Claire Wright
Assistant Professor of Law
J.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude;
B.A., Smith College, summa cum laude
General Course, London School of Economics and Political Science
Telephone: 619.374.6922
Email: cwright@tjsl.edu
Prior to joining the faculty of Thomas Jefferson, Professor Wright was a partner at the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie, where she practiced both real estate and international trade law. She also was a partner at the consulting firm of Ernst & Young LLP. At Ernst & Young LLP, Professor Wright directed the firm’s World Trade Organization (WTO) Center, where she advised a large number of countries and companies regarding WTO issues. Professor Wright has special expertise in matters involving Mexico and China, and, during the summer of 2007, she taught a course focusing on trade disputes between the U.S. and China in Thomas Jefferson’s summer program at Zhejiang University School of Law in Hangzhou, China. She has also taught WTO law at both Stanford Law School and the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is a member of a committee of the American Law Institute, which publishes a review of the cases decided each year by the WTO. Professor Wright was a law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where she worked primarily for then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She has worked on a variety of human rights matters for Amnesty International, and she has spoken and published widely on issues involving international trade, the WTO, U.S.-China relations, U.S.- Mexico relations, international trade in cultural products and media services, urban policies and human rights.
Recent Scholarship:
Toward a New Cultural Exemption in the WTO (edited by Sienho Lee & Jacques-Yvan Morin), Multiculturalism and International Law, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (forthcoming, spring 2007) Hollywood's Disappearing Act: International Trade Remedies to Bring Hollywood Home, 39 Akron L. Rev. 739 (2006) Technology Export Rules are Elusive, The National L. J., March 22, 1999 (co-authored with Michael Roybal) International Protection of Human Rights and the Evolution of the Principle of Non-Refoulement, San Francisco Barrister L. J., Vol. 7, No. 3, Bar Association of San Francisco, April 1988 Flaws in the Interpretation of INA Section 101(a)(42) and in the Denial of Refugee Status to Cambodians in Thailand, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, Georgetown University L. Center 87, Summer 1987 (co-authored with Steven J. Golub) James W. Fossett and Claire C. Osborn, Urban Conditions, chapter in Federal Grants and Urban Policies, Vol. 54, No. 2, University of Texas at Austin, March-April 1980 Richard P. Nathan and James W. Fossett, with the assistance of Claire C. Osborn, Urban Conditions: Implications for Federal Policy, Commentary, National Council for Urban Economic Development, Vol. 3, No. 1, Washington, D.C. April 1979
Courses include: Legal Writing, Property, World Trade Organization Law.