Steven Ratner
Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Professor of Law at the University of Michigan since 2004. Previously, he was the Albert Sidney Burleson Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law at Austin. Before joining the Texas Faculty in 1993, he was an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. State Department.
In 1998-1999, he served as member of the UN Secretary-General’s three-person Group of Experts for Cambodia. Besides being Member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, he is also Member of the International Board of the Concord Research Centre for the Interplay between International Norms and Israeli Law and International Visiting Scholar at the Melbourne University School of Law.
He holds a J.D. from Yale; an M.A. (diplôme) from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (Geneva), and a B.A. from Princeton University.
His research focuses on challenges facing new governments and international institutions after the Cold War, including ethnic conflict, territorial borders, implementation of peace agreements, foreign investment and corporate conduct, and accountability for human rights violations.
He has written and spoken extensively on the laws of war, and is also interested in the intersection of international law and moral philosophy and other theoretical issues. Among his publications are: “The New UN Peacekeeping: Building Peace in Lands of Conflict After the Cold War” (1995); “Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy” (co-author, 1997 and 2001); “International Law: Norms, Actors, Process” (co-author, 2002); and “The Methods of International Law” (American Society of International Law, co-editor).
Spoken languages
English
Written languages
English
