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 […]
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 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 […]
Yoana Kuzmova
Yoana Kuzmova joins Boston University School of Law’s faculty as a Lecturer and Clinical Instructor in the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University School of Law. Ms. Kuzmova, an immigration and human rights lawyer, taught the International Human Rights Clinic during the 2021-22 academic year, and she co-taught and supervised students at the Clinic alongside Clinical Professor Susan Akram from […]
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 […]