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

		Rachel Anderson
		Associate Professor of Law


		Phone: 702 895-5806 Email: rachel.anderson@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, 2005 M.A., Stanford University, International Policy Studies, 2002 Zwischenprüfung, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 1998

	Professor Anderson joined the faculty as an associate professor in fall 2006 and teaches business organizations and international business transactions. Her research interests lie in the intersection of international human rights law and transnational business law. Professor Anderson is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she was an Articles Editor on the California Law Review, Executive Editor on the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and Managing Editor on the African-American Law & Policy Report. She received an Olin Law and Economics Fellowship and a Justice Ira F. Thomson Fellowship. After law school, Professor Anderson worked as an associate in the London, England, office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP. In her law practice, she acted for banks, private equity, national governments, and transnational corporations in a variety of international business transactions. Before attending law school Professor Anderson worked in Berlin, Germany, for MVV Consultants & Engineers GmbH (formerly InnoTec Systemanalyse GmbH), a subsidiary of the German utility Mannheimer Verkehrs- und Versorgungs AG. She worked 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 is admitted to the New York Bar.

	Areas of Expertise: Business Law Private International Law Public International Law Transnational Law

	Selected Publications: 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). LAW REVIEW ARTICLES Essay, Toward a New Student Insurgency: A Critical Epistolary, 94 CAL. L. REV. 1879 (2006). (with Marc-Tizoc González & Stephen Lee). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein Comment, Redressing Colonial Genocide: The Hereros’ Cause of Action Against Germany, 93 CAL. L. REV. 1155 (2005). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein Comment, Linking the Rule of Law and Trade Liberalization in Jamaica, 7 AFR.-AM. L. & POL'Y REP. 49 (2005). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein

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