Benedict William Kingsbury is Vice Dean and Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice at

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and a leading scholar in

international law International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of Rule of law, rules, norms, Customary law, legal customs and standards that State (polity), states and other actors feel an obligation to, and generall ...

and

diplomacy Diplomacy is the communication by representatives of State (polity), state, International organization, intergovernmental, or Non-governmental organization, non-governmental institutions intended to influence events in the international syste ...

. He was recently also announced as a faculty director for the new NYU La
Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies
Born in Holland and raised in

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he was a

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in 1982, a commercial law graduate (LLB Honors) from

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, New Zealand and a doctor of International Relations and Law at

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. He lectured at Oxford University and

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prior to his New York University Law School appointment. He is an honorary citizen of

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in Italy, the birthplace of

Alberico Gentili Alberico Gentili (14 January 155219 June 1608) was an Italian jurist, a tutor of Queen Elizabeth I, and a standing advocate to the Spanish Embassy in London, who served as the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford for 21 ye ...

(1552-1608). He received an honorary doctorate in law from Tilburg University in 2016. From 2013 to 2018 he was joint Editor in Chief of the

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(founded 1907). He received NYU Law School's Podell Distinguished Teaching Award in 2019. A leading academic on the rights of

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in international law, his professional interests also include

global administrative law Global administrative law is an emerging field that is based upon a dual insight: that much of what is usually termed “global governance” can be accurately characterized as administrative action; and that increasingly such action is itself bein ...

, the history and theory of international law, and the international law of

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. His ongoing research programs at NYU involve work on infrastructure as regulation, and on global tech law and global data law. His publications include two books edited with Sir Adam Roberts on the

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and

Hugo Grotius Hugo Grotius ( ; 10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Hugo de Groot () or Huig de Groot (), was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright. A teenage prodigy, he was born in Delft an ...

Publications

*''Megaregulation Contested: Global Economic Ordering After TPP'' (Oxford University Press, 2019) (ed. with David M. Malone, Paul Mertenskötter, Richard B. Stewart, Thomas Streinz and Atsushi Sunami) *''Hacia el Derecho Administrativo Global: Fundamentos, Principios y Ámbito de Aplicación'' (Global Law Press-Editorial Depeche Global, 2016) (with Richard B. Stewart) *''The Quiet Power of Indicators: Measuring Governance, Corruption, and Rule of Law'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015) (ed. with Sally Engle Merry and Kevin E. Davis) *''Ge Lao Xiu Si Yu Guo Ji Guan Xi'' (Hugo Grotius and International Relations) (2014) (ed. with Hedley Bull and Adam Roberts) *''Governance by Indicators: Global Power Through Quantification and Rankings'' (Oxford University Press, 2012) (ed. with Kevin E. Davis, Angelina Fisher and Sally Engle Merry) *''International Financial Institutions and Global Legal Governance'' (World Bank, 2012) (ed. with Hassane Cisse and Daniel Bradlow) *''Alberico Gentili, The Wars of the Romans: A Critical Edition and Translation of De Armis Romanis'' (Oxford University Press, 2011) (ed. with Benjamin Straumann) *''The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations: Alberico Gentili and the Justice of Empire'' (Oxford University Press, 2010) (ed. with Benjamin Straumann) *''United Nations, Divided World'', Chinese edition with fully revised Introductory chapter and appendices, and foreword by Professor

Wang Jisi Wang Jisi (; born November 1948) is a Chinese academic and international relations scholar. He currently serves as the president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at Peking University. He served as the Dean of Peking Univers ...

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(Beijing: Central Composition and Translation Press, 2010) (ed. with Sir Adam Roberts) *''El Surgimiento del Derecho Administrativo Global: Desafios para America Latina (The New Global Administrative Law: Challenges for Latin America)'' (Res Publica, 2009) (ed. with others) *Symposium on 'Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo: Democratic Republic of Congo v. Uganda' (40 ''NYU Journal of International Law and Politics'' 1 -217, 2008) (with J.H.H. Weiler) *Symposium on Global Governance and Global Administrative Law in the International Legal Order (17 ''European Journal of International Law'' 1–278, 2006) (ed. with Nico Krisch) *Indigenous Groups and the Politics of Recognition in Asia: Cases from Japan, Taiwan, West Papua, Bali, the People's Republic of China, and Gilgit (II 1-2 ''International Journal on Minority and Group Rights'' 1–228, 2004) (ed. with Kirsty Gover) *''Alberico Gentili e Il Mondo Extraeuropeo: Atti Del Convegno Settima Giornata Gentiliana'' (Dott. A. Giuffre Editore, 2001) *''Indigenous Peoples of Asia'' (Association of Asian Studies, 1995) (with R.H. Barnes, Andrew Gray et al.) *''United Nations, Divided World: The UN's Roles in International Relations'' (Oxford University Press, 1993) (ed. with Sir Adam Roberts) *''The International Politics of the Environment'' (Oxford University Press, 1992) (with

Andrew Hurrell Andrew James Hurrell, FBA (born 2 February 1955) is a leading British scholar of international relations. He is currently a senior research fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, having previously been Montague Burton Professor of International Rela ...

) *''Hugo Grotius and International Relations'' (Oxford University Press, 1990) (with

Hedley Bull Hedley Norman Bull (10 June 1932 – 18 May 1985) was Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford until his death from cancer in 1985. He was Montague ...

, Sir Adam Roberts et al.)

Lectures

*''What, How, and Who Should Public International Law Regulate? New Problems of Global Administrative Governance'' in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law.

References

External links

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Institute for International Law and Justice
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