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 […]
Kristina Audrey Fried
Kristina Fried is a Lecturer in Law with the International Human Rights Clinic, where she supervises projects involving statelessness and refugee law. Her areas of expertise include international human rights law, public international law, reparatory justice, refugee law, and statelessness, with a focus on Haiti and the Middle East region. Her work has appeared in […]
Erika George
Erika R. George joined the BU Law faculty in 2024 as the associate dean for equity, justice, & engagement and the Ernest Haddad Faculty Scholar. A leading international expert in the emerging field of business and human rights, Professor George is the author of Incorporating Rights: Strategies to Advance Corporate Accountability (Oxford University Press 2021), which […]
Steven Arrigg Koh
Steven Arrigg Koh teaches and writes in criminal law, foreign relations law, international law, and constitutional law. His interdisciplinary scholarship bridges theory and practice, drawing on sociological frameworks to deepen institutionally grounded analyses of U.S. federal and international legal systems. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in New York University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, […]
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. […]
Ayodeji Kamau Perrin
Dr. Ayodeji Kamau Perrin, J.D., Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary scholar of human rights, social movements, and legal mobilization. He is interested in all phases of litigation-based social change processes, including the factors that lead aggrieved individuals and groups to select a litigation-based strategy; the internal dynamics of a social change movement or campaign; countermobilization; the […]
Weijia Rao
Weijia Rao’s research applies empirical methods to the study of international and comparative law, with a focus on legal institutions governing global trade and investment. Her work has examined the influence of global businesses on government regulations, the role of domestic politics in international dispute resolution, the evolution and impacts of international investment agreements, and […]
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 […]