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

		Christopher 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 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 Lousiana State University Law Center. He is the J.Y. Sanders Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University Law Center. He also has taught in Budapest, Hungary, Salzburg and Innsbruck, Austria, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Paris and Aix-en-Provence, France, and was tenured at the University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where he taught from 1981-1986. Professor Blakesley received his B.A. and J.D. (Order of the Coif) from the University of Utah and his Doctorate from Columbia University (Dissertation: International Criminal Law). He received an M.A. in International Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy. His books include 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; Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism: A Normative and Practical Assessment (2006); and Global Perspectives: Criminal Law (co-authored, Thomson West, 2007). In addition, he has written four books on Family Law. Professor Blakesley teaches Public International Law, International Criminal Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Criminal Law and Procedure, Comparative Law, Family Law, and Comparative Family Law.

	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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