Professor Jean Galbraith

Jean Galbraith is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law. She teaches and writes about public international law and U.S. foreign relations law. Her research focuses on the structure of international legal institutions, especially treaty regimes, and the connections between these institutions and U.S. domestic law. Prior to joining the Penn faculty, Galbraith was an Assistant Professor of Law at Rutgers-Camden. She has previously served as an associate legal officer for Judge Theodor Meron at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, an associate at Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin in Philadelphia, and a Sharswood Fellow in Law and International Affairs at Penn Law. Galbraith received her BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and her JD from Berkeley Law School. She clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice John Paul Stevens at the Supreme Court of the United States.