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Claire Osborne-Wright

Visiting Professor

cosbornw@nova.edu

Education:

J.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude
B.A., Smith College, summa cum laude

Professor Osborn-Wright’s scholarly writings focus on property, environmental, international, international trade, and domestic violence law. Her scholarship has appeared in numerous books and journals, including the Akron Law Journal, the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, the Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law, the Hastings Women’s Law Journal, and the Fordham Environmental Law Review. In 2000, Professor Wright was elected a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), where she has worked primarily on the ALI’s World Trade Organization (WTO) Project.

She has been a visiting scholar at the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland on two occasions, and the Chinese Rule of Law Institute in Hangzhou, China on one occasion. In addition, on numerous occasions, she has taught international law classes during the summer at the University of Nice Law School, in Nice, France, and at Zhejiang University (Guanghua) College of Law in Hangzhou, China.

Professor Wright taught at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, in San Diego, California, for sixteen years, and she was awarded tenure there in 2010. While at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, she received numerous awards for her teaching and established two innovative clinical programs, the Domestic Violence Project and the Trade Monitor Institute. The Domestic Violence Project provided pro bono legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, and the Trade Monitor Institute assisted developing countries to assert their rights in the WTO.

Prior to commencing full-time teaching at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Professor Wright taught international trade law at Stanford Law School and the University of California, San Diego. She also was a full partner at the law firm of Baker & McKenzie, where she practiced property and international trade law for a number of years, and a full partner and the Director of the WTO Center at the consulting firm of Ernst & Young LLP. Most recently, Professor Wright has taught legal writing and essay writing for the bar at the University of San Diego School of Law, property and wills & trusts at Western New England School of Law, and property and remedies at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.

Following her graduation from law school, Professor Wright clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, primarily for then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Curriculum Vitae