John Burroughs

Position: 
Executive Director, Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
Areas of Expertise: 
India-U.S. nuclear deal and its effect on Pakistan's nuclear program and negotiations on a ban on production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons
Personal Website: 
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
Notable Publications/Publishers: 

"Recommended UN Security Council Actions to Advance Nuclear Disarmament" (July, 2009),
Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security? U.S. Weapons of Terror, the Global Proliferation Crisis, and Paths to Peace (2007)

John Burroughs is executive director of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy in New York (www.lcnp.org). Dr. Burroughs represents LCNP in Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review proceedings and the United Nations.  He is co-editor of Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security? U.S. Weapons of Terror, the Global Proliferation Crisis, and Paths to Peace (2007).

He has published articles in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the World Policy Journal. An interview with Dr. Burroughs, "The Disarmament Debate: The Fate of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty," is in the Harvard International Review, Summer 2005.

He is co-editor of Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties (2003), and author of The Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the Historic Opinion of the International Court of Justice (1998). He also is an adjunct professor of international law at Rutgers Law School, Newark.