About

Dr. Malcolm Jorgensen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. He holds a PhD in International Law and American Foreign Policy from the University of Sydney, which has been published as American Foreign Policy Ideology and The International Rule of Law: Contesting Power through the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press, 2020; Foreword by Prof. Anthea Roberts). He is an Associate Researcher at the Chair of Public Law and Public International Law, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Associate of the Sydney Centre for International Law, Sydney Law School. During his doctoral studies Malcolm was resident at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, where he was a Research Associate and Lecturer. He has previously served as a Judge’s Associate in the Supreme Court of Queensland and as an Assistant Director in the Legal Division of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Jointly with Prof. Christian Marxsen (Humboldt University of Berlin), he is the recipient of a two year VolkswagenStiftung grant for a comparative international legal policy project investigating states' foreign policy approaches towards the international legal order. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming 'Elgar Encyclopedia of Law and Diplomacy'.