Vera Korzun

Vera Korzun

Title: Professor of Law
Office: Room 226 C. Blake McDowell Law Building
Phone: 330-972-6751
Email: vkorzun@uakron.edu
SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=736596
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2578-2945
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Biography

Vera Korzun is Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Research & Development at the University of Akron School of Law. She teaches public international law, international business transactions, international negotiations, contracts, and UCC-sales. Professor Korzun researches and writes in international investment law and dispute resolution, international commercial arbitration, and corporate and business law. Her scholarship has appeared in leading international law journals, such as the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Berkeley Journal of International Law, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, and Fordham International Law Journal. For her article Enforcing Soft Law in International Investment Arbitration, 56 Vanderbilt J. Transnat'l L. 1 (2023), Professor Korzun received The 2024 Thomas G. Byers Memorial Award for the Outstanding Faculty Scholarly Publication from the Akron Law Alumni Association (ALAA). For her teaching, Professor Korzun was recognized as the Finalist for the 2024 Outstanding Professor of the Year Award.

Professor Korzun is active with professional organizations in the areas of international, comparative, and foreign law. She is a member of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA), Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), and the Academic Forum on ISDS. She serves on the Finance Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) and previously chaired the ASCL Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) and the ASIL Midwest Interest Group.

Prior to joining Akron Law, Professor Korzun worked for Fordham Law School in New York City, where she taught international commercial arbitration, investor-State arbitration, comparative law, and partnership and LLC law. Before that, she worked for Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands and for six years taught as Associate Professor of Law at the leading University in Belarus. As an attorney, she volunteered for a district attorney’s office in the United States and interned with the European Commission in Brussels and the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs in New York.

Professor Korzun received her Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from the University of Michigan, where she was a Michigan Grotius Fellow. Prior to that, she earned her master’s degree in law and economics, cum laude, from the University of Hamburg and her LL.M. degree in International Business Law, with merit, from Central European University. Her Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) degree is from Fordham Law School and her Ph.D. in Law is from Belarusian State University, where she also earned her first degree in law.

Publications

Law Review Articles

Beyond the Name and Nationality: Who are the Claimants in Investment Arbitration?, 42 Berkeley Journal of International Law 1 (2024)

Rebalancing International Investment Law, 57 The International Lawyer 121-47 (2024)

For her article Enforcing Soft Law in International Investment Arbitration, 56 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1 (2023), Professor Korzun received The 2024 Thomas G. Byers Memorial Award for the Outstanding Faculty Scholarly Publication from the Akron Law Alumni Association (ALAA).

International Arbitration and Domestic Antitrust: Natural Progression or Random Alliance? 1 (1) Competition Policy International (CPI) Antitrust Chronicle - Arbitration & Antitrust 33 (July 2019) (invited submission)

Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss: How International Investment Law Changes Corporate Law and Governance, 40 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 189 (2018)

The Right to Regulate in Investor-State Arbitration: Slicing and Dicing Regulatory Carve-Outs, 50 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 355 (2017)

Arbitrating Antitrust Claims: From Suspicion to Trust, 48 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 867 (2016)

An Empirical Survey of International Commercial Arbitration Cases in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1970–2014, 39 Fordham International Law Journal 307 (2015), with Thomas H. Lee

Book Chapters

Corporate Interest and the Right to Regulate in Investor-State Arbitration, in Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers 2015 (Arthur W. Rovine ed., 2017)

Belarus, in Sources of State Practice in International Law (Ralph F. Gaebler and Alison A. Shea eds., 2d ed. 2014)

 

Education

  • Fordham Law School, New York, New York, Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.), 2016
  • University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Master of Laws (LL.M.), 2009 Michigan Grotius Fellow
  • Belarusian State University, Ph.D. in Law, International and European Law, 2007
  • University of Hamburg, European Master in Law and Economics, cum laude, 2006
  • Central European University, Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Business Law, with merit,2003
  • Belarusian State University, J.D., with excellence, 2001