Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Anna Spain

Associate Professor of Law

University of Colorado Law School
442 Wolf Law Building
401 UCB
Boulder, CO  80309
Phone: (303) 492-6204
E-mail: anna.spain@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae:  View (PDF format)

Personal Link:

http://www.annaspain.com/

Educational Background:
J.D.   Harvard Law School   2004  
B.A.   Denison University   1999   magna cum laude

Bio:

Professor Spain joined the faculty in 2009 and teaches international law, international dispute resolution, international human rights and mediation. Professor Spain's scholarship focuses on issues of global cooperation and conflict through the disciplines of international law and dispute resolution. She is interested in how international legal process shapes norms and rules and her research examines such issues in the contexts of the law of armed conflict, international governance and peace building. 

Professor Spain's perspectives on the role of law and dispute resolution in addressing global challenges are informed by her diverse professional experiences. Prior to joining CU Law, Professor Spain was a Lecturer at the UCLA Law School and the UCLA School of Public Affairs and served as the Deputy Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. She practiced international law as an Attorney-Adviser at the U.S. Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser where she represented the U.S. before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague, served as a delegate to the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva and advised the Department on investment and property disputes in Asia and the Pacific. Professor Spain also has policy experience working on climate change and trade at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of the United States Trade Representative in Washington, D.C. Professor Spain has been a certified mediator for over 18 years specializing in cross-cultural conflict and workplace disputes. 

Professor Spain is a graduate of Harvard Law School where she served as an executive editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal and was a recipient of the Heyman Fellowship, the Irving R. Kaufman Fellowship and the Reginald F. Lewis Fellowship. She earned her B.A. magna cum laude at Denison University in environmental studies and economics and clerked for the Honorable Judge Raymond Finch in the U.S. District Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands. She is a member of the American Bar Association, American Society of International Law (Co-chair of the Dispute Resolution Interest Group), Council on Foreign Relations (Term Member) and Mediators Beyond Borders.


Works In Progress

Confronting Sovereignty (work-in-progress) (selected by the American Society of International Law for the “New Voices” panel at the 106th Annual Meeting, March 2012).

Articles

The U.N. Security Council's Duty to Decide, 4 Harvard National Security Journal _ (forthcoming 2013).
Beyond Adjudication: Resolving International Resource Disputes in an Era of Climate Change, 30 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 343 (2011). (Competitively selected by the American Society of International Law for presentation at the 3rd Four Societies Conference, Awaji, Japan 2010).
Examining the International Judicial Function: International Courts as Dispute Resolvers, 34 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review 5 (2011) (symposium issue).
Integration Matters: Rethinking the Architecture of International Dispute Resolution, 32 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 1 (2010). Reprinted in International Dispute Resolution: Cases and Materials, Mary Ellen O'Connell, Carolina Academic Press (2012).
Using International Dispute Resolution to Address the Compliance Question in International Law, 40 Georgetown Journal of International Law 807 (2009).

Book Chapters

African Women and the Advancement of Peacebuilding in International Law in Black Women and International Law: New Theory, Old Praxis (Jeremy Levitt ed., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013).
International Dispute Resolution in an Era of Globalization in International Law in the New Age of Globalization (Andrew Byrnes, Mika Hayashi, Chris Michaelsen eds., Martinus Nijhoff Press, 2013).

Other Publications

Sovereignty and the Promotion of Peace in International Law in ASIL PROCEEDINGS OF THE 106TH ANNUAL MEETING (forthcoming 2013).
Guest Blogger, IntlLawGrrls, http://intlawgrrls.blogspot.com/ (2010-present).
Who's Going to Copenhagen?: The Rise of Civil Society in International Treaty-Making, ASIL Insights (2009).
The Many Pathways of International Law in ASIL Careers in International Law: A Guide to Career Paths and Internships in International Law (2009-2010 Edition).

Press, Media & Publicity

Growing Spats Between Countries Leads To Need For More Cross-Border Lawyers | International Business Times | Friday, August 3, 2012

Courses:

Spring 2013 Mediation LAWS 7439-001
Spring 2013 International Human Rights Law LAWS 7440-001
Spring 2012 Mediation LAWS 7439-001
Fall 2011 International Law LAWS 6400-001
Fall 2011 International Human Rights Law LAWS 7440-001
Fall 2010 Mediation LAWS 7439-001
Spring 2010 International Dispute Resolution LAWS 7310-001
Fall 2009 International Law LAWS 6400-001