Alexander K. A. Greenawalt

Alexander K. A. Greenawalt joined the Pace faculty in 2006 from the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where his practice focused on international disputes. He was a teaching fellow at Columbia Law School in 2005 and was previously a clerk for the Honorable Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Professor Greenawalt is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar and Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review.

Professor Greenawalt’s research focuses on criminal law, international law, and the laws of war. His article, "Targeted Capture," received Pace's 2018 Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship, which is awarded based on blind review by a panel of external peer reviewers. Professor Greenawalt also received the 2016 Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship for his article, “Foreign Assistance Complicity,” and he was the 2017 recipient of the Law School's Richard Ottinger Faculty Achievement Award. He has taught Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, International Law, Administrative Law, International Criminal Law, United States Foreign Relations Law, and National Security Law.

Professor Greenawalt was a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School during the Spring 2017 semester, and has also been a Visiting Professor at St. John’s Law School.

In his free time, Professor Greenawalt serves as the bass guitarist for Pace’s student-faculty rock band, The Recess Appointments.

• AB, Princeton University
• MA, Yale University

• Administrative Law
• Constitutional Law
• Criminal Law
• International Criminal Law
• International Law
• National Security Law

View all of Professor Greenawalt’s publications on SSRN, Digital Commons or download his CV (PDF).

• “’With Intent to Destroy, in Whole or in Part’: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and A Lost History,” 2024 Wisconsin Law Review (forthcoming, 2024)
• “The Reach of Adjudication,” in Joachim W. Muller & Karl P. Sauvant, eds. The Oxford Annual Review of United Nations Affairs (forthcoming, 2021) (Critical commentary on the work of the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and other international criminal tribunals)
• Advancing Fundamental Principles Through Doctrine and Practice, 35 Temp. Int’l & Comp. L.J. 79 (2021) (Invited contribution for symposium on Darryl Robinson’s book, Justice in Extreme Cases, 2020)
• “What is an International Crime?,” in The Oxford Handbook of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2020)
• “Admissibility as Theory of International Criminal Law” in The Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Court (Edward Elgar, 2020)
• “Law, Discretion, and Power” in Joachim W. Muller & Karl P. Sauvant, eds. The Oxford Annual Review of United Nations Affairs (2020) (Critical commentary on the work of the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and other international criminal tribunals)
• “Confronting Power” in “International Court of Justice,” in Joachim W. Muller & Karl P. Sauvant, eds. The Oxford Annual Review of United Nations Affairs (2019) (Critical commentary on the work of the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and other international criminal tribunals)
• If War is Everywhere, Then Must the Law be Nowhere? 32 Temple Int’l & Comp. L.J. 25 (2018) (Invited contribution for symposium on Rosa Brooks’ book, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From The Pentagon, 2016)
• “Judicial Gatekeepers,” in Joachim W. Muller & Karl P. Sauvant, eds. The Oxford Annual Review of United Nations Affairs (2018) (Critical commentary on the work of the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and other international criminal tribunals)
• Targeted Capture, 59 Harv. Int’l L.J. 1 (2018) (recipient of Pace University’s Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship, which is awarded based on blind review by a panel of external peer reviewers)
• “The Fragility of Law,” in Joachim W. Muller & Karl P. Sauvant, eds. The Oxford Annual Review of United Nations Affairs (2017) (Critical commentary on the work of the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and other international criminal tribunals)
• Foreign Assistance Complicity, 54 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. 531 (2016) (recipient of Pace University’s Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship, which is awarded based on blind review by a panel of external peer reviewers)

• Teaching fellow at Columbia Law School in 2005

• Stevens Family Faculty Scholar
• 2018 Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship for his article, “Targeted Capture,”
• 2017 Recipient of the Law School's Richard Ottinger Faculty Achievement Award
• 2016 Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship for his article, “Foreign Assistance Complicity”

Administrative Law, National Security Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, U.S. Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights, Legal Theory