Faculty Profile
David P. Fidler
James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law and Director, IU Center on American and Global Security
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Background
- Graduated summa cum laude from the University of Kansas with a bachelor's degree in 1986
- Received J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School
- Received a M. Phil. with distinction and a B.C.L. with first class honours from the University of Oxford
- Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell, London (1991-1993)
- Associate, Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, Kansas City (1993-95)
- Lecturer, University of Oxford (1990-93)
Biography
Professor Fidler specializes in international law. He is one of the world's leading experts on international law and global health. Professor Fidler is also an internationally recognized expert on biosecurity threats posed by biological weapons and bioterrorism, the international legal and policy implications of "non-lethal" weapons, counterinsurgency and rule of law operations, and the globalization of baseball.

In addition to his teaching and scholarly activities, Professor Fidler has served as an international legal consultant to the World Bank (on foreign investment in Palestine), the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (on global health issues), the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Science Board (on bioterrorism), the Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, U.S. Joint Forces Command (on rule of law issues in complex operations), and various initiatives undertaken by non-governmental organizations in the areas of global health and arms control. He is also the editor for the Insights publication series of the American Society of International Law.
Selected Works
- BIOSECURITY IN THE GLOBAL AGE: BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND THE RULE OF LAW (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2008)[co-author with Lawrence O. Gostin].
- SARS, GOVERNANCE, AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF DISEASE (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
- STEALING LIVES: THE GLOBALIZATION OF BASEBALL AND THE TRAGIC STORY OF ALEXIS QUIROZ (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002) [co-author with Arturo J. Marcano].
- INTERNATIONAL LAW AND PUBLIC HEALTH: MATERIALS ON AND ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL HEALTH JURISPRUDENCE (Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, 2000).
- EMPIRE AND COMMUNITY: EDMUND BURKE'S WRITINGS AND SPEECHES ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (David P. Fidler and Jennifer M. Welsh, eds.) (Boulder: Westview Press, 1999).
- INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999).
- ROUSSEAU ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (Stanley Hoffmann and David P. Fidler eds.) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).
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