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Alec Stone Sweet

Alec Stone Sweet is an American political scientist and jurist. He is Professor and Chair of Comparative and International Law at The University of Hong Kong. He works in the fields of comparative and international politics, comparative and international law, international arbitration and human rights.

Prior to moving to HKU, he was the Saw Swee Hock Centennial Professorship at NUS, and held chaired professorships at the Yale Law School, the Yale Department of Political Science, and Nuffield College, Oxford. He has also held visiting appointments at the Columbia Law School, as well as in universities in Aix-en-Provence, Bologna, Florence, Hong Kong, Leiden, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Stockholm, Sydney, and Vienna.

Research Areas: International Law and Politics, Comparative Law and Politics, International Arbitration and Human Rights.

He has published thirteen books, ten with Oxford University Press, including the most recent: 

  • Proportionality Balancing and Constitutional Governance: A Comparative and Global Approach (2019).
  • A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Kant, Constitutional Justice, and the European Convention on Human Rights (2018).
  • The Evolution of International Arbitration: Judicialization, Governance, Legitimacy (2017). 

Curriculum vitae