Thomas D. Grant is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and senior associate of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.
Biographical
- Born 1969, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- High School: North Attleborough, Massachusetts, 1987
- College: Harvard, BA, summa cum laude, 1991
- Law School: Yale, 1994
- Law clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals (1st Circuit), 1994–1995
- Fulbright Scholar, Cambridge University, UK, 1995–1999
- Ph.D. (international law), supervised by Christopher Greenwood and James Crawford, Cambridge University, 2000
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Federal Chancellor Scholar, Max-Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany, 1999-2000
- Warburg Junior Research Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford University, 2000–2002
- Jennings Randolph Senior Research Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington, DC, 2007-8
- Policy advisor, headquarters staff, McCain 2008, Crystal City, Virginia, August 2008-November 2008
- Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge University, 2002–present
Academic
Dr Grant's teaching subjects include international law and international relations. He has lectured the international law paper at Cambridge (PartIb) and supervised graduate students in law and international relations at Cambridge and Oxford. Articles by Dr Grant have been published in academic, professional, and policy journals, including the American Journal of International Law, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, and European Journal of International Law. He is author of several books, the most recent of which concerns legal controls on admission to membership and participation in the United Nations [more details]. He has served as confidential assessor of manuscript submissions to Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, USIP Press, and a number of academic journals. Dr Grant is co-founder and Associate Editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Oxford University Press/University of Geneva) (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2010); a Foreign Correspondent Editor of International Legal Materials (American Society of International Law); and a contributing author of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (3rd ed).Professional
Dr Grant's professional activities have included legal consultancy to the European offices of American law firms, as well as to corporate clients, international organizations, and to an American presidential election campaign. The subject matter on which Dr Grant has acted as attorney advisor covers a variety of public and private international law matters. At the Lauterpacht Centre, he serves as senior associate to Prof. James Crawford, in which capacity he assists in a wide-ranging international law practice. Matters on which Dr Grant has worked include both contentious and advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice, investment arbitrations under ICSID rules, commercial arbitrations under ICC rules, maritime delimitation negotiations, continental shelf claims, international claims settlement processes, hydrocarbon production sharing agreements under treaty law and special constitutional settlements, international water rights disputes, and litigation in U.S. federal court arising out of the Alien Tort Claims Act. His pro bono work has included an amicus curiae brief
for the US Supreme Court concerning the Bipartisan Campaign
Reform
Act. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia,
New York, Massachusetts, and the U.S. Supreme Court.