Warren, Christie S.

Professor of the Practice of International and Comparative Law and Director, Center for Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Representative Professional Activities and Achievements

Christie S. Warren is Professor of the Practice of International and Comparative Law and founding Director of the Center for Comparative Legal Studies & Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. She holds a BA with Distinction from the University of California at Berkeley, a JD from the University of California at Davis, and a Certificate in Mediation from the Harvard Mediation Program. Her areas of specialization include Comparative Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Post-Conflict Justice and the Rule of Law, Transitional Justice, Islamic Law, Public International Law, International Human Rights Law and Advanced Applied International Research.

Professor Warren served for sixteen years as a criminal defense trial lawyer in California, specializing in the defense of death penalty cases and serving as Training Director for the Northern California indigent criminal defense Bar, before turning to international legal development work in conflict and post-conflict contexts. She has designed, implemented, and assessed constitutional, judicial, legal, and academic programs in more than 58 countries throughout Africa, Central and East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the Newly Independent States, the Balkans and Timor Leste.

Warren has received two Fulbright Distinguished Chair appointments. In 2016-2017 she served as the Fulbright-Schuman Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and in 2024 – 2025 served as the Fulbright-Lund Distinguished Chair in Public International Law in Lund, Sweden, where she taught and conducted research at the Lund University Faculty of Law and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Under appointment by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, she served as Supreme Court Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, and under appointment by Chief Justice John G. Roberts served two terms as Supreme Court Fellows Commissioner. In 2010-2011 she served as the Senior Expert in Constitutional Issues on the United Nations Department of Political Affairs Mediation Support Unit Standby Team. She has advised on constitutional issues and processes in Haiti, Iraq, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Somalia, Sudan and Ukraine and served as a Legal Advisor during the Darfur Peace Talks.

Professor 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 and holds a position as Affiliated Scholar at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. She is the recipient of the Administration of Justice Award, awarded by the Supreme Court Fellows Alumni Association, "In Recognition of Significant Contributions to the International Administration of Justice and the Rule of Law."