Professor Alexander K.A. Greenawalt appointed James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for 2025–2027

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The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce that Professor Alexander K.A. Greenawalt has been appointed as James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2025–2027 term.

The title of James D. Hopkins Professor of Law is awarded to a member of the faculty for a two-year term in recognition of outstanding scholarship and teaching. The designation is considered to be among the Law School’s most significant faculty honors. During the holder’s term, the James D. Hopkins Professor delivers a lecture that is open to the entire law school community and members of the public.

“Professor Greenawalt joined the Pace Haub Law faculty in 2006 and has contributed tremendously to the Law School in the last nearly twenty years. His scholarship in criminal law, international law, and the laws of war has been published in prestigious law journals and recognized by his peers (including with Pace Haub Law’s distinguished Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship in 2024, 2018, and 2016). He was also previously honored with the Richard Ottinger Faculty Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding service to the law school and the legal profession. We are honored to have Professor Greenawalt serve as our next Hopkins Professor,” remarked Dean Horace E. Anderson Jr.

Prior to joining the faculty of Pace Haub Law, Professor Greenwalt was an attorney with the firm 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.

At Pace Haub Law, Professor Greenawalt previously served as the Stevens Family Faculty Scholar and has taught Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, International Law, Administrative Law, International Criminal Law, United States Foreign Relations Law, and National Security Law. His most recent publication includes, ‘With Intent to Destroy, in Whole or in Part’: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and A Lost History, published in the Wisconsin Law Review in 2024. He 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.

The James D. Hopkins Professor of Law is an endowed chair, which was established with contributions from alumni of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and members of the legal community in honor of Judge James D. Hopkins, who served as Interim Dean of the Law School from 1982 to 1983. His distinguished service to society and to the legal community was a shining example of the life one should live in the law.

Immediately prior to the appointment of Professor Greenawalt, Professor Margot Pollans served as the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law. Learn more about the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law chair and its past recipients.