Pawel (Pavo) Lutomski was born in Poland and studied at the
University in Wroclaw until March 1981, when he had to leave
communist Poland for political reasons. He lived then in Berlin,
Germany, and later in Sweden, and finally came to the U.S. in 1985,
as a political refugee. He received his Ph.D. in German Studies
(with emphasis on political and social theory) at Stanford. Because
of his broader interests in international relations (and their
legal aspects), as well as in comparative constitutional law, he
also decided to acquire a legal education. In 1997, he received a
J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
In addition to teaching at USF, Lutomski is a lecturer in the
International Relations/International Policy Studies Program at
Stanford, where he teaches seminars in international law and
international relations. Prior to this position, he was a Fellow in
the Introduction to the Humanities Program at Stanford, and a
senior researcher at the California International Studies Project
(CISP), in the School of Education at Stanford. During his work at
CISP, he was the principal author of a textbook for high school
teachers and students entitled, What is Democracy, After All?: The
Rise of Democratic Ideas. Dr. Lutomski also worked in a variety of
NGOs before joining academia in 1999, such as the international
division of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, the Nature
Conservancy, and the World Without War Council.
Lutomski's research areas are international law and
international relations, forced migrations, and German-Polish
relations. His latest publication is entitled "Acknowledging Each
Other as Victims: An Unmet Challenge in the Process of
Polish-German Reconciliation." He currently is co-editing a volume
entitled Population Resettlement in International Conflicts: A
Comparative Study, scheduled for publication with Rowman &
Littlefield in early 2007.
