David P. Stewart
Director, Global Law Scholars Program; Co-Director, Center on Transnational Business and the Law, Visiting Professor of Law
B.A., Princeton; M.A., J.D., Yale; LL.M., New York University
Professor Stewart joined the faculty as Visiting Professor of Law following his retirement from the U. S. Department of State, where he served as Assistant...
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Professor Stewart joined the faculty as Visiting Professor of Law following his retirement from the U. S. Department of State, where he served as Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law. Previously he had been Assistant Legal Adviser for Diplomatic Law and Litigation, for African Affairs, for Human Rights and Refugees, for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, and for International Claims and Investment Disputes, as well as Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser. Before joining the government, he was in private practice with Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine in commercial and antitrust litigation. He co-edited the multi-volume Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law for the years 1990-2003. He was Adjunct Professor for over 25 years and received Georgetown’s Charles Fahy award for distinguished adjunct faculty teaching in 2003-2004.
In 2012 Prof. Stewart was re-elected to the Inter-American Juridical Committee, which advises the Organization of American States on juridical matters of an international nature and promotes the progressive development and the codification of international law. He is President-elect of the American Branch of the International Law Association and a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, the Executive Council of the ABA's Section of International Law, and the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law. He was recently selected by the American Law Institute to serve as one of the reporters working on the Restatement (Fourth), Foreign Relations Law of the United States.
Professor Stewart directs the Global Law Scholars Program, co-directs the Center on Transnational Business and the Law, and teaches courses in public and private international law, foreign relations law, and international criminal law and civil litigation. With Professors Luban and O'Sullivan, he co-authored International and Transnational Criminal Law (Aspen 2009).
