Andrei Mamolea
Assistant Professor of International Relations
Andrei Mamolea is a historian of international law and politics, specializing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His research challenges the widespread notion that the United States was the driving force behind the development of international law during this formative period. He is currently revising a book manuscript on the role of sovereigntism and the pursuit of freedom of action in the US approach to international law between 1880 and 1945. His next book project examines the history and politics of international law and regional integration in Latin America since independence
Mamolea is currently a fellow at the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. He runs the Boston area History of International Law colloquium together with Aimee Genell.
Prior to joining the Pardee School, Mamolea held fellowships at the University of Copenhagen, McGill University Faculty of Law, and the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. He has an AB from Cornell University, a JD from Duke University School of Law, and a PhD from the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies. At Boston University, he teaches courses on international law and international relations history.
Professor Mamolea’s specializations include international law, the laws of war, international criminal law, international arbitration, comparative international law, U.S. exceptionalism, hierarchy and inequality in international politics, the United States in the world, the international history of the Americas, and trans-Atlantic history.
