Orde Kittrie

Orde Kittrie
Kittrie in 2011
Born
Orde Félix Kittrie
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Academic
  • professor
Academic background
Alma materWalt Whitman High School
Yale University
University of Michigan Law School

Orde Félix Kittrie is a tenured professor of law at Arizona State University, where his teaching and research focus on international law (especially nonproliferation and sanctions) and criminal law. He has written extensively in the areas of international law, criminal law, nuclear non-proliferation, and international negotiations. Professor Kittrie is also the director of ASU's Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Washington Legal Externship Program.[1][2] Professor Kittrie was recipient of the 2006-2007 Centennial Professor of the Year award at ASU, a university-wide honor presented in recognition of outstanding teaching inside and outside of the classroom.[2]

Professor Kittrie is a prolific scholar. He is the author of Lawfare: Law as a Weapon of War[3] He is also the author of numerous scholarly articles in journals including the University of Michigan Law Review,[4] Iowa Law Review,[5] Syracuse University Law Review,[6] University of Michigan Journal of International Law,[7] University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law,[8] and Case Western Journal of International Law.[9] In addition, he served in 2012 as the elected Chair of the Committee on Scholarship of the Association of American Law Schools.

Kittrie has published articles in media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal,[10] Foreign Affairs,[11] The National Interest,[12] Arms Control Today,[13] and The Arizona Republic. He has also been a speaker at numerous universities including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, King’s College London, Georgetown, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he has done on-air commentary for television and radio networks and stations including Al Jazeera, Fox, Christian Broadcasting Network, Univision, NBC, and ABC.

Professor Kittrie is a leading expert on legal issues relating to nuclear nonproliferation. Kittrie has testified on nonproliferation issues before both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.[2] During 2008, Professor Kittrie served on a National Academies of Science committee created by Congress (in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008) to issue a report, in time for the next Administration, assessing and making recommendations to improve current U.S. government programs to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.[14] In February 2008, Kittrie wrote a chapter for a report produced by the National Academies of Science, in coordination with the Russian Academy of Sciences, entitled The Future of the Nuclear Security Environment in 2015.[15] Professor Kittrie’s chapter describes and analyzes several critical legal issues that must be successfully managed if future U.S.-Russian nuclear security cooperation is to be maximized. In 2005, Kittrie served on the National Academies of Science committee which produced with the Russian Academy of Sciences a joint report entitled Strengthening US-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation, for which Kittrie wrote the chapter on legal obstacles and opportunities.[16] Kittrie served for several years as chair of the Nonproliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Committee of the American Society of International Law.

Prior to 2004, Kittrie worked for eleven years at the United States Department of State. For three years, Kittrie served as an attorney specializing in trade controls, in which capacity he was a principal drafter of U.N. Security Council Resolutions, U.S. Executive Orders, and U.S. regulations imposing and implementing embargoes on terrorism-supporting and other outlaw regimes. After that, Kittrie served for three and a half years as a State Department attorney specializing in nuclear affairs. In that capacity, Kittrie participated in negotiating five nuclear non-proliferation agreements between the United States and Russia and served as counsel for the U.S. Government's sanctions and other responses to the 1998 Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests. Kittrie also helped negotiate at the United Nations the Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (a treaty designed to thwart terrorist acquisition, use or threat of use of nuclear material). Prior to law school, Kittrie served as press spokesman and legislative assistant for foreign affairs and defense to a Member of Congress.

A Mexican-American, Professor Kittrie is active in the Latino community, including service in 2006 as President of the Hispanic National Bar Association’s Southwest Region. Kittrie was also named by Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education as one of the United States’ four most notable Hispanic professors of international law.[17] In 2006, he received the Dr. Manuel Servin Faculty Award (2006) from the Chicano Faculty/Staff Association of Arizona State University (an annual award to one faculty member for exemplary mentorship, scholarship and service to the Hispanic community).[17] In 2012, he was honored by the Latino Law Students Association of the University of Michigan Law School with that year's J.T. Canales Award, which honors one “alumnus who has made a significant contribution to empowering the Latino community” each year.[18]

He is a graduate of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, MD; Yale University; and the University of Michigan Law School.

  1. ^ Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Washington Legal Externship Program Archived 2015-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c "Orde Kittrie". Archived from the original on 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  3. ^ Lawfare: Law as a Weapon of War. Oxford University Press. 4 January 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-026357-7. Archived from the original on 12 October 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  4. ^ Kittrie, Orde F. (30 June 2007). "More Process than Peace: Legitimacy, Compliance, and the Oslo Accords".
  5. ^ Kittrie, Orde F. (6 September 2006). "Federalism, Deportation and Crime Victims Afraid to Call the Police".
  6. ^ Kittrie, Orde F. (4 June 2007). "Emboldened by Impunity: The History and Consequences of Failure to Enforce Iranian Violations of International Law".
  7. ^ Kittrie, Orde F. (28 June 2007). "Averting Catastrophe: Why the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty is Losing Its Deterrence Capacity and How to Restore It".
  8. ^ Kittrie, Orde F. (10 May 2009). "New Sanctions for a New Century: Treasury's Innovative Use of Financial Sanctions".
  9. ^ Kittrie, Orde F. (13 January 2011). "Lawfare and U.S. National Security".
  10. ^ Kittrie, Orde (12 August 2015). "Congress Can Rewrite the Iran Deal". Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 30 March 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  11. ^ Kittrie, Orde F. (13 July 2015). "The China-Iran Nuclear Pipeline". Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 2015-08-12. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  12. ^ "Holding Assad Accountable". 6 September 2013. Archived from the original on 12 August 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  13. ^ "Using Stronger Sanctions to Increase Negotiating Leverage with Iran | Arms Control Association". Archived from the original on 2015-09-10. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  14. ^ "Our Work | National Academies". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  15. ^ Future of the Nuclear Security Environment in 2015. 2009. doi:10.17226/12590. ISBN 978-0-309-13144-5. Archived from the original on 2013-02-16. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  16. ^ Strengthening U.S-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation. 2005. doi:10.17226/11302. ISBN 978-0-309-09669-0.
  17. ^ a b "Kittrie receives University of Michigan Law School Latino Alumni Award". Archived from the original on 2015-09-05. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  18. ^ "Kittrie receives University of Michigan Law School Latino Alumni Award". Archived from the original on 2015-09-05. Retrieved 2015-08-24.