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Tel: 215.898.7674
Email: wburkewh@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Foreign Policy
- Global Human Rights
- International Economic Law
- International Institutions
- International Law
Bio
William Burke-White, an expert on international law and global governance, served in the Obama Administration from 2009-2011 on Secretary of State Clinton’s Policy Planning Staff, providing the Secretary direct policy advice on multilateral issues, international institutions, and the Russian Federation.
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William Burke-White, an expert on international law and global governance, served in the Obama Administration from 2009-2011 on Secretary of State Clinton’s Policy Planning Staff, providing the Secretary direct policy advice on multilateral issues, international institutions, and the Russian Federation. He was principal drafter of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), Secretary Clinton’s hallmark effort to reform the Department of State and reshape US foreign policy. Burke-White has written extensively in the fields of international law and institutions, with particular focus on international criminal and international financial law. He has worked extensively on issues of post-conflict justice; the International Criminal Court; linkages between human rights and national security, and international investment arbitration. His current research explores the gaps in the global governance system and the challenges of international legal regulation in a world of rising powers and divergent state interests. In 2008 he received the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in teaching an introductory course and was awarded a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2007 he received the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law – Deputy Dean (2011- ); Professor of Law (2010- ); Assistant Professor (2005-10)
Visiting Scholar or Professor – International Criminal Court; Mofid University, Qom, Iran; Moscow State Institute for International Relations
Government of Rwanda, Constitutional Commission (2001-02); International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, The Hague (Summer 2000)
Clifford Chance LLP, New York and London (Summer 2001)
Princeton University – Lecturer in Public and International Affairs and Special Assistant to the Dean (2003-05)
U.S. Department of State - The Secretary's Policy Planning Staff (2009-11)
Representative Publications
The Adoption of the Responsibility to Protect, in THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT (Jared Genser & Irwin Cotler eds., Oxford Univ. Press Oct. 2011).
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Reframing Positive Complementarity: Reflections on the First Decade and Insights from the US Federal Criminal Justice System, in THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND COMPLEMENTARITY: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE, (C. Stahn & M. Al Zeidy, eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2011).
Standards of Review in Investor State Arbitration: A Comparative Public Law Approach (with Andreas von Staden), in INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW AND COMPARATIVE PUBLIC LAW (Stephen W. Schill, ed., 2010).
Private Litigation in a Public Law Sphere: The Standard of Review in Investor State Arbitrations, 35 YALE J. INT'L L. 283 (2010) (with Andreas von Staden).
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International Idealism Meets Domestic-Criminal-Procedure Realism, 59 DUKE L.J. 637 (2010) (with Stephanos Bibas).
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Shaping the Contours of Domestic Justice: The International Criminal Court and an Admissibility Challenge in the Uganda Situation, 7 J. INT'L CRIM. JUST. 257 (2009) (with Scott Kaplan).
Shaping the Contours of Domestic Justice: The International Criminal Court and an Admissibility Challenge in the Uganda Situation, in THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AT FIVE (2009) (with Scott Kaplan).
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Bargaining for Arrests at the International Criminal Court: A Response to Roper and Barria, 21 LEIDEN J. INT'L L. 477 (2008).
Non-Precluded Measures Provisions, the State of Necessity, and State Liability for Investor Harms in Exceptional Circumstances (with Andreas von Staden), in LATIN AMERICAN INVESTMENT TREATY ARBITRATION. THE CONTROVERSIES AND CONFLICTS (Thomas E. Carbonneau, Mary H. Mourra, eds., Kluwer 2008).
The Argentine Financial Crisis: State Liability Under BITs and the Legitimacy of the ICSID System, 3 ASIAN J. WTO & INT'L HEALTH L. & POL'Y 199 (2008).
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The Domestic Influence of International Criminal Tribunals: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Creation of the State Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, 46 COLUM. J. TRANSNAT’L L. 279 (2008).
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Proactive Complementarity: The International Criminal Court and National Courts in the Rome System of Justice, 49 HARV. INT’L L.J. 53 (2008).
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Implementing a Policy of Positive Complementarity in the Rome System of Justice, 19 CRIM. L.F. 59 (2008).
Investment Protection in Extraordinary Times: The Interpretation and Application of Non-Precluded Measures Provisions in Bilateral Investment Treaties 48 VA. J. INT'L L. 307 (2007) (with Andreas von Staden).
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The Future of the United Nations, 155 U. PA. L. REV. PENNUMBRA 74 (debate with Professor Abraham Bell) (2006).
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The Future of International Law is Domestic, 47 HARV. INT’L L.J. 327 (2006) (with Anne-Marie Slaughter).
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Complementarity in Practice: The International Criminal Court as Part of a System of Multi-Level Global Governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 18 LEIDEN J. INT’L L. 557 (2005).
International Legal Pluralism, 25 MICH. J. INT’L L. 963 (2005).
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Human Rights and National Security: The Strategic Correlation, 17 HARV. HUM. RTS. J.249 (2004).
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The International Criminal Court and the Future of Legal Accountability, 10 ILSA J. INT’L L. 195 (2003).
A Community of Courts: Toward a System of International Criminal Law Enforcement, 24 MICH. J. INT’L L. 1 (2003).
An International Constitutional Moment (with Anne-Marie Slaughter), 43 HARV. INT’L L.J. 1 (2002).
Reframing Impunity: Applying Liberal International Law Theory to an Analysis of Amnesty Legislation, 42 HARV. INT’L L.J. 467 (2001).
International Idealism Meets Domestic-Criminal-Procedure Realism, 59 DUKE L.J. 637 (2010) (with William W. Burke-White).
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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
MULTILEVEL GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (in progress). (forthcoming)
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