Thomas H. Lee
Director, Center for International Security and Humanitarian Law

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Email: leo@law.fordham.edu

CAREER
Education
HARVARD, A.B., 1991, summa cum laude, A.M., 1991, J.D., 2000, cum laude, Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, 2008.

Activities
  • Director of International Studies, Fordham Law School
  • Founder and Director, Fordham-SKKU Summer Institute in International Law
  • Co-Director of the Fordham Summer Institute in U.S. Law
  • Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School (2005-06)
  • Law Clerk to Hon. David H. Souter, U.S. Supreme Court (2001-02)
  • Law Clerk to Hon. Michael Boudin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (2000-01)
  • Articles Chair, HARVARD LAW REVIEW (1999-00)


PUBLICATIONS
  • "Principal Theories of International Relations" and "Korea" articles in the Max Planck Institute's Encyclopedia of Public International Law (forthcoming 2008)
  • The Safe-Conduct Theory of the Alien Tort Statute, 106 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 830 (2006)
  • Countermajoritarian Federalism, 74 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 2123 (2006)
  • Teaching Public Law and International Law in the United States, 18 SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1 (2006)
  • The Augustinian Just War Tradition and the Problem of Pretext in Humanitarian Intervention, 28 FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 756 (2005)
  • International Law, International Relations Theory, and Preemptive War: The Vitality of Sovereign Equality Today, 67 LAW & CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 147 (Autumn 2004)
  • The Supreme Court of the United States as Quasi-International Tribunal: Reclaiming the Court's Original and Exclusive Jurisdiction over Treaty-Based Suits by Foreign States against States, 104 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 1765 (2004)
  • University Dons and Warrior Chieftains: Two Concepts of Diversity, 72 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 2301 (2004)
  • Making Sense of the Eleventh Amendment: International Law and State Sovereignty, 96 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1027 (2002)
  • Translation of Han Young-woo, The Establishment and Development of Korean Nationalist History,SEOUL JOURNAL OF KOREAN STUDIES (1992)

Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Fordham University School of Law
33 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023

Email: LeitnerCenter@law.fordham.edu
Telephone: 212.636.6862
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Courses
Fordham offers one of the most extensive human rights curricula of any law school in the United States


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Faculty and Staff
Elisabeth Wickeri
Executive Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
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