Institute for Law, Science and Global Security

Professor Joyner taught previously at George Washington University, the University of Virginia, Dartmouth College and Muhlenberg College and has been a senior research fellow with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Institute for Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He teaches courses on international law, US foreign policy, international organization, and global environmental regimes. Professor Joyner's research interests include human rights, economic sanctions, and legal issues affecting the Middle East, the United States and the United Nations, as well as the oceans and Antarctica. He has published extensively in law journals, among them the American Journal of International Law, Ocean Development and International Law, The International Lawyer, Natural Resource Journal, Harvard International Law Journal, Michigan Journal of International Law, and the Virginia Journal of International Law. Among his books are International Law in the 21st Century: Rules for Global Governance, Governing the Frozen Commons: The Antarctic Regime and Environmental Protection, Antarctica and the Law of the Sea, Eagle Over the Ice: The U.S. in the Antarctic, Reigning in Impunity for International Crimes (editor and contributor), The United Nations and International Law (editor and contributor), United Nations Legal Order (co-editor), Reining in Impunity for International Crimes, The Persian Gulf War (editor and contributor), and The Antarctic Legal Regime (editor and contributor). Formerly a senior editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law, Professor Joyner recently directed the American Society of International Law's Project on United Nations Legal Order, funded by the Ford Foundation. He served as Vice President of the Interantional Studies Association, Vice-Chair of the American Council on the United Nations and four times past Chair of the International Law Section of the International Studies Association. He also served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, as Chair of the International Law Association's Committee on Antarctica, and as a member of the ILA's Committee on the Law of the Sea.

Professor Joyner is Co-Director of the Institute for International Law and Politics and oversees the Master's Degree in International Law and Politics in the Government Department.