MARK ANTONIN DRUMBL

 

Suite 4005, Lewis Hall, School of Law, Washington & Lee University, Lexington VA 24450-0303

 

http://home.wlu.edu/~drumblm/

 

Office: (540)-458-8531   Fax: (540)-458-8488   E-Mail: drumblm@wlu.edu

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EMPLOYMENT

 

Fall 2005                       Visiting Fellow, University College, Oxford (Michaelmas Term)

                                    Visitor, Vanderbilt University, School of Law (intensive course, September 2005)

 

2004 -                           Associate Professor (with Tenure) and Ethan Allen Faculty Fellow

                                    School of Law, Washington & Lee University 

 

2002-2004                     Assistant Professor and Ethan Allen Faculty Fellow

                                    School of Law, Washington & Lee University  

 

Courses and seminars taught: contracts (together with legal writing), public international law, international environmental law and governance, transitional justice, and international criminal law. Professor in international environmental law, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, 2003, 2004.

 

Fall 2001                       Visiting, School of Law, Washington & Lee University

 

1999-2002                     Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia Law School

 

1997-1999                     Associate-in-Law, School of Law, Columbia University

 

Responsible for instructing LL.M. students from civil law jurisdictions in common-law legal method and principles of American jurisprudence. Volunteer Counsel, Legal Aid Rwanda, in Rwanda in 1998.

 

1995-1997                     Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington (Toronto)

 

Litigator with exposure to  corporate-commercial, environmental law, and private international law. Served as co-counsel for the former Chief of Defense Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces at the Canadian Inquiry into Military Wrongdoing in Somalia.

 

1994-1995                     Judicial Clerk to Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci

                                    Supreme Court of Canada

 

EDUCATION

 

2002                             Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.)                                   

Columbia University, School of Law

Doctoral Committee: Profs. Lori Damrosch (Chair), Jose Alvarez, Brad Karkkainen

 

1998                             LL.M.            

Columbia University, School of Law                  

 

1994                             LL.B. (highest honors)

University of Toronto

Spent one semester studying civil law at the Université de Montréal

 

1992                             Master of Arts

Institut d'études politiques de Paris/McGill University

 

1989                             Bachelor of Arts (first class honors)

McGill University

 

 

SELECTED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

 

Law Review Articles

 

Collective Violence and Individual Punishment:  The Criminality of Mass Atrocity, 99 Northwestern U. Law Review 539 (2005).  Selected as one of two co-winners of the 2005 Scholarly Papers Competition of the Association of American Law Schools.

 

Pluralizing International Criminal Justice, 103 Michigan Law Review ___ (2005) (review essay).

 

Rights, Culture, and Crime:  The Role of Rule of Law for the Women of Afghanistan, 42:2 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 349 (2004); adapted and reprinted as Justice for the Women of Afghanistan: Role(s) and Rule(s) of Law, in Global Legal Reform (Kluwer Legal Publication, 2004, ed. Michael Scharf).

 

Victimhood in Our Neighborhood: Terrorist Crime, Taliban Guilt, and the Asymmetries of the International Legal Order, 81 North Carolina Law Review 1 (2002). This Article received the International Association of Penal Law (U.S. National Section) Best Article Award (2001-2003).

 

Poverty, Wealth, and Obligation in International Environmental Law, 76 Tulane Law Review 843 (2002). This Article received Tulane Law School’s John Minor Wisdom Award for Academic Excellence in Legal Scholarship, 2002.

 

Punishment, Post-Genocide: From Guilt to Shame to Civis in Rwanda, 75 New York University Law Review 1221 (2000).


 

Does Sharing Know its Limits? Thoughts on Implementing International Environmental Agreements, 18 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 281 (1999).

 

Amalgam in the Americas: A Law School Curriculum for Free Markets and Open Borders, 35 San Diego Law Review 1053 (1998).

 

Rule of Law Amid Lawlessness: Counseling the Accused in Rwanda’s Domestic Genocide Trials, 29 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 545 (1998). This Article was awarded Columbia University=s Gitelson/Meyerowitz Human Rights Prize, 1998.

 

 

Book Chapters

 

The Trail Smelter Case, International Environmental Harms, and the Draft Articles on State Responsibility, in Transboundary Harms in International Law (Miller and Bratspies, eds. Cambridge University Press, pending 2005).

 

Lessons for International Criminal Justice from Rwanda, in Leila Sadat and Michael Scharf, eds. War Crimes: The Role of Justice in Building Peace (Kluwer, 2004) (pending) (book publication from symposium at Washington University, School of Law)

 

Commentary on Remarks by Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald of the ICTY, in International War Crimes Trials: Making a Difference? 29 (ed. Steven Ratner, University of Texas, 2004).

 

International Law Regarding the Conduct of War, in The Role of International Law and Institutions, eds. A. Schwabach and A. Cockfield, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (UNESCO, Oxford, 2003).

 

Law and Justice, in A Global Agenda: Issues Before the 57th General Assembly of the United Nations (United Nations Association of the USA; Rowman & Littlefield Inc., 215-273 (2002)).

 

Legal Issues, in A Global Agenda: Issues Before the 56th General Assembly of the United Nations (United Nations Association of the USA; Rowman & Littlefield Inc., 239-294 (2001)).

 

The (Al)lure of the Genocide Trial: Justice, Reconciliation, and Reconstruction in Rwanda, in David Barnhizer, ed., Effective Strategies for Protecting Human Rights (Ashgate/Dartmouth, 217-234, 2001).

 

Legal Issues, in A Global Agenda: Issues Before the 55th General Assembly of the United Nations (United Nations Association of the USA; Rowman & Littlefield Inc., 225-270 (2000)).

 

Waging War Against the World: A Crime?, in Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic and Scientific Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 620-646 (2000)).

 

 

            Peer-Review Journal Articles

 

Case Comment: Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstić, 5(2) Melbourne Journal of International Law 434 (2004).

 

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (ed. Dinah L. Shelton) (Macmillan USA, 2004).

 

Self-Defense and the Use of Force:  Breaking the Rules, Making the Rules, or Both?, 4:4 International Studies Perspectives 409-431 (2003).

 

The Taliban’s>Other’ Crimes, 23:6 Third World Quarterly 1121 (2002).

 

Judging the 11 September Terrorist Attack, 24:2 Human Rights Quarterly 323 (2002).

 

Restorative Justice and Collective Responsibility: Lessons for and from the Rwandan Genocide, 5:1 Contemporary Justice Review 5 (2002).

 

Juridical and Jurisdictional Disconnects, XII Finnish Yearbook of International Law 119 (Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2001).

 

Sclerosis: Retributive Justice and the Rwandan Genocide, 2:3 Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology 287 (2000).

 

 

Symposia Publications and Book Reviews

 

‘Lesser Evils’ in the War on Terrorism, 36 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 335 (2005).

 

Environmental Crimes in the International Criminal Court, 17 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 623 (2005).

 

Book Review, M. Cherif Bassiouni, An Introduction to International Criminal Law, 99 Am. J. Int’l L. 287 (2004).

 

The Alien Tort Claims Act Under Attack, Introductory Remarks, Proceedings of the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law 49 (2004).

 

Law and Atrocity: Settling Accounts in Rwanda, 31 Ohio Northern University Law Review 41 (2004) (invited endowed lecture).

 

Toward a Criminology of International Crime, 19 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 263 (2003) (for symposium at Ohio State University, School of Law).

 

Looking Up, Down and Across: The ICTY’s Place in the International Legal Order, 37:4 New England Law Review 1037 (2003) (for symposium at New England School of Law).

 

Self-Defense in an Age of Terrorism, Introductory Remarks, Conflict and Coordination Across International Regimes: Proceedings of the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law 141 (2003).

 

Terrorist Crime, Taliban Guilt, Western Victims, and International Law, 31 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 69 (2003) (University of Denver, School of Law, Sutton Symposium).

 

Environmental Supra-Nationalism, 59 Washington & Lee Law Review 289 (2002).

 

Northern Economic Obligation, Southern Moral Entitlement, and International Environmental Governance, 27 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 363 (2002) (symposium at Columbia Law School).

 

International Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, and Environmental Security: Can the ICC Bridge the Gaps?, 6 ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law 305 (2000) (International Law Weekend, 1999).

 

 

            Collaborations

 

Sentencing Policies and Practices in the International Criminal Tribunals, in 15:2 Federal Sentencing Reporter 140 (2003) (with Ken S. Gallant).

 

Appeals in the Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals: Structure, Procedure and Recent Cases, 3  Journal of Appellate Practice and Process 589 (2001) (with Ken S. Gallant)

 

 

Course Materials/Casebook

 

Cases and Materials on International and Comparative Law: Law through Multiple Legal Orders (with George A. Bermann and Katharina Pistor) (West Publishing, under contract, forthcoming).

 

 

Works-in-Progress

 

The Justice of Violence:  Bureaucracy, Order, and International Law (book project with Westbrook and d’Argent)

 

On Atrocity and Punishment (book project)

 

The Judicialization of Dispute Resolution at the World Trade Organization, in Essays in Honor of Sylvia Ostry, eds. Raj Bhala and Alan Alexandroff (Carolina Academic Press, 2005).

 

Rwanda, in Encyclopedia of Governments of the World (C. Neal Tate, ed.) (Macmillan Thomson 2005).

 

The International Court of Justice, in Thomas Leonard ed., The Encyclopedia of the Developing World (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2005).

 

Plea Bargaining at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ___ Crim. L. F. ___ (2005) (with Ralph Henham).

 

The ICTR and Justice for Rwandan Women, __ New England Journal of International and Comparative Law ___ (2005) (symposium: The ICTR at Ten).

 

Guantanamo, Rasul, and the Twilight of Law, __ Drake Law Review ___ (2005).

 

A Hard Look at the Soft Theory of International Criminal Law, in Festschrift for Cherif Bassiouni (Transnational Publishers, 2005)

 

Collective Denial of Common Disaster: Law, Literature, and Climate Change (manuscript in progress)

 

 

Lectures and Presentations (invited or refereed)

 

I have delivered over sixty invited lectures, endowed talks, and refereed presentations.  These include lectures to law school audiences held at the University of Texas, Columbia, Case Western Reserve, University of North Carolina, New York University, Duke, National University of Ireland (Galway), Warwick, University of London (Queen Mary College), U. Pennsylvania Law School, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt, Buffalo, Georgetown, Granada (Spain), Drake, Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University, and the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I also have been invited to present papers and chair panels at the annual meetings of the American Society of International Law, AALS, International Studies Association, Law & Society Association, American Branch of the International Law Association, and the Academic Council of the United Nations.   For Fall 2005 I have been invited to lead faculty workshops at Nottingham, St. Andrews, NUI-Galway, and Vanderbilt.

 

 

ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS

 

            Appointments

 

2004+              Co-Chair, International Association of Penal Law Book Award Committee and Law Review Article of the Year Award Committee

2004 +             Board of Directors, International Law Students Association

2003 +             Director of Studies and Member, Executive Board, International Association of Penal Law, U.S. National Section

2003 +             Board of Editors, Non-State Actors and International Law

2003 +             Manuscript Reviewer: Law & Society Review; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; University of Pennsylvania Press; Contemporary Justice Review; International Studies Quarterly; International Studies Perspectives; International Review of Criminal Law

2002                Program Committee, International Law Association, International Law Weekend

2001 +             International Law Editor, American Bar Association, Air Quality Control Newsletter (Environmental Section)

2001                Invited Expert Participant, American Council for the United Nations University Millennium Project on environmental crimes and the International Criminal Court

 

Research and Other Grants

 

2001                Grant Proposal Reviewer (in the area of transitional justice and international human rights law), National Science Foundation

2000                Grant Proposal Reviewer (in the area of hate crimes), National Science Foundation

1999                Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Research Grant

 

            Major Article Prizes

 

          2005 Scholarly Papers Competition of the Association of American Law Schools.

          2003 International Association of Penal Law (U.S. National Section) Best Article Award 

 

 

SELECTED UNIVERSITY SERVICE

 

I have served on many law school and university committees, including:

 

          Faculty Appointments Committee (2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005)

          University President’s Consultative Committee (2004-2005)

          Chair, International Legal Studies Committee (2004-2005)

          Chair, Tenure Support Committee (2004+) for one of our tenure-stream faculty

          Overseas Exchange and LL.M. Committee (2004-2005)

          Law Center Committee (faculty elected appointment, 2002-2003, 2004-2005)

         Environmental Studies Advisory Committee (2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005)

          I am leading an initiative to develop faculty exchange programs with law schools in Brazil

          and, in my prior appointment at Arkansas, Admissions Committee (1999-2002)

 

I serve on the Selection Committee for the AALS Scholarly Papers Committee (2005)

 

 

 

CONSULTING


 

I have been retained as an expert in litigation in the U.S. federal courts under the Alien Tort Statute.

 

PRO BONO WORK

 

         Consultant, the International Legal Foundation, on a project exploring the compatibility of Pashtun tribal law in Afghanistan with international human rights norms.

         Lecturer, Teaching International Human Rights Law in Pakistan Project (2001+)

         Volunteer Counsel, Legal Aid Rwanda (1998)

         Associate, Lawyer's Committee on Human Rights, Amnesty International (1994+)

 

LANGUAGES

 

         Fluency in French; good reading comprehension of Spanish; attended the University of Kassel (Germany) in 1987 and retain very rudimentary spoken German

 

PERSONAL

 

                  Canadian national, U.S. permanent resident

 

MEDIA

 

Referenced in articles in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Miami Herald, National Law Journal, Washington Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Sydney Morning-Herald, Johannesburg Star, Roanoke Times, and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Interviews and appearances on FOX News (national), WPHT Philadelphia, and local media (WDBJ News); ASIL Media Contact – Expert on Terrorism

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

My peer-reviewed piece on Rwanda in the Journal of Genocide Research (2001) was described as “exemplary” in its treatment of “the possibilities of the coexistence of victims and survivors within the same society after the event” by the Times Literary Supplement in its Learned Journals review.