Professor of law and global affairs and director of the Division of Global Affairs (International Law; International Organizations; Legal Theory)
Jean-Marc Coicaud is a professor of law and global affairs, and director of
the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University.
Professor Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in political science-law from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Doctorat
d'État in political theory from the Institut d'Études Politiques of Paris. He
also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy, literature and
linguistics.
Professor Coicaud has published 14 books (single-authored,
coauthored and coedited) and multiple chapters and articles in the fields of
comparative politics, political and legal theory, international relations, and
international law. His books are available in English, French, Japanese,
Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, and include the following: L'introuvable
démocratie autoritaire (L'Harmattan, 1996), Légitimité et
Politique (Presses Universitaires de France, 1997), Politics and
Legitimacy: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political
Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Beyond the National
Interest (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007), Kokuren no
Genkai/Kokuren no Mirai (Future of the UN/Limits of the UN - Fujiwara
Shoten, 2007), Mai Xiang Guo Ji Fa Zhi (Toward the International Rule
of Law - Sanlian Shudian, 2008).
Prior to joining Rutgers, from 2003 to
2011, Coicaud served as the director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at
the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. From 1996 to 2003, he was senior academic officer and director of studies at the UNU headquarters in
Tokyo. Prior to joining UNU, from 1992 to 1996, he served in the executive office of the United Nations secretary-general as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros
Boutros-Ghali. In the spring of 1996, he also served as an adviser at the
Guatemalan office of the UN Department of Political Affairs. A former fellow at
Harvard University from 1982 to 1996 (Center for International Affairs,
Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School), Coicaud has held appointments
such as cultural attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and legislative aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee). He has also
been a visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure-Ulm (Paris), at Chuo
Law School (Tokyo), and has taught at the New School for Social Research (New
York City). In addition, he has been a senior fellow at the United States
Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.), a Global Research Fellow at New York
University School of Law, and a visiting scholar at the School of Public Policy
and Management of Tsinghua University (Beijing).
Professor Coicaud has
lectured extensively throughout the world, including Chile (Naval War Academy),
China (Tsinghua University, Beijing University, Institute of International Law
of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), France (École Polytechnique, École
des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Institut d'Études Politiques), Hungary
(Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Italy (European University Institute), Japan
(Waseda University, Keio University, Chuo University), the United Kingdom
(Oxford University, International Institute for Strategic Studies), and the
United States (Princeton University, University of California at Berkeley,
University of Southern California, Columbia University, New York University
School of Law, Rand Corporation, U.S. War College).
Coicaud is
serving on the advisory board of Global Policy Journal (London) and is a member
of the Carnegie Council Advisory Board of Global Policy Innovations (New York
City).
His latest book, coedited with Hilary Charlesworth, is Fault
Lines of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2010). His
most recent chapter is "Solidarity: Meaning and Challenges," in Bertrand Badie,
Dirk Berg-Schlosser and Leonardo Morlino (eds.), International Encyclopedia
of Political Science (Sage Publications, 2011). His most recent
article is, "Chugoku, gurobaru taikoku e no jouken" ("Strengths and
Weaknesses of China, and
the Evolution of the International System"), written with Zhang Jin and
published in Japanese in KAN: History, Environment, Civilization: A
Quarterly Journal on Learning and the Arts for Global Readership (Tokyo,
Fujiwara Shoten, Vol. 46/2011 Summer).
Professor Coicaud is currently working on a book
titled International Legitimacy and Global Justice, for which he is
under contract with Cambridge University Press.
