Charles Moxley Jr.

Charles J. Moxley, Jr. teaches nuclear weapons law at Fordham Law School and has written about international law restraints on the threat and use of nuclear weapons for over twenty years, starting with his 2000 book, Nuclear Weapons and International Law in the Post Cold War World, of which this book is the second edition.

Moxley is the co-author of the 2011 article, Nuclear Weapons and Compliance with International Humanitarian Law and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, in the Fordham International Law Journal, and of other journal articles on the subject. He was faculty lead for the 2020 Conference, Nuclear Weapons and International Law, the proceedings of which were published as a Special Issue of the Fordham International Law Journal. He is faculty lead of the 2023 Conference, Nuclear Weapons and International Law, The Renewed Imperative in Light of the Ukraine War, the proceedings of which will be published by the Georgetown Journal of International Law.

Moxley received his law degree from Columbia Law School, where he concentrated in international law and was Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. He received an M.A. in Russian Area Studies and a B.A. in political science from Fordham University.

Following his graduation from law school, Moxley served as law clerk for a United States District Judge in the Southern District of New York and started his practice with the international law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell, following which he was affiliated with a number of boutique litigation firms before starting his own firm, MoxleyADR LLC, specializing in arbitration and mediation. He also serves as Distinguished ADR Practitioner in Residence at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

A long-time litigator and arbitrator, Moxley’s approach to addressing issues as to the lawfulness of nuclear weapons threat and use is to subject such issues to the same depth of legal and factual analysis as lawyers, judges, and arbitrators apply to complex securities and commercial disputes in federal and other courts and arbitrations throughout the country.