Michael W. Doyle
· University ProfessorColumbia University · Columbia Law School
Active 1976–2025
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About
Michael W. Doyle is a University Professor at Columbia University, a title he received in 2015, which is the highest academic rank at Columbia. He is a full-time faculty member at Columbia Law School, the School of International Public Affairs, and the Department of Political Science. Doyle is a renowned scholar of global constitutionalism, international affairs, and democratic peace theory. His research focuses on international relations theory, international security, international organizations, and the global regime for migration. He is the author of a dozen books, including recent titles such as Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War (2023), The Question of Intervention: John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect (2015), and Liberal Peace: Selected Essays (2011). Doyle's work has significantly contributed to the understanding of liberal democracies and their relationship to war, stimulating extensive research and policy debate. He has received multiple awards from the American Political Science Association, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Doyle has held prominent roles supporting international initiatives, including serving as assistant secretary-general and special adviser for policy planning at the United Nations under Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and has led the development of the Model International Mobility Convention. His academic…
Research topics
- Medicine
- Internal medicine
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Neuroscience
- Chemistry
- Pathology
- Genetics
- Psychology
Selected publications
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024-11-22 · 3 citations
preprintOpen accessLegacy software systems, written in outdated languages like MUMPS and mainframe assembly, pose challenges in efficiency, maintenance, staffing, and security. While LLMs offer promise for modernizing these systems, their ability to understand legacy languages is largely unknown. This paper investigates the utilization of LLMs to generate documentation for legacy code using two datasets: an electronic health records (EHR) system in MUMPS and open-source applications in IBM mainframe Assembly Langu…
Towards a theory of Indigenous contact with the criminal justice system
Australian Institute of Criminology eBooks · 2024-05-21 · 3 citations
bookOpen accessThe Australian Indigenous imprisonment rate is currently 16.7 times the non-Indigenous imprisonment rate. The leading proximate cause of this over-representation is a high rate of Indigenous arrest. In this report we develop and test a model of Indigenous arrest in which the primary drivers of risk are substance use, stress and trauma, adverse social environment, exposure to arrest, human/economic/social capital, and state/territory of residence. We test the model using data from the 2014–15 Nat…
A holistic approach to human mobility: the Model International Mobility Convention
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2025-09-04
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingImpact of Comments on LLM Comprehension of Legacy Code
ArXiv.org · 2025-04-23
preprintOpen accessLarge language models (LLMs) have been increasingly integrated into software engineering and maintenance tasks due to their high performance with software engineering tasks and robust understanding of modern programming languages. However, the ability of LLMs to comprehend code written with legacy languages remains a research gap challenged by real-world legacy systems lacking or containing inaccurate documentation that may impact LLM comprehension. To assess LLM comprehension of legacy language…
“Forced Migrants,” Human Rights, and “Climate Refugees”
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2025-01-09
book-chapterOpen access1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 76 shared
Nicholas Sambanis
Yale University
- 72 shared
Atul Kohli
- 72 shared
George W. Downs
- 72 shared
Richard Challener
- 63 shared
Paul E. Sigmund
- 63 shared
Bruce Bueno
- 63 shared
Robert Gilpin
Royal Military College of Canada
- 63 shared
Lynn White Hi
Johns Hopkins University
Education
Ph.D.
Princeton University
B.A.
University of Warwick
Awards & honors
- LL.D., honorary, University of Warwick 2014
- Inducted into the American Academy of Political and Social S…
- Hubert Humphrey Award of the American Political Science Asso…
- Charles Merriam Award of the American Political Science Asso…
- Inducted into the American Philosophical Society 2009
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