Lesley Wexler University of Illinois College of Law 504 E. Pennsylvania, Champaign, IL 61820 (c) 312-399-3490 lmwexler@illinois.edu ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE University of Illinois College of Law Professor of Law 2011-present Thomas A. Mengler Faculty Scholar 2010-2013 Associate Professor of Law 2010-2011 Courses: Torts, Laws of War, International Environmental Law Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Faculty Affiliate 2014- present Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, & International Security Core Faculty 2010- present Foundation for Defense of Democracies Academic Fellow Summer 2012 Florida State University College of Law Assistant Professor of Law 2006-2010 Courses: Torts, Laws of War, Labor, Employment Discrimination Loyola University (Chicago) School of Law Spring 2008 Visiting Professor of Law Courses: Labor, Employment Discrimination University of Chicago Law School 2004-2006 Harry A. Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law Courses: Laws of War, Legal Research and Writing EDUCATION University of Chicago Law School, J.D. with honors 2002 University of Chicago Legal Forum, Articles Editor Chicago Journal of International Law, Associate Editor Research assistant, Professor Cass Sunstein University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, B.A. in English Literature with honors 1998 Debate Team: 1st place Dartmouth Round Robin, 1st place University of Southern California Round Robin, and top seed, third speaker, and semifinalist at National Debate Tournament Honors Thesis: Compassion & Conversion: Chaucer, Shakespeare, & Marlowe PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE Law clerk Judge Thomas Reavley, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit 2003-2004 Judge William Wayne Justice, United States District Court 2002-2003 Summer Associate Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC 2002 Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, Washington, DC and Chicago, IL 2001 1
PUBLICATIONS International Humanitarian Law Divergence, 42 PEPPERDINE L. REV. (forthcoming 2015) (invited for The Future of National Security symposium issue). Foreign Life Valuation, 49 GA. L. REV. 500 (2014) (co-author Arden Rowell). International Humanitarian Law Transparency, 23 FSU J. TRANSNAT L L. & POL Y 93 (2014) (invited for New Frontiers in the Laws of War symposium issue). The Role of the U.S. Judicial Branch during the Long War: Drone Courts, Damage Suits and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests in APPLYING INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW IN JUDICIAL AND QUASI-JUDICIAL BODIES (ed. Derek Jinks 2014). Extralegal White Washes, 61 DEPAUL L. REV. 201 (2013) (invited for Wal-Mart vs. Dukes: Class Action Rollback conference). The Vietnamization of the Long War on Terror, 30 BOSTON U. INT L L. J. 575 (2012) (invited for Laws of War and Afghanistan conference). Wal-Mart Matters, 46 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 95 (2011). Litigating the Long War on Terror, 9 LOYOLA U. INT L L. REV. 159 (2011) (invited for The Laws of War: International Conflict and the Global War on Terror symposium). Beyond Literacy: Response to Tom Ginsburg s The Political Economy of the Pashtunwali 2011 U. CHI. LEGAL F. 115 (invited for Governance and Power symposium). Regulating Resource Curses, 31 CARDOZO L. REV. 1717 (2010). The Promise and Limits of Local Human Rights Internationalism, 37 FORDHAM URBAN L. J. 599 (2010) (invited for Cooper-Walsh Colloquium). Passive Discrimination, 76 U. CHI. L. REV. 801 (2009) (co-authors Jonathan Klick & Jonah Gelbach); (partial version available as) Passive Discrimination, LEGAL WORKSHOP.ORG (U. CHI. L. REV. June 22, 2009); (partial version available as) A Formal Model of Passive Discrimination, LEGAL WORKSHOP.ORG (U. CHI. L. REV. Aug.10, 2009). Response: Richard Epstein, Oh Lord, Save Us from Title VII, A Response to Gelbach, Klick, and Wexler, LEGAL WORKSHOP.ORG (U. CHI. L. REV. June 22, 2009). Rejoinder: Oh Lord, Save Us from Richard Epstein, LEGAL WORKSHOP.ORG (U. CHI. L. REV. Feb. 22, 2010) (co-authors Jonathan Klick & Jonah Gelbach). Human Rights Impact Statements, 22 GEO. IMM. L. J. 285 (2008) (invited). The Non-Legal Role of Human Rights Law in Addressing Immigration, 2007 U. CHI. LEGAL FORUM 439 (invited). Bringing International Law the Long Way Home: Subfederal Integration of Unratified and Unimplemented Treaty Law, 28 MICH. J. INT L L. 1 (2006). 2
Limiting the Precautionary Principle: Regulation of Depleted Uranium Weapons in the Face of Uncertainty, 39 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 101 (2006). Girls Hold Up Half the Sky: Using Norm Based Debiasing and Economic Incentives to Combat Daughter Discrimination in China, 7 CHI J. INT L L. 79 (2006). The International Deployment of Shame, Second-Best Responses and Norm Entrepreneurship: The Campaign to Ban Landmines and Landmine Ban Treaty, 20 ARIZ. J. INT L & COMP. L. 561 (2003). Note, Tribal Court Jurisdiction in Dissolution-Based Custody Proceedings, 2001 U. CHI. LEGAL F. 613. BOOK REVIEWS AND SHORT ESSAYS Committing to the Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict, THE GUARDIAN, Global Development Professional Network Blog (June 19, 2014). Filtering Management and Human Rights Paradigms through Regional Consultative Processes, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 106TH ANNUAL MEETING (AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW) (2012) (invited). BOOK REVIEW: STEPHANIE CARVIN, PRISONERS OF AMERICA S WARS: FROM THE EARLY REPUBLIC TO GUANTANAMO (2010) in 30 L. & HIST. REV. 283 (2012) (invited). A Tribute to Professor Steven Gey, 38 FLORIDA ST. U. L. REV. i (2011). BOOK REVIEW: THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (eds. David Leary & Balakrishna Pisupati 2010) in 1 J. ENV. STUD. & SCI. 265 (2011) (invited). BOOK REVIEW: War or Justice and Other Hard Choices After September 11 in 39 TEX. INT L L. J. 697 (2004) (reviewing GEORGE P. FLETCHER, ROMANTICS AT WAR: GLORY AND GUILT IN THE AGE OF TERRORISM (2002)). WORKS IN PROGRESS Foreign Life Valuation Symposium: Introduction and Conclusion (co-author Arden Rowell) (forthcoming University of Illinois Online Law Review) Foreign Disaster Valuation (co-author Arden Rowell) Counting Civilian Casualties Civil Society Weapon Campaigns Is International Humanitarian Law Humanitarian? Unnecessary Suffering: Understanding the Humanitarian Origins of the Laws of War 3
PAPER PRESENTATIONS Counting Civilian Casualties Women in International Law workshop, Duke Law School (anticipated May 2015). Regional Colloquium on Globalization of Law, International Organizations, and International Law, Northwestern School of Law (May 2014). Research Colloquium, American Society of International Law midyear conference (Oct. 2013). International Humanitarian Law Divergence Symposium, The Future of National Security Law, Pepperdine School of Law (Apr. 2014). Valuing Foreign Disasters Symposium, Conference on Societal Risk Management of Natural Hazards, University of Illinois (Apr. 2014). Drone Courts, Damages Suits, and FOIA requests Illinois State University, International Humanitarian Law Speakers Series (Sept. 2013). Law & Society Association, Annual Meeting (May 2013). Valuing Foreign Lives Symposium, Society for Environmental Law & Economics, Ramat Gan, Israel (May 2013). Regional Colloquium on Globalization of Law, International Organizations, and International Law, Wisconsin Law School (May 2013). Research Colloquium, American Society of International Law midyear conference (Oct. 2012). Extralegal White Washes Colloquia in Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law, Northwestern School of Law (Oct. 2012). Wal-Mart vs. Dukes: Class Action Rollback, DePaul School of Law (Feb. 2012). Regional Consultative Processes Immigration Panel, American Society of International Law annual conference (Mar. 2012). Is International Humanitarian Law Humanitarian? Junior Faculty Workshop, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law (May 2011). International Law Workshop, University of Georgia School of Law (Apr. 2011). Faculty presentation, Indiana University School of Law (Feb. 2011). Faculty exchange, Chicago-Kent School of Law (Nov. 2010). Big Ten Junior Law Professors, Indiana University School of Law (Aug. 2010). Junior International Law Society Association, Hastings School of Law (Feb. 2010). Prawfsfest! Blog Conference, Florida State University College of Law (Apr. 2009). Wal*Mart Matters Junior International Law Society Association, Boston University School of Law (July 2010). Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting (June 2010). The Promise and Limits of Local Human Rights Internationalism Cooper-Walsh Colloquium, Fordham University School of Law (Oct. 2009). 4
White Collar Arms Races: Revisiting the Work-Life Balance Debate Southeastern Atlantic Law Schools Annual Conference (Aug. 2009). Colloquia in Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law, Thomas Jefferson Law School (Oct. 2008). Regulating Resource Curses Faculty presentation, University of Illinois School of Law (Nov. 2009). Legal Scholarship Workshop, University of Chicago School of Law (Nov. 2009). Law and Society Annual Conference, University of Denver (May 2009). Prawfsfest! Blog Conference, University of Miami Law School (Dec. 2008). Faculty presentation, University of Florida School of Law (Sept. 2008). Legal Scholarship Workshop, University of Chicago School of Law (Nov. 2007). Sokol Colloquium on International Law, University of Virginia School of Law (May 2007). Passive Discrimination Midwest Law and Economics Association, Northwestern Law School (Oct. 2008). Colloquia in Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law, University of Colorado & the University of Denver Law Schools (Sept. 2007). Human Rights Impact Statements Faculty presentation, Loyola University (Chicago) School of Law (Apr. 2008). New Voices in Human Rights, American Association of Law Schools annual meeting (Jan. 2008). Immigration Symposium, Georgetown School of Law (Oct. 2007) video available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=417. The Role of International Law in Addressing Immigration Southeastern Atlantic Law Schools Conference (July 2007). Junior International Law Scholars Conference, Yale School of Law (Mar. 2007). Prawfsfest! Blog Conference, University of Miami (Dec. 2006). Legal Scholarship Workshop, University of Chicago School of Law (Nov. 2006). Legal Forum Symposium, University of Chicago School of Law (Oct. 2006). Allowing Girls to Hold up Half the Sky Student Presentation, Asia Law Society, Florida State University School of Law (Feb. 2007). Faculty presentation, Loyola University (Chicago) School of Law (Aug. 2006). Asia Law Society, University of Illinois Law School (Apr. 2006). Bringing International Law the Long Way Home Student Presentation, Environmental Law Society, University of Chicago Law School (May 2006). Limiting the Precautionary Principle Legal Scholarship Workshop, University of Chicago School of Law (Nov. 2005). Faculty Presentation, University of Chicago Law School (July 2005). 5
OTHER ACADEMIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS Panelist, DePaul Law Review Symposium, DePaul Law School (anticipated Mar. 2015). Panelist and Moderator, Private International Norm Making, University of Pennsylvania International Law Journal (Nov. 2014). Speaker, Looking at Structural Discrimination through the Lens of Gender Discrimination: Perspectives from Academics & Advocates, Human Rights Legal Advocacy Clinic, Fordham Law School (Oct. 2014). Roundtable Participant, What Do We Know about the Impact of International Initiatives in the Transparency and Accountability Field?, Transparency and Accountability Initiative (Sept. 2013). Commenter, International Organizations brown bag, American Society of International Law (Dec. 2012). Discussant, Emerging Issues in International Trade, Development, and Aid, Research Colloquium, American Society of International Law midyear conference (Oct. 2012). Moderator, Issues for the Blue Ribbon Commission on America s Nuclear Future, University of Illinois (Oct. 2011). Panelist, Deepwater Horizon: One Year Later, Southeastern Atlantic Law Schools Conference (July 2011). Panelist, What Can Blogging Do to Build the Academic Community, Southeastern Atlantic Law Schools Conference (July 2011). Commenter, Alissa Kaplan s Democracies under Stress: Civil Liberties and Human Rights Norms under Persistent Security Threat, 2nd Regional Colloquium on Globalization of Law, International Organizations and International Law (May 2011). Debater, What Should the U.S. Do with Al-Alauqi?, Laws of War symposium, Loyola University (Chicago) School of Law (Feb. 2011). Commenter, Michael Heaney s Why Is There No Coffee Party?, Legal Forum s Governance and Power symposium, University of Chicago Law School (Oct. 2010). Commenter, David Gartner s Monopoly of States, International Organizations brown bag, American Society of International Law (Oct. 2010). Panelist, International Employment and Labor Law panel, Junior International Law Scholars Conference, Temple University School of Law (Jan. 2009). INTERNAL PRESENTATIONS University of Illinois Speaker, What Are the Effects of Windsor, OUTLAW (Sept. 2013). Speaker, International Human Rights Treaties, Human Rights Outreach, Center for Global Studies (July 2013). Speaker, Social Movements and Social Change, OUTLAW (Apr. 2013). Commenter, Piracy and University Jurisdiction, Federalist Society (Jan. 2013). Valuing Foreign Lives, Program in Arms Control Disarmament and International Security (Sept. 2012). Debater, Has the PATRIOT Act Limited Our Civil Liberties, Federalist Society & ACLU student group presentation (Apr. 2012). Whitewashing as an Extra Legal Response, brown bag faculty workshop (Feb. 2012). Moderator, The Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Waste Permitting, Program in Arms Control Disarmament and International Security (Oct. 2011). Commenter, The War on Coal, Environmental Law Society presentation (Sept. 2011). Representing the Laws of War in Chinese Movies, joint law school and Asian Studies department presentation (Apr. 2011). 6
Is International Humanitarian Law Humanitarian, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (Apr. 2011). Law, Norms, and Social Change: A Tale of Two Cultures, joint law school and Asian Studies department presentation (Jan. 2011). Moderator: The Future of Behavioral Law and Economics panel, University of Illinois School of Law (Nov. 2010). Chevronizing the Laws of War, Faculty brown bag lunch (June 2010). Commenter on Thomas S. Ulen s The Role of Law in Economic Growth and Development, Faculty retreat (May 2010). Florida State University Faculty workshop (2008, 2007, 2006). Know Your Rights: GLBT law in Florida, Outlaw student group (2012, 2010, 2009). Supreme Court Preview, American Constitution Society (2009, 2008, 2006). SERVICE Conference Organization Co-Organizer with International Committee of the Red Cross, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, and Center for Global Studies, International Humanitarian Law for Graduate Students, University of Illinois College of Law (Feb. 2015, Feb 2014). Co-Organizer with Rob Sloane and Moderator, Unmanned Vehicles, Characterization of Conflict, and Covert Operations, Laws of War and Afghanistan conference, Boston University School of Law (Oct. 2011). University of Illinois College of Law Chair: Awards Committee Spring 2015 Member: Appointments Committee Spring 2015 Chair: Tenure and Promotion Committee 2013-2014 Member: Awards Committee 2013-2014 Chair: Curriculum Committee 2012-2013 Member: Executive Committee 2012-2013 Chair: Fellowships & Visiting Professor Appointments Committee 2011-2012 Coach: International Environmental Law Competition Spring 2012 Member: Appointments Committee 2011-2012 Member: Fellowships & Visiting Professor Appointments Committee 2010-2011 Co-Organizer: Faculty Retreat 2010-2011 University of Illinois Chair: Licensing Advisory Committee 2015-present Member: Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security 2013-2014 Hiring Committee Member: Licensing Advisory Committee 2013-present Florida State University College of Law Member: Clerkships Committee 2010-2011 Coach: National Security Moot Court Competition Spring 2010 Member: Appointments Committee 2008-2009 7
Media and Public Engagement Contributor, Human Rights at Home Blog 2014- present Speaker, Center for Global Studies Teach-Ins 2013- present Topics focus on contemporary international issues Quoted on laws of war, national security issues, and employment discrimination in ABC Springfield, La Presse, Mother Jones, Tallahassee Democrat, WICS.com, and WILL Radio Outside Reviewer for Aspen Publishing, Cariplo Foundation, Corporate Governance: An Institutional Review, Hart Publishing, Journal of Applied Philosophy, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and Oxford University Press Background Information Provider for Brennan Center for Civil Liberties, Mother Jones, and New York Times Service to the Profession International Center for Advocates against Discrimination, Board of Directors 2013- present American Society of International Law, member 2006- present American Constitution Society, member 2006- present Junior International Legal Scholars Association 2006-2011 Maryland Bar Association, member 2002-present 8