Jide Nzelibe

Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-5295
E-mail: j-nzelibe@law.northwestern.edu

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Jide Nzelibe joined Northwestern's faculty as an assistant professor in 2004 became a full Professor in 2008. He served as the Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago before joining Northwestern Law. In addition to his JD from Yale Law School, he also holds an MPA in international relations from Princeton University, where he was awarded a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and a pre-doctoral fellowship from the Ford Foundation. He is currently on the board of directors at the Center for Law Enforcement Education of Nigeria. His research interests include international trade, foreign relations law, public and private international law and contracts.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

International Trade
Foreign Relations
International Law

Contracts
International Business Transactions

COURSES

The Law and Politics of American Foreign Relations

PUBLICATIONS

Representative Publications

Are Congressionally Authorized Wars Perverse?, 59 Stan L. Rev. (forthcoming 2007)
Rational War and Constitutional Design, (with John Yoo), 115 Yale L J 2512 (2006)
The Fable of the Nationalist President and the Parochial Congress, 53 UCLA Law Rev. 1217 (2006)
A Positive Theory of the War-Powers Constitution, 91 Iowa Law Review 993 (2006)
The Credibility Imperative: The Political Dynamics of Retaliation in the World Trade Organization's Dispute Resolution Mechanism, 6 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 215 (2005)

Recent Publications

Courting Genocide: The Unintended Effects of Humanitarian Intervention, 97 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 1171-1218 , 2009
The Economic Structure of International Law, 103 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 619-623 , 2009
The Case Against Reforming the WTO Enforcement Mechanism, 2008 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 319
Courting Genocide: The Unintended Effects of Humanitarian Intervention
Are Congressionally Authorized Wars Perverse? , 59 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 907-953, 2007

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EDUCATION

BA, St. John's College
MPA, Princeton University
JD, Yale University

PRIOR APPOINTMENTS

Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago, 2002-2004
Law Clerk, Hon. Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1998-99
Associate, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, PLLC, 1999-2002