He was recently also announced as a faculty director for the new NYU Law Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies.
[1] Born in Holland and raised in Hamilton, New Zealand he was a Rhodes Scholar in 1982, a commercial law graduate (LLB Honors) from Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand and a doctor of International Relations and Law at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
[3] From 2013 to 2018 he was joint Editor in Chief of the American Journal of International Law (founded 1907).
He received NYU Law School's Podell Distinguished Teaching Award in 2019.
His publications include two books edited with Sir Adam Roberts on the United Nations and Hugo Grotius.