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Dr. Christopher Rossi is a Professor of International Law and International Relations at the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy. He has served on faculties at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Pusan National University, the University of Prishtina Faculty of Law, the University of Iowa College of Law, and the American University School of International Service in Washington, D.C.

He has worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, the Arms Control Association of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Iowa Humanities Council, and the World Jurist Association. He was a former Director of Democracy, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Affairs at the White House National Security Council.

He is the author of six books on international law and editor or coeditor of three other compilations. He has written on the law of the sea, use of force, international courts and tribunals, Indigenous rights, polar affairs, international criminal law, human rights, problems of sovereignty, the history of international law, and issues of international water law.

His articles have appeared in over 40 specialty journals of international affairs, including journals at Pennsylvania, Texas, Stanford, NYU, the Polar Journal, Cornell, Harvard, Iowa, German Law Journal, Toronto, Yonsei, George Washington, Minnesota, Emory, the Hague Yearbook of International Law, Human Rights Quarterly, the American Indian Law Journal, and more.

His seventh book is on spatial problems of sovereignty and has been accepted for publication in the Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Comparative Global History Series.

He has a Ph.D. in international relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of International Studies (SAIS), an M.A. from SAIS in international economics and international relations, an LL.M. from King’s College London in public international law, a J.D. from The University of Iowa College of Law, and a B.A. from Washington University in Saint Louis.