Ian Hurd
Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
Ian Hurd is Professor of Political Science and President of the Faculty Senate at Northwestern University. He is the director of the International Studies program and was the founding director of the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies.
His research is on international law and politics, including on the international rule of law, international order, and the United Nations and other international organizations. His textbook International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice, now in its fifth edition, is a standard in college courses on international politics.
He has been chair of the International Organization section of the International Studies Association and a visiting scholar at the American Bar Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, WZB-Berlin, Sciences Po in Paris, and elsewhere. He is a frequent contributor to media on current events.
