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Nationality
  
United States

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Law Professor


Name
  
John Murphy

Role
  
Author

Books
  
The United States and the rule of, The Evolving Dimensio, The constitutional law of the, State support of internatio, Cases and Materials on the Re

John F. Murphy is an American lawyer and a professor at Villanova University. He is a widely cited author. He has published multiple works on the intersection of international law and counter-terrorism.

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Murphy spent the year following earning his law degree participating in Syracuse University's Afro-Asia Public Service Fellowship Program working in India with the Indian government. Upon his return he spent a year working on Wall Street. He then spent 1964-1967 in the United States State Department's Office of the Legal Advisor.

He returned to private practice from 1967 to 1969.

In 1969 he took a teaching position at the University of Kansas School of Law. Since then he has taught at Cornell University, Georgetown University, the Naval War College and finally Villanova, in the United States. Outside the USA he has taught in Aix-en-Provence, London, Mexico City, Paris and Haifa.

Murphy has held positions of trust within professional organizations. For the American Bar Association he served as an Alternate Observer at the United States Mission to the United Nations and a member of its Council on International Law and participated in the Francis Shattack Security & Peace Initiative.

He served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and on the Society's Board of Review and Development.

He was an honorary Vice President of the American Branch of the International Law Association. He served as a consultant to a number of organizations, including the State Department, the United States Department of Justice, the United Nations Crime Prevention Unit and the International Task Force on Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism. He has served on the editorial boards of a number of legal journals.

In 2010 Murphy's employer, Villanova University, held a symposium to honor his forty-year tenure as a legal scholar.

Publications

  • John F. Murphy (2004). The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521529686. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
  • John F. Murphy (2010). The Evolving Dimensions of International Law: Hard Choices for the World Community. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521709231. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
  • John Francis Murphy (1985). Punishing International Terrorists: The Legal Framework for Policy Initiatives. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780847674497. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
  • James Dinnage, John Francis Murphy (2008). The constitutional law of the European Union: Documentary supplement. LexisNexis Matthew Bender. ISBN 9781422424001. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
  • Alan C. Swan, John Francis Murphy (1991). Cases and materials on the regulation of international business and economic relations: documentary supplement. Matthew Bender. ISBN 9780820500577. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
  • James D. Dinnage, John Francis Murphy (1996). The Constitutional Law of the European Union: Instructor's Manual. Anderson Publishing Company. ISBN 9780870842559. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
  • John F. Murphy (1989). State Support of International Terrorism: Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions. Westview Press. ISBN 9780720120158. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
  • John Francis Murphy (1983). The United Nations and the Control of International Violence: A Legal and Political Analysis. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719009426. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
  • Alona E. Evans, John Francis Murphy, ed. (1978). Legal aspects of international terrorism, Part 3. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780669021851. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 

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