Wayne Law prof to serve as scholar-in-residence at noted London firm

Wayne State University Law School Professor Gregory H. Fox will return to his roots at noted international law firm WilmerHale as a scholar-in-residence in June. He'll be in the firm's London offices from June 1 through 19 researching an ongoing project, "The Multilateralization of Armed Conflict," which he is working on with Professor Kristen Boon of Seton Hall University School of Law in New Jersey. "Our project explores the view that the United Nations Security Council has brought deep and important changes to the law applicable to armed conflict," Fox said. "Most contemporary analysis of legal issues in armed conflict takes little or no account of the council's actions." Fox and Boon are studying 54 armed conflicts from 1990 to 2013. The security council was involved in 96 percent of new conflicts during that period, Fox said. WilmerHale's Scholar-in-Residence program allows academics to work with the firm's arbitrators and research facilities and offers other support services to researchers. Fox, who joined Wayne Law in 2002, began his legal career in the litigation department of Hale & Dorr (now WilmerHale) in Boston. Prior to joining the Wayne Law faculty, Fox was an assistant professor at Chapman Law School in Orange, Calif. He earned a bachelor's degree in history from Bates College and his law degree from New York University. He is director of Wayne Law's Program for International Legal Studies, is a widely cited authority on international law and international organizations and is a leader in a variety of academic and professional organizations. Fox is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation/Social Science Research Council Fellowship in International Peace and Security. Much of his scholarship focuses on how international organizations such as the United Nations have brought changes to areas such as the worldwide spread of democracy, governance of national territory and resolution of armed conflicts. He is a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and the founding chairman of the Committee on International Human Rights of the State Bar of Michigan. In 2008, he became an expert consultant to the International Committee of the Red Cross for its project on the future of occupation law. Published: Mon, Feb 02, 2015