Geoffrey Swenson is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Politics at City, University of London, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His current research focuses on issues related to post-conflict reconstruction, democracy and the rule of law, legal pluralism, and foreign aid. Geoffrey has held fellowships at Oxford, LSE, Stanford, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously, he was an in-country program manager for the Asia Foundation in Timor-Leste and Nepal and the founder of Stanford Law School's Timor-Leste Legal Education Project. Geoffrey completed a DPhil in International Relations at Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar and won the Winchester Prize for most outstanding thesis. He holds an MA from Queen's University Belfast as a Mitchell Scholar, and a JD from Stanford Law School. Geoffrey's research has been published in leading journals including International Security, World Development, and the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. He is also the author of Contending Legal Orders, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2022.