Philip Moremen, J.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

moremeph@shu.edu
McQuaid Hall 127
973-275-2517
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Profile
Philip Moremen joined the Whitehead School of Diplomacy in the spring of 2000. His areas of expertise include public international law, international environmental law and policy, and peace operations. 

Professor Moremen's recent research has focused on the costs and benefits of allowing private individuals or groups to bring claims against governments to enforce international law. He has published articles on this topic in The Temple Law Review, The UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, and The Harvard International Law Journal. More generally, he is interested in legal and policy issues relating to the design and operation of international institutions.

Professor Moremen is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association and twice has been instrumental in organizing that group's annual three day conference. He is faculty advisor to the student-run Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations and the student International Law Society

Professor Moremen received a J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law and a Ph.D. at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where his fields of study were public international law, international business and economic law, and international environment and resource policy. He earned his B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University.

Courses Frequently Offered
Graduate
DIPL 6004: Peacemaking and Peacekeeping
DIPL 6005: Public International Law

DIPL 6031 International Environmental Law and Policy

Undergraduate
DIPL 1002: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Diplomacy and International Relations
DIPL 3104: Public International Law
 

Recent Research and Publications
Costs and Benefits of Adding a Private Right of Action to the World Trade Organization and the Montreal Protocol Dispute Resolution Systems,  11 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 189 (2007).

International Private Rights of Action: A Cost-Benefit Framework, 8 San Diego International Law Journal 5 (2006).

 

National Court Decisions as State Practice: A Transnational Judicial Dialogue?, 32 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 259 (2006).

 

Private Rights of Action to Enforce Rules of International Regimes, 79 Temple Law Review 1127 (2006).

 



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