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Joel Richard
Paul

Albert Abramson Professor of Law

  • Office 312-333
  • Email Address paulj@uchastings.edu
  • Telephone (415) 565-4638
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Biography

Professor Joel R. Paul teaches and writes about constitutional law, international business and trade, and foreign relations and national security law.

Professor Paul has taught on the law faculties at U.C. Berkeley, Yale, Leiden, University of Connecticut, and American University.

Professor Paul has lectured or published in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He is the author of “Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution” and “Without Precedent: How John Marshall Invented American Diplomacy.” In his spare time Professor Paul writes stage plays and screenplays.

As the former Associate Academic Dean for Global Programs, he initiated the law school’s 18 global exchange programs and joint degrees, LL.M. program, summer program, and foreign visiting scholars program.

Professor Paul attended Amherst College, B.A. History, Economics and Political Science; the London School of Economics and Political Science; and Harvard Law School, J.D.; Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, MALD in international law and economic development.

Paul was the first openly gay man hired on a U.S. law faculty. He has drafted federal trade legislation, advised the Clinton presidential campaign on trade policy, challenged the military’s exclusion of gay service members and brought other first amendment cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, testified before Congress, managed political campaigns, and worked on affordable housing policies. In 1991 Professor Paul corroborated the testimony of Professor Anita Hill before the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas.

Courses Taught: Constitutional Law I and II, International Business Transactions, International Trade Law and Policy, Seminar on Global Inequalities, National Security and Foreign Relations Law, and Public International Law.

Expertise

  • Constitutional Law
  • International Law
  • Presidential Powers

Education

  1. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

    MALD, International Law and Economic Development

  2. Harvard Law School

    J.D., Law

  3. The London School of Economics and Political Science

    General Course in International Economics and International Relations

  4. Amherst College

    B.A., History, Economics, and Political Science

Selected Scholarship

  1. BOOKS

  2. Indivisible: The Rise of American Nationalism, 1812-1860

    Penguin Random House (forthcoming)

  3. Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times 2018

    Penguin Random House Press / Riverhead Books

  4. Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution 2009

    Penguin Press / Riverhead Books

  5. Es Realmente Libre El Libre Comercio? ("Is Free Trade Really Free") 2006

    Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Instituto Pensar

  6. Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy 1996

    Westview Press

  7. ARTICLES

  8. The Cost of Free Trade 2015

    Brown Journal of World Affairs

  9. The Myth of Economic Interdependence 2009

    Waseda University Journal of Comparative Law

  10. The Transformation of International Comity 2008

    Law & Contemporary Problems

  11. The Rule of Law is Not for Everyone 2006

    24 Berkeley Journal of International Law 221

  12. The Bush Doctrine: Breaking or Making Customary International Law 2004

    27 Hastings International & Comporative Law Review 457

  13. Do International Trade Institutions Promote Economic Growth and Development? 2003

    44 Virginia Journal of International Law 285

  14. Resisting Culture 2003

    16 Leiden Journal of International Law 919

  15. Holding Multinational Corporations Responsible Under International Law 2001

    Hastings International and Comparative Law Review

  16. Cultural Resistance to Global Governance 2000

    22 Michigan Journal of International Law 1

  17. The Geopolitical Constitution: Executive Expediency and Executive Agreements 1998

    86 California Law Review 671

  18. Free Trade, Regulatory Competition and the Autonomous Market Fallacy 1995

    1 Columbia Journal of European Law 29

  19. The Isolation of Private International Law 1988

    Wisconsin International Law Journal

  20. Comity in International Law 1991

    32 Harvard International Law Journal 1

Courses

  1. Practice of International Law
  2. International Trade Law and Policy
  3. Constitutional Law II
  4. International Business Transactions

Links

  1. Publications
  2. My Website

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