Boston University School of Law
September 25, 2017
12:45 - 2:00 p.m.

Cornell Law School Professor Chantal Thomas joins BU Law this year as the William & Patricia Kleh Visiting Professor in International Law. Her scholarship focuses on the relationship between international law, political economy, and global social justice in a variety of contexts, with a focus on international trade and international migration. She has been published in Law & History Review, Cornell Law Review, Journal of Comparative Law, Melbourne Journal of International Law, and the American Journal of Comparative Law.

At Cornell, Thomas directs the Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East and North Africa and teaches in the areas of Law and Development and International Economic Law.

Prior to joining Cornell, Thomas chaired the Law Department of the American University in Cairo, and also served on the University of Minnesota and Fordham University law faculties. She has been a Visiting Professor teaching international economic law at institutions such as Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London, and Soochow University in China.

Thomas has consulted for the USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Affairs, and she has served on the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law, and as Vice President, and on the Executive Council, of the American Society of International Law. She earned her BA from McGill University, her JD from Harvard Law School, and her PhD from the University of Cambridge.

This lecture is made possible through the generosity of Patricia and William H. Kleh (’71), who established the William & Patricia Kleh Visiting Professorship in International Law in February 2011.