Orde Kittrie

Orde Félix Kittrie is a tenured professor of law at Arizona State University, where his teaching and research focus on international law (especially nonproliferation and sanctions) and criminal law. He has written extensively in the areas of international law, criminal law, nuclear non-proliferation, and international negotiations. Kittrie is also the director of ASU's Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Washington Legal Externship Program. Kittrie was recipient of the 2006-2007 Centennial Professor of the Year award at ASU, a university-wide honor presented in recognition of outstanding teaching inside and outside of the classroom. He has published articles in the University of Michigan Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Syracuse University Law Review, University of Michigan Journal of International Law, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, and Case Western Journal of International Law.

Kittrie has published articles in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and The National Interest Arms Control Today,

Kittrie is an expert on legal issues relating to nuclear nonproliferation. Kittrie has testified on nonproliferation issues before both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. In February 2008, Kittrie wrote a chapter for a report produced by the National Academies of Science, in coordination with the Russian Academy of Sciences, entitled The Future of the Nuclear Security Environment in 2015. Kittrie’s chapter describes and analyzes several critical legal issues that must be successfully managed if future U.S.-Russian nuclear security cooperation is to be maximized. In 2005, Kittrie served on the National Academies of Science committee which produced with the Russian Academy of Sciences a joint report entitled Strengthening US-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation, for which Kittrie wrote the chapter on legal obstacles and opportunities.

A Mexican-American, Kittrie is active in the Latino community, including service in 2006 as President of the Hispanic National Bar Association’s Southwest Region. Kittrie was also named by Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education as one of the United States’ four most notable Hispanic professors of international law. In 2006, he received the Dr. Manuel Servin Faculty Award (2006) from the Chicano Faculty/Staff Association of Arizona State University (an annual award to one faculty member for exemplary mentorship, scholarship and service to the Hispanic community).