Tom Dannenbaum

Tom Dannenbaum joined Stanford in 2025 as professor of law at Stanford Law School and the Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he is also a senior fellow. He holds a courtesy appointment in Stanford’s department of political science.

Dannenbaum’s recent writing has addressed a wide range of pressing issues at the nexus of law and armed conflict, including aggressive war, siege and blockade, starvation as a method of warfare, targeting and intent in urban warfare, civilian redress, the duty to end war, and the law governing nuclear installations in conflict zones. He is the author of The Crime of Aggression, Humanity, and the Soldier (Cambridge University Press, 2018), a treatise on the meaning and individual significance of the crime of resorting to war without legal basis.