| John K. Setear | |
| Education: | Williams College (BA) Yale University (JD) |
| Occupation: | Law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law |
John Setear (born 1959) is a professor of International Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Setear teaches courses in Contracts, Rules, Counterfactual History, the Civil War, the Cold War, and Baseball.
Setear is a graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School.
After law school, Setear served as a law clerk for Judge Carl E. McGowan of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1984-1985). He then clerked on the United States Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (1985-1986). Setear worked at the RAND Corporation in the early 1990s, where his work focused on the use of war games and military simulations in defense analysis.[1] His areas of scholarly interest include Foreign Relations Law,[2] international whaling,[3] and international climate agreements.[4]