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IILJ Senior Fellow
Simon Chesterman
Simon Chesterman is Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University School of Law, as well as Global Professor and Director of the Law School's Singapore Program. He is also an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law.
Educated in Melbourne, Beijing, Amsterdam, and Oxford, Chesterman has written widely on international institutions, international criminal law, human rights, the use of force, and post-conflict reconstruction.
Prior to joining NYU, he was a Senior Associate at the International Peace Academy and Director of UN Relations at the International Crisis Group in New York. He has previously worked for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Belgrade and interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha. His teaching experience includes periods at the Universities of Melbourne, Oxford, Southampton, and Columbia.
Chesterman is the author of You, The People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building (Oxford University Press, 2004) and Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2001), which was awarded the American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit. He is the editor, with Michael Ignatieff and Ramesh Thakur, of Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance (United Nations University Press, 2005) and of Civilians in War (Lynne Rienner, 2001). He regularly contributes to international law and political science journals, as well as mass media publications such as the International Herald Tribune.
