Mark Somos

2012-2013 Academic Year

Lecturer on Law

Education

• University of Cambridge B.A. (Hons) 1999, History
• University of Cambridge M.Phil. 2000, Political Thought and Intellectual History
• Harvard University A.M. 2006, Government and Social Policy
• Harvard University Ph.D. 2007, Political Science
• University of Sussex LLM 2011, Law and International Security

Appointments

• Research Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
• Lecturer on Law
• Partner, Cornerstone Global Associates
• Senior Research Fellow, Sussex Law School

Additional Information

Mr. Somos will co-teach, with Professor Lawrence Lessig, the Lab Seminar Series on Institutional Corruption.

Biographical Statement

Mark Somos is the Research Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Before returning to Harvard, Mark was a Leverhulme Fellow at Sussex, and a Rechtskulturen Fellow sponsored by the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin at Humboldt University Law School. Skeptical of the strict separation of theory from practice, Somos has been lucky to be able to combine political consultancy with academia for over twenty years. He established and ran a Political Risk Forecasting Division in Budapest, and served as Managing Director to a global consultancy firm based in Mayfair, London. He published extensively on international law, secularisation, commerce and peace, political ethics and civil society, and has designed and taught courses at Harvard and Sussex on subjects ranging from American political thought, through ethics and international relations, to histories of democracy and of human rights.