Dr. Bart M.J. Szewczyk (SHEF-chick) is a senior associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP in Washington, DC and an adjunct professor of international law at The George Washington University Law School. He is a member of the Executive Council at the American Society of International Law, term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, fellow at the Truman National Security Project, member of the European Society of International Law, and international editor of the Polish Yearbook of International Law.

Prior to returning to WilmerHale, Bart clerked for Vice-President Peter Tomka and Judge Christopher Greenwood at the International Court of Justice in The Hague (2008-2009) and for Judge Leonard I. Garth at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2007-2008). He was also a visiting fellow at the E.U. Institute for Security Studies, where he conducted research on the legitimacy of the Bonn Powers in Bosnia, and a consultant in the United Nations Office of Strategic Planning, where he worked on internal reforms related to the 2005 World Summit Outcome.  During graduate and law school, Bart also completed internships in the Office of European & NATO Policy and Office of Strategy at the Department of Defense, the Office of President Theodor Meron at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, and the legal department at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

He has published or has forthcoming publications in the American Journal of International Law, Harvard International Law Journal, Columbia Journal of European Law, Polish Yearbook of International Law, & Cambridge Review of International Affairs.  He also advised through a pro bono project for the Atlantic Council on the NIC-EUISS joint report Global Governance 2025: At a Critical Juncture (Sept. 2010).

Bart received a BS in economics from Penn in 2001, an MPA from Princeton and a JD from Yale in 2006, and a PhD in international relations from Cambridge in 2011.  He expects to publish his dissertation on contemporary sources of legitimacy of the European Union as a book.