Professor James Stewart

Professor James Stewart, Assistant Professor of Law, joined UBC law in August 2009, after spending two years as an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School in New York. Prior to his time at Columbia, Professor Stewart was an Appeals Counsel with the Prosecution of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He has also worked for the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Prosecution of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. His research interests include international criminal law and counter-terrorism, international humanitarian law, comparative criminal law, theory of criminal law, public International law, and the Great Lakes Region in Africa. Professor Stewart graduated from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand with degrees in both law and philosophy. He has since completed an Diplôme d'études approfondies in international law at the Université de Genève and is currently finishing a JSD at Columbia University in New York. He has taught at Columbia Law School, Queens University's summer program on international law, and the University of Geneva. Professor Stewart was also the Chair of Editorial Board of Journal of International Criminal Justice between 2007 and 2010, and is presently an appointed member of the Institute of International Humanitarian Law. In 2006, Professor Stewart received the La Pira Prize for his article on unlawful confinement at Guantánamo. In recent months he was awarded the Cassese Prize for his ongoing work on the liability of corporate actors for international crimes. He is presently a Fellow with the Open Society Initiative in New York for an aspect of this work that deals with the accomplice liability of arms vendors. As part of this project, he was also a Visiting Fellow at Oxford's Centre for Criminology.