José Alvarez comes to Pace Law School as a visiting scholar from Columbia Law School, where he is the Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy. He is also the founder and director of Columbia’s Center on Global Legal Problems.

Professor Alvarez was in private practice at Shea & Gardner from 1982 to 1983 and then served as an attorney-adviser, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser, from 1983 to 1988. He has taught at Georgetown University Law Center, George Washington University, National Law Center, the University of Michigan Law School, and Columbia University.

He serves on the Board of Editors for the American Journal of International Law and the Journal of International Criminal Justice and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Department of State Advisory Committee on International Law. Professor Alvarez is also president-elect of the American Society of International Law.