Andrew Strauss is Dean Emeritus at the University of Dayton School of Law where he served as the School’s tenth dean from 2015 through 2023. Previously, he was the Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Strategic Initiatives and a Professor of Law at the Delaware Law School. Dean Strauss’s academic specialty is international law, about which he has written extensively. He has published books and articles in such professional journals as the Harvard, Stanford, Cornell and University of Pennsylvania journals of international law and in such non-international law publications as Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Nation, USA Today, Der Zeit, and The Times of India. Among his contributions to the broadcast media, his radio commentaries have been aired on American Public Media’s Marketplace. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, Rutgers Law School, the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore, and the European Peace University. In addition, he has served as the Director of the Geneva/Lausanne International Law Institute and the Nairobi International Law Institute, and he has been an Honorary Fellow at New York University School of Law’s Center for International Studies. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and his Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law. Before transitioning to academia, Dean Strauss practiced law in New York City for the law firm of A&O Shearman. Professor Strauss also served as a Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador where he studied tribal politics in the Amazon. In 2006 he delivered the Henry Usborne Memorial Lecture in the British Houses of Parliament. He has conducted human rights missions and been a consultant to both Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First. He currently serves on the Global Governance Forum’s Second United Nations Charter Commission of Experts.