Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future

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Rachel Thrasher

Graduate Fellow
edsallr@bu.edu

Expertise

International Trade, Regional Trade Agreements, International Law, Latin America.

Sujata VisariaBiography

Rachel Thrasher completed her Master's degree in International Relations at Boston University in 2008.

She received her J.D. in June of 2007, also from Boston University, and was admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. While in graduate school, she focused her research on issues surrounding U.S.-style free trade agreements and
their legal impact on Latin American countries. Her Note, entitled Indirect Expropriation under NAFTA and DR-CAFTA: Potential
Inconsistencies in the Treatment of State Public Welfare Regulations, was published in the Boston University Law Review in October of 2006.
Her research has been on why Latin American countries pursue investment treaties and how that should impact U.S. policy.