Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityEugene Kontorovich
Phone: (312) 503-0429
E-mail: e-kontorovich@law.northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Kontorovich's research and teaching interests include international law, constitutional law, and law and economics. In particular, he seeks to apply to public law basic law and economics insights that have thus far mostly been used to understand private law.
Professor Kontorovich went to college and law school at the University of Chicago, and graduated with honors and high honors, respectively. At law school, he was a member of the law review and the Order of the Coif. In the summer after law school, he was a research fellow at the University of Southern California Law School's Center for Law and Economics.
He served as a law clerk to Judge Richard A. Posner on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Since then, he has been on the faculty of George Mason University School of Law.
Before entering law school, he worked as a reporter, editorialist and editor at several leading New York and national newspapers, and continues to provide occassional commentary in the press.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- International Law
- Constitutional Law
- Law and Economics
PUBLICATIONS
Representative Publications
- The Inefficiency of Universal Jurisdiction, 2008 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW __ (forthcoming)
- What Standing is Good For, 93 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW __ (forthcoming, Nov. 2007)
Recent Publications
- The ‘Define and Punish’ Clause and Universal Jurisdiction: Recovering the Lost Limits, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW, 2008
- Beyond the Article I Horizon: Congress’s Enumerated Powers and Universal Jurisdiction Over Drug Crimes, MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW, 2008
- The Inefficiency of Universal Jurisdiction , UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW , 2008
- What Standing Is Good For , VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW, 2007
- Inefficient Customs in International Law , WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW , 2006
EDUCATION
- BA, University of Chicago
- JD, University of Chicago
