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With a Bachelor of Arts in international relations, Karen Halverson Cross lived for one year in Taipei, Taiwan, where she developed a legal writing program for Baker & McKenzie's Chinese legal staff. As a Harvard Law student, she served as an editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Thereafter, a Fulbright scholarship took her to Yugoslavia to study economic reform in Eastern Europe.
Professor Cross returned to the U.S. to practice with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, focusing on international joint ventures, project finance, and various projects with the Russian Government. The U.S. State Department awarded her a summer grant in 1996 to conduct research on Russian methods of dispute resolution at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
She also has taught a course on China and the World Trade Organization (WTO) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her recent publications address the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, developing country participation in the WTO, and China's accession to the WTO. Professor Cross recently was selected as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair and will teach contract law and international business transactions at the Catholic University of Portugal.
Professor Cross joined the faculty in 1994. She teaches Contracts,
Alternative Means of Dispute Resolution, International Commercial
Dispute Resolution, and International Business Transactions.
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