TERRA LAWSON-REMER The New School Council on Foreign Relations tlawson-remer@cfr.org www.terralr.org CURRENT POSITIONS THE NEW SCHOOL Assistant Professor of International Affairs, 2009 present Affiliated Faculty, Department of Economics, 2012 present COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS Fellow for Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy, 2011 present THE NEW SCHOOL, ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON INVESTOR RESPONSIBILITY (ACIR) Chair, 2009 present ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RIGHTS EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE Co-Founder and Co-Director, 2008 present EDUCATION NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES, LAW & SOCIETY INSTITUTE, New York, NY Ph.D., May 2010 Field: Political Economy Dissertation: Economic Development, Property Rights & Natural Resource Governance Committee: William Easterly, Dalton Conley, Kevin Davis, Nicola Persico, Sally Merry NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF LAW, New York, NY J.D., May 2006 Honors: World Trade Organization Moot Court, Global Finalist (Geneva, CH) Environmental Law Journal, Staff Editor YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT B.A., May 2000, Cum Laude, Distinction in the Major Field: Ethics, Politics & Economics (EPE) Thesis: Policy Proposals to Support Democracy and Alleviate Poverty in Latin America Activities: Yale Herald, Columnist United Farm Workers, Lead Organizer American Civil Liberties Union, Chair LA PONTIFICA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA, Quito, Ecuador Study Abroad, 1998 Research: Impact of U.S. trade policy on economic development in Ecuador and Cuba SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS Korea Foundation, Global Seminar Fellow World Bank, Young Professionals Program (declined) Council on Foreign Relations, International Affairs Fellow 1
United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research, Doctoral Research Fellowship New York University School of Law, Dean s Merit Scholar Full Tuition Scholarship American Constitutional Society (ACS), Public Interest Fellow New York University School of Law, Global Justice Fellow Presidential Management Fellow (declined) PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Senior Advisor, International Affairs, 2010 2011 WORLD BANK Various consultancies, ongoing AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Sharepower Director / Business & Human Rights Legal Fellow, 2006 2007 LATHAM & WATKINS, LLP Summer Associate, 2005 RUCKUS SOCIETY / OPERATION SYBIL Organizer, Action Coordinator, Media Relations Director, 2001 and 2004-2006 ETHICAL GLOBALIZATION INITIATIVE Human Rights & Global Justice Fellow, 2004 STUDENTS TRANSFORMING AND RESISTING CORPORATIONS (STARC) Founder, Director of Finance and Communications, Strategy Trainer, 1999 2004 NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (NYCLU) Legislative Affairs Legal Associate, 2003 USACTION Program Associate, 2001-2002 SAN DIEGO CITY COUNCIL, COUNCILMEMBER JUAN VARGAS (DISTRICT 8) Staff Assistant, summers 1995, 1996, 1997 GRANTS 2011-2014 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (1061457) $233,000 Economic & Social Rights: Obstacle to Growth or Handmaiden of Growth? 2009-2010 NEW SCHOOL FACULTY RESEARCH AWARD $8,200 Measuring Economic & Social Rights Fulfillment 2008-2009 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (0820653) $8,665 Doctoral Dissertation Research: Natural Resource Governance and Economic Development 2
PUBLICATIONS Books TRANSITIONS (Council on Foreign Relations, forthcoming Fall 2012) (with Isobel Coleman, eds.) FULFILLING ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RIGHTS (Oxford University Press, forthcoming Spring 2013) (with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Susan Randolph) Academic Articles Property Rights, Growth, & Conflict (submitted) Property Insecurity (forthcoming, BROOKLYN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW) Do Stronger Collective Property Rights Improve Household Welfare? Evidence from Fiji (revise and resubmit, WORLD DEVELOPMENT) Economic & Social Rights Fulfillment Index: Country Scores and Rankings, JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS (August 2010) (with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Susan Randolph) Assessing State Compliance with Obligations to Fulfill Economic & Social Rights A Methodology and Application to the States of Brazil in DIREITO AO DESENVOLVIMENTO (Flavia Piovesan and Ines Virginia Prado Soares, eds.) (Belo Horizonte, 2010) (with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Patrick Guyer, Susan Randolph, and Louise Moreira Daniels) An Index of Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment: Concept and Methodology, JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS (September 2009) (with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Susan Randolph) A Role for the IFC in Integrating Environmental & Human Rights Standards into Core Project Covenants: A Case Study of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline Project, in TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS (Oliver DeSchutter, ed.) (Hart Publishing, 2007) NAFTA, GATS, and the Propertization of Resources, 14 NYU ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL 481 (2006) Policy Briefs Beating the Resource Curse: Global Governance Strategies for Democracy & Economic Development, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (April 2012) INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL & GOVERNANCE ISSUES INTO INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT: A HANDBOOK FOR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (AIUSA and REC, eds.) (August 2007) (with Lisa Sachs and Morgan Simon) Working Papers Formal Law & Informal Social Norms: Natural Resource Governance in Fiji s Fisheries Collective Action and the Rules of Surfing (with Alisa Valderrama) Security of Property Rights for Whom?, UNITED NATIONS WORLD INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS RESEARCH (2011/83, November 2011) 3
Commentary Obama s Outside-the-Box Pick for World Bank President, CNN Global Public Square, April 2, 2012 Does the G20 Matter?, Reuters, February 24, 2012 #OCCUPYDEMOCRACY, Social Science Research Council: Possible Futures, December 8, 2011 U.S. Security and the Multilateral Development Banks, Huffington Post, November 22, 2011 What do the Occupiers Want?, CNN Global Public Square, November 11, 2011 Copenhagen: The Curse of REDD, Huffington Post, December 14, 2009 The Real Modern Pirates? MNCs Beyond the Rule of Law, Huffington Post, May 25, 2009 For Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries, Mobile Phones Are Path Out of Poverty, Huffington Post, Apr. 22, 2009 Dear Governor Palin, Huffington Post, October 3, 2008 The U.S. Farm Bill & the Global Food Crisis, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, June 1, 2008 Hunger Striking for Socially Responsible Capitalism, Huffington Post, Apr. 11, 2008 Toasting Wolfowitz's Departure? Not So Fast, Tom Paine, May 24, 2007 INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, USA, July 2012 International Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, June 2012 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellows Annual Conference, New York, NY, May 2012 New Horizons in Economic and Social Rights Monitoring, Madrid, Spain, March 2012 Endow the Future, Responsible Endowments Coalition, New York, NY, March 2012 Korea Foundation Global Seminar on Global Economic Governance, Seoul, Korea, February 2012 Association for Law, Property, and Society Annual Meeting, Washington DC, February 2012 Dow Jones Indexes Global Economic Outlook Annual Media Briefing, New York, NY, January 2012 Extractives for Development Workshop, World Bank, Washington DC, January 2012 The Economist s Annual Buttonwood Gathering, New York, NY, October 2011 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Yale University, November 2010 Quantitative Assessment of Human Rights in Development, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, May 2010 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2010 4
International Institute for Law and Justice Scholars Conference, New York University School of Law, March 2010 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, University of Southern California School of Law, November 2009 The Practices of Human Rights, The New School, New York, September 2009 Human Rights and Human Development, University of Pavia Institute for Advanced Study, Italy, June 2009 Climate Change: Financing Green Development, NYU in Abu Dhabi, May 2009 Eastern Economics Association, Annual Meeting, New York, March 2009 11 th Annual Conference on the State of Human Rights in Brazil, Brasilia, December 2008 Economic & Social Rights Experts Meeting, Canadian International Development Agency, New York, June 2008 United Nations Development Program: Human Development Reports Office, New York, May 2008 Symposium on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights, New York Law School, February 2008 INTERNATIONAL FIELD WORK FIJI, 2007 and 2008-2009 Examined collective governance of customary fisheries. Evaluated socio-economic impacts of collective ownership of common pool resources. Assessed the de jure and de facto conditions that facilitate successful implementation of locally managed protected areas. Investigated the interaction between formal law and informal social norms. KENYA, 2007 Worked in Maasai communities to assess the poverty reduction impacts of enterprise ownership structures and revenue sharing arrangements in the wildlife tourism industry. Focused on conservation incentives, distributional concerns, and differential opportunities for women. Research framework designed to analyze institutional incentives to promote propoor development in wildlife rich pastoral regions. CUBA/ECUADOR, 1999 Examined the economic development impact of U.S. trade policy in Latin America, focusing specifically on the floral export business in Ecuador versus the cigar and tobacco industry in Cuba as a comparative case study. BAR ADMISSIONS / PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS State Bar of New York, Admitted 2006 American Economic Association American Law & Economics Association American Constitutional Society International Studies Association Society for Empirical Legal Studies 5