Benedict Kingsbury


Benedict William Kingsbury is Vice Dean and Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University and a leading scholar in international law and diplomacy. He was recently also announced as a faculty director for the new NYU Law . Born in Holland and raised in Hamilton, New Zealand he was a Rhodes Scholar in 1982, a commercial law graduate from Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand and a doctor of International Relations and Law at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He lectured at Oxford University and Duke University prior to his New York University Law School appointment. He is an honorary citizen of San Ginesio in Italy, the birthplace of Alberico Gentili. He received an honorary doctorate in law from Tilburg University in 2016. From 2013 to 2018 he was joint Editor in Chief of the American Journal of International Law. He received NYU Law School's Podell Distinguished Teaching Award in 2019.
A leading academic on the rights of indigenous peoples in international law, his professional interests also include global administrative law, the history and theory of international law, and the international law of global governance. His ongoing research programs at NYU involve work on infrastructure as regulation, and on global tech law and global data law.
His publications include two books edited with Sir Adam Roberts on the United Nations and Hugo Grotius.

Publications

  • Megaregulation Contested: Global Economic Ordering After TPP
  • Hacia el Derecho Administrativo Global: Fundamentos, Principios y Ámbito de Aplicación
  • The Quiet Power of Indicators: Measuring Governance, Corruption, and Rule of Law
  • Ge Lao Xiu Si Yu Guo Ji Guan Xi
  • Governance by Indicators: Global Power Through Quantification and Rankings
  • International Financial Institutions and Global Legal Governance
  • Alberico Gentili, The Wars of the Romans: A Critical Edition and Translation of De Armis Romanis
  • The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations: Alberico Gentili and the Justice of Empire
  • United Nations, Divided World, Chinese edition with fully revised Introductory chapter and appendices, and foreword by Professor Wang Jisi of Peking University
  • El Surgimiento del Derecho Administrativo Global: Desafios para America Latina
  • Symposium on 'Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo: Democratic Republic of Congo v. Uganda'
  • Symposium on Global Governance and Global Administrative Law in the International Legal Order
  • Indigenous Groups and the Politics of Recognition in Asia: Cases from Japan, Taiwan, West Papua, Bali, the People's Republic of China, and Gilgit
  • Alberico Gentili e Il Mondo Extraeuropeo: Atti Del Convegno Settima Giornata Gentiliana
  • Indigenous Peoples of Asia
  • United Nations, Divided World: The UN's Roles in International Relations
  • The International Politics of the Environment
  • ''Hugo Grotius and International Relations''

Lectures