IAN HURD PhD CV

Ian Hurd is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Roberta Buffett International Studies program. He was founding Director of the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies. He is currently the president 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, which looks at the political uses of international law in American foreign policy. 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.

His current research is on the history of idea of international order.

He is also writing a book about the International Olympic Committee, FIFA, and other organizations that govern global sports.

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.