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Steven Ratner
Visiting Professor
Educational Qualifications
JD
MA
Entity
College of Law
Biography
Steven Ratner's teaching and research focus on public international law and on a range of challenges facing governments and international institutions since the Cold War, including territorial disputes, counter-terrorism strategies, ethnic conflict, state and corporate duties regarding foreign investment, and accountability for human rights violations. Professor Ratner is also interested in the intersection of international law and moral philosophy and other theoretical issues. A member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law from 1998 to 2008, he began his legal career as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. State Department. He has since advised governments, international organizations, NGOs, and corporations on a range of international law issues. Since 2009, he has served on the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law and since 2013, he has been an adviser to the American Law Institute for the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. In 2010–2011, he was a member of the UN's three-person Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka. He has also served as an expert on international investment law in various arbitrations. He is a member of the American Law Institute.
JD
Yale Law School,
1986
MA
Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales, Geneva, 1982-83, M.A. (Diplôme, mention très bien), 1993
1982-83
Princeton University, AB
magna cum laude; Major: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
1982
- International law
- Foreign investment
- International human rights
- International humanitarian law
- United Nations and international organizations
- Ethnic and territorial conflict
- Moral philosophy and international law
- International criminal law
Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
Currently
Consultant on International Law
International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva; Research Fellow, Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Geneva
2008-09
Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
2004-09
Albert Sidney Burleson Professor in Law
University of Texas School of Law
1999-2004
Visiting Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
Fall 2000
Fulbright Senior Scholar
OSCE Regional Research Program; Asser Research Fellow, T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague, Netherlands
1998-1999
Professor of Law
University of Texas School of Law
1997-1999
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Texas School of Law
1993-1997
International Affairs Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations; Professor (Adjunct) of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
1992-1993
Attorney-Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser
United States Department of State (Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser, Attorney-Adviser for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and for Economic, Business, and Communications Affairs)
1986-1993
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 496 pp.)
(New York: Wolters Kluwer, 2015, 958 pp.) (with Jeffrey Dunoff and David Wippman)
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, 536 pp.) (with Jason Abrams and James Bischoff )
(Washington: American Society of International Law, 2004, 271 pp.) (editor with Anne-Marie Slaughter)
111 American Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2017)
5 International Theory 1-34 (2013)
22 European Journal of International Law 459-506 (2011)
102 American Journal of International Law 475-528 (2008)
15 Journal of Political Philosophy 251-75 (2007)
100 American Journal of International Law 808-29 (2006) (reprinted in American Society of International Law, A Century of International Law 283-304 (2007))
16 European Journal of International Law 695-719 (2005)
111 Yale Law Journal 443-545 (2001)
32 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 591-698 (2000)
- Member, American Law Institute, 2016-present
- John P. Humphrey Lecturer on Human Rights, McGill University Faculty of Law, 2014
- Adviser, American Law Institute Restatement (4th) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, 2013-present
- Member, Advisory Committee on International Law, U.S. Department of State, 2009-present
- Member, Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law, 1998-2008
- Fulbright Scholarship, United States Information Agency, 1998-99
- Certificate of Merit, American Society of International Law, 1998 (for best academic book)
- Finalist, Robert W. Hamilton Annual Authors’ Award, University of Texas at Austin, 1997
- Francis Deák Prize, American Society of International Law, 1994 (for best article by younger author)
- Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, 1992-93
- Superior Honor Award and Group Superior Honor Award, U.S. Department of State, 1989 and 1991
- Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Scholarship, Princeton University, 1982