Jean-Marc Coicaud is a French and American legal and political theorist focusing among other things on global issues.
He is Professor of Law and Global Affairs, Director of the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, and a Global Ethics Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea (the European Academy of Arts and Sciences)
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Over the years he has lived and worked in Europe, the Americas (the United States and Latin America), and Asia (Japan, China, and Taiwan).
His professional trajectory has combined serving as a policy practitioner at the national, regional, and global levels, and as a scholar and professor in academia.