International and Comparative Law

Professor Fernanda Nicola is participating in an interdisciplinary research led by the State of Women Research Network (“the Network) and funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Free trade agreements increasingly include provisions regulating worker rights that implicate a broad array of international actors and organizations, that include the WTO, the ILO, and international finance organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). 

On November 12, the American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) hosted the Symposium “International Trade, Worker Right, and Development: New Partnerships for the Future of Work,” which was organized in partnership with Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service.

At a panel discussion titled “The Role of Financiers in Enabling Remediation for Project Affected Communities” held during the World Bank Civil Society Forum on October 16, 2019, AUWCL Professor David Hunter proposed the creation of a “Community Benefit-Sharing & Development Impact Fund.

At an international seminar on Regulatory Innovation for the Growth of New Technology and New Businesses in Seoul on November 15, 2019, AUWCL Associate Professor of Law Hilary J. Allen discussed the pros and cons of “regulatory sandboxes.”