Bio and CV

Eugene Kontorovich is a professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, specializing in constitutional and international law. Before coming to George Mason, he had been a professor at Northwestern University School of Law for 11 years. He is also a senior legal scholar at Vice President Mike Pence’s Advancing American Freedom, and was previously a senior policy fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and the head of the international law department at the Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem. He is the author of dozens of academic articles in the leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals. His scholarship has been cited in leading international law cases in the U.S. and abroad.

He testifies regularly before Congress, as well as in parliaments of nations around the world. He is regularly called on to advise legislators and cabinet members in the U.S., Israel, and Europe on questions pertaining to international law and diplomacy. He has also been acknowledged as a thought leader behind numerous policy initiatives and legislation in the U.S. and Israel.

Prof. Kontorovich is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal. His essays and op-eds have also appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, POLITICO, and many other leading publications. He regularly appears on Fox News, Newsmax, and other major media.

He attended college and law school at the University of Chicago, and later taught there. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In a previous career, he was a newspaperman at the Wall Street Journal and New York Post. He has been honored with a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in 2011–12, and with the Federalist Society’s prestigious Bator Award, given annually to a young scholar (under 40) for outstanding scholarship and teaching.

You can find my CV here.