Christie S. Warren Delivers Fulbright Lecture at Sweden’s Lund Faculty of Law
On Thursday, March 27, Professor Christie S. Warren of William & Mary Law School delivered the 2025 Fulbright Lecture at Lund University in her capacity as 2024-2025 Fulbright–Lund Distinguished Chair in Public International Law.
Warren is Professor of the Practice of International and Comparative Law and Director of the Center for Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding at William & Mary Law School. During her distinguished career she has made significant contributions to the study and practice of international law and human rights.
Since last fall, Warren has been teaching at the Lund Faculty of Law and conducting research at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Sweden. Her research focuses on the role of constitutions and foundational charters in stateless communities that lack political sovereignty.
Jointly hosted by RWI, the Faculty of Law and the Fulbright Sweden Commission, Warren’s lecture followed introductions by Faculty of Law Dean Henrik Wenander and the Executive Director of RWI, Peter Lundberg, and included analyses of the legality of non-sovereign constitutions, potential conflicts of law arising from clashes with domestic legal systems, and interactions with international law. Her case studies ranged from Tibet and Greenland to Kurdish, Roma and Sápmi communities. As Professor Lundberg pointed out, Warren’s research at its core challenges our fundamental notions of the nation state.
This academic year represents Warren’s second Fulbright Distinguished Chair. In 2016 – 2017 she was named the Fulbright- Schuman Distinguished Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where she taught and researched the role various legal systems play in creating, maintaining, and recovering from conflict. Her research that year was published in the Cornell International Law Journal.
The Lund Faculty of Law and RWI are proud partners of the Fulbright Scholars Program, an international academic exchange program founded in 1946 that aims to increase mutual understanding and collaborations among scholars in the United States and other countries.