John F. Murphy (law professor)

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John F. Murphy
Born	1937
Nationality	United States
Known for	Law Professor

John F. Murphy is an American lawyer and a professor at Villanova University. He has written "International Law and the War on Terrorism: The Road Ahead". He has published multiple works on the intersection of international law and counter-terrorism.

Education

education

B.A.	1959	Cornell University
LL.B.	1962	Cornell University -- specialized in International law

Legal career

Murphy spent the year following earning his law degree participating in Syracuse University's Afro-Asia Public Service Fellowship Program working in India with the Indian government. Upon his return he spent a year working on Wall Street. He then spent 1964-1967 in the United States State Department's Office of the Legal Advisor.

He returned to private practice from 1967 to 1969.

In 1969 he took a teaching position at the University of Kansas School of Law. Since then he has taught at Cornell University, Georgetown University, the Naval War College and finally Villanova, in the United States. Outside the USA he has taught in Aix-en-Provence, London, Mexico City, Paris and Haifa.

Murphy has held positions of trust within professional organizations. For the American Barrister's Association he served as an Alternate Observer at the United States Mission to the United Nations and a member of its Council of the ABA's Section of International Law and participated in the Francis Shattack Security & Peace Initiative.

He served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and on the Socieity's Board of Review and Development.

He was an honorary Vice President of the American Branch of the International Law Association. He served as a consultant to a number of organizations, including the State Department, the United States Department of Justice, the United Nations Crime Prevention Unit and the International Task Force on Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism. He has served on the editorial boards of a number of legal journals.

In 2010 Murphy s employer, Villanova Univerity, held a symposium to honor his forty year tenure as a legal scholar.

Publications

• "The Virtues on Parade". Literary Licensing, LLC. 2012. ISBN 9781258336387. http://books.google.ca/books?id=nE5hLgEACAAJ&dq=%22John+F.+Murphy%22+OR+%22John+Murphy%22+%22law+professor%22+OR+villanova&source=bl&ots=VKO8zIKoyO&sig=uIMgd2hiRpg1g19SIyoP4O_66Es&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tUJWUOz0NrCQyQGYu4HIDg&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCA. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
• John F. Murphy (2004). "The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521529686. http://books.google.ca/books?id=Fs1egGhpSDUC&dq=%22John+F.+Murphy%22+OR+%22John+Murphy%22+%22law+professor%22+OR+villanova&source=gbs_navlinks_s. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
• John F. Murphy (2010). "The Evolving Dimensions of International Law: Hard Choices for the World Community". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521709231. http://books.google.ca/books?id=Ps_4ZOnejsQC&dq=%22John+F.+Murphy%22+OR+%22John+Murphy%22+%22law+professor%22+OR+villanova&source=gbs_navlinks_s. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
• John Francis Murphy (1985). "Punishing International Terrorists: The Legal Framework for Policy Initiatives". Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780847674497. http://books.google.ca/books?id=Ry9CXt4r9HgC&dq=%22John+F.+Murphy%22+OR+%22John+Murphy%22+%22law+professor%22+OR+villanova&source=gbs_navlinks_s. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
• John F. Murphy (1982). "Across the Western Ocean: French Strategy and Tactics from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Yorktown". Villanova University. http://books.google.ca/books?id=EgRQOAAACAAJ&dq=%22John+F.+Murphy%22+OR+%22John+Murphy%22+%22law+professor%22+OR+villanova&source=bl&ots=Q5nAXKejt3&sig=1_EfftyGMLJjpigFKWnIb0KsKYk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tUJWUOz0NrCQyQGYu4HIDg&ved=0CHwQ6AEwDg. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
• John F. Murphy (2007). "Mary's Immaculate Heart - The Meaning of the Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary". DODO Press. ISBN 9781406734096. http://books.google.ca/books?id=_PFBGVi4a3YC&dq=%22John+F.+Murphy%22+OR+%22John+Murphy%22+%22law+professor%22+OR+villanova&source=bl&ots=CcRpvQz1i0&sig=d403NIDRuZ0kDa123QNJVppm5KA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tUJWUOz0NrCQyQGYu4HIDg&ved=0CIUBEOgBMBA. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 
• John F. Murphy, Jr. (2005). "Seven Short Stories from the Criminal Court". iUniverse. ISBN 9780595341580. http://books.google.ca/books?id=NvAIPwAACAAJ&dq=%22John+F.+Murphy%22+OR+%22John+Murphy%22+%22law+professor%22+OR+villanova&source=bl&ots=EBbME-Cg-C&sig=vtM6C3IFRaMkUkA77jtN0mngzic&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tUJWUOz0NrCQyQGYu4HIDg&ved=0CLUBEOgBMBk. Retrieved 2012-09-16. 

1. The Evolving Dimensions of International Law: Hard Choices for the World Community, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 1- 274.
2. (With James D. Dinnage), The Consitutional Law of the European Union, Second Edition, Lexis Publishing, 2008, pp. 1-1209.
3. The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs. Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 367.
4. (With Alan C. Swan), The Regulation of International Business and Economic Relations. Second Edition, Lexis Publishing, 1999, pp. 1-1320. Documentary Supplement, pp. 1-600 (2000).
5. (With James D. Dinnage), The Constitutional Law of the European Union, Anderson Publishing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1996, pp. 1-705, January 1999 Supplement, pp. 1-327. Documentary Supplement, pp. 1-233 (1996). Instructor=s Manual, pp. 1-197 (1996).
6. Report of the Task Force on an International Criminal Court of the American Bar Association, American Bar Association, 1999, pp. 1-75.
7. (With Alan C. Swan) Supplement to the Regulation of International Business and Economic Relations, Matthew Bender, New York, 1995, pp. 1-120.
8. Nonviolent Responses to Violence-Prone Problems: The Cases of Disputed Maritime Claims and State-Sponsored Terrorism. Studies in Transnational Legal Policy, No. 22. American Society of International Law, 1991. Report of the Special Working Committee on Responses to State-Sponsored Terrorism, pp. 9-56.
9. (With Alan C. Swan), The Regulation of International Business and Economic Relations, Matthew Bender, New York, 1991, pp. 1-1148 (awarded the Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law in 1992). Documentary Supplement, pp. 1-430 (1991). Teacher's Guide for the Regulation of International Business and Economic Relations, pp. 1-424 (Matthew Bender, NY, 1992).
10. State Support of International Terrorism: Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1989, pp. Published in the United Kingdom by Mansell Publishing Limited. This book was prepared in my role as a consultant to the American Bar Association=s Standing Committee on Law and National Security and was approved for publication by the Committee.
11. Punishing International Terrorists: The Legal Framework for Policy Initiatives, Totowa, NJ, Rowman & Allanheld, 1985, pp. 136. This book also was prepared in my role as a consultant to the American Bar Association=s Standing Committee on Law and national Security and was approved for publication by the Committee.
12. The United Nations and the Control of International Violence; A Legal and Political Analysis. Totowa, NJ, Allanheld, Osmun & Co., 1983, pp. vii-xii, 212. Published in the United Kingdom by Manchester University Press. In 1983, for my work on this book, I received the Ethel and Raymond F. Rice Prize for Faculty Scholarship at the University of Kansas Law School.
13. Legal Aspects of International Terrorism: Summary Report of an International Conference. Studies in Transnational Legal Policy No. 19. St. Paul, MN; West Publishing Co. 1980, pp. 1-74.
14. (With Alona E. Evans) Editor and Contributor, Legal Aspects of International Terrorism, Lexington, MA, Lexington Books, 1978, pp. xvxxxviii, 695. This book represents the culmination of a project that began in the fall of 1975 when a working group of the American Society of International Law was convened under the direction of Professor Evans and myself in order to prepare a study for the Department of State. The report of the working group was submitted to the Department of State on September 1, 1977. The book is a revised, expanded, and updated version of that report. In addition to serving as co-director of the working group and as co-editor of the report and the book, I was a primary or sole author of the following parts of the book: the preface, pp. xv-xix; the acknowledgments section, p. xiii; the introduction, pp. xxiii-xxxviii; the chapter on AProtected Persons and Diplomatic Facilities,@ pp. 277-339; the chapter on AState Self-Help and Problems of Public International Law,@ pp. 553-73; and the appendix, which summarizes the conclusions and recommendations of the project and their support rationale, pp. 633-68. In 1979, for my work on this book, I received the Ethel and Raymond F. Rice Prize for Faculty Scholarship at the University of Kansas Law School.