Ian Hurd

Dr. Ian Hurd is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and Director of the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies. He writes about international politics and law. He is the author of the popular textbook International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice (2017) which introduces the main international organizations and covers both international law and international relations.

His most recent book is How to Do Things with International Law (2017). His book After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the UN Security Council won the Chadwick Alger prize from the International Studies Association and the Myres McDougal prize of the Policy Sciences Society in 2008. He is also an editor of the Oxford Handbook of International Organizations.