, May 2009). He is also editor or co-editor of eight books, including most recently Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art (with Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Cambridge University Press, 2013), and Policy- Making in the European Union, 7th edition (with Helen Wallace and Alasdair Young, Oxford University Press, 2015). Current research projects include an empirical study on international judicial practices (with Jeffrey Dunoff), as well as a forthcoming symposium (in the International Journal of Constitutional Law) and a book project on the United States’ ambivalent support for international law.
Jaya Ramji-Nogales I. Herman Stern Professor of Law Co-Director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy Temple University Beasley School of Law
Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales specializes in immigration law, international law, procedure and process. Her research areas include empirical assessment of asylum adjudication, international and comparative migration law, and transitional justice. Her co-authored book, Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication and Proposals for Reform, was the first empirical study of decision-making at all four levels of the American asylum process. Her most recent co-authored book, Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security, provides an in-depth examination of the first level of that process, enriching its quantitative findings with interviews and surveys of asylum adjudicators. She also writes on questions of process and systemic design in the transitional justice context, international and comparative migration law, and the situation of forced migrants under international criminal law and international humanitarian law. She is a Senior Research Associate of the Refugee Law Initiative of the School for Advanced Studies at the University of London. Previously, she was previously awarded a Robert L. Bernstein Fellow in International Human Rights to create a refugee law clinic at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Dinah L. Shelton Manatt/Ahn Professor Emeritus of International Law George Washington University Law School
Professor Shelton joined the GW Law School faculty in 2004. She is the author or editor of three prize-winning books: Protecting Human Rights in the Americas (winner of the 1982 Inter-American Bar Association Book Prize and co-authored with Thomas Buergenthal); Remedies in International Human Rights Law (awarded the 2000 ASIL Certificate of Merit); and the three volume Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (awarded a “Best Research” book award by the New York Public Library). She is a member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law and is a vice-president of the American Society of International Law. In 2009, she became the first woman nominated by the United States to become a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She served a four-year term, during which she went on to become President of the Commission.
Beth Simmons Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Harvard University
Beth Simmons is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Her book, Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1924- 1939, was recognized by the American Political Science Association in 1995 as the best book published in 1994 in government, politics, or international relations. Her recent book, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2009) won the 2010 ASIL Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship, the APSA Woodrow Wilson Award for best book published in government, politics or international relations, and the International Social Science Council’s Stein Rokkan Award for a very substantial and original contribution to social science research. Her current areas of research interest are the development of international rules for the protection and promotion of foreign direct investment, international legal cooperation to address transnational crime, and the diffusion of human rights through international and domestic law and politics.
Anton Strezhnev Graduate Student, Department of Government Harvard University
Anton Strezhnev is a Ph.D student focusing on international relations and political methodology. His research interests include the political economy of international organizations and the effect of domestic politics on foreign policymaking. Methodologically, he is interested in text analysis, survey experiments and causal inference in time-series and network data. He received a B.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
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Theresa Squatrito Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Public and International Law UiO – Department of Public and International Law
Theresa Squatrito is a Political Science Post-Doctoral research fellow at the PluriCourts Center of Excellence. She received her PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle in political science and she was a fellow with the Comparative Law and Society Studies Center. She previously worked as a postdoc at Stockholm University on the Transdemos research program, which explores transnational actors in relation to questions on global democratic governance. She has published on topics related to international organizations and international law, as well as transnational actors. Her dissertation was titled: “European Law and the Politics of Domestic Internalization: Civil Society and Mobilization of European Anti- discrimination Law”.
Eirik Torsvoll Research Assistant, Department of Public and International Law UiO – Department of Public and International Law
Eirik Torsvoll is a research assistant at PluriCourts, Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order. He holds an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Oslo.
Geir Ulfstein Professor, Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo Co-Director of PluriCourts – Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order
Geir Ulfstein is Professor of international law at the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo and Co-director of PluriCourts – Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order, University of Oslo. He has been Director of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo (2004-2008). Ulfstein has published in different areas of international law, including the law of the sea, international environmental law, international human rights and international institutional law. His publications include UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies. Law and Legitimacy (with Helen Keller) (CUP 2012), The Constitutionalization of International Law (with Jan Klabbers and Anne Peters) (OUP 2009) and Making Treaties Work: Human Rights, Environment and Arms Control (with Thilo Marauhn & Andreas Zimmerman) (CUP 2007). He is General Editor (with Andreas Føllesdal) of the book series Studies on Human Rights Conventions (CUP), and a member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law.
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Oran Young Professor Emeritus Institutional and International Governance, Environmental Institutions Bren School of Environmental Science & Management University of California, Santa Barbara
Oran Young is a renowned Arctic expert and a world leader in the fields of international governance and environmental institutions. His work encompasses both basic research focusing on collective choice and social institutions, and applied research dealing with issues pertaining to international environmental governance and the Arctic. He served for six years as vice-president of the International Arctic Science Committee and was the founding chair of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change within the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S. He currently chairs the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change and the Steering Committee of the Arctic Governance Project. He has authored more than 20 books, including The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change and Governance in World Affairs.