The Faculty of Law is pleased to welcome our newest colleague, Umut Özsu, who joined the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law as an assistant professor in July 2011.

He holds a J.D. (2005) and LL.M. (2007) from the University of Toronto, and defended his S.J.D. dissertation, also at the University of Toronto, in June 2011. His pre-law training was in philosophy, a B.A. (First Class Honours) from the University of Alberta (2000) and an M.A. from the University of Toronto (2002).

Professor Özsu’s research interests lie principally in public international law, history and theory of international law, comparative legal studies, sociology of law, and critical legal theory. Specifically, he is interested in the international legal implications of nation-building and humanitarian intervention, a particular source of concern being the (relatively under-examined) experiences of states and regions on the “semi-periphery” of the international legal order. He also maintains a strong research interest in legal and political theories of state sovereignty. Professor Özsu’s doctoral dissertation concerned a crucial episode in the international legal history of nation-building – the post-First World War Greek-Turkish population exchange.

Professor Özsu is an elected member of the coordinating committee of the European Society of International Law’s International Legal Theory Interest Group. He is also a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, having articled at the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation, and General Workers Union of Canada (CAW-TCA Canada) in 2005-06. He will be teaching contracts and international law in 2011-12.

Get to know our new professor, read - An Interview with Professor Umut Ozsu.