Dr. Susan L. Karamanian

Dean of the College of Law

Phone

44541949

Office location

C.03.004, Minaretein, Education City

Dr. Susan L. Karamanian

Dean of the College of Law

Educational Qualifications

JD

B.A. (hons)

Entity

College of Law

Biography

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.


 

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

  • International investment law
  • International human rights law
  • International business transactions
  • International banking and finance
  • International trade law

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

Hossein Esmaeili, Vivienne Brand, and Susan L. Karamanian (eds), International Trade with the Middle East and North Africa: Legal, Commercial, and Investment Perspectives (Routledge 2024)

Susan L. Karamanian, ‘Arab-Australian Trade and Investment in an Era of Challenges to the Liberal International Order’ in Hossein Esmaeili, Vivienne Brand, and Susan L. Karamanian (eds), International Trade with the Middle East and North Africa: Legal, Commercial, and Investment Perspectives 12-37 (Routledge 2024)

“International Investment Agreements, Investor Obligations, and the Rule of Law” in Investment Protection Standards and the Rule of Law pp. 301-325, edited by August Reinisch and Stephan W. Schill, Oxford University Press, 2023

“International Commercial Courts, Dispute Resolution and the Rule of Law” in International Commercial Courts: The Future of Transnational Adjudication pp. 515-535, edited by Stavros Brekoulakis & Georgios Dimitropoulos, Cambridge University Press, 2022

The Precautionary Principle” in XI Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law: Trade and Environmental Law pp. 90-94, edited by Panos Delimatsis & Leonie Reins, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.

  • 1980; Rhodes Scholarship; Rhodes Scholarship Trust; Oxford, United Kingdom
  • 2000; Texas Law Fellowships Excellence in Public Interest Award, University of Texas School; Austin, Texas
  • 2000; Equal Justice Award, Legal Services of North Texas; Dallas, Texas