Asian Law Center
Global Business Law
Located in Washington State, the most trade-dependant region of the U.S., the Asian Law Center naturally has a focus on global business law. The Center attracts students and scholars from the U.S. and abroad who seek to connect with leading cutting-edge legal and business expertise in Seattle.
The Center’s teaching program has led innovation in Law School courses such as International Contracting and Cross Border M&A, taught by experienced international practitioners Professors Chaffee and Guinee, via real-time video links with the University of Tokyo and Waseda University, Japan.
Center faculty maintain dynamic research agendas through extensive consulting for national and international agencies:
- Assistant Director Alice Stokke did fieldwork in Vietnam as part of the Center’s report on Investment Protection in Vietnam for the 2007 World Bank Doing Business Report.
- Professor Jonathan (Jon) Eddy continues to advise donor organizations and government agencies in Indonesia and the Arabian Gulf including USAID, AusAID and the US Department of Commerce.
- Professor Anita Ramasastry also works in the Arabian Gulf and serves as the principal law reform advisor to the Commercial Law Development Program, U.S. Department of Commerce and as a special advisor to the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in Geneva, to an expert panel that addresses corporate complicity in international human rights.
- Professor Jane Winn researches the impact of information technology and globalization on commercial law in China.