Eugene Kontorovich

Eugene Kontorovich is a Senior Legal Fellow at Advancing American Freedom. He is also a professor at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia School of Law, specializing in constitutional and international law. Prior to George Mason, he had been a professor at Northwestern University School of Law for eleven years. Before coming to AAF, he had been a senior policy fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and the head of the international law department at the Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem (where he remains a senior scholar). 

He testifies regularly before Congress, and is called on to advise legislators, diplomats, and cabinet members in the U.S., Israel, and Europe on questions pertaining international law and diplomacy. He has also been acknowledged as a thought leader behind numerous policy initiatives and legislation in the U.S. and Israel. 

Prof. Kontorovich is the author of dozens of academic articles in the leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals. His scholarship has been cited in leading international law cases in the U.S. and abroad. He is also a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal. His essays and op-eds have also appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, National Review, City Journal, Tablet, and many other leading publications. 

He attended college and law school at the University of Chicago and later taught there. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.