Professor of Law

Professor Isaak Dore is a globally recognized scholar on international law and the philosophy of law. While his earlier scholarship focused on public international law and international commercial arbitration, his most recent research has expanded in the direction of law and philosophy.

Born in Zambia, Professor Dore holds multiple law degrees from Yale University, where he obtained a LL.M and JSD, from the University of Zambia School of Law, where he obtained a LL.B and LL.M, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Orleans, France. Dore is fluent in French and speaks four Indian and two African dialects.

Before coming to Saint Louis University School of Law in 1982, Dore served as a Human Rights Officer, and later as a Special Consultant, to the United Nations Division of Human Rights. One of his principal assignments was to compile a study of U.N.-sponsored laws and treaties on discrimination.

As a faculty member at Saint Louis University Law School for more than two decades, Dore was instrumental in establishing its Center for International and Comparative Law and served as Co-Director of the Center for almost ten years. He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the Saint Louis-Warsaw Transatlantic Law Journal, but resigned both posts to allow more time for research. He is the author of six books, dozens of scholarly articles, reviews, chapters and is constantly presenting his work around the globe. He teaches regularly at several universities in France.

In addition to his Doctorate honoris causa, Professor Dore's many accolades include being named Distinguished Visiting Professor in Argentina at the National University of Tucuman, and the International Biographical Center in Cambridge, England, selected him as one of the 2,000 “Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century.”