Jane E. Stromseth

Jane Stromseth is Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Institute at Georgetown University Law Center. She teaches and writes in the fields of human rights, international law, and constitutional law and is the co-author of Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions (2006) (with David Wippman and Rosa Brooks).

Professor Stromseth has written widely on constitutional war powers, international law governing the use of force, humanitarian intervention, and accountability for human rights atrocities. She edited and contributed to Accountability for Atrocities: National and International Responses (2003), and she is the author of a book on the NATO alliance entitled The Origins of Flexible Response: The Debate Over NATO Strategy in the 1960s (1988).

Professor Stromseth has served in government as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council and as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1991, Professor Stromseth served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and to Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law. She received her doctorate in International Relations at Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and her law degree at Yale, where she was a student director of the Lowenstein Human Rights Project.