Tonya Putnam (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2005, J.D. Harvard 2002) researches topics at the intersection of international relations and international law. Currently her primary focus involves explaining the conditions under which U.S. courts have exercised extraterritorial jurisdiction to regulate transnational disputes involving private parties and its implications for the origins and enforcement of rules in the international system. She has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University and a Fellow and longtime affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Professor Putnam is also a member of the California State Bar.

Research interests: international law, human rights, laws of war,‘rule of law’ and institutional-building in transitional settings.

Recent Publications

Professor Putnam is on leave for the 2011-12 academic year.