Orde Kittrie
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Orde Félix Kittrie is a Professor of Law at Arizona State University (ASU) and Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Professor Kittrie was recipient of the 2006-2007 Centennial Professor of the Year award at ASU, a university-wide honor presented in recognition of outstanding teaching inside and outside of the classroom.
Professor Kittrie is a leading expert on legal issues relating to nuclear nonproliferation. In April 2008, Professor Kittrie was appointed to a National Academies of Science committee created by Congress (in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008) to issue a report, in time for the next Administration, assessing and making recommendations to improve current U.S. government programs to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Also in April 2008, Professor Kittrie testified before a United States Senate Finance Committee hearing on S. 970, the Iran Counterproliferation Act. In February 2008, Kittrie wrote a chapter for a report produced by the National Academies of Science, in coordination with the Russian Academy of Sciences, entitled The Future of the Nuclear Security Environment in 2015. Professor Kittrie’s chapter describes and analyzes several critical legal issues that must be successfully managed if future U.S.-Russian nuclear security cooperation is to be maximized. In 2005, Kittrie served on the National Academies of Science committee which produced with the Russian Academy of Sciences a joint report entitled Strengthening US-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation, for which Kittrie wrote the chapter on legal obstacles and opportunities. Kittrie serves as chair of the Nonproliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association and chair of the Nonproliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Committee of the American Society of International Law.
Prior to 2004, Kittrie worked for eleven years at the United States Department of State. For three years, Kittrie served as an attorney specializing in trade controls, in which capacity he was a principal drafter of U.N. Security Council Resolutions, U.S. Executive Orders, and U.S. regulations imposing and implementing embargoes on terrorism-supporting and other outlaw regimes. After that, Kittrie served for three and a half years as a State Department attorney specializing in nuclear affairs. In that capacity, Kittrie participated in negotiating five nuclear non-proliferation agreements between the United States and Russia and served as counsel for the U.S. Government's sanctions and other responses to the 1998 Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests. Kittrie also helped negotiate at the United Nations the Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (a treaty designed to thwart terrorist acquisition, use or threat of use of nuclear material). He has written extensively in the areas of international law, criminal law, nuclear non-proliferation, and international negotiations.[1]
