International Studies
Gil Gott, J.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
990 West Fullerton Ave, Suite 4111
773.325.4548
ggott[at]depaul.edu
TEACHING INTERESTS
International Law and Global Social Justice, Social Movements, Critical Media Studies and International Affairs, Critical Race Theory
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Critical Security Studies, Race and Foreign Affairs Law, Critical Race Theory, International Legal Theory
COURSES TAUGHT
INT 150 – Global Connections
LSP 200 – Civil Rights on Film
INT 201 – Nations and Nationalism
INT 202 – International Conflict and Cooperation
INT 203 – International Movements of the 20th and 21st Centuries
INT 301 – Senior Seminar
INT 366 – International Law and Global Social Justice
EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D., 1994 (German)
University of Illinois, J.D., 1987 (Law)
University of Oregon, M.A., 1986 (German)
Coe College, B.A., 1981 (Economics and German)
PUBLICATIONS
(with Sumi Cho) The Racial Sovereign in Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality, ed. Austin
Sarat, 182-227 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
The Devil We Know: Racial Subordination and National Security Law, Villanova Law
Review 50, 1073-1133 (2006).
Imperial Humanitarianism: History of an Arrested Dialectic, in Moral Imperialism: A Critical
Anthology, ed. Berta Hernandez Truyol, 19-38 (New York: New York University Press,
2003).
Identity and Crisis: The Critical Race Project and Postmodern Political Theory, University of
Denver Law Review 78, 817-854 (2001).
Critical Race Globalism?: Global Political Economy, and the Intersections of Race, Nation and
Class, UC Davis Law Review 33, 1503-1518 (2000).
Blind to Difference: International Law and Migration, 93 American Society of International
Law Proceedings, 212 (2000).
A Tale of New Precedents: Japanese American Internment as Foreign Affairs Law 40 Boston
College Law Review, 179-274 (1999).
SYLLABI
INT 203 - International Social Movements in the 20th and 21st Centuries