Summer Program Professors

Professor Pfordresher, a native of Chicago, was born in 1943 and attended a parochial grade school there. He then attended St. Ignatius High School followed by Georgetown University (as a National Merit Scholar), where he earned a B.A. in 1965. In 1970 he completed work on a Ph.D. in English at the University of Minnesota (as an NDEA Title IV Fellow). He has taught at Georgetown University since 1973. He has published books on Tennyson and Matthew Arnold, has written essays on Dickens, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Anglophone writers in Italy, and for thirty years co-authored a highly successful series of secondary school literature textbooks. A lecturer for the Smithsonian Residents Associates Program and a former Director of the Commission on Literature for the National Council of Teachers of English, he has, since 1994, frequently taught courses for Georgetown students at the Villa le Balze in Fiesole.

Anthony Clark Arend is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. On July 1, 2008, he becomes the Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. With Professor Christopher C. Joyner, he founded the Institute for International Law & Politics at Georgetown and served as co-director of the Institute from 2003-2008. His is also an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to coming to Georgetown, he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He has also served as an Articles Editor for the Virginia Journal of International Law. 

Dr. Arend's teaching interests are in the areas of international law, international organization, international relations, international legal philosophy, and constitutional law of United States foreign relations. 

Dr. Arend received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Foreign Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs of the University of Virginia. He received a B.S.F.S., magna cum laude, from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Professor Joyner taught previously at George Washington University, the University of Virginia, Dartmouth College and Muhlenberg College and has been a senior research fellow with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Institute for Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He teaches courses on international law, US foreign policy, international organization, and global environmental regimes. Professor Joyner's research interests include human rights, economic sanctions, and legal issues affecting the Middle East, the United States and the United Nations, as well as the oceans and Antarctica. He has published extensively in law journals, among them the American Journal of International Law, Ocean Development and International Law, The International Lawyer, Natural Resource Journal, Harvard International Law Journal, Michigan Journal of International Law, and the Virginia Journal of International Law. Among his books are International Law in the 21st Century: Rules for Global Governance, Governing the Frozen Commons: The Antarctic Regime and Environmental Protection, Antarctica and the Law of the Sea, Eagle Over the Ice: The U.S. in the Antarctic, Reigning in Impunity for International Crimes (editor and contributor), The United Nations and International Law (editor and contributor), United Nations Legal Order (co-editor), Reining in Impunity for International Crimes, The Persian Gulf War (editor and contributor), and The Antarctic Legal Regime (editor and contributor). Formerly a senior editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law, Professor Joyner recently directed the American Society of International Law's Project on United Nations Legal Order, funded by the Ford Foundation. He served as Vice President of the Interantional Studies Association, Vice-Chair of the American Council on the United Nations and four times past Chair of the International Law Section of the International Studies Association. He also served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, as Chair of the International Law Association's Committee on Antarctica, and as a member of the ILA's Committee on the Law of the Sea. 

Professor Joyner is Co-Director of the Institute for International Law and Politics and oversees the Master's Degree in International Law and Politics in the Government Department.

Catherine Lotrionte is the Associate Director of the Institute for International Law and Politics and Visiting Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University.  In 2002, she was appointed by General Brent Scowcroft to be Counsel to the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory at the White House, a position she held until 2006. In 2002, she served as a Legal Counsel for the Joint Inquiry Committee of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.  Prior to that, Prof. Lotrionte was Assistant General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency.  At Georgetown, she also serves as an adjunct professor and teaches courses on intelligence law and international law.  Prof. Lotrionte earned her Ph.D. from Georgetown University and her J.D. from New York University and is the author of numerous publications, including an article on killing regime leaders published in The Washington Quarterly, entitled, “When to Target Leaders.” She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.