Guest Lectures on International Law and History of Law by Prof. Christopher Rossi (The Arctic University of Norway)

We are pleased to inform that on Friday, May 12, we will host a visiting lecturer from The Arctic University of Norway, Prof. Christopher Rossi.
 

Our guest will give two lectures at our Faculty: 

• May 12, 9:15 – 11:00 CET, Main Aula of the Faculty: „Martin Waldseemūller’s two sixteenth century maps and their importance to legal culture”
   
• May 12, 11:15 – 13:00 CET, Main Aula of the Faculty: “Accountability for Atrocity and Emotions in International Law: Kosovo and the Endless State of Exception”

All members of our Faculty community are very welcome to attend!

We would like to thank the head and employees of the Department of the History of Law for their help in organizing the lecture of our guest.

Professor Christopher Rossi teaches international law and international relations at the Arctic University of Norway (University of Tromsø). He has worked on the Psychology of Deterrence project at the Arms Control Association of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., on verification and public information issues for the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, and as an assistant professor of international relations and American foreign policy at American University in Washington, D.C. In 1997-1998, he served as a director on the National Security Council in the Clinton White House in the office of Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.

Dr. Rossi is the author of Remoteness Reconsidered: The Atacama Desert and International Law (University of Michigan Press, 2021), Whiggish International Law: Elihu Root, the Monroe Doctrine, and International Law in the Americas (Brill/Nijhoff, 2019), Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Broken Chain of Being, James Brown Scott and the Origins of Modern International Law (Kluwer, 1993), and Equity and International Law (Transnational, 1991). He is the co-editor of Temas de derecho internacional, and assistant co-editor of Toward Nuclear Disarmament and Global Security (Westview), and over thirty articles on international law, most recently “Interstitial Space and the High Himalayan Dispute between China and India,” 62(2) Harvard International Law Journal 429-468 (2021), and “Blood and Water: Diverting the Waters of the Indus River,” 29(2) Minnesota Journal of International Law 103-158 (2020).

He has a Ph.D. and M.A. in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, an LL.M. in Public International Law from King’s College London, a J.D. from the University of Iowa, and a B.A. from Washington University.