David Gartner

Associate Professor David Gartner’s article, “Foreign Relations, Strategic Doctrine and Presidential Power,” was published in the Alabama Law Review.

The article offers a third option to the debate over whether the president inherited great power from the founders of the country or that there was a significant shift in the balance of power over foreign relations after World War II. Gartner contends that the president gained significant power during the decade after the Spanish-American War.

To read the paper, click here.

Gartner teaches constitutional law, international institutions, foreign relations law and global health law and policy. His current research focuses on the role of innovative international institutions and non-state actors in shaping international law and the response to global challenges in areas such as global health, development, education and the environment. He is a Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining the faculty, Gartner was a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Program in Ethics and Health.