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., 2009, Columbia University

Bio

Professor Colangelo’s scholarly and teaching interests are in the fields of Conflict of Laws, Civil Procedure, U.S. Foreign Relations Law, and Private and Public International Law.

His scholarship has been selected for presentation at the prestigious Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, and his articles have been cited at the U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court levels, as well as in a recent U.S. Military Commission ruling, regarding among other things the extraterritorial application of U.S. law implementing the U.N. Torture Convention to Chuckie Taylor (son of former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor), the proper exercise of universal jurisdiction in relation to Alien Tort Statute claims by South African plaintiffs against corporations alleged to have been complicit in apartheid-era abuses by the South African government, and Salim Hamdan’s (Osama bin Laden’s driver) challenges to U.S. Military Commission jurisdiction.       

Prior to coming to SMU, Professor Colangelo held an Associate-in-Law research and teaching fellowship at Columbia Law School. Before 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. and J.S.D. from Columbia Law School. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif.

Primary Articles

Double Jeopardy and Multiple Sovereigns: A Jurisdictional Theory, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2009) (lead article)
*selected for presentation at 2008 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum

"De FactoSovereignty": Boumediene and Beyond, GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW (2009)

Universal Jurisdiction as an International "False Conflict" of Laws, MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (2009) (invited symposium contribution)

The Supreme Court's Role After 9/11: Continuing the Legal Conversation in the War on Terror, SMU LAW REVIEW (2009) (invited contribution)

Constitutional Limits on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: Terrorism and the Intersection of National and International Law, HARVARD INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (2007)
- Cited and quoted parenthetically in United States v. Hamdan, Ruling on Motion to Dismiss (Ex Post Facto) 5-6 (July 14, 2008).
- Cited in United States v. Emmanuel (a.k.a. Chuckie Taylor), No. 06-20758-CR, 2007 WL 2002452 (S.D. Fla. July 5, 2007). 

The Legal Limits of Universal Jurisdiction, VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (2006)
- Cited and quoted parenthetically in In re S. Afr. Apartheid Litig., No. 02 MDL 1499, 2009 WL 960078 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 8, 2009).

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

The Unitary Executive in the Modern Era, 1945-2004, IOWA LAW REVIEW (2005) (with Christopher S. Yoo & Steven G. Calabresi)
- Cited and quoted parenthetically in Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Dep’t of Energy, 412 F.3d 125 (D.C. Cir. 2005).

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)

Books

Speeches/Presentations

“Universal Jurisdiction as an International ‘False Conflict’ of Laws,” SMU Faculty Forum, SMU Law School (April 2009)

“International Human Rights and Universality,” 2009 State Bar of Texas International Law Section, 21st Annual Institute (March 2009)
 

"Universal Jurisdiction as an International ‘False Conflict' of Laws," Michigan Law School, Symposium, Michigan Journal of International Law, "Territory without Borders" (February 2009)

"Universal Jurisdiction and Double Jeopardy" Global Law Forum, conference: Ending Impunity or Decreasing Accountability? London, England (November 2008)

"The Supreme Court's Role After 9/11: Continuing the Legal Conversation in the War on Terror," SMU Law School (November 2008) (remarks following talk by Erwin Chemerinsky to Dallas and SMU Law chapters of American Constitution Society)

"‘De Facto Sovereignty': Boumediene and Beyond," Law and Citizenship Colloquium, SMU Law School (November 2008)

"International Law, Extraterritoriality, and U.S. Courts" International Law Association Weekend, New York City (October 2008)

"Double Jeopardy and Multiple Sovereigns: A Jurisdictional Theory," Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, Yale Law School (June 2008)

"Double Jeopardy and Multiple Sovereigns: A Jurisdictional Theory," Law, Culture and the Humanities, Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley (March 2008)

"Double Jeopardy and Multiple Sovereigns: A Jurisdictional Theory," SMU Faculty Forum, SMU Law School (March 2008)

"Double Jeopardy and Multiple Sovereigns: A Jurisdictional Theory," Marquette Faculty Forum, Marquette Law School (February 2008)

"Double Jeopardy and Multiple Sovereigns: A Jurisdictional Theory," 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)

"Constitutional Limits on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction," Associates Workshop, Columbia Law School (September 2007)

"Constitutional Limits on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction," 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)