Dr. Claire Cutler

Claire Cutler is a Professor of International Law and Relations in the Political Science Department at the University of Victoria. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia (BA; PhD), the London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc) and McGill University (LLB). Dr. Cutler specializes in the intersection of international law and international politics and is interested in developing critical theory in international law. Her contemporary research focuses upon institutions and processes for dispute resolution in international law. In particular, she is examining the trend toward the privatization of global governance and its implications for the future of democratic institutions and processes. Her publications include Private Authority and International Affairs, edited with Virginia Haufler and Tony Porter (New York: State University of New York Press, 1999), Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) and International Economic Regimes and Canadian Foreign Policy edited with Mark W. Zacher, (UBC Press, 1992). She has recently become the recipient of the 2005 Weller Prize, an award that recognizes the best Political Science book by a BC author published in the preceding two years.

Member of the International Editorial Board, Review of International Political Economy (http://www.jhu.edu/~ripe/)

Member of the International Editorial Board, Globalizations (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14747731.asp)

Member of the International Advisory Board, German Law Journal (http://www.germanlawjournal.com/)

Dr. Cutler is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.