Rachel J. Anderson
Associate Professor of Law

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

Areas of Expertise:
Business Law | Comparative Law | Global Law | Human Rights | International Law | Transnational Law

Short Biography: (pdf)
Professor Anderson joined the faculty of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2007. She teaches business organizations, human rights, and international business transactions. Professor Anderson's research interests lie at the intersection of those subjects and her current scholarship focuses on corporate-related human rights abuses by transnational corporations. Her published work appears as articles in the Denver University Law Review, the Hastings Women's Law Journal, and the Michigan State Journal of International Law, 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. Professor Anderson also has a forthcoming article in the Women's Rights Law Reporter and a forthcoming entry on Laws in Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia.

A graduate of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, 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 LLP. 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 and energy policy training for public officials and private sector experts in Eastern Europe. Professor Anderson holds a 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.

Rachel Anderson
(702) 895-5806
rachel.anderson@unlv.edu

Rachel J. Anderson | Associate Professor of Law
William S. Boyd School of Law | University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway | Box 451003 | Las Vegas, NV 89154-1003
Phone: +1-702-243-2422 | Fax: +1-702-895-2482 | rachel.anderson@unlv.edu
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