Dr Andrew Wolman

Overview

Andrew Wolman joined City Law School as a Lecturer in Law in September 2018. He teaches on modules in Criminal Law on the LLB and GDL, along with International Criminal Law on the LLB and Law and War on the LLM.

Prior to joining City, Dr Wolman taught human rights and international law at the Graduate School of International and Area Studies of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, in Seoul, Korea. Before that, he worked as an Associate in the litigation department of the law firm White & Case, LLP and as an Assistant Counsel at the New York City Department of Transportation, where he specialised in environmental and land use law.

Dr Wolman’s research is focused on the development of refugee law and policy in East Asia, the international response to North Korean human rights violations, and the right to leave in the context of irregular migration. He has also published widely on the topic of sub-national human rights institutions and their relationships with other institutions and norms in the international human rights regime.

Dr Wolman has a PhD in Law from the University of Antwerp, an LLM in Environmental Law from George Washington University Law School, and a JD from the New York University School of Law. He received his BA in Politics from Princeton University.

Qualifications

1. PhD in Law, University of Antwerp, Belgium
2. LLM in Environmental Law, George Washington University Law School, United States
3. JD, New York University School of Law, United States
4. BA in Politics, Princeton University, United States

Employment

1. Lecturer in Law, City, University of London, Sep 2018 – present
2. Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Mar 2015 – Aug 2018
3. Associate Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Mar 2012 – Feb 2015
4. Assistant Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Mar 2009 – Feb 2012
5. Assistant Counsel, New York City Department of Transportation, Jul 2006 – Feb 2009
6. Associate, White & Case LLP, Jun 2003 – Jan 2005

Expertise

Geographic Areas

• Asia - East

Title of thesis: Old Court, New Crimes: The International Court of Justice and the Adjudication of Mass Atrocity Crimes

Jan 2021

Summary of research

Examination of recent phenomena (e.g. The Gambia v Myanmar, the forthcoming Crimes Against Humanity Convention, forthcoming proceedings The Netherlands v Syria) indicating the emergence of the International Court of Justice as an adjudicator of mass atrocity crimes and its impact on the aims of international justice as well as on other international legal justice mechanisms.

2^nd supervisor

• Sahar Sadoughi, Research Student

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