Albany Law School

B.A., New York University
J.D., Albany Law School
LL.M., Albany Law School
D.C.L., McGill University Faculty of Law (candidate)
(editor-in-chief, Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology)

Alexandra Harrington is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Albany Law School, where she teaches courses relating to public international law and legal profession. Her publications address a variety of fields relating to international law, including environmental law, legal issues relating to climate change, natural resources regulation, international organizations, international human rights law, international child’s rights, international trade law, corporate social responsibility, and criminal law, as well as domestic fields such as constitutional law and military law. Professor Harrington routinely presents her works at domestic and international conferences, including the Annual Meetings of the American Society of International Law and the Australia and New Zealand Society of International Law and a United Nations Academic Impact in Action panel. She also serves as a member of the Global Health Committee of the Global Health Center at the SUNY Albany School of Public Health.

In addition, Professor Harrington is a Doctor of Civil Law Candidate at the McGill University Faculty of Law and is affiliated with the Center for International Sustainable Development Law, the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the Institute for Comparative Law at McGill University. She has served as a professor at the University of Montreal Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales summer programs, as a Continuing Legal Education instructor in the United States and Canada, and as a Consultant to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation.

"Life as We Know It: The Expansion of the Right to Life Under the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights," Loyola of Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Review (forthcoming).

Conflicting Trends: Lessons from Current Evaluative Mechanisms in International and Regional Anti-Corruption Systems Regarding Conflicts of Interest, Journal of International Commercial Law (forthcoming)

All that You Leave Behind: The Territorial Relationship of Heritage Defence Sites and Military Bases, in DEFENCE SITES: HERITAGE AND FUTURE 2012 (forthcoming Wessex Institute of Technology, 2012)

Institutionalizing Human Rights in Latin America: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights System, Temple International and Comparative Law Journal (forthcoming 2012)

Law Without Links: Re-Locating International Economic Law within the Sphere of Law and Society, Working Paper Series

Sovereignty, Territory and Fluidity: Lessons from Hoganas, Working Paper Series

State of Necessity: International Legal Obligations in Times of Crises

Canadian Review of American Studies (forthcoming) (co-authored article with Avidan Kent)

Natural Integrity: The Relationship Between Anti-Corruption Laws and Natural Resource Protections in Latin America, Currents International Trade Law Journal (forthcoming)

Right at Home: Is There a Right to Territory in International Law?, in PROPERTY, EXCLUSION AND SOVEREIGNTY, Robin Paul Malloy ed. (Association for Law, Property & Society, forthcoming 2012)

The Crime of Aggression and New Environmental and Socio-Economic Harms, in SECURING THE RIGHTS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW REGIME IN PRACTICE , Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Sébastien Jodoin and Maja Goëpel, eds, (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, the Multinational Corporation, and Labor: An Unlikely Alliance Symposium: Protecting Workers' Rights in a Post-Wisconsin World: Strategies for Organizing and Action in an Era of Diminished Resources and Embattled Unions,
75 Albany Law Review 483 (2012)

Don't Mind the Gap: The Rise of Individual Complaint Mechanisms within International Human Rights Treaties,
22 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 153 (2012)

The Plea of Necessity Under International Customary Law: A Critical Review in Light of the Argentine Cases, co-authored with Avidan Kent, in EVOLUTION IN INVESTMENT TREATY LAW AND ARBITRATION (Kate Miles and Chester Brown, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Wave of Corruption: Corruption Laws and Water Access, in WATER AND SOCIETY (Wessex Institute Press)

Citizens of the World, Proceedings of the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (2010)

Does Condemnation of Evil Under International Law Encourage or Inhibit Domestic Promulgation of Laws Regulating the Same Evil?, in INSIDE & OUTSIDE OF THE LAW: PERSPECTIVES ON EVIL, LAW AND THE STATE, Shubhankar Dam & Jonathan Hall, eds. (Inter-Disciplinary Press 2009)

Throwing One Arm Around the World: Why the Failure of the World Trade Organization to Include Anti-Bribery and Corruption Targets Within Its Aid for Trade Program Undermines this Program and How to Bridge These Issues,
12 Touro International Law Review 28 (2009)

Explosive Road From Dublin: The Legal Flaws in the Convention to Ban Cluster Munitions and Recommendations for Their Cure,
12 Gonzaga Journal of International Law 1 (2008 – 2009)

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 1 – A Comparison with New York State Law,
12 N.Y. City L. Rev. 461 (2008-2009)

Germs on a Plane!: Legal Protections Afforded to International Air Travelers and Governments in the Event of a Contagious Passenger and Proposals to Strengthen Them,
22 Journal of Law and Health 295 (2009)

Faceting the Future: The Need for and Proposal of the Adoption of a Kimberley Process-Styled Legitimacy Certification System for the Global Gemstone Market, 18 Journal of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems 353 (2009)

Regional Commons: An Assessment of the Impact of the Framework Convention and Kyoto Protocol on the Organization of American States and the Association of South East Asian Nations and Suggestions for the Role of Regionalism in International Environmental Law,
16 University of Baltimore Journal of Environmental Law 29 (2008)

Peer Pressure: Correlations Between Membership in Regional and Regional Economic Organizations and WTO Dispute Resolution Claims and Their Implications,
5 South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business 35 (2008)

Prostituting Peace: The Impact of Sending State’s Legal Regimes on U.N. Peacekeeper Behavior and Suggestions to Protect the Populations Peacekeepers Guard, 17 Florida State University College of Law Journal of Transnational Law and Policy 217 (2008)

Policing Against the State: United Nations Policing as Violative of Sovereignty,
10 San Diego International Law Journal 155 (2008)

They Fought for Trade But Did Trade Win?: An Analysis of the Trends Among Trade Disputes Brought By WTO Member States Before the WTO Dispute Resolution Body,
16 Michigan State Journal of International Law 315 (2007)

Presidential Powers Revisited: An Analysis of the Constitutional Powers of the Executive and Legislative Branches Over the Reorganization and Conduct of the Executive Branch,
44 Willamette Law Review 63 (2007)

Executive Parity: How the Structure of Executive Branches at the City, State, and Federal Level Impacts Presidents and Presidential Candidates,
7 Appalachian Law Journal 67 (2007)

Not All It’s Quacked Up To Be: Why State and Local Efforts to Ban Foie Gras Violate Constitutional Law,
12 Drake Journal of Agricultural Law 303 (2007)

Signed, Sealed, Delivered, and Then…: An Evaluation of the Correlation Between Policy Areas, Signing, and Legal Ratification of Organization of American States’ Treaties by Member States,
6 Richmond Journal of  Global Law & Business 1 (2006)

A Tale of Three Nations?: The role of United Nations peacekeepers and missions on the concept of nation-state, nationalism, and ownership of the state in Lebanon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kosovo,
21 Connecticut Journal of International Law 213 (2006)

Resurrection from Babel: The cultural, political, and legal status of Christian communities in Lebanon and Syria and their prospects for the future,
13 Tulsa Journal of Comparative & International Law 217 (2006)

Victims of Peace: Current Abuse Allegations against U.N. Peacekeepers and the Role of Law in Preventing Them in the Future,
12 ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law (2005)

Courthouses, Bookshelves and Portals: The Implications of U.S. v. American Library Association on First Amendment Forum Analysis and Future Internet-Based Litigational Strategies,
2 Oklahoma Journal of Law & Technology 27 (2005)