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Andrew Strauss

Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development
Widener University School of Law

Areas of Expertise:

Climate Change

Additional Areas of Expertise:

Geoengineering

Andrew Strauss is the Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development and a Professor of Law at Widener University School of Law in Wilmington Delaware. He specializes in public international law, international economic law, international transactions and international organizations. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and his Juris Doctorate from New York University School of Law where he served as a staff member on the Review of Law and Social Change. Prior to joining the Widener Law faculty, he practiced law in New York City for the law firms of Shearman & Sterling and Graham & James. His practice centered on international banking and finance. In the spring of 2008 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, and in the fall of 2008 he and two colleagues became the first faculty members at Widener to be awarded the title of Distinguished Professor of Law.

Professor Strauss is co-author (with Weston, Falk and Charlesworth) of the fourth edition of International Law and World Order, a leading international law textbook. His articles have appeared in international journals such as Foreign Affairs, The Harvard Journal of International Law, and The Stanford Journal of International Law. He is most known for his theoretical contributions to international jurisdiction, his articles on democratizing the international system, and his work conceptualizing global warming litigation. This latter work has helped inspire legal actions that will likely be brought in the next few years and was profiled by the New York Times Magazine in its innovative ideas of the year edition.

Professor Strauss is also a frequent public commentator on matters of international law and policy with articles appearing in such publications as The International Herald Tribune, The Nation, and The Financial Times. Among his contributions to the broadcast media, his radio commentaries have been aired on Public Radio International’s Marketplace.

Overseas, Professor Strauss has served as a Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador where he studied tribal politics in the Amazon. He has taught Singaporean constitutional law on the law faculty of the National University of Singapore, and he has been a lecturer at the European Peace University in Schlaining, Austria. In addition, he has served as the Director of the Geneva/Lausanne International Law Institute and the Nairobi International Law Institute. Domestically, he has been an Honorary Fellow at New York University School of Law’s Center for International Studies. In 2006 he delivered the Henry Usborne Memorial Lecture in the British Houses of Parliament.

Professor Strauss is internationally active in many civic and professional organizations. He has conducted human rights missions to Asian countries and been a consultant to both Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First. Professor Strauss is a member of the Consultants Working Group of the Climate Legacy Initiative. He is a member of the International Advisors Group of the One World Trust, is on the Advisory Council of the Center for U.N. Reform Education, and he is the founder of the International Court of Justice Jurisdiction Project.

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