Professor of Law; Director, Center for Applied Legal Studies
B.A., Harvard; Queen's College, Oxford, England; J.D., Yale

Office Location: McDonough 332

Assistant: Karen Bouton

Phone: 9565

Biography

Professor Koplow has worked, taught, and written in the areas of public international law and national security law for many years. He served as Attorney-Advisor, and as Special Assistant to the Director of the U.S. Arm Control and Disarmament Agency from 1978 to 1981, and as Deputy General Counsel for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense from 1997 to 1999. He has taught at the Georgetown University Law Center since 1981. His principal courses have been International Law I (the introductory survey of public international law topics) and a seminar in the area of arms control, nonproliferation, and terrorism. In addition, he directs a clinic, the Center for Applied Legal Studies, in which students provide pro bono representation to refugees who seek asylum in the United States because of persecution in their homelands. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the Yale Law School. Much of his scholarly writing concentrates on the intersection between international law and U.S. constitutional law, especially in the areas of arms control and national security and treaty negotiation and implementation.