Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter
Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. She was special guest speaker at the US Studies Centre's National Summit in 2007.
Prior to becoming Dean, Professor Slaughter was the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law and the Director of Graduate and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.
Professor Slaughter is also the former president of the American Society of International Law. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Drawing from this rich interdisciplinary expertise, Professor Slaughter writes and teaches broadly on global governance, international criminal law, and American foreign policy. She is also the convener and academic co-chair of the Princeton Project on National Security, a multi-year research project aimed at developing a new, bipartisan national security strategy for the United States, and is a member of the National War Powers Commission.
Professor Slaughter is an influential proponent of the use of international relations theory in international law. She has published two books on international relations and dozens of articles, both in scholarly journals and in mainstream publications.
Professor Slaughter's most recent book is The Idea that Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World (2007) which has been reviewed and widely discussed in the United States. Niall Ferguson, Professor of History at Harvard University, called it "part credo, part manifesto - a wholehearted return to first principles by one of America's most talented and distinguished legal minds".
She is also the author of A New World Order (2004), in which she identified transnational networks of government officials as an increasingly important component of global governance. It was hailed by Foreign Affairs magazine as a "major new statement about global governance."
Professor Slaughter is a frequent commentator on foreign affairs in the media, including on television programs: Charlie Rose, On the Record with Greta van Susteren and CBS Evening News. She has written for publications including the Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic and the International Herald Tribune. She was a regular contributor to the America Abroad blog on TPMCafe.com, and still contributes periodically to TPMCafe.
