Prof. Alejandro Rodiles

Alejandro Rodiles is Professor of International Law and Global Governance at ITAM School of Law, in Mexico City. Previously, he held the Chair of International Law at Friedrich Schiller University, in Jena, Germany. He has been a visiting professor at El Colegio de México, a lecturer at UNAM, and a research fellow at Humboldt University Berlin. Prior to his academic career, Rodiles worked at Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Relations, including in the Mexican Mission to the United Nations, in New York, and at the Policy Planning Staff of the Foreign Minister. Rodiles is an affiliated professor at NYU’s Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) and an associate fellow of the Berlin-Potsdam Research Group (KFG) International Law – Rise or Decline? He is a member of the international advisory panel of the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Fourth – The Foreign Relations Law of the United States. His book Coalitions of the Willing and International Law (CUP 2018) was awarded the 2019 ESIL Book Prize. His research focuses on the relation between international law and global governance, on law and resilience, global security law, comparative international law, foreign relations law, in particular Mexican foreign relations law, the regulatory and ordering potentials of infrastructures, and more recently on the future of law in the planetary era.