People
IILJ Staff
Simon Chesterman
Senior Fellow
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.
Dr Simon Chesterman, NYU Faculty
Angelina Fisher
Program Director
Angelina Fisher is the Program Director for the IILJ. She received her LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law in 2004 and her LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada in 2000.
Prior to joining the IILJ, Angelina was a Helton Fellow at Human Rights First, focusing on U.S. and international law related to counterterrorism operations and national security policy and practice. In 2004-2005, Angelina was a Research Scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at New York University School of Law, where she was one of the primary researchers and authors of the reports, Torture by Proxy: International and Domestic Law Applicable to "Extraordinary Renditions," issued jointly by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York CHRGJ, and Beyond Guantanamo: Transfers to Torture One Year After Rasul v. Bush, issued by the CHRGJ. Angelina is also a co-author of Tortured Logic Renditions to Justice, Extraordinary Rendition, and Human Rights Law. Before embarking on her human rights career, Angelina was an attorney at the New York law firm Shearman & Sterling, LLP.
Surabhi Ranganathan
Institute Fellow/Program Officer
Surabhi Ranganathan is Program Officer for the IILJ. She graduated from the NYU School of Law with an LL.M in 2006, where she was an Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholar. She also holds a B.A. LL.B (Hons, 2005) degree from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore where she graduated third in her class with two gold medals, including the VR Reddy Best Student Advocate prize. In 2004, she clerked with Justice Brijesh Kumar of the Supreme Court of India.
During her year at NYU, Surabhi worked as a research assistant for Prof. Thomas Franck. She assisted with the drafting of several chapters for his casebook, Law and Practice of the United Nations (OUP, 2008). She has interned with a number of international organizations, including the UNHCR and the UNICEF. In 2004, she was part of the first Indian team to win the Asia Pacific Round of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition in Sydney.
Surabhi is the author of "Reconceptualizing the Boundaries of Humanitarian Assistance: The Importance of Being 'Earnest'", 40(1) John Marshall Law Review 195 (2006).
Euan MacDonald
Institute Fellow/Research Officer
Euan MacDonald is a Research Officer for the Global Administrative Law project. He graduated in Law from the University of Edinburgh in 1999, where he was awarded a first class honours degree and the Gilchrist Prize in International law, before going on to gain a Masters degree from the same institution in 2000, again focusing on public international law and legal theory. He went on to obtain a PhD in law from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in October 2006, with a thesis on critical approaches to international legal theory. From 2005-2006 he was a Visiting Fellow on the Programme for the Study of International Organizations at the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva.
Some recent publications include the co-edition of the collected volume International Migration Law: Developing Paradigms and Key Challenges (published by Asser Press in 2007), and a UNESCO report on the prospective for ratification of the International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers among the countries of the European Economic Area. He is also co-editor of Global Administrative Law: Cases, Materials, Issues (2nd edition, 2008). Euan’s current research interests range from global administrative law and global constitutionalism to the theory of international law and the philosophy of rhetoric.
Lorenzo Casini
Research Fellow
Lorenzo Casini is a Research Fellow for the Global Administrative Project. He is a tenured Assistant Professor at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, where he teaches Town and Country Planning Law and Cultural Property Law at the “L. Quaroni” Faculty of Architecture. He is also Fellow of the Institute for Research on Public Administration (IRPA).
After graduating in Law cum laude in 1999, he obtained a Ph.D. in European and Comparative Administrative Law from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2004. From 2000 to 2006 he carried out academic and research activities in Administrative Law under Professor Sabino Cassese at the same institution, where he also worked as a Research Fellow from 2002 to 2006. In 2000 he acted as consultant to the Italian Government on the Regulatory Impact Analysis Project.
He has written articles on cultural property, urban planning law, and comparative and global administrative law. His publications include a book on Town and Country Planning (L’equilibrio degli interessi nel governo del territorio, Giuffrè, 2005), and he is co-editor of Global Administrative Law: Cases, Materials, Issues (2nd edition, 2008). He is currently researching a book on global sports law.
Alma Fuentes
Administrative Aide
Chia Lehnardt
Consultant
Chia Lehnardt is a consultant to the IILJ, working with Simon Chesterman as co-editor of an Oxford University Press book resulting from the IILJ's Private Military Firms project. She is currently a doctoral student in Berlin. In 2005-06, she was a full-time Program Officer at the IILJ.
She studied law in Berlin (1st State Examination, 2003), Oxford (Diploma in Legal Studies with Distinction, 2001), Florence (EUI Academy of European Law, Diploma in Human Rights Law, 2002) and at NYU (LLM, International Legal Studies, 2005) with a focus on Public International Law, European Union Law and Constitutional Law. Prior to coming to NYU, she worked at the office of the legal advisor to the socialdemocratic parliamentary party and with a law firm specializing in public law.
Ana Lara
Ana Lara (Harvard AB, 97), worked with the IILJ from 2004-2006. She is currently writing fiction. Her first novel, Erzulie's Skirt (Fall 2006) has been published by Redbone Press. She is currently in Austin, Texas working with The Austin Project.
