Bart Szewczyk is a senior associate in the Litigation/Controversy Department, and a member of the International Arbitration, Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation, and Defense, National Security and Government Contracts Practice Groups. He returned to the firm in 2009.
Practice
Dr. Szewczyk was an associate in the Litigation/Controversy Department from 2006 to 2007. Prior to returning to the firm, he clerked at the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was also a visiting fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies, where he conducted research on the legitimacy of the Bonn Powers in Bosnia, and a consultant in the United Nations Office of Strategic Planning, where he worked on internal reforms related to the 2005 World Summit Outcome.
Professional Activities
Dr. Szewczyk teaches as an adjunct professor of international law at the George Washington University Law School. He is also a member of the Executive Council at the American Society of International Law, term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, and international editor of the Polish Yearbook of International Law.
Publications
- “Variable Multipolarity and UN Security Council Reform,” 53 Harv. Int’l L. J. (forthcoming 2012).
- “The African Human Rights System”, in The Rules, Practice, and Jurisprudence of International Courts and Tribunals 393 (Chiara Giorgetti ed., forthcoming 2012).
- “Georgia v. Russian Federation,” 105 Am. J. Int’l L. 748 (2011).
- “Sempra Energy International v. Argentine Republic,” 105 Am. J. Int’l L. 547 (2011).
- “European Citizenship and National Democracy: Contemporary Sources of Legitimacy of the European Union,” 17 Colum. J. Eur. L. 151 (2011).
- “Enlargement and Legitimacy of the European Union,” 30 Polish Y.B. Int’l L. 131 (2011).
- “Lawfulness of Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence,” ASIL Insight (August 2010).
- “The EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina: powers, decisions and legitimacy,” EUISS Occasional Paper No. 83 (March 2010).
- Co-authored with Patrick J. Carome and Colin Rushing, “Online Intermediaries and Third Party Content Under EU and US Laws, 2007(30) Media Law Resource Center Bulletin 83-94 (September 2007).
- Co-authored with Gary Horlick, “Anti-Dumping Measures on Behalf of Third Countries,” Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law, Vol. 4: WTO – Trade Remedies (Rudiger Wolfrum, Peter Tobias Stoll, and Michael Kobele eds., 2006).
- “Preemption, Deterrence, and Self-Defence: A Legal and Historical Assessment,” 18(1) Cambridge Review of International Affairs 119 (2005).
