Expertise: Public international law, humanitarian law, human rights law, national security law

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Senior Fellow

Derek Jinks joined the University of Texas School of Law faculty in the Fall of 2005. His primary research and teaching interests are public international law, humanitarian law, and human rights law. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas in 1991, M.A. and M.Phil. in sociology from Yale University in 1998 and 1999 respectively, and J.D. from Yale Law School in 1998. After law school, he clerked for Judge William C. Canby, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked in the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He has also worked as Senior Legal Advisor and United Nations Representative for the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre in India; and served in the delegation of the International Service for Human Rights at the Rome conference for the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court. Since 2006, he has been a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law.

Strauss Fellows work with UT Law students to develop Supreme Court argument

Selected Research:

• The Rules of War: The Geneva Conventions in the Age of Terror, Oxford University Press, 2008
• Socializing States: Promoting Human Rights through International Law, with Ryan Goodman, Oxford University Press, 2008
• "Disregarding Foreign Relations Law," Yale Law Journal, 2007

Selected Commentary:

• "Leading University of Texas Law School Clinic Assists with Arguments to be Heard by US Supreme Court in Landmark Guantanamo Bay Detainee Case," Business Wire, Dec 2007
• "UT Launches National Security and Human Rights Clinic," University of Texas School of Law, Sep 2007
• "Blind Justice: From Austin to Gitmo," Austin Chronicle, Sep 2007