Highlights
- Professor Carlson is currently working with faculty and staff from several university departments and colleges to organize a symposium on Energy and Climate Change in the Midwest. The Symposium will be held at The University of Iowa, October 16-17, 2009.
- Professor Carlson's recent publications include: "Reflections on a Problem of Climate Justice: Climate Change and the Rights of States in a Minimalist International Legal Order," 18 Transnat'l Law & Contemp. Prob. 45 (2009) and "International Environmental Law, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice" in Recalibrating the Laws of Humans with the Laws of Nature: Climate Change, Human Rights, and Intergenerational Justice, Appendix A, Background Paper No. 8 (Vermont Law School & The University of Iowa 2009)
Jonathan C. Carlson
Senior Associate to the President of the University and Professor of Law & International Studies
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BA, McGill University, 1976
JD, University of Chicago, 1979 - Email jonathan-c-carlson@uiowa.edu
- Phone 319-335-1759 (president's office)
- Office 101 Jessup Hall
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Professor Carlson is currently serving as Senior Associate to the President of the University.
An honors graduate of the University of Chicago School of Law where he served as Topics and Comments Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review, Professor Carlson began his legal career clerking for Judge Alvin B. Rubin of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Thereafter, he entered private practice with the Washington, DC law firm of Patton, Boggs & Blow. He also served as Adjunct Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America School of Law.
Professor Carlson joined the faculty of the College of Law in 1983. His teaching and scholarship focus on international trade and commercial law, international environmental law, and the law of global climate change. He is the author of several law review articles and is a co-author of International Environmental Law and World Order: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook and co-editor of International Law and World Order: Basic Documents (Transnational Publishers, 5 vols., 1994--).
Professor Carlson frequently lectures abroad, and in Fall 2006 he served as the Fullbright/FLAD Distinguished Chair in International Commercial Trade and Business Law at Portuguese Catholic University in Lisbon. He is a member of the Bars of Iowa and the District of Columbia.