Professor Gordon’s scholarly interests focus on international law. She is the author
of several articles on the various roles the United Nations plays in developing
countries, including: Saving Failed States: Sometimes a Neocolonialist Notion, 12 Am. U.
J. Int’l & Pol'y 903 (1997); Intervention by the United Nations: Iraq, Somalia,
and Haiti, 31 Tex. Int'l L.J. 43 (1996); Some Legal Problems with Trusteeship, 28
Cornell Int’l L.J. 301, 306 (1995); United Nations Intervention in Internal Conflicts:
Iraq, Somalia, and Beyond, 15 Mich. J. Int'l L. 519 (1994). Her latest article,
Growing Constitutions, was published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of
Constitutional Law. 

Professor Gordon has represented the island nation of Vanuatu at the United Nations and
served as the legal adviser to the island's Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
She also co-authored the United Nations Council for Namibia's study addressing
Namibia's violations of U.N. decrees and resolutions. 

Professor Gordon received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, and her LL.M.
from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. She was a Riesenfeld Fellow
in Public International Law at the University of California at Berkeley. She was also a
Revson Fellowship Scholar at The City College of the City University of New York Center
for Legal Education & Urban Policy, where she developed and taught a two-semester
course on international economic law from the perspective of developing countries. 

Professor Gordon was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of
International Law and the American Bar Association International Law and Practice
Section. She is also a member of the American Bar Association Committee on World Order
Under Law.

International Law

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Deconstructing Development (with Jon H. Sylvester), Wisconsin International Law Journal (2004)

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Deconstructing Development (with Jon H. Sylvester), Wisconsin International Law Journal (2004)

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Climate Change and the Poorest Nations: Further Reflections on Global Inequality, University of Colorado Law Review (2007)
 

Mandates, Encyclopedia of Public International Law (2007)
 

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Contemplating the WTO From the Margins, Berkeley La Raza Law Journal (2006)
 

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Sub-Saharan Africa and the Brave New World of the WTO Multilateral Trade Regime, Berkeley Journal of African American Law and Policy (2006)
 

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Deconstructing Armed Humanitarian Intervention, a Review of Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law by Anne Orford, The George Washington International Law Review (2004)
 

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