This legal area includes laws governing the relations between nation-states, legal issues that arise in a variety of cross-border business transactions, and laws of countries outside the United States.

Susan M. Akram

Professor Susan Akram directs BU Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, in which she supervises students engaged in international advocacy in domestic, international, regional, and UN fora. Her research and publications focus on immigration, asylum, refugee, forced migration, and human and civil rights issues, with an interest in the Middle East, the Arab, and Muslim world. […]

Daniela Caruso

Professor Daniela Caruso teaches Contracts to first-year law students and an upper-class course on European Union Law. She also teaches a variety of law seminars and interdisciplinary courses, including a seminar on International Trade Regulation. Since January 2020, Professor Caruso has served as Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at the Frederick […]

Anna di Robilant

Professor Anna di Robilant is a property law scholar trained in both Europe and the United States. She writes and teaches in the areas of property law, property theory, legal history, and comparative law. Professor di Robilant has published extensively in both peer-reviewed and student-edited journals, including the Vanderbilt Law Review, the American Journal of […]

Steven Arrigg Koh

Steven Arrigg Koh teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law and international law. His scholarship—which explores the foreign relations, cultural, and racial dimensions of US domestic, transnational, and international criminal justice—has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as New York University Law Review, Duke Law Journal Online, Cornell Law Review, Washington University […]

Pnina Lahav

During the course of her legal career, Pnina Lahav has published nearly 50 journal articles and three books, including the critically acclaimed Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century. Winner of Israel’s Seltner Award (1998) and the Gratz College Centennial Book Award (1998), she is presently completing a biography of Israel’s fourth […]

Peggy Maisel

Peggy Maisel joined the BU Law Faculty in July 2014 as a clinical professor and as the first associate dean for experiential education for five years overseeing and growing more than 20 clinical and externship programs, in which more than 250 student participate annually.  She also works to advance curriculum initiatives, pedagogical practices and academic research […]

William W. Park

Professor William (Rusty) Park teaches in the area of international business law. His research interests include conflict of laws and the interaction of law and religion. After studies at Yale and Columbia, Park practiced in Paris until returning home to Boston, where he served as Director of Boston University’s Center for Banking and Financial Law. […]

Robert D. Sloane

After receiving his JD in 2000, Professor Robert D. Sloane worked for the International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet (now known as Tibet Justice Center) under the auspices of Yale Law School’s Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights. He led fact-finding missions to Nepal, India, and Tibet; wrote submissions for the UN Commission […]