Peter J. Spiro
Dean and Virginia Rusk Professor of International LawB.A., Harvard University
J.D., University of Virginia
Courses Offered:
International Trade
Immigration Law
Human Rights
Bibliography
Professional Biographical Information:
Peter J. Spiro joined the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law in the Fall of 2004 as holder of the Dean and Virginia Rusk professorship in international law. Before coming to Georgia Law, Spiro spent 10 years at Hofstra University School of Law serving as a tenured professor and associate dean for faculty development. He specializes in international law, the constitutional aspects of U.S. foreign relations, and immigration and nationality law. Spiro’s recent scholarship includes: “Disaggregating U.S. Interests in International Law” in Law and Contemporary Problems (forthcoming 2004), “Treaties, International Law, and Constitutional Rights” in the Stanford Law Review (2003) and “Globalization and the (Foreign Affairs) Constitution” in the Ohio State Law Journal (2002). He has also published articles in the Texas, Michigan, New York University, Fordham, Virginia, William & Mary and Emory law reviews and has contributed analysis to such publications as Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic. Additionally, Spiro is a frequent speaker in academic and policy forums on dual citizenship, the interaction of federal states with the international system, and the role of non-governmental organizations in international institutions. In 1993-94, he served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, during which he studied the growing role of NGOs in international decision-making. Spiro was awarded an Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation fellowship to study the law of American citizenship in 1997-98. He served as a visiting professor at the University of Texas Law School in the spring of 2001. Recently, he was ranked as a member of the top 20 in a survey of the academic citation frequency of legal scholars entering the field since 1992. Spiro is a former law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He has also served as director for democracy on the staff of the National Security Council (a White House position), as an attorney-adviser in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser and as a resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Spiro obtained his bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he served as reviews editor for the Harvard Political Review. He earned his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was inducted into the Order of the Coif and served as notes editor of the Virginia Law Review and on the editorial board of the Virginia Journal of International Law.
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