Professor Christie Warren of William & Mary Law School Attends Nobel Prize Ceremony
In December, by invitation from the Nobel Foundation, Professor Christie Warren of William & Mary Law School attended the Nobel awards ceremony and the preceding reception for U.S. award recipients at the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Sweden.
During the event, Warren was able to talk with Simon Johnson and Daron Acemoglu, co-recipients of this year’s Prize in Economic Sciences, about their research into the impact of societal institutions and the Rule of Law in formerly colonized countries.
Warren, Professor of the Practice of International and Comparative Law and Director of the Center for Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, was awarded the Fulbright-Lund Distinguished Chair in Public International Law for the 2024-25 academic year. She is teaching at Lund University and conducting research at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute 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.
This is Warren’s second Fulbright Distinguished Chair. She was named the 2016–17 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 from that award was published in the Cornell International Law Journal.
Warren has also served as Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Visiting Professor of International Law at Sapienza University in Rome.