Benedict Kingsbury

Benedict William Kingsbury is Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University and a leading scholar in international law and diplomacy. He was recently also announced as a faculty instructor for the new NYU Law Institute for Executive Education. Born in Holland and raised in Hamilton, New Zealand he was a Rhodes Scholar in 1982, a commercial law graduate (LLB Honors) from Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand and a doctor of International Relations and Law at Balliol College, Oxford University. He lectured at Oxford University and Duke University prior to his New York University Law School appointment.

A leading academic on the rights of indigenous peoples in international law, his professional interests also include global administrative law, the history and theory of international law, and the international law of global governance.

His publications include two books edited with Sir Adam Roberts on the United Nations and Hugo Grotius.

Kingsbury is married to Vivian Lee, who was Senior Vice President for Health Sciences at the University of Utah, Dean of the University’s School of Medicine, and CEO of University of Utah Health Care from 2011 until her resignation in 2017.

What, How, and Who Should Public International Law Regulate? New Problems of Global Administrative Governance in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

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