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Colangelo, Anthony J.

Assistant Professor of Law

Tel: 214-768-2372
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Bio

Professor Colangelo teaches civil procedure, conflict of laws and international law.

Prior to coming to SMU Professor Colangelo was an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School. Before his Associateship at Columbia he worked as a litigation associate at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP in the New York and Rome offices.

Professor Colangelo clerked for the Honorable Ralph K. Winter, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Professor Colangelo received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Middlebury College and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Northwestern University, where he was Notes Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review. He holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, where he is also presently completing a J.S.D. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif.

Primary Articles

A Jurisdictional Theory of Double Jeopardy, 48 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW _ (forthcoming)(*selected for presentation at 2008 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum)

Constitutional Limits on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: Terrorism and the Intersection of National and International Law, 48 HARVARD INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 121 (2007)

The Legal Limits of Universal Jurisdiction, 49 VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 141 (2006)

The New Universal Jurisdiction: In Absentia Signaling over Clearly Defined Crimes, 36 GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 537 (2005)

The Unitary Executive in the Modern Era, 1945-2004, 90 IOWA LAW REVIEW 601 (2005) (with Christopher S. Yoo and Steven G. Calabresi)

Comment, Manipulating International Criminal Procedure: The Decision of the ICTY Office of the Independent Prosecutor not to Investigate NATO Bombing in the Former Yugoslavia, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2003)

Presentations

“A Jurisdictional Theory of Double Jeopardy”:

  • Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, Yale Law School (June 2008)
  • Law and Society Conference, Montreal, Canada (May 2008)
  • Law, Culture and the Humanities, Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley (March 2008)
  • SMU Faculty Forum, SMU Law School (March 2008)
  • Marquette Faculty Forum, Marquette Law School (February 2008)
  • Texas Junior Scholars Conference, Texas Wesleyan Law School (August 2007)

“Constitutional Limits on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction”:

  • International Law Section of the Dallas Bar, Belo Mansion, Dallas, Texas (January 2008)
  • Associates Workshop, Columbia Law School (September 2007)
  • HILJ Author Series, Harvard Law School (November 2006)

“The Legal Limits of Universal Jurisdiction”:

  • Law and Society Conference, Berlin, Germany (July 2007)

Other:

  • Overview of U.S. Civil Procedure" for Vietnam NOIP Officials, SMU Law School (October 2007)
  • Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in International Law" Chinese Rule of Law Forum, SMU Law School (November 2007)


Curriculum Vitae

 

Education

B.A., 2000, summa cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa) Middlebury College
J.D., 2003, magna cum laude (Order of the Coif) Northwestern University
LL.M., 2006, Columbia University
J.S.D. candidate, Columbia University.