QUB Human Rights Centre Seminar Series

"The Rise and Fall of an ‘International Right to Democracy"

Professor Brad R. Roth, Professor of Political Science and Law, Wayne State University and Visiting Scholar at the Mitchell Institute

Brad R. Roth is a professor of Political Science and Law. He teaches courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels in international law, human rights, political theory and legal studies. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1987, he served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1987-88) and as a practicing litigator (1988-91), before earning a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in international and foreign law from Columbia Law School (1992) and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley (1996).
Professor Roth’s scholarly work applies legal and political theory to problems in international and comparative public law. He is the author of Governmental Illegitimacy in International Law (Oxford University Press, 1999), winner of the 1999 Certificate of Merit from the American Society of International Law as "best work in a specialized area," and of Sovereign Equality and Moral Disagreement (Oxford University Press, 2011). He is also the co-editor (with Gregory H. Fox and Paul R. Dubinsky, also of the Wayne faculty) of Supreme Law of the Land? Debating the Contemporary Efffects of Treaties within the United States Legal System (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and (with Gregory H. Fox) of Democratic Governance and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and author of roughly fifty journal articles, book chapters, and commentaries dealing with questions of sovereignty, constitutionalism, human rights, and democracy. Among the most prominent of these are: "The Virtues of Bright Lines: Self-Determination, Secession, and External Intervention," German Law Journal (2015); "Just Short of Torture: Abusive Treatment and the Limits of International Criminal Justice," Journal of International Criminal Justice (2008); "Retrieving Marx for the Human Rights Project," Leiden Journal of International Law (2004); "The CEDAW as a Collective Approach to Women's Rights," Michigan Journal of International Law (2002); and "Evaluating Democratic Progress: A Normative Theoretical Perspective," Ethics & International Affairs (1995).  He has recently served as a Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University (2016), as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Copenhagen (2017), and as one of three American Branch representatives to the International Law Association Committee on Recognition/Non-Recognition of States and Governments (2010-2018).

Thursday 10 October at 12:30pm in The Moot Court (MST.02.006)