Dan Joyner is a leading authority on matters of international trade and security law and policy, including financial sanctions, export controls, and foreign investment regulation. He is also a trusted authority with long experience on issues of nuclear energy law and nuclear security law, including matters of safety, security, liability, safeguards, and investment. Dan has developed a deep knowledge in these areas through decades of research, publications, and practice experience.
He has over twenty years of experience providing legal advice and training to sovereign states and private parties on legal and policy matters in these areas. He has also implemented multiple projects for the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Dan has been a law professor at the University of Alabama School of Law since 2007. Prior to that, he was on the faculty of the University of Warwick School of Law in the U.K. In 2005 he was a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, and has also taught courses as a visitor at the University of Manchester in the UK, and at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales in Australia. He is a frequent invited speaker at universities around the world.
Thought Leadership
Books (Monographs)
- “Iran’s Nuclear Program and International Law; From Confrontation to Accord” (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- “Interpreting the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty” (Oxford University Press, 2011)
- “International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction” (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Books (Edited Volumes)
- Co-Editor, “The Rights of States in International Law,” a special issue of the Cambridge Journal of International & Comparative Law, organized and edited with Marco Roscini (Volume 4(3) (2016))
- Co-Editor, “Nonproliferation Law as a Special Regime: a Contribution to Fragmentation Theory in International Law” (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- Editor, “Arms Control Law” (Ashgate, 2012)
- Co-Editor with Nathan Busch, “Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Future of Nonproliferation Policy” (University of Georgia Press, 2009)
- Editor, “Nonproliferation Export Controls: Origins, Challenges and Proposals for Strengthening” (Ashgate, 2006)
Articles
- The Fourth Era of International Trade Law (work in progress)
- “Disarmament is Good, but What We Need Now is Arms Control,” Indonesian Journal of International and Comparative Law (forthcoming 2023)
- “Why I Stopped Believing in Customary International Law,” Asian Journal of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
- “Fundamental Rights of States in International Law, and the Right to Peaceful Nuclear Energy,” Cambridge Journal of International & Comparative Law (2016)
- “Iran’s Nuclear Program and International Law,” Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2013)
- “Nuclear Power Plant Financing Post-Fukushima, and International Investment Law,” Journal of World Energy Law & Business (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Book Chapters
- “Strategic Trade Controls,” in Thilo Marauhn and Eric Myjer, eds., Research Handbook on Arms Control Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022)
- “United Nations Counter-proliferation Sanctions and International Law,” in Larissa van den Herik, ed., Research Handbook on UN Sanctions and International Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017)
- “Shared Responsibility Issues Arising in the Arms Control Law Area,” P.A. Nollkaemper and I. Plakokefalos, eds., The Practice of Shared Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
- “International Legal Limits on the Imposition of Economic/Financial Sanctions,” in Natalino Ronzitti, ed., Coercive Diplomacy, Sanctions and International Law (Brill, 2016)
- “Economic Sanctions and Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation,” in Ali Marossi, ed., Economic Sanctions Under International Law (TMC Asser Institute/Springer Press, 2015)
- “The Implications of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction for the Jus ad Bellum,” in Marc Weller, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2015)
- “The Legal Meaning and Implications of Article VI of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty,” in Gro Nystuen and Stuart Maslen, eds., Nuclear Weapons Under International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Presentations
- Lecture on the current crisis in international arms control law, University of Kyoto, Japan (by invitation of Professor Masahiko Asada) (March 18, 2023)
- Public lecture on the future of nuclear arms control and international law, University of Westminster, London (September 12, 2022)
- Panel presentation, “From Accord back to Confrontation: The Return of the Iran Nuclear Crisis,” International Law Association, American Branch, International Law Weekend Conference (October 23, 2020)
- Public lecture on the crisis in nuclear arms control law and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, University of Westminster, London (November 7, 2019)
- Keynote presentation at a workshop on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Bristol Law School, Bristol, UK (September 10, 2018)
- Presentation on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, National University of Ireland, Dublin (February 27, 2018)
- Presentation on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Vanderbilt University Law School (January 30, 2018)
- Presentation on the ILC’s 2011 Draft Articles on the Effects of Armed Conflicts on Treaties, Conference on International Investment Law and the Law of Armed Conflict hosted by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (October 5, 2017)
- Presentation on U.S. options for dealing with North Korea, Conference on advanced operational law, U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), Offut Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska (September 7, 2017)
- Presentation on Syrian Chemical Weapons Use and the U.S. Cruise Missile Response, University of Manchester Faculty of Law (May 9, 2017)
- Presentation on Syrian Chemical Weapons Use and the U.S. Cruise Missile Response, University of Ulster (May 3, 2017)
- Presentation on Syrian Chemical Weapons Use and the U.S. Cruise Missile Response, Irish Branch of the International Law Association, Trinity College, Dublin (May 2, 2017)
- Participated as an expert instructor in Amman, Jordan, on a three day training program for Jordanian government officials on strategic trade control law. Consultant under contract originating in the U.S. State Department. (November 6-8, 2016)
- Panel presentation, “Iran’s Nuclear Deal: One Year On” focused on the dispute concerning sanctions lifting under the JCPOA, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London (October 3, 2016)
- Presentation on the application of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to nuclear sharing agreements in Europe, Pugwash/SOAS Workshop, London (September 26, 2016)
- Presentation on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreed between Iran and the P5+1, Australian National University Faculty of Law (July 26, 2016)
- Participated as an expert instructor in Muscat, Oman, on a three day training program for Omani government officials on strategic trade control law. Consultant under contract originating in the U.S. State Department. (July 17-19, 2016)
- Presentation on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreed between Iran and the P5+1, University of Manchester International Law Centre (November 24, 2015)
- Presentation on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreed between Iran and the P5+1, Public International Law Discussion Group Series hosted by All Souls College, Oxford University (November 19, 2015)
- Panel presentation with Sir Richard Dalton and Peter Jenkins on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreed between Iran and the P5+1, University of Westminster, London (November 17, 2015)
- Paper presentation on international legal limits on the application of coercive economic sanctions by states and by the Security Council, Conference on United Nations Sanctions in the 21st Century hosted by the University of Leiden, the Netherlands (June 26, 2015)
- Public lecture on Iran’s nuclear program and international law, University of Perugia, Italy (by invitation of Professor Carlo Focarelli) (May 6, 2015)
- Lecture on Iran’s nuclear program and international law, University of Florence, Italy (by invitation of Professor Micaela Frulli) (May 4, 2015)
- Organized and hosted a workshop at the University of Alabama School of Law on the topic of the Rights of States in International Law, as part of a project leading to the publication of a special issue of the Cambridge Journal of International & Comparative Law on this topic. (April 13-14, 2015)
- Presentation on international legal limits on the application of coercive economic sanctions by states and by the Security Council, Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome, Italy (February 13, 2015)
- Panel presentation on the legal authority of the IAEA, International Law Association’s International Law Weekend hosted by Fordham University Law School, New York City (October 24, 2014)
- Presentation on international legal limits on the application of coercive economic sanctions by states and by the Security Council, Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome, Italy (October 11, 2013)
- Presentation on Iran’s nuclear program and international law, Program on Science and Global Security hosted by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University (October 19, 2013)
- Paper presentation on shared responsibility issues arising in the arms control law area, University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law and the Swedish National Defense University, Stockholm, Sweden (April 12, 2013)
- Paper presentation on Iran’s nuclear program and international law, International Law Forum Series hosted by Hebrew University, Jerusalem (April 9, 2013)
- Paper presentation with Ambassador Richard Butler (Former Head of UNSCOM) on Iran’s nuclear program and the nuclear nonproliferation legal regime, Conference on the U.S.-Iranian Relationship and the Future of International Order hosted by Penn State University (February 15, 2013)
- Paper presentation on international law relevant to sanctions purposed in WMD counterproliferation aims, Conference on embargoes and international sanctions hosted by the Faculté Libre de Droit, d’Economie et de Gestion de Paris, under the patronage of former U.N. Secretary General H.E. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (February 1, 2013)
Languages
Japanese
