KAROL CEPLO BOUDREAUX CURRICULUM VITA

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1 KAROL CEPLO BOUDREAUX CURRICULUM VITA Autumn, 2009 HOME ADDRESS: MARITAL STATUS: Married, 5703 Gaines St. One child Burke, VA (703) (office) (703) (fax) (703) (home) EDUCATION: J.D. University of Virginia 1992 Graduate University of Georgia Study History B.A. Douglass College, Rutgers University 1983 (sum cum laude) FULL-TIME WORK EXPERIENCE May, 2009 present June, 2004 present May, 2003 June, 2005 August, 2002 present July 2001 May, 2003 Instructor George Mason University School of Law Hazel Hall Arlington, VA Senior Research Fellow/ Lead Researcher, Enterprise Africa! Mercatus Center at GMU Suite 450 Arlington, VA Vice President for Academic Programs Mercatus Center at GMU Suite 450 Arlington, VA Adjunct Professor, Public & International Affairs George Mason University 3300 University Drive Fairfax, VA Assistant Dean and Director, Juris Master Degree Program George Mason University 1

2 School of Law Arlington, VA November 1997 July, 2001 August 1993 August, 1995 Director of Programs Foundation for Economic Education 30 S. Broadway Irvington-on-Hudson, NY Lecturer Legal Studies Group 201 Sirrine Hall Clemson University Clemson, SC UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT: Law and International Development, African Economic Development, the Legal Environment of Business, Commercial Law, International Law, International Business Law, Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Liberties GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT: Business Ethics and Business Writing (MBA). BLOG Social Enterprising, February 2009 to present VISITING POSITIONS: University Paul-Cezanne, Aix-en-Provence, Faculty of Law and Economics. Visiting Professor, June, Lectured on international development, property rights/environmental protection and entrepreneurship. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor, United Nations Development Program, member of Working Group 2 on Property Rights. Association of Private Enterprise Education, Board member, 2007 to present Indego Africa, (social entrepreneurship NGO working with women artisans in Rwanda), Board member, 2008 to present New York Bar Association, passed New York Bar exam. February, GUEST LECTURER: Denver Metropolitan College, Denver, CO, October, 2009 lectured on the role that entrepreneurs play in Africa improving communities and alleviating poverty. 2

3 Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, April, 2009 lectured on theories of property rights creation and challenges facing policy makers who are concerned with institutional reform and economic growth. Beloit College, Beloit, WI, March, 2009 lectured on community-based natural resource management in Namibia and served on a panel where I discussed the challenges of microcredit and meeting the need of the poor in Africa. Stanford University School of Law, October, 2008 lectured on the role of property rights as a key component of economic growth and development. Mont Pelerin Society/Regional Meeting, Nairobi, Kenya, February, 2007 lectured on the creation of property rights in African nations, exploring empirical examples of legislatively derived and evolved rights. Institute for Economic Studies, Aix-en-Provence, France, Program in Romania, July, 2007 & Lectured on constitutional law, institutional analysis, and environmental law. Program in Bulgaria, July 2003 & Lectured on property rights, environmental law. Program in Greece, 2000 & Lectured on property rights and environmental law, globalization, and international trade School of Law, Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala City, Guatemala -- July, 2001 lectured on environmental law, the WTO & IMF, and globalization. January, 2000 presented a three-lecture series on the jurisprudence of GATT and the WTO. PUBLICATIONS: Forthcoming Land Reform as Social Justice: The case of South Africa, Economic Affairs, Vol. 29, No. 3 (January, 2010). Under consideration The role of entrepreneurship in conflict reduction in the post-genocide Rwandan coffee industry: Quantitative evidence from a field study, (co-authored with Jutta Tobias) at the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Monographs Paths to Property: Approaches to Institutional Change in International Development (co-authored with Paul Dragos Aligica) Institute for Economic Affairs, Hobart Paper No. 162, Winter, 2007 Articles and Chapters Land Conflict and Genocide in Rwanda, Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Spring, 2009) Cautiously Optimistic: Economic Liberalization and Reconciliation in Rwanda s Coffee Sector, (coauthored with Puja Ahluwalia) Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 37 No. 2 (Spring, 2009) Fighting the Food Crisis: Feeding Africa One Family at a Time, Environs: Environmental Law and Policy Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Winter, 2008) The Legal Empowerment of the Poor: Titling and Poverty Alleviation in Post-apartheid South Africa, Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal, (Spring/Summer 2008). 3

4 Informality and Housing Markets in Africa, Journal of Economic Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 2 June, 2008 The Bottom Billion (a book review) for Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 1, Issue 2 (Spring, 2008). A New Call of the Wild: Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Namibia, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Winter, 2007). Langa Township, South Africa in International Property Rights Index, 2008 Report, Property Rights Alliance, February, The Micromagic of Microcredit, (co-authored with Tyler Cowen) The Wilson Quarterly, Winter, State Power, Entrepreneurship and Coffee: The Rwandan Experience, Mercatus Policy Series: Enterprise Africa! No. 15, October, The Business of Reconciliation: Entrepreneurship and Commercial Activity in Post-Conflict Rwanda, Journal of Economic Affairs, June, 2007, CBNRM and Poverty Alleviation in Namibia, Mercatus Policy Series: Enterprise Africa! Policy Comment No. 8, February, Seeds of Hope: Agricultural Technologies and Poverty Alleviation in Rural South Africa, Mercatus Policy Series: Enterprise Africa! Policy Comment No.6, August, Property Rights and Resource Conflict in Sudan, in Realizing Property Rights, Hernando de Soto and Francis Cheneval, eds, Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, The Effects of Property Titling in Langa Township, South Africa Mercatus Policy Series: Enterprise Africa! Policy Comment No. 4, April, Taxing Alternatives: Poverty Alleviation and the South African Taxi/Minibus Industry, Mercatus Policy Series: Enterprise Africa! Policy Comment No. 3, March, The Human Face of Resource Conflict: Property and Power in Nigeria, 7 San Diego International Law Journal, 61, Fall The Role of Property Rights as an Institution: Implications for Development Policy, Mercatus Policy Series: Policy Primer No. 2, May, Regulatory Takings, in The Encyclopedia of Public Choice Economics, Charles Rowley & Friedrich Schneider eds., Vol. 2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, p Public Bads and Public Nuisance: Common Law Remedies for Environmental Decline, (co-authored with Bruce Yandle) Fordham Environmental Law Journal, Vol. XIV, Fall, "Western States and Environmental Federalism: An Examination of Institutional Viability," (co-authored with Bruce Yandle) in Environmental Federalism, Terry Anderson, ed., Rowman & Littlefield, Public Choice, Social Security and Child Welfare, (co-authored with Donald Boudreaux), in Rethinking Orphanages, Richard McKenzie, ed., Sage Publications,

5 "Group Size, Group Heterogeneity, and Voting Rules: An Application of the Buchanan-Tullock Model to the European Union," (co-authored with Jody Lipford), European Journal of Law and Economics, Fall, "Land-Rights Conflicts in the Regulation of Wetlands," in Land Rights: The 1990s Property Rights Rebellion, Bruce Yandle, ed., Rowman & Littlefield, Opinion Editorials and Other Writings: How Ethiopia can tackle famine, Business Daily (Kenya), November 17, 2009 (co-authored with Julian Morris), A Matter of Life and Death, The Guardian, June 27, 2008, Economics in many lessons: A better brew for Rwanda, (co-authored with Donald J. Boudreaux) Pittsburgh Herald-Tribune, November 20, 2007, Sport hunting has its gains too, Daily Nation, Nairobi, Kenya, March 17, Is there or is there not a township property market? Moneyweb, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 7, 2006, Overlooking the Obvious in the taxi debate, the Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa, March 14, 2006, Defined and secure property rights will reduce conflict in Africa, the Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa, September 20, 2005, Property Rights: A Key to Development, Moneyweb, June 15, 2005, From Curse to Cure: The Nigerian Oil Crisis, Tech Central Station, What s Missing in the Darfur Debate? IREN Newsletter, October, Paid Maternity Leave Can Punish Workers, New York Times, Saturday, February 21, Both Sacrificed Liberty, New York Times, Sunday, December 28, "The Home," (a book review of Richard McKenzie's book of the same name), The Freeman, January, "Right to Development: Dangerous Proposition," (co-authored with Donald J. Boudreaux), Wall Street Journal, August 6, PRESENTATIONS September, Washington, DC. Participated in a panel discussion at the US Chamber of Commerce on the role intellectual property rights might play in solving problems of poverty in the developing world. 5

6 June, Washington, DC. Lecturer for US AID seminar on economic growth in post-conflict environments. November, Oslo, Norway, Secure Rights to Property & Legal Empowerment of the Poor, UNDP Workshop on Land Governance & Emerging Development Issues. November, Panelist, Washington, D.C., The Housing Crisis that No One is Talking About, Millennium Challenge Corporation. June Bethseda, MD, training session on Commercial Law for US AID, topic: The Legal Empowerment of the Poor. April, Arlington, VA, training session for the US Dept. of State, on Enterprise-based solutions to poverty in Africa. February, Washington, D.C., Property Titling in Langa Township, Launch of the International Property Rights Index. November, Legal Empowerment of the Poor, for US AID s General Counsel Conference. June, Washington, D.C., Millennium Challenge Corporation, CBNRM in Namibia. SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND AWARDS Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship, September, 1997 to June, Teaching Assistantship, University of Georgia, Dept. of History, September 1995 to May 1997 Douglass Scholar, Rutgers University, September, 1979 to May, Stanton-Anthony Scholar, Rutgers University, September, 1982 to May, Phi Beta Kappa, inducted May, 1983 TELEVISION/RADIO EXPERIENCE American Public Radio/NPR, The Kojo Namde Show, WAMU, March 11, BBC Radio, February 5, 2008, discussing Rwanda and Kenya. Colourful Radio, UK, Drive Time with Henry Bonsu, on Rwandan economic development, August 4, National Public Radio s With Good Reason on Africa, entrepreneurship, and economic development. August 19, Host for GMU-TV s public affairs television program, Capital Commentary (previously Capital Region Roundtable), Fall, 2002 to present. Canadian National Broadcasting, on mandatory maternity leave. January, REFERENCES 6

7 Dr. William Easterly, Professor of Economics, New York University, 19 West 4 th Street, Room 705, New York, NY (212) Daniel Polsby, Dean, GMU School of Law,, Arlington, VA (703) Dr. Bruce Yandle, Alumni Professor, Legal Studies Group, Clemson University, Clemson, SC (864)