Suzanne Katzenstein
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Suzanne Katzenstein’s research focuses on international law, particularly questions relating to international human rights law, international investment law, and international law in domestic courts. She has worked on the efficacy of human rights organizations and has a regional interest in India.
Prior to joining the Duke Law faculty in 2011 as a visiting assistant professor, Katzenstein was a Mellon Graduate Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University, where she is pursuing a PhD in political science. She also held a faculty fellowship at Columbia from 2004 to 2008.
Katzenstein received her BA from Wesleyan University in 1999, graduating phi beta kappa, after which she studied in India as a Fulbright Scholar. She received her JD in 2004 from Harvard Law School, where she served as co-editor-in-chief, executive editor, and primary editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. She also co-headed the classroom observation component of a study on gender at Harvard Law School. She received the Chayes International Public Service Fellowship for East Timor in 2002.
Katzenstein’s PhD dissertation is titled “Innovating to Protect the Status Quo: The Creation of New Enforcement Mechanisms in International Law.” Other publications and working papers include: “Expediency of the Angels,” The National Interest (March/April, 2009, with Jack Snyder); “Hybrid Tribunals: Searching for Justice in East Timor,” Harvard Human Rights Journal, Student Note (Spring 2003); “Review of Richard Goldstone, For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator,” Harvard Human Rights Journal (Spring 2002); and “No Longer Safe to be King? A Comparative Analysis of the Erosion of Foreign Sovereign Immunity for Jus Cogens Crimes,” working paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference 2009, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference 2009, and International Studies Association Annual Conference 2009.
