Christie S. Warren

Professor of the Practice of International and Comparative Law and Director, Program in Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Degrees: J.D., UC Davis; B.A., UC Berkeley
Email: [[cswarr]]
Office phone: (757) 221-7852
Office location: Room 229A

Currently Teaching

Post-Conflict Justice and the Rule of Law; Selected Problems in Constitutional Law: Comparative Con Systems Seminar

Representative Professional Activities and Achievements

Christie S. Warren is Professor of the Practice of International and Comparative Law and founding Director of the Program in Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. Her areas of specialization include Comparative Law, Comparative Constitutional Systems, Post-Conflict Justice, International Human Rights Law, Civil Code Systems and Islamic Law. She is a graduate of the Harvard Mediation Program.

Warren has designed and implemented constitutional, judicial and legal development programs in more than 40 countries throughout Africa, Central and East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the Newly Independent States, the Balkans and East Timor. She was named the 1998 – 1999 Supreme Court Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States and served as the 2010-2011 Senior Expert in Constitutional Issues for the United Nations Department of Political Affairs Mediation Support Unit Standby Team. She currently serves as the Curriculum Advisor for the Constitution Building Processes Programme at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance in Stockholm. In April 2012 she was appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve a three year term as Supreme Court Fellows Commissioner.

Warren has advised on constitutional issues and processes in Haiti, Iraq, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Somalia and Sudan. She served as an advisor to the Darfur Peace Talks.

Scholarly Publications