University of Utah : S.J. Quinney College of Law

Antony Anghie

Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law

Tony Anghie, Samuel D. Thurman Professorship, received a B.A. (1986) and an LL.B. (1987) from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He earned his S.J.D. (1995) at Harvard Law School, where he also served as a senior fellow from 1993 to 1995. Professor Anghie completed an internship with the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. in 1994. His research interests include public international law, international commercial transactions and human rights. He practiced for several years in Australia in employment law, administrative law, and international law. Professor Anghie joined the S.J. Quinney College of Law faculty in 1995. He has taught at the University of Tokyo and the University of Auckland and he lectures frequently in Sri Lanka.

He teaches contracts, international law, international business transactions, and international environmental law.

Scholarship Highlights

Books

Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law, (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

The Third World and International Legal Order: Law, Politics and Globalization, co-edited with B.S.Chimni, Karin Mickelson and Obiora Okafor , (Kluwer Law International, 2003)

Legal Writing

`International Financial Institutions" in The Politics of International Law, edited by Christian Reus Smit,(Cambridge University Press, 2004)

"Third World Approaches to International Law and Individual Responsibility in Internal Conflict", co-authored with B.S.Chimni, Chinese Journal of International Law (2003) volume 2(1) p.77; the same article was published in a volume dealing with Methodologies in International Law, published by the American Society of International Law , edited by Steven Ratner and Anne-Marie Slaughter

"Cultural Difference and International Law: The League of Nations and Its Two Visions of the Nation-State", 5 (2)International Center for Comparative Law and Politics Review , 5 October (2002)

"Colonialism and the Birth of International Institutions: Sovereignty, Economy and the Mandate System of the League of Nations", 34(3) New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 513 (2002)

"C.G.Weeramantry at the International Court of Justice", 14 Leiden Journal of International Law 829 (2001)

"Time Present and Time Past: Globalization, International Financial Institutions and the Third World" 32(2) New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 243 (2000)