Thomas Skouteris Joins SPP as Associate Professor

The School of Public Policy is pleased to announce that Thomas Skouteris will join the SPP founding faculty as Associate Professor. 

Skouteris brings to the school a diverse range of legal knowledge from the theory and history of international law, to lawmaking and international criminal justice and will begin teaching at SPP in the Fall 2014 semester.

Skouteris comes to SPP following his time as Associate Professor and Chair at the Law Department of the American University in Cairo. Before Cairo, Skouteris taught for eight years at Leiden University as Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Advanced LLM Degree in Public International Law. His professional experience includes other posts, such as Research Fellow at the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague, Senior Fellow of the European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School, Editor-in-Chief of the Leiden Journal of International Law, and founding Secretary General of the European Society of International Law. 

Skouteris has been teaching law for about 15 years and has actively supported student competitions such as the Telders and Jessup International Law Moot Court and the Balkan Case Challenge. He serves as editor or consultant for international law journals and publishers and has participated in the assessment of academic institutions and programs in different countries.

Receiving his BA in Law from Democritos University in Greece, Skouteris continued his education at Leiden University in the Netherlands (LLM cum laude, 1996; PhD, 2008). His publications include one monograph (The Notion of Progress in International Law Discourse), one collection (The Protection of the Individual in International Law), and several articles, chapters, media articles and review essays. His collaborative editorial work includes a series on International Law and The Periphery and others on the intellectual history of the field.