EducationB.A. (Honours), 1985, The University of the West Indies CoursesBusiness Associations, International Business Transactions, International Law, International Trade, Seminar on Illicit International Markets Bio
Karen E. Bravo joined the faculty in the summer of 2004. A Columbia Law School Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, from 1997-2001 she practiced corporate law with international law firms in New York and Massachusetts. Her practice areas included venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions and emerging and public company representation. Following her law firm tenure, she joined the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) in the Republic of Armenia, where she worked with domestic judiciary and advocates, and local and international NGOs on legal reform and education programs and strategies. While at Columbia Law School she was a staff member and articles editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems. In 2004, she received the Jerome Lipper Prize for outstanding achievement in the field of international law from NYU. Professor Bravo's research interests include regional integration, democratization and the rule of law and human trafficking. Publications
Books and Chapters |
Presentations "Indigenous People and Human Trafficking in the Caribbean" Caribbean Studies Association XXXIV Annual Conference, Centering the Caribbean in Caribbean Studies, Kingston, Jamaica, June 1-5, 2009 (Panel: Human Rights in the Caribbean) "Re-Framing and Re-Building Domestic And Global Social Contracts as a Path to Kenyan Reconciliation" Moi University – Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis International Symposium, Towards Kenyan National Dialogue, Healing and Reconciliation: Reform Issues in a Modern African State, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya, May 13 – 15, 2009 Conference, Junior International Law Scholars Association, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 13, 2008, Topic: Transborder Labor Liberalization: A Path to enforcement of the Global Social Contract for Labor? Workshop, Work, Employment and Industrial Relations in the New Social Contract, The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society in association with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, Rhodes House, Oxford, United Kingdom, October 30–31, 2008; Topic: Transborder Labor Liberalization: A Path to Enforcement of the Global Social Contract for Labor? Conference, Commemorating 1808: Fighting for the Right to Dream - 200th Anniversary of the Federal Prohibition on Importing Slaves, University of Toledo College of Law, Toledo, Ohio, October 24-25, 2008, Toledo, Ohio Topic: Exploring the Analogy between Modern Trafficking in Humans and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Faculty Forum, Southern Methodist University School of Law, Dallas, Texas, October 22, 2008 Topic: Free Labor! A Labor Liberalization Solution to Modern Trafficking in Humans Symposium, Human Trafficking: Global and National Responses to the Cries for Freedom, University of St. Thomas Law Journal, September 25, 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota Panel: Global Dynamics of Human Trafficking Topic: Follow the Money?: Does the International Fight Against Money Laundering Provide A Model for the International Fight Against Human Trafficking? Law and Society Association and Canadian Law and Society Association 2008 Joint Meeting, May 29-June 1, 2008, Montreal, Canada Panel: International Trade Regimes: Deconstructing Their Effects on Domestic Policy, Topic: Regional Trade Agreements and Labor Liberalization: (Lost) Opportunities for Experimentation? American Society of International Law 102nd Annual Meeting, April 9-12, 2008, Washington, D.C. Panel: New Voices: The Role of International Legal Institutions in Norm Development, Topic: Toward a Labor Liberalization Solution to Modern Trafficking in Humans The Changing Tide of Trade: The Social, Political and Environmental Implications of Regional Trade Agreements, St. Louis University School of Law Public Review Symposium, St. Louis Missouri, April 4, 2008: “Regional Trade Agreements and Labor Liberalization: (Lost) Opportunities for Experimentation?” Junior Faculty Regional Workshop, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law – St. Louis, Missouri, February 26, 2008: "Free Labor!? Toward a Labor Liberalization Solution to the Modern Traffic in Humans" Junior Faculty Exchange, Case Western Reserve School of Law – Cleveland, Ohio, February 8, 2008 Presentation: Toward a Labor Liberalization Solution to the Modern Traffic in Humans Panelist, New Voices in Human Rights: Toward a Labor Liberalization Solution to the Modern Traffic in Humans, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, January 2-6, 2008, New York, New York Moderator and Panelist: The Second Annual Protection Project Symposium: “Incorporating Trafficking in Persons in Human Rights Curricula in Universities in the United States and Abroad,” Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, November 27, 2007 Moderator and Panelist: “Seeing Through Other Eyes: Teaching and Experiencing Diversity in an Interdisciplinary Manner in the Higher Education Curriculum” at LatCrit XII, at Miami, Florida, October 4-6, 2007. NEPOC (Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference) 2007, September 14-15, 2007, The Southern New England School of Law, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts Topic: Exploring the Analogy between Modern Trafficking in Humans and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade American Association of Law Schools/American Society of International Law Joint Mid-Year Meeting (“What is Wrong with the Way We Teach International Law”), June 17-20, 2007, Vancouver, Canada Works in Progress Human Rights Panel Topic: Exploring the Analogy between the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Modern Traffic in Humans American Society of International Law 101st Annual Meeting, March 28-31, 2007, Washington, D.C. Panel: International Economic Law Research, Teaching & Practice: Report of the International Economic Law Interest Group Bretton Woods Conference Topic: Teaching International Economic Law in U.S. Law Schools 6th Amaker Public Interest Law & Social Justice Retreat, Bradford Woods, Indiana, February 25, 2007. Panel: Holistic Counseling and Advocacy for the Immigrant Community & International Human Rights & Gender Issues Topic: Modern Trafficking in Humans: Interrogating the Women's Rights Framework LatCrit XI, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, October 6-8, 2006. Presented paper: "Modern Trafficking in Humans and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Exploration of an Analogy" Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington, April 4, 2006. Presented Paper: "Smoke, Mirrors and the Joker in the Pack? On Transitioning to Democracy and the Rule of Law in Armenia" Edward C. Moore Symposium 2006, Indiana University Purdue Univeristy Indianapolis, February 24, 3006. topic: "Seeing Through Other Eyes: Teaching Diversity in the Upper Level Law School Curriculum" Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, American University Washington College of Law, January 27-28, 2006: Rule of Law and Democracy Transition in Post-Soviet Armenia Other Activities Co-Rapporteur - Workshop on the Future of Teaching International Economic Law, 2006 Annual Conference of the American Society of International Law's Interest Group on International Economic Law, Mount Washington Resort, New Hampshire, Nov. 9 - 11, 2006. 
Central Eurasian Studies Society 2006 Annual Conference, Univeristy of Michigan, September 28 - October 1, 2006. Edward C. Moore Symposium 2005, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, February 25, 2005 Topic: "Audio-visual and Role-Playing Methodologies in the Law School Classroom" 4th Annual Amaker Public Interest Law Retreat, Bradford Woods, Indiana, February 25 – 27, 2005 Panel: Trafficking in Persons Around the World: The Dark Side of International Trade Topic: Armenia: Dilemma of a Source (and Transit) Country |
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