Christopher L. Blakesley | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Christopher L. Blakesley
		The Cobeaga Law Firm Professor of Law


		Phone: 702 895-2487 Email: chris.blakesley@unlv.edu Website: Click Here Blog: http://www.aidpblog.org/

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A., University of Utah, 1968 M.A., The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, 1970 J.D., University of Utah, 1973 LL.M, Columbia University, 1976 J.S.D., Columbia University, 1985

	Professor Christopher L. Blakesley is a Barrick Distinguished Scholar, 2009. Professor Christopher L. Blakesley holds The Cobeaga Law Firm Professorship at the UNLV Boyd School of Law. Professor Blakesley joined the Boyd School of Law faculty in 2002. Prior to his arrival here, he held the J.Y. Sanders Chair of International & Comparative Law at the Louisiana State University Law Center. He is the J.Y. Sanders Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University Law Center. He has been elected to the prestigious American Law Institute. In addition to UNLV, he has been tenured at LSU, then at the University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where he taught from 1981-1986, then back to LSU, until 2002. He received his J.D. from the University of Utah, Master of Laws and his Doctorate (Doctor of the Science of Law) from Columbia University, where he did his doctoral dissertation under the tutelage of Professors Roger Pinto and George Levasseur (at La Sorbonne, Paris I, Le Panthéon) and under Professors Oscar Schachter and Oliver Lissitzyn at Columbia University. He also received his M.A. in International Law & Diplomacy, from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and his B.A. from the University of Utah. His Prior Legal Practice was in the Office of the Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State under Dr. Henry Kissinger on matters of international criminal law, including counter-terrorism, extradition, and mutual assistance in criminal matters. He has written nine books or twelve, if one counts each volume of a three volume set. His books include: Terrorism And Anti-terrorism: A Normative And Practical Assessment (2006); Global Issues In Criminal Law (co-authored, Thomson West, 2007); The International Legal System: Cases and Materials (co-authored, Foundation Press 5th Ed. 2001 and earlier editions); Terrorism, Drugs, International Law And The Protection Of Human Liberty (1992) (Part of the Innovations In International Law Series, Developed And Run by Richard Falk, Princeton University, who invited me to write the book); Louisiana And Comparative Family Law (a treatise, 1997); Contemporary Family Law (co-authored three volume treatise of family law throughout the United States, 1988). His work has been cited by state supreme courts, federal courts and many of the most renowned scholars in these fields. He teaches, among other courses: International Law, Comparative Law, Comparative Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law, Family Law, and Terrorism. Professor Blakesley’s work has been cited in many state Supreme Court decisions and in several federal court decisions. It has also been cited in most major law reviews and in the treatises of some of the most eminent legal scholars. He has also has taught in Budapest, Hungary, Salzburg and Innsbruck, Austria, Amsterdam, Paris and Aix-en-Provence, France. He was invited to teach a 2 month course in French at the Université de Lausanne, & the Université de Genève, Switzerland. He also has been invited to teach a two month course also in French at Poitiers, France. He is on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law. He was elected as one of five *Secrétairs Généraux Adjoints* & to the Board of Directors of the Association Internationale de Droit Pénal, Paris. He is on the Board of Editors (Conseil de Rédacteurs), Revue International de Droit PÉNAL, France, and to the Board of foreign Contributors to the La Revue Pénitentiaire et de Droit Pénal, Paris, France. He was elected to the Board of Advisors, International Human Rights Law Institute and to the Board of Advisors, International Criminal Justice & Weapons Control Center.

	Areas of Expertise: Comparative Criminal Law Domestic Criminal Law Family Law International Criminal Law Public International Law

	Selected Publications: books Global Issues in Criminal Law (Thomson – West 2007) (co-authored). Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism: A Normative and Practical Assessment (2006). The International Legal System: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press 6^th ed. forthcoming 2008)(co-authored). The Most Dangerous Branch: Why The Constitution Gave The War Power to Congress and Not to Rogue Presidents (U. of Ill. Press forthcoming 2008) (with Edwin B. Firmage and Thomas B. McAffee). The Individual as Subject of International Cooperation in Criminal Matters: A Comparative Study (2002) (Max-Planck Inst., ed. with Albin Eser & Otto Lagodny). Terrorism, Drugs, International Law and the Protection of Human Liberty (1992). Louisiana [& Comparative] Family Law (1992 & Supp. 1997). BOOK CHAPTERS Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, in Volume III International Criminal Law: Procedural and Enforcement Mechanisms (3d ed. forthcoming 2008). Acting Out Against Terrorism with Torture and Other Atrocities: Contemplating Morality, Law, and History, in Festschrift in Honor of M. Cherif Bassiouni (forthcoming 2007). Jurisdiction Ratione Personae or the Personal Reach of the Court’s Jurisdiction, in The Legal Regime of the International Criminal Court: Essays in Honor of Professor Igor Pavlovich Blischenko (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2007). Les Griffes et Des Ailes : Pour une Compétence Extraterritoriale en Matière d’Exploitation Sexuelle des Enfants sur l’Internet, in Le Droit Penal a l’Aube Du Troisième Millénaire : Mélanges Offerts a Jean Pradel (2006). Commentary on the Meaning of Genocide in the Jelisić Decision by the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, in 7 Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals 562 (André Klip & Göran Sluiter, eds. 2005). LAW REVIEW AND OTHER ARTICLES Ruminations on Terrorism: Expiation and Exposition, 10(4) New Crim. L. Rev. 554 (2008). SSRN Lexis The Myopia of US v. Martinelli: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the 21^st Century, 39 Geo.Wash. Int’l L. Rev. 1 (2007) (with Dan E. Stigall). Hein Lexis Westlaw Wings for Talons: The Case for Extraterritorial Jurisdiction over Sexual Exploitation of Children Through Cyberspace, 50 Wayne L. Rev. 109 (2004) (with Dan Stigall). Hein Lexis Westlaw Ruminations on Terrorism & Anti-Terrorism Law & Literature, 69 U. Miami L. Rev. 1041-1146 (2003). Hein Lexis Westlaw The Autumn of the Patriarch: The Pinochet Extradition Debacle and Beyond – Human Rights Clauses Compared to Traditional Derivative Protections Such as Double Criminality, 91 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1 (2000). Hein Lexis Westlaw La Preuve Pénale et des Tests Génétiques, 46 Am. J. Comp. L. 605 (Supp. 1998). Obstacles to the Creation of a Permanent War Crimes Tribunal, 18 Fletcher F. World Aff. 77 (1994), reprinted in International Law: Classic & Contemporary Readings, as Ch. 14 (Charlotte Ku & Paul F. Diehl eds. 1998). Child Custody: Jurisdiction and Procedure, 35 Emory L. J. 291 (1986). The Putative Marriage Doctrine, 60 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1985). BAR PUBLICATION The Terrors of Dealing with September 11^th, Nev. Law., Sept. 2002, at 6. --> More Publications (pdf)

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