Richard  Steinberg

Professor
Department: UCLA Law
steinber@law.ucla.edu
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Keywords: Latin America, Law

Richard Steinberg writes and teaches in the areas of international law and international relations.  He currently teaches International Trade Law, International Business Transactions, and Theories of International Law.  He is also Director of the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Law Project, and runs the Human Rights and International Criminal Law Online Forum.

In addition to his UCLA appointment, Professor Steinberg is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Department of Political Science.

Professor Steinberg is on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and the Editorial Board of International Organization, and is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  He has taught law courses at Stanford Law School, the University of California Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law, Sciences Po (Institut d’Etudes Politiques) in France, the University of Coimbra in Portugal, La Trobe University in Australia, and elsewhere.

Professor Steinberg has written over forty articles on international law.  His most recent books are Assessing the Legacy of the ICTY (forthcoming 2010, Martinus Nijhoff), International Institutions (co-edited, 2009, SAGE), International Law and International Relations (co-edited, 2007, Cambridge University Press), and The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Economics, Law, and Politics of the GATT/WTO (co-authored, 2006, Princeton University Press).

Prior to arriving at UCLA, Professor Steinberg worked as Assistant General Counsel to the United States Trade Representative in Washington, D.C., and later as an associate with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco.  He also served as Project Director at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) at UC Berkeley.