David G. Victor
David G. Victor
Professor;
Director, Laboratory on International Law and Regulation
david.victor@ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-534-3254
Fax: 858-534-3939
9500 Gilman Dr., 0519
La Jolla, CA 92093
Office #1405
Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997 (political science)
A.B., Harvard University, 1987 (history and science, cum laude)
Biography
David Victor is a professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and director of the School’s new Laboratory on International Law and Regulation. Looking across a wide array of issues from environment and energy to human rights, trade and security, the Laboratory explores when (and why) international laws actually work.
Most recently, Victor served as director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where he was also a professor at Stanford Law School. Previously, he directed the science and technology program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York, where he directed the Council's task force on energy, co-chaired by Jim Schlesinger and John Deutch, and was senior adviser to the task force on climate change, chaired by governors George Pataki and Tom Vilsack. Victor’s research at Stanford and the Council examined ways to improve management of the nation's $50 billion strategic oil reserve, strategies for managing investment in “geoengineering,” and a wide array of other topics related to technological innovation and the impact of innovation on economic growth. His research also examined global forest policy, global warming, and genetic engineering of food crops.
For more information, please visit Victor's personal site.
