John Burroughs, J.D., Ph.D., Fellow

John Burroughs is a Senior Analyst and the former Executive Director of the New York-based Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP) and Director of the United Nations Office of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA). As a specialist on treaty regimes and international law relating to nuclear and other non-conventional weapons, he has been a valuable source of legal information for The Simons Foundation Canada on the issues pertaining to nuclear disarmament.

Dr. Burroughs is also an Adjunct Professor of International Law at Rutgers Law School, New Jersey. In 1998, he represented the LCNP at negotiations taking place in the International Criminal Court in Rome, and in 1995, he was the Nongovernmental Legal Coordinator at the hearings on nuclear weapons before the International Court of Justice.

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See below for selected articles and publications by John Burroughs.

 

Related Materials
"Building Blocks for Nuclear Ban Treaty: NPT & Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice" - Inter Press Service News Agency, November 2 2020
"Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review: A Call to Nuclear Arms" - The Simons Foundation Nuclear Disarmament Briefing Paper, February 26 2018
"Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review Is a Dangerous Step Backward" - Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, February 3 2018
“We Can’t Attack North Korea. It’s Against the Law” - Newsweek, November 30 2017
"Despite assurances, only Trump stands between peace, nuclear war" - The Hill, November 21 2017
“A Transformational Moment in Nuclear & International Affairs?” - IPS News Agency, April 4 2017
"Changing the Landscape: The UN Open-Ended Working Group on Nuclear Disarmament" - The Simons Foundation Nuclear Disarmament Briefing Paper, October 5 2016
"Legal aspects of general and complete disarmament" contribution to: "Rethinking General and Complete Disarmament in the Twenty-first Century" - UNODA Occasional Papers – No. 28, October 2016
"Looking Back: The 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice" - Arms Control Today, July/August 2016
"Strange Spectacle: Nuclear Security Summit 2016" - statement by Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy - April 2, 2016
"Legal Gap or Compliance Gap?" by John Burroughs and Peter Weiss - Arms Control Today, October 2015
"International Humanitarian Law Versus Nuclear Weapons" - Disarmament Times, Winter 2013
"International Humanitarian Law" - Chapter by John Burroughs in "Unspeakable suffering: the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons" - Reaching Critical Will, February 2013
"International Law and Modernization" - in "Assuring destruction forever: nuclear weapon modernization around the world" - Reaching Critical Will, March 2012
"The Vancouver Declaration and the Humanitarian Imperative for Nuclear Disarmament" - Nuclear Abolition Forum, No. 1, 2011
"The U.S. Nuclear Posture Review and International Law" - Michigan International Lawyer, Summer 2010
"Reaching Nuclear Disarmament" - Chapter 11 of "Beyond Arms Control" - Reaching Critical Will, March 2010