Faculty Colloquia Series: Anita Ramasastry

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Anita Ramasastry is UW Law Foundation Professor of Law and the Director of the Graduate Program in Sustainable International Development at the University of Washington School of Law. She is an expert in the fields of business and human rights, anti-corruption and commercial law and development. Her current research focuses on the accountability of economic actors in conflict and weak-governance zones. From 2009 to 2012, Professor Ramasastry served as a senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Market Access and Compliance in the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Since 2012, she has been Senior Advisor to the Institute for Human Rights and Business and is a commissioner and chair of the Washington state delegation and the Secretary of the National Uniform Law Commission.

Before joining the academy, Professor Ramasastry served as a staff attorney at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an associate attorney at the international law firm of White & Case in Budapest, Hungary, and as an assistant professor of law at the Central European University in Budapest, founded by financier George Soros. She was the symposium editor for the Harvard International Law Journal and has clerked for Justice Alan B. Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court. In 1998-99, she served as a special attorney and advisor to a special claims resolution tribunal in Zurich, Switzerland, established to resolve claims to World War II-era bank accounts. She has been a visiting professor and Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary Westfield College, and University of London and the Central European University in Budapest.

2015-2016 Faculty Colloquium Series