Eugene Kontorovich (Northwestern University)
Eugene Kontorovich is Professor of Law at Northwestern University. Having studied as both an undergraduate and law student at the University of Chicago, he clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit before beginning to teach at Northwestern. He has published widely on constitutional law, international law and law and economics. Currently completing a book for Harvard University Press on Justice at Sea: Piracy and the Limits of International Criminal Law, he has also written and lectured widely on the legal aspects of the Israel-Arab conflict. Kontorovich’s lecture is co-sponsored by the Ohio University chapter of the Alexander Hamilton Society.