Guide to Specialists

Thomas D. Grant
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
October 1, 2007 – July 31, 2008

Project Focus:
Chechnya in International Law: Sovereign Power and the Regulation of a Secessionist Conflict

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Phone: (202) 429-4706

E-mail: tgrant@usip.org

Languages: German, French

An international lawyer and fellow of Wolfson College and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University, Thomas D. Grant is investigating how states and international organizations have applied international law to address the conflict in Chechnya and, in turn, what that conflict tells us about the potential and limitations of international law in a world of still-powerful sovereign states.

Grant has taught international law at Cambridge, assisted on cases brought before the International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, and International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes tribunals, and prepared legal advice on a number of public international matters. His work has been published in the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, and other academic journals.

Grant has held visiting fellowships at the Max-Planck-Institute for International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, including under the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Federal Chancellor’s Scholarship program. He is also a junior member of Atlantik-Brücke, the German-American liaison group, and was a junior research fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, from 2000 to 2002.

Grant received a B.A. in European history from Harvard University summa cum laude, a J.D. from the Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in law from Cambridge University, where he was also a Fulbright scholar.

Publications:

• "Partition of Failed States: Impediments and Impulses," Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (2004) pp. 51-82.
• "The Security Council and Iraq: An Incremental Practice," American Journal of International Law (2003) pp. 823-842.
• "Gibraltar on the Rocks: The American stake in a sovereignty dispute," Policy Review (2003) pp. 57-67.
• "United States Practice Relating to the Baltic States, 1940-2000," Baltic Yearbook of International Law (2001) pp. 23-110.
• The Recognition of States: Law and Practice in Debate and Evolution (Praeger, 1999).
• "Territorial Status, Recognition, and Statehood: Some Aspects of the Genocide Case (Bosnia and Herzegovina)," (Stanford Journal of International Law, 1997).