Arnulf Becker Lorca

Arnulf Becker Lorca

Arnulf Becker Lorca is a Visiting Lecturer at the International Relations Program at Brown University. He was a Lecturer at King’s College London, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, and has worked as a consultant in different areas of public international law practice. He received his doctoral degree in law from Harvard Law School.

His areas of expertise include public international law, international legal theory, the laws of war and the history of international law. His research examines the global intellectual history of international law, focusing on the role non-Western international lawyers have played in the construction of the international legal order. He has published in various international law journals like, NYU Journal of International Law & Politics, the Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of International Law, Journal of the History of International Law, Harvard International Law Journal and the European Journal of International Law. His book, Mestizo International Law: A Global Intellectual History, 1842–1933, published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press was the winner of the 2016 Book Prize of the European Society of International Law.