Michael J. Glennon is professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He teaches courses on the International Legal Order, Public International Law, United States Foreign Relations and National Security Law, and Legal Aspects of WMD Proliferation. 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 taught international and constitutional law in Lithuania on a Fulbright fellowship, and in the summer of 2006 taught international law and terrorism at the Hague Academy of International Law. During the 2001-2002 academic year he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Glennon has served as a consultant to various congressional committees, the U.S. State Department, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. He is the recipient of the Deak Prize and Certificate of Merit from the American Society of International Law. From 1986 to 1999 he was a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. He is a member of the American Law Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Glennon has testified before the International Court of Justice and various congressional committees. A frequent commentator on public affairs, he has spoken widely within the United States and overseas and appeared on Nightline, the Today Show, NPR's All Things Considered and other national news programs. He is the author of numerous articles on constitutional and international law as well a number of books. Books include Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism after Kosovo (Palgrave: 2001); United States Foreign Relations and National Security Law, 2nd ed. (with Thomas M. Franck; West Publishing Company: 1993); When No Majority Rules, (Congressional Quarterly Press (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). Recent articles include "Platonism, Adaptivism, and Illusion in UN Reform", 6 Chicago Journal Of International Law 613 (Winter, 2006); "How International Rules Die", 93 Georgetown Law Journal 939 (2005); "Why the Security Council Failed", Foreign Affairs (May/June, 2003); "Terrorism and the Limits of Law", Woodrow Wilson Quarterly 2 (Spring, 2002); and "The Fog of Law: Self-Defense, Inherence, and Incoherence in the United Nations Charter", 25 Harvard Journal Of Law And Public Policy 539 (2002). Glennon's op-ed pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, International Herald-Tribune, Financial Times, and Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung.