John B. Quigley (born 1940) is a professor of law at the
Moritz College of Law at the
Ohio State University, where he is the Presidents' Club Professor of Law Emeritus. In 1995 he was recipient of the Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award. Born John Bernard Quigley Jr., he was raised in
St. Louis, Missouri and educated at the
St. Louis Country Day School. He graduated from Harvard in the class of 1962, later taking an LL.B degree from Harvard Law School in 1966 and an M.A., also awarded in 1966. He was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts in 1967. Before joining the Ohio State faculty in 1969, he was a research scholar at
Moscow State University, and a research associate in comparative law at
Harvard Law School. Professor Quigley teaches
international law and
comparative law. Professor Quigley holds an adjunct appointment in the Political Science Department.[1] In 1982–83 he was a visiting professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
John Quigley is active in international human rights work. He has published many articles and books on
human rights, the
United Nations, war and peace, east European law, African law, and the
Arab–Israeli conflict. He is fluent in Russian and French and highly proficient in Spanish and Swahili.[citation needed]
Bibliography
Basic Laws on the Structure of the Soviet State (with H. J. Berman), Harvard University Press, 1969
The Merchant Shipping Code of the USSR (1968) (with
W. E. Butler), Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970
The Soviet Foreign Trade Monopoly: Institutions and Laws, Ohio State University Press, 1974
Law After Revolution: Essays on Socialist Law in Honor of Harold J. Berman (edited) (with William E. Butler and Peter B. Maggs), Oceana Publications, 1988
Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice, Duke University Press, 1990
The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II, Prometheus Books, 1992
Flight into the Maelstrom: Immigration to Israel and Middle East Peace, Ithaca Press, 1997
Genocide in Cambodia: Documents from the Trial of
Pol Pot and
Ieng Sary (edited, with Howard J. DeNike and Kenneth J. Robinson), University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000
The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective, Duke University Press, 2005
The Genocide Convention: An International Law Analysis, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2006
The Statehood of Palestine, Cambridge University Press, 2011
The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense: Questioning the Legal Basis for Preventive War, Cambridge University Press, 2013
The International Diplomacy of Israel's Founders, Cambridge University Press, 2016
Faculty digests:
To Combat Terrorism, U.S. Must Re-Examine Foreign Policy, "Identifying the Origins of Anti-American Terrorism," Florida Law Review, 2006 (56 Fla. L. Rev. 1003)
Courts Should Recognize Treaty-Based Rights, "Toward More Effective Judicial Implementation of Treaty-Based Rights," Fordham International Law Journal, 2006 (29 Fordham Int'l L.J. 552)
Palestinian Crisis Best Understood Under International Law "International Law and the Palestinian Refugees," Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 2005