Lori Fisler Damrosch

Henry L. Moses Prof. of Law and Intl. Organization, Hamilton Fish Prof. of Intl. Law and Diplomacy

Office: Jerome L. Greene Hall
435 West 116th Street
New York NY 10027
Tel: (212) 854-3740
Fax: (212) 854-7946
Email: damrosch@law.columbia.edu

Assistant Info

Name: Margaret Symuleski
Phone: (212) 854-0594
Email: Msymul@law.columbia.edu

Courses/Current Research

  • Public international law
  • The U.S. law of foreign relations

Education

  • Yale, J.D., 1976
  • Yale, B.A., 1973

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Detailed Biography:

B.A., Yale, 1973; J.D., 1976. Law clerk to Judge Jon O. Newman, 1976-77. Served in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, through 1980, with responsibilities including European and Canadian affairs, international antitrust, aviation, and trade; was special assistant to the legal adviser in 1980. Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell, 1981-84. Joined the Columbia faculty in 1984. Publications include The International Court of Justice at a Crossroads (ed., 1987); Law and Force in the New International Order (ed., 1991); Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts (ed., 1993); Beyond Confrontation: International Law for the Post-Cold War Era (ed. 1995); Enforcing International Law through Non-Forcible Measures (Hague Academy of International Law, 1997); and International Law: Cases and Materials (4th ed., with Henkin, Pugh, Schachter and Smit, 2001). Resident fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace (1995-96). Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Department of State Advisory Committee on International Law; and numerous international law and human rights organizations. Organizer of U.S.-Soviet (later U.S.-Russian) research project on international law for the American Society of International Law (A.S.I.L.). Vice president of A.S.I.L., 1996-98, and counselor of A.S.I.L. since 2001. Member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law since 1990. Co-editor-in-chief, American Journal of International Law, since 2003. Principal areas of interest are public international law and the U.S. law of foreign relations.