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FULL-TIME FACULTY
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Valerie C. Epps |
Professor of Law
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Professor Epps teaches International Law and The Laws of War. During the spring semester 2008, she was a Visiting Professor at Hongik University, College of Law, in Seoul, South Korea where she taught International Law and International Human Rights. She was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship for the spring semester 2006 to teach International Law and International Human Rights at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. She has also taught at Boston University Law School, Brandeis University, Legal Studies Department and the University of San Diego School of Law’s programs in Paris and Mexico City. She has lectured and served as Co-director of Suffolk’s Summer Program on International and Comparative Law in Lund, Sweden and has lectured on Human Rights for the International Bar Association in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and on International Law for the U.M.K.C. – Suffolk Continuing Legal Education Program in Oxford, U.K.
Degrees:
BA, University of Birmingham, England; JD, Boston University; LLM, Harvard University
Bar Admittance:
MA; Federal District Court of Mass.; 1st Circuit Court of Appeals; U.S. Supreme Court
Subjects:
Public International Law; The Laws of War
Professional Activities:
Boston Committee on Foreign Relations: Board of Directors, 2009 to present. International Law Association (American Branch): Honorary Vice-President, 2012 to present; Vice-President, 2000-2012; Co-Director of Studies 2006-2011; International Committee on Teaching International Law, 1999-2011; Association of American Law Schools: International Law Section, Chair 2003-2004; Immigration Section Executive Committee: 1992-1994; International Law Students Association: Board of Directors, 2002 to 2006; International Association of Penal Law (American National Section): Board of Directors, 2003 to present. United Nations Association of Greater Boston: Board of Directors, 1998 to present; Center for International Law and Policy: Board of Advisors, 1996 to present.
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INTERNATIONAL LAW: EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS (Aspen, 2011) (with Lorie Graham)
INTERNATIONAL LAW (4th ed., 2009)
DOCUMENTARY SUPPLEMENT TO INTERNATIONAL LAW (4th ed., 2009)
The Geneva Conventions, in WILEY-BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GLOBALIZATION (George Ritzer ed., 2012)
Rejecting the Supposed Right to Anticipatory Self-Defence, in RIGHT OF PRIVATE DEFENCE (ICFAI University Press, A. Sabitha ed., 2009)
The Medellin v. Texas Sympoisum: A Case Worthy of Comment, in FOREIGN CRIMINALS: CONSULAR ASSISTANCE (ICFAI University Press, P.S. Prasad ed., 2009)
Human Rights and the International Criminal Court, in STICKS AND STONES: LIVING WITH UNCERTAIN WARS (Padraig O'Malley and Paul L. Atwood eds., 2006)
Amicus Curiae Brief in Commonwealth v. Diemer, in PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION (AM. BRANCH) (2004)
Providing Low Cost Clinical International Law Internships for Law Students, in 2001-2002 PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION (AM. BRANCH) (2002)
The Declaration of the Rights of Man, and the Citizen, the American Constitution and the Declaration of Independence: Eighteenth Century Investigations of Human Rights, in CELEBRATING HUMAN RIGHTS: PAPERS FROM THE BICENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM ON HUMAN RIGHTS (Margaret Collins Weitz ed., 1990)
Abolishing the Political Offense Exception, in LEGAL RESPONSES TO INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: U.S. PROCEDURAL ASPECTS ( M. Cherif Bassiouni ed., 1988)
Civilian Casualties in Modern Warfare: The Death of the Collateral Damage Rule, 41 GA J. INT'L & COMP. L. (forthcoming 2013)
What Makes a State?, 106 AM. SOC'Y INT'L L. PROC. 446 (forthcoming 2012)
Introduction to the Symposium on Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, 34 SUFFOLK TRANSNAT'L. L. REV. 473 (2011)
The Paucity of Law in the International Court of Justice’s 2010 Advisory Opinion on Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence, 19 ILSA Q. 26 (2010)
Rejecting the Supposed Right of Anticipatory Self-Defence, 2 NORTHEAST ASIAN L. REV. 1 (2008)
Evolving Concepts of Self-Determination and Autonomy in International Law: The Legal Status of Tibet, 1 J. EAST ASIA & INT'L L. 217 (2008)
The Medellin v. Texas Symposium: A Case Worthy of Comment, 31 SUFFOLK TRANSNAT'L L. REV. 209 (2008)
Resolution of Claims to Self-Determination: The Expansion and Creation of Dispute Settlement Mechanisms, 10 ILSA J. INT'L & COMP. L. 377 (2004)
Violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations: Time for Remedies, 11 WILLAMETTE J. INT'L L. & DISP. RES. 101 (2004)
Death Penalty Litigation and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 2 PARALAX 23 (2004)
Joshua Castellino's and Steve Allen's Title to Territory in International Law, 98 AM. J. INT'L L. 869 (2003) (book review)
The Soldier’s Obligation to Die when Ordered to Shoot Civilians or Face Death Himself, 37 NEW ENG. L. REV. 987 (2003)
The Development of the Conceptual Framework Supporting International Extradition, 25 LOY. L.A. INT'L & COMP. L. REV. 369 (2003)
Violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations: Time for Remedies, 11 WILLAMETTE J. INT'L L. & DISP. RES. 101 (2003)
The Failure of Unilateralism as the Phoenix of Collective Security, 27 SUFFOLK TRANSNAT'L L. REV. 25 (2003)
International Legal Implications: Teach-In On Terrorism, 8 NEW ENG. L. REV. 81 (2002) (with Hilary Charlesworth and Michael Scharf)
Thomas Grant’s The Recognition of States: Law and Practice in Debate and Evolution, 95 AM. J. INT'L L. 253 (2001) (book review)
Self-Determination after Kosovo and East Timor, 6 ILSA J. INT'L & COMP. L. 199 (2000)
Self-Determination in the Taiwan/China Context, 32 NEW ENG. L. REV. 685 (1998)
Peace and Democracy: The Link and the Policy Implications, 4 ILSA J. INT'L & COMP. L. 347 (1998)
The New Dynamics of Self-Determination, 3 ILSA J. INT'L & COMP. L. 433 (1997)
The Changing Family and the United States Immigration Laws: The Impact of Medical Reproductive Technology on the Immigration and Nationality Act's Definition of the Family, 11 GEO. IMMIGR. L.J. 429 (1997) (with Bernard Friedland)
Treaties -- U.S. - U.K. Extradition Treaties -- Rule of Expanded Political Offense - type Exception: In Re Requested Extradition of Smyth, 90 AM. J. INT'L L. 296 (1996)
Towards Global Government: Reality or Oxymoron?, 2 ILSA J. INT'L & COMP. L. 717 (1996)
The International Trial of the Century? A 'Cross-Fire' Exchange on the First Case Before the Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal, 29 CORNELL INT'L L.J. (1996)
Guide to International Human Rights Practice, 6 HARV. HUM. RTS. J. 267 2 ed. (1993) (book review)
Teaching International Law in the 1990's, by John King Gamble, 87 AM. J. INT'L L. 686 (1993) (book review)
Forcible Abduction, Jurisdiction and Treaty Interpretation, 55 INT'L PRAC. NOTEBOOK 5 (1992)
Reinstating the United States' Acceptance of the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, 34 BOSTON BAR J. 8 (1990)
Reservations to Multilateral Treaties: The Convention Against Torture, 47 INT'L PRAC. NOTEBOOK 17 (1990)
A Reply - The War Powers Resolution: Necessary and in Need of Reform, 44 INT'L PRAC. NOTEBOOK 10 (1989)
PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT IN DIEMER V. MASSACHUSETTS, CERT. DENIED, 540 U.S. 1150 ( 2004 ) (co-author)
Opposing Armed Attacks, THE KOREA TIMES AT P. 7 (2008) June 8, 2008 Available at http://www.koreatimes.co.kr
U.S. No Longer Keeping Its Treaties, THE KOREA TIMES AT P. 9 (2008) April 27, 2008 Available at: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr
Kosovo, Tibet: Same or Different?, THE KOREA TIMES AT P. 7 (2008) March 27, 2008 Available at: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr
Nuclear States' Double Standard, THE KOREA TIMES AT P. 9 (2008) March 9, 2008 Available at http://www.koreatimes.co.kr
INTERNATIONAL LAW VIDEO COURSE Elizabeth F. Defeis, Project Director, Chinese, Russian and Spanish Language Versions (1999) (on camera contributor)
Enforcing Human Rights, ADVOCATE (1994) (Suffolk University Law School)
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Prof. Valerie C. Epps
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
, Suite 380-B
Boston, MA 02108-4977
t. 617-573-8562
f. 617-305-3090
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