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Roger P. Alford

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Adjunct Professor of Law .Associate Professor of Law, Pepperdine University

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Email: roger.alford@pepperdine.edu
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Education

LL.M. Edinburgh University
J.D. New York University
B.A. Baylor University

Biography

Roger Alford's scholarship focuses on foreign relations law, international commercial law, human rights law, arbitration, and international courts and tribunals. Professor Alford joined the faculty at Pepperdine University School of Law after serving as a senior legal advisor with the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, the tribunal established by the Volcker Commission to resolve claims to Holocaust-era dormant Swiss bank accounts. From 1995 to 1999, he was in private practice with Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C. After earning his LL.M. at Edinburgh University, he clerked for the Honorable James L. Buckley, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia (1994–95), and the Honorable Richard C. Allison, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, in The Hague, Netherlands (1992–94). Professor Alford is the founder and general editor of Kluwer International, a comprehensive online international arbitration portal. He has authored and edited a number of scholarly articles that have been published in the American Journal of International Law, UCLA Law Review, Ohio State Law Review, New York University Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Michigan Law Review, International Lawyer, the Virginia Journal of International Law, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and the Cornell International Law Journal. He has also co-edited a book on Holocaust Restitution published with New York University Press in 2006. He is a permanent contributor to the international law blog "Opinio Juris. He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, the Executive Committee of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration, and the Executive Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association.



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