Lori Damrosch

Adjunct Faculty

B.A., Yale, 1973; J.D., Yale, 1976. Law clerk to Judge Jon O. Newman, 1976-77. Served in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, through 1980, with responsibilities including European and Canadian affairs, international antitrust, aviation, and trade; was special assistant to the legal adviser in 1980. Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell, 1981-84. Joined the Columbia faculty in 1984.

Publications include The International Court of Justice at a Crossroads (ed., 1987); Law and Force in the New International Order (ed., 1991); Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts (ed., 1993); Beyond Confrontation: International Law for the Post-Cold War Era (ed. 1995); Enforcing International Law through Non-Forcible Measures (Hague Academy of International Law, 1997); and International Law: Cases and Materials (4th ed., with Henkin, Pugh, Schachter and Smit, 2001). Co-editor-in-chief, American Journal of International Law, since 2003.

Professor Damrosh is an expert in the areas of international law and the U.S. law of foreign relations. Full Profile / Courses