mardi 1 janvier 2008

Biographie orateur : Prof. Steven Ratner

Prof. Steven RATNER

Steven Ratner is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Until 2004, he was the Albert Sidney Burleson Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law at Austin. He holds a J.D. from Yale; an M.A. (diplôme) from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (Geneva), and an A.B. from Princeton. His research has focused on new challenges facing new governments and international institutions after the Cold War, including ethnic conflict, territorial borders, implementation of peace agreements, and accountability for human rights violations. He has written and spoken extensively on the law of war, and is also interested in the intersection of international law and moral philosophy. In 1998-1999, he served as a member of the UN Secretary-General’s three-person Group of Experts for Cambodia, and from 1998-2008 he was a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. Among his recent publications on IHL are "Think Again: Geneva Conventions," Foreign Policy, March/April 2008; "Predator and Prey: Seizing and Killing Suspected Terrorists Abroad." Journal of Political Philosophy. 15, no. 3 (2007): 251-75; and "Foreign Occupation and International Territorial Administration: The Challenges of Convergence," European Journal of International Law 16, no. 4 (2005): 695-719.


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