Prior to joining the Law School in 2004, Professor Steven R. Ratner was the Albert Sidney Burleson Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law at Austin. He holds a J.D. from Yale; an M.A. (diplפme) from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (Geneva), and an A.B. from Princeton. Before joining the Texas faculty in 1993, he was an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. State Department.

His research has focused on new challenges facing new governments and international institutions after the Cold War, including ethnic conflict, territorial borders, implementation of peace agreements, and accountability for human rights violations. He has written and spoken extensively on the law of war, and is also interested in the intersection of international law and moral philosophy and other theoretical issues. In 1998-1999, he served as a member of the UN Secretary-General's three-person Group of Experts for Cambodia. Among his publications are three books: The New UN Peacekeeping: Building Peace in Lands of Conflict After the Cold War (St. Martin's, 1995); Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy (Oxford, 1997 and 2001) (co-author); and International Law: Norms, Actors, Process (Aspen, 2002) (co-author). A member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law , he was a Fulbright Scholar at The Hague during 1998-99, where he worked in and studied the office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities.

At the University of Texas, Professor Ratner has taught International Legal Process, The Law of War, Protection of Human Rights in International Law, International Law on Foreign Investment, International Organizations, and Individual Accountability for Human Rights Abuses.

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