Professor Alec Stone Sweet
Professor Alec Stone Sweet is a leading American academic
in the fields of international law and comparative law. He is
currently the Leitner Professor of Law, Politics and
International Studies at Yale University. His research has
focused on law and courts, and the impact of judges on
legislators and other policymakers, on market integration
and transnational economic activity, and on the protection
of human rights.
Prof Stone Sweet has published numerous articles in major
journals of law and social science, as well as thirteen books
and edited volumes, including: A Europe of Rights: The
Impact of the ECHR on National Legal Systems (Oxford University Press, 2008); The Judicial
Construction of Europe (Oxford University Press, 2004); On Law, Politics, and Judicialization
(Oxford University Press, 2003); The Politics of Delegation (Cass, 2002); The
Institutionalization of Europe (Oxford University Press, 2001); Governing with Judges (Oxford
University Press, 2000); European Integration and Supranational Governance (Oxford
University Press, 1998); and The Birth of Judicial Politics in France (Oxford University Press,
1992). Prof Stone Sweet’s current book project, to be published by Oxford University Press,
is entitled, The Institutional Evolution of International Arbitration: Judicialization, Governance,
Legitimacy.
Prior to joining Yale in 2004, Prof Stone Sweet was Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford
(1999-2004), and Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He has also held visiting
professorships at the Bocconi University Law School (Milan), the Columbia Law School (New
York), as well as in law faculties in Aix-en-Provence (France), Bologna (Italy), Florence (Italy),
Madrid (Spain), Paris (France), Stockholm (Sweden), Sydney (Australia), and Vienna (Austria).
Prof Stone Sweet has taught a wide range of courses in law, among which Comparative Law,
Comparative Constitutional Law, Law and Globalisation, Legal Pluralism and Global Law, the
European Convention on Human Rights, European Union Law, Qualitative Research Design
for Legal Research, and International Arbitration.
Prof Stone Sweet will join the NUS Faculty of Law as the first Saw Swee Hock Centennial
Professor of Law in January 2016.
21 May 2015