“Nuclear Threats and International Law” with Dr. John Burroughs

June 2022 IPPNWC Speaker Series

This event was hosted and recorded by IPPNWC on June 8th, 2022. Find the recorded talk from Dr. John Burroughs below on “Nuclear Threats and International Law”

Dr. John Burroughs is a Senior Analyst for Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP) in New York City and from February 1999 to September 2020 he was the Executive Director. He has represented LCNP in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review proceedings and in negotiations on the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons. He was a member of the legal team for the Marshall Islands in its nuclear disarmament cases in the International Court of Justice. He has also published articles and op-eds in journals and newspapers including Arms Control Today, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the World Policy Journal, Newsweek, and Newsday. He has taught international law as an adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School. He has a J.D. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. from Harvard University.