Mark Shulman

Mark R. Shulman teaches and writes about international law and international affairs. Prior to returning to teaching, he spent a decade in academic administration most recently as the inaugural Associate Dean for Global Admissions at New York University and before that as the first Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs & International Affairs at Pace Law School. Prior to joining Pace, he created and ran the Worldwide Security Program at the EastWest Institute. This project followed several years of private practice in corporate law at the global law firm Debevoise & Plimpton.

An active member of the New York City Bar, he serves on the Board of Directors and has previously chaired the Committee on International Human Rights, Asian Affairs Committee, Council on International Affairs, and most recently the Task Force on National Security and the Rule of Law.

A teacher with almost three decades of experience, he teaches Human Rights at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and International Law courses at Sarah Lawrence College and Fordham Law School. Over the years, he has also held teaching appointments at Yale, Columbia’s Law School and School of International and Public Affairs, the U.S. Air War College, and the China University of Political Science and Law. He has consulted on human rights and international affairs projects for the Rockefeller Foundation and co-founded Next Generation Nepal and the Asian University for Women.

He has published widely in the fields of history, law, and international affairs. His books include The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in Western World (1994), Navalism and the Emergence of American Sea Power (1995), An Admiral’s Yarn (1999), and The Imperial Presidency and the Consequences of 9/11 (2007). His articles have appeared in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Journal of National Security & Policy, Fordham Law Review, Journal of Military History, Intelligence and National Security, and The New York Times, among others.

Mr. Shulman holds a BA from Yale, an MSt from Oxford, a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and a JD from Columbia.

Books

• Imperial Presidency and the Consequences of 9/11: Lawyers Respond to the Global War on Terrorism, editor and author with James Silkenat (Praeger, 2007)

• An Admiral’s Yarn: The Autobiography of Harris Laning, editor with editorial staff (Naval War College Press, 1999)

• The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World, editor with Michael Howard & George Andreopoulos (Yale Univ. Press, 1994, paperback 1997)

• Navalism and the Emergence of American Sea Power, 1882-1893 (Naval Institute Press, 1995)