Paul B. Stephan
University of Virginia School of Law
Paul B. Stephan is the John C. Jeffries, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, Louis F. Ryan ’73 Research Professor of Law, Senior Fellow of UVA’s Miller Center, and Director for the Center of International & Comparative Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is an expert on international law, comparative law, international business, international civil litigation, and international dispute resolution, with an emphasis on Soviet and post-Soviet legal systems. During 2006-07, he served as Counselor on International Law in the U.S. Department of State, and in 2020-21 as Special Counsel to the General Counsel in the U.S. Department of Defense. He was Coordinating Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States (2018). Stephan received his B.A. and M.A. from Yale University in 1973 and 1974, respectively, and his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1977. Before returning to Virginia, he clerked for Judge Levin Campbell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Professor Stephan has written many books and published over a hundred articles. He is the co-author, with Robert Scott, of The Limits of Leviathan: Contract Theory and the Enforcement of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His book, The World Crisis and International Law – The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2023), addresses world conflicts, the threats to international law, and the possible solutions.
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