Professor of Law
On Leave, Visiting Professor, Spring 2008, University of Notre Dame Law School.
A.B., Princeton University
J.D., New York University School of Law
E-mail:
andrewstrauss@comcast.net Phone: 302.477.2254
Andrew Strauss is a professor at Widener University School of Law. He specializes in public international law, international economic law, business organizations and international transactions. 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.
Professor Strauss is co-author (with Burns Weston, Richard Falk and Hilary 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 with Professor Richard Falk 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 has served as the Director of the Geneva 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. Last year 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 Executive Committee of the Section on International Law of the Association of American Law Schools, is on the Advisory Council of the Center for U.N. Reform Education, and is on the Advisory Council of the OneVoice Initiative for Middle East Peace.
Selected Recent Publications Articles
- Considering Global Democracy: An Introduction to the Symposium: Envisioning a More Democratic Global System, 13 Widener Law Review i (2007).
- Symposium: Envisioning a More Democratic Global System: Creating the First Branch of Global Governance, 13 Widener Law Review 345 (2007).
- Is International Law a Threat to Democracy: Framing the Question, 12 ILSA J. INT’L & COMP. L. 555 (2006).
- Taking Democracy Global: Assessing the Benefits and Challenges of a Global Parliamentary Assembly The One World Trust (2005) - PDF document
- The Legal Option: Suing the United States in International Forums for Global Warming Emissions, 33 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. L. Inst.) 10185 (2003).
- Introductory Remarks: AIDS and Globalization--The Question Presented, 35 J. MARSHALL L. REV. 398 (2002).
- & Richard Falk, Toward Global Parliament, 80 FOREIGN AFF. 212 (2001) reprinted in A READER ON SECOND ASSEMBLY & PARLIAMENTARY PROPOSALS 11 (Saul H. Mendlovitz & Barbara Walker, eds., Center for UN Reform Education 2003).
- Panel Introductory Presentation, Citizens in the International Realm: The New Participatory Demands, 95 AM. SOC’Y INT’L L. PROC. 162 (2001).
- & Richard Falk, On the Creation of a Global Peoples Assembly: Legitimacy and the Power of Popular Sovereignty, 36 STAN. J. INT’L L. 191 (2000).
- Overcoming the Dysfunction of the Bifurcated Global System: The Promise of a Peoples Assembly, 9 TRANSNAT’L L. & CONTEMP. PROBS. 489 (1999); reprinted in REFRAMING THE INTERNATIONAL: LAW, CULTURE, POLITICS 83 (Richard Falk et al., eds., Routledge 2002).
Books
- ET AL., INTERNATIONAL LAW AND WORLD ORDER: A PROBLEM-ORIENTED COURSEBOOK (Thomson West 4th ed. 2006).
Chapters
- & Richard Falk, The Deeper Challenges of Global Terrorism: A Democratizing Response, in DEBATING COSMOPOLITICS 203 (Danielle Archibugi, ed. Verso, 2003).
- & Richard Falk, Reviving the Dream of Global Democracy, in HOPE IN A DARK TIME: REFLECTIONS ON HUMANITY’S FUTURE at 133 (David Krieger, ed., Capra Press (2003)).