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Tel: 215.898.7674
Email: wburkewh@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
Bio
William Burke-White, an expert on human rights and international criminal and financial law, is on leave as a member of the Foreign Policy Planning Staff, focusing on Russia and international law in the U.S.
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William Burke-White, an expert on human rights and international criminal and financial law, is on leave as a member of the Foreign Policy Planning Staff, focusing on Russia and international law in the U.S. State Department. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of international law and political science, where he addresses issues related to international tribunals; post-conflict justice; the International Criminal Court; linkages between human rights and national security; and international investment arbitration. His most recent research is on the impact of the rise of Russia and China on the international legal system. 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
U.S. Department of State - foreign policy planning staff (2009- )
Penn Law – Assistant Professor (2005- )
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)
Representative Publications
International Idealism Meets Domestic-Criminal-Procedure Realism, 59 DUKE L.J. __ (forthcoming January 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. __ (forthcoming 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 (forthcoming 2009) (with Scott Kaplan).
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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, 190 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).
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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
MULTILEVEL GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (in progress).
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