Professor Richard Steinberg: “Politics and International Justice”

Richard Steinberg is Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Visiting Professor of International Relations at Stanford University. He is also Director of the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Law Project, and Editor-in-Chief of the Human Rights & International Criminal Law Online Forum, a collaboration with the Office of the Prosecutor. Professor Steinberg writes and teaches in the areas of international law and international relations. He has produced over forty articles and six books on international law. His most recent book is Assessing the Legacy of the ICTY (Martinus Nijhoff, 2010). In addition, he has lectured on international law and politics on six continents, and has held Visiting Professorships at several institutions, including Sciences Po (Institut d’Etudes Politiques) in France, the University of Coimbra in Portugal, La Trobe University in Australia, and the University of Chile in Santiago. He serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.