Susan L. Karamanian is Dean of HBKU's College of Law. She previously held leadership positions at the American University of Sharjah and the George Washington University Law School. Susan is a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and was previously Vice President of ASIL. She was also President of the Washington Foreign Law Society. She has lectured on international law at the University of Paris, the OAS Academy of International Law, Tamil Nadu National Law School, the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and the Hague Academy of International Law (Director of English Studies). She has presented two lectures (“The Right to Property under International Law” and “The Intersection of Public International Law and Private International Law”) as part of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law. She is a trustee of the Center for American and International Law, where she chairs the Southwestern Institute for International and Comparative Law, and a director of Texas Appleseed. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Council on Germany, the American Bar Foundation, and the Texas Bar Foundation.
American University of Sharjah
2017International and Comparative Law and Policy, George Washington University Law School, USA
2000-2017Locke Lord LLP
1986-2000Hon. Robert E. Varner, US District Judge, M.D. Alabama
1985-1986University of Texas; Austin,Texas, USA
1985University of Oxford; Oxford, United Kingdom
1982Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
1979“International Investment Agreements, Investor Obligations, and the Rule of Law” in Investment Protection Standards and the Rule of Law pp. 301-325, edited by August Reinisch and Stephan W. Schill, Oxford University Press, 2023
“International Commercial Courts, Dispute Resolution and the Rule of Law” in International Commercial Courts: The Future of Transnational Adjudication pp. 515-535, edited by Stavros Brekoulakis & Georgios Dimitropoulos, Cambridge University Press, 2022
“Local Content Requirements in Extractive Industries: A Human Rights Analysis” in D. S. Olawuyi, Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets, pp 63-82 (Cambridge University Press 2021)
“Arbitrators as Peacemakers? Challenges to the Rule-Based System of Arbitration” in G. Banerji, et al. (eds.), International Arbitration and the Rule of Law: Essays in Honour of Mr. Fali S. Nariman, pp 37-53 (Permanent Court of Arbitration 2020)