Dr. Rachel Brewster

Biography

Rachel Brewster is the Jeffrey Bettysue Hughes Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. Her scholarly research focuses on international economic law and international dispute settlement, with particular expertise in World Trade Organization (WTO) law and anti-corruption law, which includes the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the OECD Anti-Bribery Treaty. Brewster serves as co-director of Duke's Center for International and Comparative Law and co-chair of the JD-LLM International and Comparative Law Program. Her recent publications include significant works on corruption arbitration and the development of international anti-corruption regimes. Before joining Duke Law in July 2012, she was an assistant professor at Harvard University and held affiliations with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Brewster has also served as legal counsel at the Office of the United States Trade Representative and worked as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. Additionally, she has taught at the University of Hamburg's Institute of Law and Economics and the University of St. Gallen. Brewster holds a BA and JD from the University of Virginia, where she was an article editor for the Virginia Law Review, and a PhD in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received the John Patrick Hagan Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

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