Susan L. Karamanian is Dean of HBKU's College of Law. She previously held leadership positions at the American University of Sharjah and the George Washington University Law School. Susan is a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and was previously Vice President of ASIL. She was also President of the Washington Foreign Law Society. She has lectured on international law at the University of Paris, the OAS Academy of International Law, Tamil Nadu National Law School, the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and the Hague Academy of International Law (Director of English Studies). She has presented two lectures (“The Right to Property under International Law” and “The Intersection of Public International Law and Private International Law”) as part of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law. She is a trustee of the Center for American and International Law, where she chairs the Southwestern Institute for International and Comparative Law, and a director of Texas Appleseed. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Council on Germany, the American Bar Foundation, and the Texas Bar Foundation.
الاهتمامات البحثية
International investment law
International human rights law
International business transactions
International banking and finance
International trade law
الخبرات
Provost
American University of Sharjah
2017
Associate Dean for International and Comparative Legal Studies and Burnett Family Professorial Lecturer
International and Comparative Law and Policy, George Washington University Law School, USA
2000-2017
Partner (previously Associate)
Locke Lord LLP
1986-2000
Law Clerk
Hon. Robert E. Varner, US District Judge, M.D. Alabama
1985-1986
المؤهلات العلمية
JD
University of Texas; Austin,Texas, USA
1985
B.A. (hons)
University of Oxford; Oxford, United Kingdom
1982
B.S. (summa cum laude)
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
1979
المؤلفات المختارة
“Local Content Requirements in Extractive Industries: A Human Rights Analysis” in D. S. Olawuyi, Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets, pp 63-82 (Cambridge University Press 2021)
2021
“Arbitrators as Peacemakers? Challenges to the Rule-Based System of Arbitration” in G. Banerji, et al. (eds.), International Arbitration and the Rule of Law: Essays in Honour of Mr. Fali S. Nariman, pp 37-53 (Permanent Court of Arbitration 2020)
2020
Courts and Arbitration: Reconciling the Public with the Private
9 Arb. L. Rev. 652017
The Role of International Human Rights Law in Re-Shaping Investor-State Arbitration
45 Int’l J. of Legal Info. 342017
International Energy Trade and Investor-State Arbitration: What Role for Sustainable Development?
EMERGING ISSUES IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 355 (Mitsuo Matsushita & Thomas J. Schoenbaum eds. Springer2016