Professor Kathleen Claussen’s 2020 article "The International Claims Trade" has been awarded the Smit-Lowenfeld Prize by the International Arbitration Club of New York. She was officially presented with the Prize virtually in January. The prize recognizes the outstanding article published in the previous year on any aspect of international arbitration and honors the late Hans Smit of Columbia Law School and Andreas F. Lowenfeld of New York University School of Law, both renowned scholars in international litigation and arbitration. Claussen's article analyzed claims trading doctrines used by arbitral tribunals and domestic courts to explore how international claims trading could be treated as an accepted feature of international investment law.
Professor Claussen was also one of the three researchers invited by the Administrative Conference of the United States to conduct a study on the use of alternative dispute resolution in federal agencies. The study concluded, and the nearly 100-page report has been made public (here). Two Miami Law students were deeply engaged in the project, as noted in a footnote on page 2. They joined in several virtual agency meetings and carried out some heavy lifting on the background of ADR in the federal system.
Additionally, Professor Claussen served three weeks as a guest professor at the University of Zurich Faculty of Law in Fall 2021.
Professor Claussen’s primary scholarly interests include international law, especially trade, investment, international business, and labor; dispute settlement and procedure; national security and cybersecurity law; and administrative law issues surrounding U.S. foreign relations.
Professor Claussen holds several leadership positions within international law and arbitration professional associations. Among other activities, she is co-chair of the American Society of International Law International Economic Law Interest Group, a member of the ASIL Executive Council & Executive Committee, co-chair of the Junior International Law Scholars Association, and a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. She is one of three experts recruited by the Administrative Conference of the United States to study alternative dispute resolution in federal agency programs. In 2021, she was appointed co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Economic Law.
