Mortimer Sellers
University System of Maryland Regents Professor, & Director, Center for International & Comparative Law
A.B., summa cum laude, J.D., cum laude Harvard University, 1980, 1988
B.C.L., D.Phil., Oxford University, 1986, 1988
Expertise
Contact Information
Telephone: (410) 837-4650 CICL: (410) 837-4532
Room Number: LC 202
E-mail
Administrative Assistant: Laurie Schnitzer, (410) 837-4689, (on campus x4689), LC 300
Courses Taught
Mortimer Sellers is the director of the School of Law's Center for International and Comparative Law. Dr. Sellers has written numerous books and articles on international law, constitutional law, legal history, and jurisprudence. He is the co-editor of the Cambridge University Press book series ASL Studies in International Legal Theory and editor of the Springer Verlag book series Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice.
Prior to joining the faculty in 1989, Mortimer Sellers practiced law in Philadelphia, served as clerk to the honorable James Hunter III of the Unted States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and studied as a Rhodes Scholar and Frank Knox Fellow at University College, Oxford.
Professor Sellers is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and United States Supreme Court bars.
Selected Publications
Books
Republican Principles in International Law: The Fundamental Requirements of a Just World Order. Palgrave Macmillan (2006)
Republican Legal Theory: The History, Constitution and Purposes of Law in a Free State. Palgrave Macmillan (2003)
The Sacred Fire of Liberty: Republicanism, Liberalism and the Law (Macmillan, 1998) (Extract)
American Republicanism: Roman Ideology in the United States Constitution (Macmillan, 1994)
The Internationalization of Law and Legal Education (editor, Springer with Jan Klabbers, 2008)
Autonomy in the Law (editor, Springer 2007)
Universal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World (editor, Rowman & Littlefield with David Reidy, 2005)
The New World Order: Sovereignty, Human Rights, and the Self Determination of People (editor, Berg 1996)
An Ethical Education: Community and Morality in the Multicultural University (editor, Berg 1994)