Jean-Marc Coicaud joined Rutgers University in the fall of 2011. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Law and Global Affairs, Rutgers School of Law, State University of New Jersey, USA. In addition, Dr. Coicaud is a Fudan Distinguished Chair Professor at Fudan Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (Shanghai, China) and Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Centro Internacional de Globalización y Desarrollo (CIGLOB) (Santiago, Chile).

Dr. Coicaud will talk about global challenges especially for justice and security under international law.

See our guest speaker bio here: In 2015 Dr. Coicaud was elected a member to the European Academy of Sciences (Academia Europaea).

Jean-Marc Coicaud holds a Doctorat d’État in Legal and Political Theory from the Institut d’Études Politiques of Paris and a Ph.D. in Political Science-Law from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was an Arthur Sachs Scholar and a Lavoisier Scholar at Harvard University, where he studied as a fellow from 1986 to 1992, at the Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy, and Harvard Law School. Dr. Coicaud also holds a Master’s degree in Public Law (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) and undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy, literature, and linguistics. Jean-Marc Coicaud is a native French speaker and is fluent in English and Spanish. He also studied Mandarin at National Taiwan Normal University (advanced level). His other languages are Italian, Portuguese, and some Japanese.

From 2011 to 2016 Dr. Coicaud was Professor and Director of the Rutgers University Division of Global Affairs, a pluri-disciplinary graduate programme (political science, international relations, economics, sociology, history, philosophy, anthropology, law) bringing together Ms. and Ph.D. students. Prior to joining Rutgers, he served as the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City from 2003 to 2011. From 1996 to 2003, he was Senior Academic Officer and Director of Studies at the UNU Headquarters in Tokyo, leading international research projects in the fields of international law, international organizations, human rights, international ethics, and international relations. Prior to joining UNU, from 1992 to 1996, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General (UN Headquarters) as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali. In the spring of 1996, he also served as an advisor in the Guatemalan Office of the UN Department of Political Affairs. Dr. Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee).

During the 2017-2018 academic year, while on sabbatical from Rutgers School of Law, Jean-Marc Coicaud was a Distinguished Fudan Scholar at Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences, Fudan University (Shanghai, China). In the spring of 2013, he served as the Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, USA). He has also been a Visiting Professor at the École Normale Supérieure-Ulm (Paris, France), Chuo Law School (Tokyo, Japan), and the Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law (San Juan, Puerto Rico) and has taught at the New School for Social Research (New York City, NY, USA). In addition, he has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C., USA), a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law (New York, NY, USA), and a Visiting Scholar at the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). Finally, he has been a Visiting Scholar at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae and Center for Political Thought (Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences) of the Academia Sinica, and Taiwan National University College of Law (Taipei, Taiwan).

Jean-Marc Coicaud has published 16 books (single-authored, co-authored and co-edited) and over 100 chapters and articles in the fields of legal and political theory, international law, international relations, and comparative politics. His books are available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic and include the following: Conversations on Justice: from National, International and GlobalPerspectives: Dialogues with Leading Thinkers (with Lynette E. Sieger, Cambridge University Press, 2019); Emotions in International Politics. Beyond Mainstream International Relations (with Yohan Ariffin and Vesselin Popovski, Cambridge University Press, 2016); Fault Lines of International Legitimacy (with Hilary Charlesworth, Cambridge University Press, 2012); Mai Xiang Guo Ji Fa Zhi (Towards the International Rule of Law – Sanlian Shudian, 2008);  Kokuren no Genkai/Kokuren no Mirai (Future of the UN/Limits of the UN – Fujiwara Shoten, 2007);  Beyond the National Interest: the Future of UN Peacekeeping and Multilateralism in an Era of U.S. Primacy (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007); Legitimacy and Politics: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002); L’introuvable démocratie autoritaire (L’Harmattan,1996).

Dr. Coicaud has lectured extensively throughout the world, including Chile (Naval War Academy), China (Beijing University, Institute of International Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University), France (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, École Polytechnique, Institut d’Études Politiques), Hungary (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Italy (European University Institute), Japan (Chuo University, Keio University, Waseda University), Taiwan (Institutum Iurisprudentia/Academia Sinica, National Taiwan Normal University), the United Kingdom (Cambridge University, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Oxford University), and the United States (Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, Rand Corporation, University of California at Berkeley, University of Southern California, Columbia University, U.S. War College).

Jean-Marc Coicaud serves on the advisory board of Global Policy Journal (London).

Dr. Coicaud last book, The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy, is forthcoming in spring 2025 with Cambridge University Press. The book brings together international law, philosophy and history. Coicaud is now working on a new book, under contract with Oxford University Press. The book focuses on the global political economy. Its working title is Globalization: From Past and Present to Future