DAVID P. STEWART is Professor from Practice at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He teaches courses in Public and Private International Law as well as International Criminal Law, Foreign Relations Law, International Human Rights International Law in Domestic Courts, and Treaties and the Constitution. He directs the Center for Transnational Business and the Law and co-directs the Global Law Scholars Program
He joined Georgetown’s faculty in 2008, after retiring from a career with the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State, where he served as Assistant Legal Adviser in a number of areas including private international law, diplomatic law and litigation, African affairs, human rights and refugees, law Enforcement and intelligence, and international claims and investment disputes.
Prof. Stewart is President of the American Branch of the International Law Association and a member of the American Law Institute (currently one of the Co-Reporters working on the immunities section of the Restatement (Fourth), Foreign Relations Law of the United States). A member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, he edits the Journal’s International Decisions section. From 2008 through 2016, he served on the Inter-American Juridical Committee (part of the OAS).
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