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Claire Osborn-Wright

By October 17, 2024

Professor Osborn-Wright specializes in property, environmental, international, and domestic violence law. Her work has been published in various journals, including the Akron Law Journal and the Hastings Women’s Law Journal. In 2000, she became a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), contributing to the ALI’s World Trade Organization (WTO) Project.

She has served as a visiting scholar at the WTO in Geneva and the Chinese Rule of Law Institute in Hangzhou. Additionally, she has taught international law at the University of Nice Law School and Zhejiang University.

For sixteen years, Professor Wright taught at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she established the Domestic Violence Project and the Trade Monitor Institute. Before that, she taught at Stanford Law School and UC San Diego, and was a partner at Baker & McKenzie and Ernst & Young LLP.

She has recently taught legal writing at the University of San Diego School of Law, and property law at Western New England and UC Irvine schools of law. After law school, she clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit under then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.