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Simon Chesterman
Simon Chesterman, photo by Isabelle Delcourt
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	University of Melbourne, LL.B. (Hons), B.A. (Hons); University of Oxford (D.Phil.)
Occupation(s)	Vice Dean and Professor of Law, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law; Global Professor and Director, New York University School of Law Singapore Programme
Notable work	One Nation Under Surveillance (OUP, 2011); Law and Practice of the United Nations (with Thomas M. Franck and David M. Malone, OUP, 2008); You, The People (OUP, 2004); Just War or Just Peace? (OUP, 2001).
Website	www.simonchesterman.com

Simon Chesterman is Vice Dean and Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, and Global Professor and Director of the New York University School of Law Singapore program. He is a recognized authority on international law, whose work has opened up new areas of research on conceptions of public authority, including the rules and institutions of global governance, state-building and post-conflict reconstruction, and the changing role of intelligence agencies.

Books

Chesterman is the author or editor of twelve books. His doctoral thesis, which he completed at Magdalen College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, won the 2000 Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Prize for the best thesis in international relations and was later published by Oxford University Press as Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and International Law. It was awarded an American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit.

His second major book was You, The People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building (Oxford University Press, 2004), which was praised by Brian Urquhart in the New York Review of Books as being "an original study of how new institutions can be created in such war-damaged countries as Bosnia, Cambodia, and East Timor. … he weight of the subject and the depth of the research are supported by wit, candor, brevity, and analytical writing of a very high order. Although the occupation of Iraq is just one of many cases that Chesterman considers, his book provides, among other things, a guide to the problems of transitional occupation that is extraordinarily relevant to America's current difficulties." Human Rights Quarterly stated that "This single authored work speaks with the authority of a major global commission study and offers analyses and prescriptions with important implications for human rights scholars and practitioners."

More recently, Chesterman has focused his writing on the regulation and oversight of intelligence services, including a monograph published by Australia’s Lowy Institute for International Policy. In an opinion piece published in the global edition of the New York Times in November 2009, he argued for limits to the outsourcing of intelligence activities to private contractors - a problem most prominent in the U.S. reliance on Xe Services, the corporate reincarnation of Blackwater.

Oxford University Press published Chesterman’s twelfth book in March 2011. Entitled One Nation Under Surveillance: A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty, it examines what links — if any — should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its citizens in the name of national security. Advance praise includes a quote from former CIA Inspector-General Frederick Hitz: "This book squarely faces the taboo subject of domestic privacy in an era of Islamist terrorism. Our enemies are not nation-states, so the targets of the intelligence services seeking to pre-empt terrorist attacks must be individuals. The casualty will be individual privacy. People will struggle against heightened surveillance, Chesterman notes, 'but the war will be lost.'"

Other publications have focused on the United Nations, particularly the role of its Secretary-General, and the rise and regulation of private military and security companies.

Journals

Chesterman is an editor of the Asian Journal of International Law, published from 2011 by Cambridge University Press and a co-editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. He is on the editorial boards of various other leading journals, such as Global Governance, Security Dialogue, and The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law.

Reports

Chesterman has been author or co-author of various reports for the United Nations, governments, and private bodies. Notable examples include:

• “The UN Security Council and the Rule of Law”, arguing for greater accountability and circulated as a document of the United Nations in all UN languages;
• “Assessment of Implementation of Articles 3 and 4 of the Ethical Guidelines for the Government Pension Fund - Global”, reviewing the ethical investment strategy of Norway's sovereign wealth fund and co-authored with the Albright Group founded by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright;
• “Asia’s Role in Global Governance”, a report of the World Economic Forum's Global Redesign Initiative co-authored with Kishore Mahbubani.

Honors

Chesterman’s other awards include the Supreme Court Prize (for the study of law in the Australian state of Victoria), a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center, and a 2010 Young Researcher Award at the National University of Singapore.

References

1. NUS Law School profile, NYU profile
2. National University of Singapore, Young Researcher Award 2010
3. "University Secretar's Department : University Calendar - Rhodes Scholars Elected for Victoria : The University of Melbourne". Unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
4. Oxford University Gazette, 14 December 2000
5. "OUP: Chesterman: Just War or Just Peace?: Humanitarian Intervention - Oxford University Press". Ukcatalogue.oup.com. 7 November 2002. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
6. "The American Society of International Law Past ASIL Award Winners and Honorees". Asil.org. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
7. "Oxford University Press: You, the People: Simon Chesterman". Us.oup.com. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
8. New York Review of Books, 23 September 2004
9. Human Rights Quarterly, vol 27, no 2, May 2005, review by Richard L. Siegel
10. Shared Secrets: Intelligence and Collective Security, (Sydney: Lowy Institute for Public Policy, 2006).
11. "Blackwater and the Limits to Outsourcing Security", New York Times (Global Edition)/International Herald Tribune, 12 November 2009.
12. Oxford University Press UK
13. Oxford University Press USA
14. Simon Chesterman, Thomas M. Franck and David M. Malone, Law and Practice of the United Nations: Documents and Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008); Simon Chesterman (editor), Secretary or General? The UN Secretary-General in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
15. Simon Chesterman and Angelina Fisher (eds), Private Security, Public Order: The Outsourcing of Public Functions and Its Limits (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009); Simon Chesterman and Chia Lehnardt (eds), From Mercenaries to Market: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
16. "Asian Journal of International Law". Cambridge.org. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
17. "Taylor & Francis Journals: Welcome". Tandf.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
18. "Lynne Rienner Publishers | Global Governance Editorial Board". Rienner.com. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
19. "Security Dialogue". Sdi.sagepub.com. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
20. "Cambridge Journals Online - Hague Journal on the Rule of Law". Journals.cambridge.org. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
21. UN Doc. A/63/69-S/2008/270 (2008).
22. Government of Norway, National budget 2009, Chapter 5: The Management of the Government Pension Fund.
23. Asia’s Role in Global Governance: World Economic Forum Global Redesign Initiative — Singapore Hearing, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Research Paper No. LKYSPP10-002, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-09.
24. "The Supreme Court Scholarship and Prize Winners". History.law.unimelb.edu.au. 6 May 2008. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
25. Rockefeller Foundation, 2003 Annual Report
26. "National University of Singapore (NUS) - A global university centred in Asia". NUS. 24 May 2010. Retrieved 9 June 2010.

External links

• http://www.SimonChesterman.com

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