Ian Johnstone is Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He teaches courses on Peace Operations, International Organizations and Non-Proliferation Law and Institutions. He received an honours B.A. and a J.D. from the University of Toronto, and has an LL.M. degree from Columbia University.
Professor Johnstone has seven years professional experience at the United Nations, including five as an aide in the Office of the Secretary-General, one in the Department of Peace-keeping Operations, and one in the Office of Legal Affairs. He has been a Senior Research Associate at the International Peace Academy, a Warren Weaver Fellow in International Security with the Rockefeller Foundation, an Associate in Law at Columbia University, and a Judicial Clerk in the Ontario Court of Appeal. He was the volume editor and lead scholar, Annual Review of Global Peace Operations from 2005 to 2007, and will be the editor of a Special Issue of the International Peacekeeping journal which is scheduled for publication in 2007. He is
vice chair of the International Organizations Interest Group of the American Society of International Law.
In addition to the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, a sample of Professor Johnstone's most recent publications include "The Secretary-General as Norm Entrepreneur" (in Secretary or General? The Role of the UN Secretary-General World Politics,
2007; "Discursive Power in the UN Security Council" (in the Journal of International Law and International Relations, Vol. 2(1) 2006); "The UN Security Council
as Legislative" (in Virtual Governance, forthcoming 2007); "The Plea of Necessity in International Legal Discourse: Humanitarian Intervention and Counter-Terrorism" (in Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 2005); "US-UN Relations After Iraq: The End of the World (Order) as We Know It?" (in European Journal of International Law 2004).
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