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1. Name: Jordan Paust
2. Title: Professor of International Law / Author of 7 nonfiction books and 175 articles, book chapters, papers and essays
3. Biography: Jordan J. Paust is the Mike and Teresa Baker Law Center Professor of International Law at the Law Center of the University of Houston.

He has served on several committees on international law, human rights, laws of war, terrorism, and the use of force in the American Society of International Law, the American Branch of the International Law Association, and the American Bar Association. He was also the Chair of the Section on International Law of the Association of American Law Schools and was on the Executive Council and the President’s Committee of the American Society of International Law.

He is one of the most widely cited law professors in the United States and is ranked among the top 2 percent in Leiter’s studies for 2000-2007 and 2005-2009. Two of his articles were cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Paust has published over 170 articles, book chapters, papers and essays in law journals in Belgium, Canada, China, England, Germany, Greece, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and the U.S.: at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Michigan, Virginia, Cornell, Texas, Duke, the American Journal of International Law, and elsewhere – many of which address treaties, customary international law, jurisdiction, human rights, international crimes, and the incorporation of international law into U.S. domestic law.
4. Involvement/Affiliations:
  • Member of the faculty of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School, International Law Division, 1969-1973, mob. des. 1973-1975
  • Fulbright Professor at the University of Salzburg, Austria, 1978-1979
  • Visiting Edward Ball Eminent Scholar University Chair in International Law at Florida State University, 1997
  • Co-Chair of the American Society’s International Criminal Law Interest Group, 1992-2008
5. Education:
  • A.B., UCLA
  • J.D., UCLA School of Law
  • LL.M., University of Virginia
  • J.S.D. Candidate, Yale University
6. Published Works:
  • War Crimes Jurisdiction and Due Process: A Case Study of Bangladesh, 1974
  • J. Paust & A. Blaustein, The Arab Oil Weapon, 1977
  • J. Paust, International Law as Law of the United States, 1996
  • J. Paust, M.C. Bassiouni, et al., International Criminal Law – Cases and Materials, 1996
  • J. Paust, J. Fitzpatrick, J. Van Dyke, International Law and Litigation in the U.S., 2000
  • J Paust, M.C. Bassiouni, et al., Human Rights Module: Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide, Other Crimes Against Human Rights, and War Crimes, 2001
  • J. Paust, Beyond the Law: The Bush Administration’s Unlawful Responses in the “War” on Terror, 2007
  • 170 articles, book chapters, papers and essays
7. Contact Info:

University of Houston Law Center
Phone:  713-743-2117
Email:  JPaust@central.uh.edu