Brief Bio

Carlos M. Vázquez is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law at Georgetown Law. He previously served as Associate Dean for Graduate and International Programs. Vázquez served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then practiced law with Covington and Burling in Washington, DC, before joining the faculty of Georgetown Law. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Yale Law School.  From 2000 to 2003, he was the United States member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee, the organ of the Organization of American States responsible for juridical matters and for promoting the progressive development and codification of international law (public and private) in the Americas. From 2012 to 2016, he was a member of the U.N. Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. He has also served as Co-Director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London. He is a member of the American Law Institute, where he is an adviser to the Fourth Restatement of Foreign Relations Law. He is an honorary member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.  His scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, and the American Journal of International Law, among other journals.

Representative Publications

Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress

• AEDPA as Forum Allocation:  The Case for Overruling Williams v. Taylor (forthcoming in American Criminal Law Review)
• Choice of Law as Geographic Scope Limitation, in Liber Amicorum for Lea Brilmayer (forthcoming 2018)
• Treaty Self-Execution as “Foreign” Foreign Relations Law, in Oxford Handbook on Comparative Foreign Relations Law (C. Bradley, ed.) (forthcoming 2018) (with Duncan B. Hollis)

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

• Customary International Law as U.S. Law:  A Critique of the Intermediate Positions and Defense of the Modern Position, 86 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1495 (2011).
• Treaties as Law of the Land:  The Supremacy Clause and the Judicial Enforcement of Treaties, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 599 (2008).
• What Is Eleventh Amendment Immunity?, 106 Yale L.J. 1683 (1997)
• The Four Doctrines of Self-Executing Treaties, 89 Am. J. Int’l L. 695 (1995)

Courses taught at CTLS

• Foreign Relations Law: US and Comparative Perspectives (Fall 2017)
• Core Course: Introduction to Transnational Law (Spring 2022, Fall 2018, Spring 2018)