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Richard H. Steinberg
Visiting Professor
Richard H. Steinberg
Visiting Professor
Educational Qualifications
BA
JD
Entity
College of Law
Biography
Richard Steinberg is Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles; Visiting Professor of Global Studies at Stanford University; and Counselor to the American Society of International Law.
Dr. Steinberg is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning http://iccforum.com/, served on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law from 2004-2014, and served on the Editorial Board of International Organization from 2003-2012. He has taught law courses at Stanford Law School, the University of California Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law, Sciences Po (Institut d’Etudes Politiques) in France, the University of Coimbra in Portugal, and elsewhere.
Professor Steinberg has written over 40 articles, and edited or co-authored seven books on international law.
Prior to arriving at UCLA, Professor Steinberg worked as Assistant General Counsel to the United States Trade Representative in Washington, D.C., and later as an associate with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. He also served as Project Director at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) at UC Berkeley.
BA
Yale University
1982
JD
Stanford Law School
1986
PhD
Stanford University
1992
Law Clerk, Baker & McKenzie
San Francisco
1985
Legal Research Assistant, Deputy United States Trade Representative
Geneva
1985
Assistant General Counsel, United States Trade Representative
Washington, D.C.,
1989-91
Associate, Morrison & Foerster,
San Francisco,
1991-93
Lecturer, Boalt Hall School of Law
University of California at Berkeley
1994-95 & 1995-96
Project Director, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE)
University of California at Berkeley,
1993-96
Visiting Professor
Stanford University,
2006- Present
International Institutions (Vols. I-IV) (London: Sage).
International Law and International Relations (Cambridge University Press).
The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics, Law, and Economics of the GATT/WTO (Princeton University Press, 2006).
Partners or Competitors? The Prospects for U.S.-EU Cooperation on Asian Trade (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield).
“Punishment and Policy in International Criminal Sentencing: An Empirical Study,” __ American Journal of International Law __ .
Jeff Dunoff and Mark Pollack, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Judith Goldstein and Martha Finnemore, editors, Power in the Contemporary Era (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
V(1) J. Scholarly Perspectives 74-89 (2009).
Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods, editors, The Politics of Global Regulation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009).
"Power and International Law," A Centennial Essay, 100(1) American Journal of International Law 64-87 (January 2006).
98(2) American Journal of International Law 247 (April 2004)
"When the Peace Ends: The Vulnerability of EC and U.S. Agricultural Subsidies to WTO Legal Challenge," 6(2) Journal of International Economic Law 369-417 (June 2003)
56(2) International Organization 339-74 (Spring 2002).
91(2) American Journal of International Law 231(April 1997).
- BA, Magna Cum Laude with Distinction, Yale College, 1982
- MacArthur Foundation Fellow in International Security Affairs, 1987-88, The Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University
- Ford Foundation Fellow, Western Security and European Society, 1988-89, The Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
- Recipient of “Gold Medal Honors Laureate Award” from Computerworld magazine for “World Good,” Washington, DC, June 2013 (for creating and serving as Editor-in-chief of ICCforum.com)
- Recipient of “World’s Top Three Justice Innovations Award 2012” from the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law, The Hague, Netherlands, November 2012 (for creating and serving as Editor-in-Chief of ICCforum.com).