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