Jamie Mayerfeld

LAPA Visitor, 2006-2007
Former Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values
University of Washington

University of Washington, Department of Political Science, Box 353530, Seattle, WA 98195-3530
jasonm@u.washington.edu
phone: 609-258-2737
Website
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Jamie Mayerfeld is associate professor of political science at the University of Washington, where he holds an adjunct appointment in the Law, Societies & Justice program, and serves as Seattle campus advisor to the human rights minor. In his current book project he argues that constitutional democracy is incomplete unless domestic human rights institutions are bolted into a system of international guarantees. In developing this argument, he has written papers about the International Criminal Court, the origins of the US torture policy, and the justification of human rights. In 2000 he received a Human Rights Teaching Fellowship from Columbia Law School, and this year is a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton Center for Human Values. He is the author of Suffering and Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 1999).

Publications
"Playing by Our Own Rules: How the United States' Marginalization of International Human Rights Law Led to Torture," forthcoming in the Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 20 (Spring 2007).

"Ending Impunity, a Response to Larry May in Crimes Against Humanity," Ethics and International Affairs, vol. 20, no. 3 (September 2006), pp. 361-66.