Dr. Chavi Nana

Biography

Chavi Keeney Nana is a Professor of Practice at the University of Michigan Law School where she teaches anticorruption law and business human rights. She supervises students in the Human Trafficking Immigration Clinic and serves as the director of the Equitable Global Supply Chain program. Additionally, she is a faculty associate at the Donia Human Rights Center. Before her academic role, Nana was counsel at WilmerHale in New York, representing major multinational corporations and financial institutions in civil and criminal investigations. Her practice emphasized government internal corporate investigations and criminal enforcement matters, with significant experience in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering. Nana has also been involved in pro bono work focused on civil litigation for trafficking victims. Her previous roles include serving as an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School and as a legal policy assistant to the special gender adviser at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. She has a deep commitment to issues of immigrant integration, women's rights, and diversity, and was awarded the Marshall Scholarship in 2000.

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