Academic Leadership

The programme is directed by Dr Anthony F Lang, Jr., who also directs the Centre for Global Constitutionalism. Professors Jill Harries from the School of Classics and Nicholas Rengger from the School of International Relations constitute the Board for the Programme. The programme is fully interdisciplinary in character, drawing on the acknowledged expertise and resources of the Schools of International Relations and Classics. Other schools within the University will be available for specific areas of research, as appropriate.

Dr Anthony F Lang, Jr., School of International Relations

Anthony F Lang, Jr is a senior lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, where he directs the Centre for Global Constitutionalism. He has taught at the American University in Cairo, Yale University, Bard College, and Albright College and served as a program officer at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. His research and teaching focus on international political theory. He has written two book, Agency and Ethics: The Politics of Military Intervention (SUNY 2002) and Punishment, Justice, and International Relations: Ethics and Order after the Cold War (Routledge 2008), and edited or co-edited five others. He has also published a number of articles and book chapters on political responsibility, the just war tradition, Hugo Grotius, punishment, humanitarian intervention, and international political theory. His current interests include the relevance of the American constitution for understanding the global constitutional order, natural law in international relations theory and practice, Middle East constitutionalism, and the political thought of Hugo Grotius.

Professor Jill Harries, School of Classics

Jill Harries is Professor of Ancient History in the School of Classics.   She is a graduate of the University of Oxford and came to St Andrews in 1976.   She was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard (1973-4), a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (1996-97) and Bird Exchange Fellow at Emory University (2003).   Her research interests cover various aspects of the Roman Empire and focus particularly on Roman law and legal culture, including questions concerning the relationship of rules, custom and convention, the efficacy of law and the enforcement of law.  Her books include Law and Empire in Late Antiquity (Cambridge UP 1998), Cicero and the Jurists (Duckworth 2006) and Law and Crime in the Roman World (Cambridge UP 2007), as well as numerous articles and chapters in books.

Professor Nick Rengger, School of International Relations

Prior to joining St Andrews, Professor Rengger taught at the University of Bristol and has had held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Southern California.

His general fields of interest include contemporary political philosophy, the history of ideas, international political thought, ethics and jurisprudence. His most recent book, written with two colleagues, is International Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War (Cambridge 2002). He is currently completing a study of moral evaluation and war, entitled The Judgement of War, and also working on a series of essays on scepticism and civility in modern thought. He has an abiding interest in the legacy of classical antiquity for modern ideas and especially for the classical resonances of much modern political and ethical thought. This interest led him to develop the Programme with Professor Smith.