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Michael J. Glennon

Professor of International Law

Education

BA, College of St. Thomas
JD, University of Minnesota

Professional Activities

Member, Council on Foreign Relations, American Law Institute; Professeur Invité, University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), 2006-present; Professor of Law, University of California, Davis (1987-2002); Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Scholar at the United States Military Academy, West Point (2005); Director of Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law (2006); Fulbright Distinguished Professor of Law, Vytautus Magnus University School of Law, Kaunas, Lithuania (1998); Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2001-2002); private law practice, Washington, D.C. (1980-1981); Legal Counsel, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1977-1980); Assistant Counsel, Office of the Legislative Counsel, U.S. Senate (1973-1977); Consultant to U.S. Department of State (2004 - 2007), International Atomic Energy Agency (1998), Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1988) and Senate Judiciary Committee (1987); Deak Prize recipient, American Society of International Law (1984).

Biography/Curriculum Vitae

Michael J. Glennon is Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. Prior to going into teaching, he was Legal Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1977-1980) and Assistant Counsel in the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the United States Senate (1973-1977). In 1998 he was Distinguished Professor of International and Constitutional Law, Vytautus Magnus University School of Law, Kaunas, Lithuania. During the 2001-2002 academic year he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. In 2005 he was Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Scholar at the United States Military Academy, West Point. In 2006 he was Director of Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law. He has been professor invité at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) since 2006. Professor Glennon has served as a consultant to various congressional committees, the U.S. State Department, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. He is a member of the American Law Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Professor Glennon is the author of numerous articles on constitutional and international law as well as several books. These include Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism after Kosovo (Palgrave: 2001); United States Foreign Relations and National Security Law, 3rd ed. (with Thomas M. Franck and Sean Murphy; West Publishing Company: 2008); When No Majority Rules, (Congressional Quarterly PreGss (1992)); Constitutional Diplomacy (Princeton University Press: 1990); and Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Constitution (co-edited with Louis Henkin and William D. Rogers; Transnational Publishers: 1990). He served on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law from 1986 to 1999.

Professor Glennon has testified before the International Court of Justice and numerous congressional committees. A frequent commentator on public affairs, he has spoken widely within the United States and abroad and appeared on Nightline, the Today Show, NPR's All Things Considered and other national news programs. His op-ed pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, International Herald-Tribune, Financial Times, and Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung.

Michael J. Glennon - Curriculum Vitae

Courses

Fall 2009

• ILO L200 - International Legal Order
  ILO L200 Syllabus

Research Interests

Use of Force; Terrorism; Preemption; American Hegemony; Congress and Foreign Policy; Presidential Power; U.S. Foreign Relations Law; United Nations; and International Law.

Faculty Research Profile - “The most potentially catastrophic problem facing the world today is the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. There’s no close second.”

Selected Publications

Books

• Foreign Relations and National Security Law: Cases, Materials and Simulations (American Casebook) by Thomas M. Franck, Michael J. Glennon, Sean D. Murphy
• Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism After Kosovo by Michael J. Glennon
• Constitutional Diplomacy by Michael J. Glennon, with a foreword by J. William Fulbright
• When No Majority Rules: The Electoral College and Presidential Succession by Michael J. Glennon

Articles, Chapters, and Presentations

• "Testimony on Iraq before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 10, 2008," (2008);
• "Debate with Alain Pellet, Hague Academy of International Law, September 7, 2007," (2007);
• "Platonism, Adaptivism, and Illusion in UN Reform,"7 Chicago Journal of International Law 613 (2006);
• "How International Rules Die," 93 Georgetown Law Journal 939 (2005);
• "Idealism in the U.N.," 129 Policy Review 3 (2005);
• "Presidential Power to Wage War Against Iraq," 6 The Green Bag 183 (Winter, 2003);
• "Why the Security Council Failed," Foreign Affairs (May/June,2003);
• "Terrorism and the Limits of Law," Woodrow Wilson Quarterly (Spring, 2002);
• "The Fog of Law: Self-Defense, Inherence, and Incoherence in the United Nations Charter," 25 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 539 (2002);
• "Drop the great pretence," The Financial Times, May 6, 2002;
• "Preempting Terrorism: The Case for Anticipatory Self-Defense," The Weekly Standard, Jan. 28, 2002;
• "The Catch: Justice Demands Different Treatment for Those Who Wage War Against Us," Washington Post (Sunday Outlook Section), Dec. 23, 2001;
• "American Hegemony in an Unplanned World Order," 5 The Journal of Conflict and Security Law 3 (2000);
• "The New Interventionism: The Search for a Just International Law," 78 Foreign Affairs 2 (1999).

Op-eds

• "Go Long? Go Big? Go Back To Congress, "The Washington Post, December 07, 2006.
• "A stronger Security Council is no solution," The Financial Times, December 13, 2004.
• "How U.S. lawyers read the Constitution, "International Herald Tribune, June 18, 2004.
• "How War Left the Law Behind, "The New York Times, November 21, 2002.