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Steven Ratner

Name: Steven Ratner

Title(s):

  • Professor

Contact Information: 734.647.4985 , sratner@umich.edu

Website: http://cgi2.www.law.umich.edu/_FacultyBioPage/facultybiopagenew.asp?ID=300

International Institute Affiliation(s):

  • CICS
  • CSEAS

Department Affiliation(s):

  • Law

Education Background: J.D., Yale University, 1986; M.A., Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, 1993.

Research/Teaching Specialization: International law and human rights, specializing in ethnic conflict and territorial borders; International organizations; moral philosophy; international criminal law; Law of Armed Conflict.

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Transnational Law; Law of War; International Investment Law; Protection of Human Rights in International Law.

Publications:

  • Predator and Prey: Seizing and Killing Suspected Terrorists Abroad. 2007. (Refereed Journal Article)
  • Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules from FDR's Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush's Illegal War. 2006. (Refereed Journal Article)
  • Is International Law Impartial?. 2005. (Refereed Journal Article)
  • International War Crimes Trials: Making a Difference?. (Edited Book)
  • Land Feuds and Their Solutions: Finding International Law Beyond the Tribunal Chamber. 2007. (Refereed Journal Article)
  • The Attempt to bring the Perpetrators of the Cambodian Genocide to Trial. 1996. (Book Chapter)
  • Chair of the United Nations Group of Experts for Cambodia. 2007. (Authored Book)
  • Business. 2007. (Authored Book)
  • The War on Terrorism and International Humanitarian Law (Symposium: From Nuremberg to Abu Ghraib: The Relevance of International Criminal Law to the Global War on Terror). 2006. (Refereed Journal Article)
  • Land Feuds and Their Solutions: Finding International Law Beyond the Tribunal Chamber. 2006. (Refereed Journal Article)