Professor Claire R. Kelly is an Associate Professor of Law and Associate Director
for The Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law at Brooklyn
Law School. Her scholarship primarily focuses on public and private international law.
Professor Kelly’s most recent article, “Power, Linkage and Accommodation: The WTO As An
International Actor And Its Influence On Other Actors And Regimes” was published in
Berkeley Journal of International Law (2006). Other law review articles have appeared in
the Virginia Journal of International Law, Michigan Journal of International Law, the
Minnesota Law Review, New York University Journal of International Law & Politics and
the Arizona Law Review. She has served on several bar committees as well as on the Board
of Directors of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association (CITBA). She chaired
CITBA’s Subcommittee on Trade Adjustment Assistance and co-authored its Primer on
Litigating Trade Adjustment Assistance Cases. Her background includes work as an
associate at Coudert Brothers, where she advised companies on governmental compliance and
litigated a broad variety of international trade matters. She also serves as the faculty
advisor for the Brooklyn Journal of International Law.

Articles

Institutional Alliances and Derivative Legitimacy, 29 Mich. J. Int'l L. 605 (2008)
 
An Evolutionary Endeavour: Teaching Scholarly Writing to Law Students (forthcoming), 12 Legal Writing Institute (2007)
 

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Power, Linkage and Accommodation: The WTO as an International Actor and Its Influence on Other Actors and Regimes, 24 Berkeley J. Int’l L. 79 (2006)
 

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The Dangers of Daubert Creep in the Regulatory Realm [Science for Judges V: Risk Assessment Data: Disclosure and Protection] (reprinted in 14 J. Nat'l Assoc. of Admin. L. Judges (Fall 2006)), 14 J.L. & Pol’y 165 (2006)
 

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Enmeshment as a Theory of Compliance, 37 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 303 (2005)
 

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Books

Primer on Trade Adjustment Assistance Cases , Customs & International Trade Bar Association, Subcommittee on Trade Adjustment Assistance (2005)
 

Unpublished Papers

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The Politics of International Economic Law: Legitimacy and the UNCITRAL Working Methods., ExpressO (2009)
Abstract The process of international lawmaking is, in part, a function of both politics and...
 

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Legitimacy and Law-Making Alliances, ExpressO (2008)

Abstract Law-making institutions seek legitimacy to secure compliance with the norms that they generate. In...