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Karen Alter Karen Alter, (Ph.D. MIT), Associate Professor of Political Science, specializes in international relations theory, international organizations, international law, and European integration and politics. Her current research investigates how the creation of international courts changes the influence of international law, and how international courts influence international politics more generally. Alter is currently writing two books, one that creates a typology to compare the nineteen existing international courts, and one titled The Transformation of International Law that uses the steel industry as a vehicle to understand to how global political and economic changes have contributed to the creation of enforceable international rules to regulate trade, and how the political influence of these rules changed when they became enforceable through the European Union, NAFTA and the WTO. Alter has been a German Marshall Fund and a Howard Foundation research fellow. Her research has also been supported by the DAAD and France’s Chateaubriand fellowship. She has been a visiting scholar at the American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University’s School of Law, Harvard University's Center for European Studies, and Harvard Law School. She is author of Establishing the Supremacy of European Law: The Making of an International Rule of Law in Europe (2001), which includes France as one of its cases, and numerous articles and book chapters on the European Union's legal system. Alter is on the editorial board of European Union Politics, and the executive committee of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA). Fluent in Italian, French and German, Alter has been twice a visiting scholar at CERI as well as a visiting scholar at Sciences Po.
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