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Hurst Hannum

Hurst Hannum

Hurst Hannum

hurst.hannum@tufts.edu

Phone: (617) 627-2244

Fax: (617) 627-3712

Office: Mugar 250C

Address:
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Professor of International Law

Education

AB, University of California, Berkeley
JD, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

Professional Activities

Executive Director of the Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute, Washington, DC (1980-89); Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow, US Institute of Peace, Washington, DC (1989-90); Sir Y.K. Pao Professor of International Law, University of Hong Kong (2006-08). Legal consultant to the United Nations and other organizations on East Timor, Afghanistan, Faroe Islands, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, Aceh, Western Sahara, and international protection of minority rights.

Biography/Curriculum Vitae

Hurst Hannum, Professor of International Law, has taught courses on public international law, international human rights law, minority rights, international organizations, and nationalism and ethnicity. His focus is on human rights and its role in the international legal and political order, including, in particular, issues such as self-determination, humanitarian intervention, and conflict resolution. His scholarly work has been complemented by service as consultant/advisor to a number of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Department of Political Affairs. He has been counsel in cases before European and Inter-American human rights bodies and is a member of the boards of Minority Rights Group International (London) and the International Service for Human Rights (Geneva). A graduate of Boalt School of Law (University of California, Berkeley), he also has taught at the University of Hong Kong, Harvard, American University, Georgia, and Virginia. Prof. Hannum is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on international law and human rights, including International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy, and Process (4th ed. 2006) Negotiating Self-Determination (2006); Guide to International Human Rights Practice (4th ed. 2004); and Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights (rev. ed. 1996). He serves on editorial advisory boards of Human Rights Law Review and Human Rights Quarterly.

Hurst Hannum - Curriculum VitaePDF

Programs & Centers

Courses

Fall 2009

Research Interests

Nationalism and self-determination; peacekeeping; international protection of human rights; United Nations; public international law; human rights and conflict resolution.

Faculty Research Profile - "Top on Hannum’s project list is the revision of one of the leading casebooks in the field of human rights, "Human Rights Problems of Law, Policy and Practice", co-authored by Hannum himself. The fourth edition appeared in 2006, and the manuscript for the fifth edition should be completed in 2010. Hannum is also editing and contributing to a UN-sponsored Guide to Minority Rights, which should be available in 2010.

Selected Publications

Books

  • International Human Rights Law: Problems of Law, Policy, and Practice (co-author) (4th ed. 2006).
  • Guide to International Human Rights Practice (4th ed.) (2004).
  • Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights (rev. ed.) (1996).

Articles

  • "The responsibility to protect: paradigm or pastiche?" 60 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 135 (no. 2, 2009).
  • "Reforming the Special Procedures and Mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights," 7 Human Rights Law Review 73 (2007).
  • "Peace versus Justice: Creating Rights as well as Order Out of Chaos," 13 International Peacekeeping 582 (2006).
  • "Human Rights in Conflict Resolution: The Role of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in UN Peacemaking and Peacebuilding." 28 Human Rights Quarterly 1 (2006).
  • “Bellum Americanum,” The Fletcher Forum (2002).
  • "The Specter of Secession," Foreign Affairs (1998).
  • "Rethinking Self-Determination," Virginia Journal of International Law (1993).