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Professor David A. Koplow David A. Koplow

Professor of Law
B.A., Harvard; Queen's College, Oxford, England; J.D., Yale


Scholarship 2000 - Present

Note: This bibliography changes the order of authors so that Georgetown authors are listed first.

Links to selected articles are available below. Here are what the links represent: [HEIN] = On Hein Online [W] = On Westlaw [L] = On Lexis [SSRN] = In SSRN Working Papers collection [BOOK] - Information available in law library catalog

Forthcoming Works - Books
David A. Koplow, Death by Moderation: The U.S. Military's Quest for "Useable" Weapons (Cambridge University Press forthcoming 2009).

Books
David A. Koplow, Non-Lethal Weapons: The Law and Policy of Revolutionary Technologies for the Military and Law Enforcement (New York: Cambridge University Press 2006). [BOOK]

David A. Koplow, Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge (Berkeley, Cal.: University of California Press 2003). [BOOK]

Book Chapters & Collected Works
David A. Koplow, International Legal Standards and the Weaponization of Outer Space, in Security in Space: The Next Generation -- Conference Report, 31 March-1 April 2008 (Geneva, Switz.: United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) 2008).

David A. Koplow, Green Chemistry: Dismantling Chemical Weapons While Protecting the Environment, in Arms Control and the Environment 143-157 (Lakshman D. Guruswamy & Suzette R. Grillot eds., Ardsley, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers 2001). [BOOK]

Journal Articles
David A. Koplow, Tangled up in Khaki and Blue: Lethal and Non-Lethal Weapons in Recent Confrontations, 36 Geo. J. Int'l L. 703-808 (2005). [L] [SSRN]

David A. Koplow, Deliberate Extinction: Whether to Destroy the Last Smallpox Virus, 37 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 1-50 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W]

David A. Koplow, That Wonderful Year: Smallpox, Genetic Engineering, and Bio-Terrorism, 62 Md. L. Rev. 417-514 (2003). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]

Book Reviews
David A. Koplow, 94 Am. J. Int’l L. 221-224 (2000) (reviewing The New Chemical Weapons Convention: Implementation and Prospects (Michael Bothe, Natalino Ronzitti & Allan Rosas eds., 1998)). [HEIN] [L] [W]