IAN HURD PhD CV

Ian Hurd is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University. In 2024-25, he is serving as president-elect of the Faculty Senate at Northwestern. His research is on international law and politics. His latest book is How to Do Things with International Law, an examination of the political uses of international law. He is the author of a leading textbook for students of international organizations and global governance, International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice (5th edition, 2024). His earlier book on the power of legitimacy and international authority in the United Nations, After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the UN Security Council, won the Chadwick Alger Prize at ISA and the of the Myres McDougal award from Policy Sciences Association.

Hie is writing book on the idea of world order in historical, scientific, and policy discourse for Yale University Press.

He has been a visiting scholar at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, WZB in Berlin, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, Sciences Po and EHESS in Paris, and elsewhere.