Mark Gibney, J.D., Ph.D.
Mark Gibney, J.D., Ph.D.
Belk Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of Political Science
211 Zageir Hall
Phone: (828) 250-3870
Email: mgibney@unca.edu
On Leave Spring 2025
Mark Gibney is the Carol G. Belk Distinguished Professor at Ģý and an Affiliated Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund, Sweden. Professor Gibney has taught at Purdue University, the University of Copenhagen, Lund University (Sweden) and the University of Bergen (Norway). He is also a member of the Economic and Social Rights Group (ESRG), Human Rights Center at the University of Connecticut.
Since 1984, Gibney has directed the Political Terror Scale (PTS), which measures levels of physical integrity violations in more than 185 countries (). Professor Gibney is also one of the founding members of the Extraterritorial Obligations (ETO) Human Rights Consortium, which in November 2011 produced the Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (). His webpageis devoted to reviewing and analyzing human rights film.
In 2011 Gibney was recognized by the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association as a Distinguished Human Rights Scholar and in 2006 he received the International Human Rights Award from the North Carolina Coalition on Human Rights.
Education
- Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Michigan;
- J.D. Villanova University School of Law;
- BA in Political Science, Boston College
Courses Taught
- POLS 327: Constitutional Law
- POLS 330: Individual Rights and Civil Liberties
- POLS 331: Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy
- POLS 388: Human Rights and International Politics
Curriculum Vitae
Access Mark Gibney’s Curriculum Vita.
Professional Interests
- Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the Faculty of Law, Lund University, 2014-16
- Steering Committee and Founding Member, Extraterritorial Obligations (ETO) Human Rights Consortium, 2007-present
- Member of the Economic Rights Group (ERG), Human Rights Center, University of Connecticut, 2006-present
- Past-President, Human Rights Section, International Studies Association
- Past-President, Human Rights Section, American Political Science Association
Editorial Review Board,Human Rights Quarterly, 1987-present
Editorial Board,Journal of Human Rights, 2001-present
Editorial Board,International Studies Journal(Iran), 2004-present
Chair of the Board of Directors, Inclusive Development International (IDI), 201y-present
Board of Advisors, Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), 2018-present
Senior Editor, Routledge Series in Human Rights, 2018-present
Recent Publications
Selected Book Publications
- The Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations(edited volume with Gamze Erdem Turkelli, Markus Krajewski, and Wouter Vandenhole) (Routledge, 2022)
- International Law: Our Common Future(Routledge, 2020)
- Extraordinary Rendition: Addressing the Challenges of Accountability(edited volume with Elspeth Guild and Didier Bigo) (Routledge 2018)
- (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) (2d ed., 2015)
- (edited volume with Anja Mihr) (SAGE Publications, 2014)
- (edited volume with Wouter Vandenhole) (Routledge, 2014)
- (Paradigm Publishers, 2013)
- (with Sabine Carey and Steven Poe) (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
- (edited volume with Sigrun Skogly) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
- (2d ed.) (ABC-CLIO, 2010)
- The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past(Mark Gibney, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud and Niklaus Steiner) University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007
Selected Journal Articles
- “Human Rights and State Jurisdiction” (with Erik Roxström)Human Rights Review18:129-150. (2017)
- “Introduction to the Societal Violence Scale (SVS): Physical Integrity Violations and Non-State Actors,” (with Linda Cornett and Peter Haschke)Human Rights Quarterly38: 1102-1108 (2016)
- “Why States Repress: Evaluating Global Patterns of Abuse with the Political Terror Scale” (with Reed Wood and Peter Haschke)Peace and Conflict2016 Link to book:
- “The Downing of MH17: Russian Responsibility?”15: 169-178 (2015)
- “What a Pity!: Sovereign Immunity, State Responsibility and the Diminution of Accountability Under International Human Rights Law” (with Erik Roxström)11: 443-459 (2012)
- “Universal Duties: The Responsibility to Protect, the Duty to Prevent (Genocide) and Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations”Global Responsibility to Protect3:123-151 (2011)
- “The Political Terror Scale: A Re-Introduction and a Comparison with CIRI” (with Reed Wood)Human Rights Quarterly32:367-400 (2010)
- “Genocide and State Responsibility,”Human Rights Law Review7:760-773 (2007)
- “The NATO Bombing Case and the Limits of Western Human Rights Protection” (with Erik Roxström and Terje Einarsen)BostonUniversityInternational Law Journal23:55-136 (2005)
- “On the Need for an International Civil Court”The Fletcher Forumof World Affairs26:47-58 (2002)
- “Transnational Human Rights Obligations” (with Sigrun Skogly)24:781-98 (2002)
- “The Status of State Apologies,” (with Erik Roxstrom)Human Rights Quarterly23:911-39 (2001)
- “All the News That’s Fit to Print?: New York Times Coverage of Human Rights Violations” (with Steven Caliendo)The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics4:48-69 (1999)
- “Transnational State Responsibility for Violations of Human Rights” (with Katarina Tomasevki and Jens Vedsted-Hansen),Harvard Human Rights Journal12:267-96 (1999)
- “U.S. Refugee Policy: A Human Rights Analysis Update,” (with Vanessa Dalton and Marc Vockell)Journal of Refugee Studies, 5:36-46 (1992)
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