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Kristen E. Boon

Professor of Law

  • Degrees:

  • J.S.D. Columbia University
  • J.D., New York University
  • M.A. & B.A., McGill University

  • Contact:

  • kristen.boon@shu.edu
  • Tel:  973-642-8958
  • SSRN Site link

  • Courses:

  • Public International Law
  • Transnational Law
  • Contracts

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Faculty News

Professor Kristen Boon, Closing Plenary, International Law Association Spring Meeting (British Branch), Oxford University.

Professor Kristen Boon, commented on ICJ Judge Giorgio Gaja's talk The Relations Between the European Union and Its Member States from the Perspective of the ILC Articles on Responsibility of International Organizations, University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law.

Professor Kristen E. Boon, awarded research fellowship at the Amsterdam Center for International Law research project on the Law of Responsibility.

Professor Kristen E. Boon, appointed Senior Visiting Advisor at the International Peace Institute in New York.

Professor Kristen E. Boon, Transparency in International Arbitration at the Global Law and Policy Roundtable at New York Law School.

Professor Kristen E. Boon, Bluefin Tuna:  A Case Study in Scarcity and Redistribution in International Law at the International Trade Committee of the New York Bar Association.

Prof. Kristen E. Boon, panelist on The Legality of Use of Force in Libya, sponsored by NYU Law African Law Association.

Prof. Kristen E. Boon, International Law in a Time of Scarcity: A Case Study on Bluefin Tuna, ASIL Mid-year Research Forum, Los Angeles.

Prof. Kristen E. Boon, appointed to Steering Committee of Jus Post Bellum Research Program at Leiden University.

Prof. Kristen E. Boon, International Law in a Time of Scarcity: A Case Study on Bluefin Tuna - IO Works in Progress Workshop, Tufts University.

Prof. Kristen E. Boon, Regime Conflicts and the UN Security Council:  Applying the Law of Responsibility, 42 Geo. Wash. Int'l L. Rev.788 (2010).

Kristen E. Boon, Attribution in International Law, International Law Weekend.

Professor Kristen E. Boon, presenting Theories of Attribution in International Law at the ICCLR General Conference in Ottawa.

Professor Kristen E. Boon, The UN Security Council: The Most Powerful Organ in History, in the ABA’s Insights Magazine.

Professor Kristen E. Boon at Law & Society Conference in San Francisco: Discussant on Regulating Entrepreneurs panel, June 3rd, Presenting Addressing Gaps in the Dodd-Frank Act: Directors’ Risk Management Oversight Obligation, June 3rd, Moderator for New Corporate Governance: Investors and Other Players on June 4th.

Professor Kristen E. Boon, nominated as a Rising Star of Corporate Governance by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance.

Professor Kristen E. Boon, New Directions in Responsibility: Assessing the International Law Commission’s Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations, Yale J. Int’l L. Online.

Professor Kristen E. Boon, Applying the Law of Responsibility in Collective Security Situations, Vanderbilt Law School, Roundtable on International Organizations, Nashville, Apr. 8th.

Professor Kristen E. Boon joined other Securities Regulations Professors in a Comment to the SEC on Dodd-Frank’s effect on extraterritorial application of anti-fraud provisions under Section 10(b).

Professor Kristin E. Boon commented on Professor Frank Partnoy’s Abraham L. Pomerantz Lecture, Don’t Blink: Snap Decisions and Securities Regulation, Brooklyn Law School, Mar. 15th

Professor Kristen E. Boon, Non-State Actors in the International System at a panel on Accountability for International Organizations in Global Governance, Yale Law School, Feb. 25th.

Professor Kristen Boon, on the Program Committee for the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law. 

Professor Kristen Boon, Scarcity and the Redistributive Possibilities of International Law at the Connecticut Journal of International Law's Symposium.

Professor Kristin Boon guest blogging this month on Concurring Opinions

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Kristen E. Boon

Professor of Law

Dr. Kristen E. Boon, Director of International Programs, specializes in public international law and international organizations.

Professor Boon joined the Seton Hall Law School faculty as an Associate Professor of Law in 2006. Professor Boon teaches courses in international law and contracts at Seton Hall. Professor Boon holds a Doctorate in law from Columbia Law School, a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2000, a M.A. in Political Science from McGill University in 1996, and a B.A. with honors, in Political Science and History from McGill University in 1994.

She has authored and co-authored articles on such topics as legislative reform in post-conflict zones, jus post bellum, the security council's evolving jurisdiction and the law of responsibility. Prior to joining Seton Hall she served as a clerk to Supreme Court of Canada Justice Ian Binnie and as a litigation associate with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. Kristen Boon is a member of the bar of New York (2002) and the Law Society of Upper Canada (2003) and the US Supreme Court Bar (2008).

PUBLICATIONS

LAW REVIEW ARTICLES


Regime Conflicts and the U.N. Security Council: Applying The Law of Responsibility, 42 Geo. Wash. J. Int'l L. 101 (2010)

Coining a New Jurisdiction:  The Security Council as Economic Peacekeeper, 41 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 991 (2008)

When The Fighting Stops: Foreword, 38 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1233 (2008)

Open for Business: International Financial Institutions, Post-Conflict Economic Reform and the Rule of Law, 9 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 513 (2007)

Legislative Reform in Post-Conflict Zones, 50 McGILL L.J. 285 (2005)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS


The Law of Responsibility: A Response to Fragmentation?, Pac. McGeorge Global Bus. & Dev. L.J. (forthcoming 2011) (symposium)

New Directions in Responsibility: Assessing the Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations, 37 Yale J. Int'l L. (2011) (On-Line)

The Future of the Law of Occupation, Canadian Yearbook of International Law (2009)

Obligations of the New Occupier: The Contours of a Jus Post Bellum, 31 Loy. L.A. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 101 (2008)

The Role of Courts in Enforcing Economic and Social Rights, The George Washington International Law Review Vol. 39, Issue No. 2 (2007)

International Criminal Courts in DELEGATING SOVEREIGNTY TO INTERNATIONAL TREATY REGIMES 171 – 207, (Thomas Franck ed., 2000)

A Response to the American Position on the International Criminal Court, 10 E.J.I.L.108 (No. 1, 1999) (co-author)

Contributor to the 2001, 2002 & 2003 "Year in Review" Issues of the ABA's International Lawyer,

The Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, Max Plank Encyclopedia of International Law