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KEVIN L. COPE
University of Michigan • Department of Political Science • 5700 Haven Hall • 505 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045 • klcope@umich.edu • (202) 215-4796 • www.kevinlcope.com
EDUCATION
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Ph.D., Political Science Student, 2014–Present; Subfields: World Politics, (Quantitative) Methods
• First-year Advisory Committee: James D. Morrow, Barbara Koremenos
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
LL.M., International Law Focus, Dean’s List & With Distinction (highest academic honor), 2012
Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL
J.D., 2004, Dean’s List
• Associate Editor, Northwestern University Law Review
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
B.A., Honors Curriculum, cum laude & with Honors in the Liberal Arts, Political Science, 2000
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Michigan Grotius Research Scholar, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI (2014–
Present)
Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC (2013–
14)
Visiting Scholar & Lecturer, Lecturer, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA
(2012–Present)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, VA
(2012–13)
Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, Oxford, United Kingdom (Summer 2012)
OTHER TRAINING
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), Summer 2015 (upcoming)
• Empirical Modeling for Theory Evaluation, with Robert J. Franzese
• Advanced Game Theory, with James D. Morrow
Society for Empirical Legal Studies, Workshop on Research Design for Causal Inference, Northwestern
University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, June 2015 (upcoming)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Summer Methods Programme, London, UK,
August 2012 (Certificate in Quantitative Research Methods and Linear Regression Analysis)
GRANTS & AWARDS
First-year Rackham Fellowship, University of Michigan (2014–15)
‘CALI’ award (best course paper) in three seminars, Georgetown University Law Center (2011–12)
President’s Leadership Award, The Ohio State University (2000)
National Merit Scholarship, National Merit Foundation (1995)
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PUBLICATIONS
Works in Progress:
Strategic Bargaining Over Human Rights Agreements (with James D. Morrow)
This project seeks to understand the politics behind international human rights agreements.
Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that small states are disproportionally influential in
setting international standards. To test this and other conjectures, we build a dataset based
on the travaux preparatoires of the nine principal human rights treaties concluded since World
War II. We use formal modeling and quantitative analysis to model the strategic interactions
among states.
Measuring Non-Tariff Trade Barrier Substitution Under the WTO (with Yilang Feng)
As the GATT/WTO framework has made imposing tariffs more costly, alternative
protectionist measures have become relatively attractive. If members gradually move to these
alternative policies, which GATT/WTO regulates less effectively, the institution’s
liberalizing effect might dissipate overtime. In this study we attempt to model this
phenomenon and measure it empirically.
National Legislatures and International Politics, in THE POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (Wayne
Sandholtz & Christopher Whytock eds., forthcoming 2015 as part of Edward Elgar’s Research
Handbooks in International Law series)
In this chapter, I draw a roadmap for identifying how the political factors associated with
national legislatures interact with international law. This analysis may reveal that certain
variations in domestic and international politics can help to explain how national legislatures
shape some aspects of states’ international legal behavior.
Recent & Forthcoming:
Comparative International Law in National Legislatures, in COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL LAW
(Anthea Roberts et al. ed., forthcoming Oxford University Press 2015) (with Hooman
Movassagh)
Congress’s International Legal Discourse, 113 MICHIGAN L. REV. 1115 (2015)
Reconceptualizing Recognition Uniformity, in FOREIGN COURT JUDGMENTS AND THE U.S. LEGAL
SYSTEM (Paul Stephan ed., Brill 2014)
Lost in Translation: The Accidental Origins of Bond v. United States, 112 MICHIGAN L. REV. (FIRST
IMPRESSIONS) 133 (2014)
South Sudan’s Dualistic Constitution, in THE SOCIAL & POLITICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CONSTITUTIONS
(D.J. Galligan et al. eds., Cambridge University Press 2013)
The Intermestic Constitution: Lessons From the World’s Newest Nation, 53 VIRGINIA J. INT’L L. 667
(2013)
OTHER WRITINGS & MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS
‘Constitutions,’ in INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SOCIAL & BEHAVIOR SCIENCES (2d ed.
Elsevier 2015) (with Mila Versteeg)
South Sudan’s Constitutional Bait-and-Switch, in JURIST – Forum (Feb. 14, 2014)
The Threat to U.S. Federalism and Foreign Relations that Surprised Everyone, in THE SUMMIT: GEO. J.
INT’L L. ONLINE (Feb. 7, 2014)
‘In Sickness and in Health: The Constitution Should Give Americans the Right to Basic Health
Care’, in SLATE, The Hive: How Can We Fix the Constitution? (June 12, 2012) (with Mila Versteeg)
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Defending the Ivory Tower: A Twenty-First Century Approach to the Pickering-Connick Doctrine and Public
Higher Education Faculty After Garcetti, 33 J. COLLEGE & UNIV. LAW 313 (refereed journal)
(2007)
The Lost Generation: How the Government and Non-Governmental Organizations Are Protecting the Rights of
Orphans in Uganda (with Jeanne Caruso), 7 HUMAN RIGHTS REV., issue 2 (2006)
Comment, Sutton Misconstrued: Why the ADA Should Now Permit Employers To Make Their Employees
Disabled, 98 NORTHWESTERN U.L. REV. 1753 (2004)
Book Note, Conscientious Development: Profiles in Success, 12 J. OF AFFORD. HOUS. & COMMUNITY
DEV. LAW 161 (2003)
The Landlord Library, Founder, Director, and Chief Editor (1997)
TEACHING
Law of Treaties, University of Virginia School of Law (Spring 2015)
Appellate Litigation Clinic, University of Virginia School of Law (2012–14)
Federal Judicial Process, University of Virginia School of Law (Spring 2013)
International Law I: Introduction to International Law, Georgetown University Law Center
(Summer 2013)
Introduction to Contracts, Georgetown University Law Center (Spring 2014)
Transnational Law (required first-year course), Washington and Lee University School of Law (Fall
2012)
International Law in U.S. Politics: Directed Research, Washington and Lee University School of
Law (Fall 2012)
INVITED TALKS & PRESENTATIONS
Panelist: Georgetown Journal of International Law Symposium—World Cops Without World Courts: The
Role of the United States in Shaping Public International Law, Georgetown University Law Center,
Washington, DC, April 2015
Guest Speaker: Congress’s International Legal Discourse, University of Southern California, Faculty
Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, March 2015
Guest Lecturer: National Legislatures and International Law, Universidade Federal Santa Catarina &
Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil, November 2014
Panelist: Symposium on Constitution-Making and Constitutional Design, Boston College Law School,
Chestnut Hill, MA, October 2014
Panelist: Comparative International Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Sokol Colloquium,
Charlottesville, Virginia, September 2014
Panelist: Bond and the Separation of Powers, Hosted by the University of Virginia Federalist Society,
Charlottesville, Virginia, April 2014
Panelist: Does Congress Use International Law?, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC,
March 2014
Panelist: Advancing the Rule of Law in East Africa, Regent University Center for Global Justice,
Human Rights, and the Rule of Law Symposium, Virginia Beach, Virginia, February 2014
Supreme Court Mock Panelist: Bond v. United States (Chemical Weapons Convention case) Moot,
Supreme Court Institute, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, October 2013
Panelist: Transnational Constitutionalism Willamette University College of Law, Comparative
Constitutional Law Symposium, Salem, Oregon, February 2012
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OTHER PRESENTATIONS & PANELS
Presenter: Congress’s International Legal Discourse, Georgetown University Law Center, Faculty
Workshop, Washington, DC, August 2014
Presenter: International Law in National Legislatures, 3rd Annual Conference of the Young
Comparativists Committee, American Society of Comparative Law, Lewis & Clark Law School,
Portland, Oregon, April 2014
Selected Paper Author: Elective International Law in Congress, American Society of International Law,
International Law in Domestic Courts Interest Group Annual Workshop, Yale Law School,
New Haven, Connecticut, December 2013
Presenter: Elective International Law in Congress, Washington and Lee University School of Law,
Faculty Workshop, Lexington, Virginia, October 2013
Commentator: Presented oral critique of David Fontana’s paper, Government by Location, First
Annual Montpelier Roundtable in Comparative Constitutional Law, Orange, Virginia, October
2013
Presenter: International Law in Congress, University of Virginia School of Law, Summer Faculty
Workshop, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 2013
Panelist: Federalism, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Judgments Panel, University of Virginia School of
Law, Sokol Colloquium on Private International Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 2013
Panelist and Presenter: The Intermestic Constitution, Law & Society Association 2012 International
Conference on Law and Society, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2012
Presenter: Dualistic Constitutionalism in Sub-Saharan Africa, University of Oxford Foundation for Law,
Justice and Society Workshop, The Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions, University of
Oxford, December 2011
Rapporteur: Presented oral critique of Willem Witteveen’s essay, The Constitution Behind the
Constitution: Two Frames for Europe, University of Oxford Foundation for Law, Justice and
Society Workshop, The Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions, University of Oxford,
September 2011
ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS & ACTIVITIES
American Political Science Association, Member, 2014–Present
American Society of International Law, Member, 2013–Present
American Society of Comparative Law, 2013–Present, Membership Advisory Group Member,
Younger Comparativists Committee, 2013–14
Notre Dame Law School/National Association of College & University Attorneys Journal of College
& University Law, Peer Reviewer, February 2012–Present
Law & Society Association, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, Member, 2012–
Present
Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), Cornell University Law School, Member, 2011–Present
UNIVERSITY & DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Admissions Committee Member, University of Michigan Political Science Department, 2014–15
Member and Washington and Lee representative, Supervisory Committee, American Bar
Association International Law in U.S. Politics national law school consortium
University Senate Member, The Ohio State University, 1999–2000
University Senate Fiscal Committee Member, The Ohio State University, 1998–99
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LEGAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Washington, DC
Judicial Clerk to the Honorable George W. Miller, Judge, 2010–11
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, El Segundo, California
Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judge, 2008–09
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, DC
Government Enforcement Litigation Associate, 2006–08
• Handled matters involving the World Bank, investigations into business practices of a multinational corporation, a Togolese asylum petitioner, and the U.S. Constitution
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio
Judicial Clerk to the Honorable James S. Gwin, District Judge, 2005–06
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Chicago, Illinois
Labor & Employment Litigation Associate, 2004–05
COMPUTER SKILLS
LaTeX, R, STATA
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