Rachel J. Anderson | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Rachel J. Anderson
		Associate Professor of Law


		Phone: (+001-702) 895-5806 Email: rachel.anderson@unlv.edu Website: Prof. Anderson's Website Website: Prof. Anderson's SSRN Author Page Blog: Rachel Anderson's Law Blog

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law M.A., Stanford University, International Policy Studies Zwischenprüfung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

	Professor Anderson, a native Nevadan who joined the faculty in 2007, teaches business organizations, human rights, and international business transactions. Her research interests lie at the intersection of those subjects and her current scholarship focuses on Global Corporate Citizenship through the lens of foreign direct investment. Professor Anderson’s published work appears as an article in the Hastings Women's Law Journal, comments in the California Law Review and the African-American Law & Policy Report, a coauthored book chapter in Banana Wars: The Anatomy of a Trade Dispute, and a coauthored essay in the California Law Review. She also has a forthcoming articles in the Michigan State Journal of International Law and the Women's Rights Law Reporter. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Anderson served as Articles Editor on the California Law Review, Executive Editor on the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and Managing Editor of the review now known as the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy. She received an Olin Law and Economics Fellowship and a Justice Ira F. Thomson Fellowship. Before entering academia, Professor Anderson was an associate in the London office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. In her law practice, she acted for banks, private equity, national governments, and transnational corporations in a variety of international business transactions. Before law school, Professor Anderson worked in Berlin for a subsidiary of the German utility Mannheimer Verkehrs- und Versorgungs AG. She consulted on European Commission technical assistance projects in the Russian Federation (EU Tacis Programme) and energy policy training for public officials and private sector experts in Eastern Europe (EU Synergy Programme). Professor Anderson holds an M.A. degree in international policy studies from Stanford University and a Zwischenprüfung from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Professor Anderson is admitted to the New York Bar and serves on the National Advisory Board of the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy. She is a co-chair of the 2009-10 LatCrit-SALT Faculty Development Workshop Committee and Secretary of the 2009-11 board of the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Bar Association. Professor Anderson is a member of the American Society of International Law, the Clark County Bar Association, the Law and Society Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Society of American Law Teachers, and the Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys.

	Areas of Expertise: Business Law Comparative Law Corporate Governance Human Rights International Law

	Selected Publications: WORKS IN PROGRESS Law and Global Corporate Citizenship: A Research Agenda. INTERNATIONAL LAW Gender, Foreign Direct Investment, and Global Corporate Citizenship, __ Women's Rights Law Reporter ___ (forthcoming 2010). Toward Global Corporate Citizenship: Reframing Foreign Direct Investment Law, 19 Michigan State Journal of International Law ___ (forthcoming 2009). SSRN Comment, Redressing Colonial Genocide: The Hereros’ Cause of Action Against Germany, 93 California Law Review 1155 (2005). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein Comment, Linking the Rule of Law and Trade Liberalization in Jamaica, 7 African-American Law & Policy Report 49 (2005). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein Book Chapter, The Caribbean and the Banana Trade, in Banana Wars: The Anatomy of a Trade Dispute (Timothy E. Josling and Timothy G. Taylor eds., CABI Publishing, 2003) (with Tim Taylor and Tim Josling). Google books LEGAL EDUCATION From Imperial Scholar to Imperial Student: Minimizing Bias in Article Evaluation by Law Reviews, 20 Hastings Women's Law Journal 197 (2009). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein Essay, Toward a New Student Insurgency: A Critical Epistolary, 94 California Law Review 1879 (2006). (with Marc-Tizoc González & Stephen Lee). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein --> More Publications (pdf)

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