Globally Engaged Scholarship
The University of Cincinnati College of Law has a strong reputation for globally engaged scholarship, with many of our faculty engaging with international and comparative law in their research and writing. This work spans fields as diverse as civil procedure, corporate law, environmental law, and labor law. The Cincinnati Center for the Global Practice of Law has compiled some representative examples of this faculty scholarship, which you can find at the links below.
Jennifer Bard, A Taxonomy for Analyzing Legal and Ethical Issues Arising When Conducting Human Subject Research Outside the Borders of One’s Own Country, 37 Hous. J. Int’l L. 1 (2015).
Jennifer Bard, Closing the Gaps in Human Subject Research Law: Regulating Clinical Research Conducted Outside of the United States, 21 Annals Health L. 201 (2012).
Kristie A. Bluett, Marriage Equality Under the ICCPR: How the Human Rights Committee Got It Wrong and Why It’s Time to Get It Right, 35 Am. U. Int’l L. Rev. 605 (2020).
Kristie A. Bluett et al., The Promise of a New Constitution – Achieving Equal Inheritance Rights for Women in Swaziland: A Human Rights Report and Proposed Legislation, 40 Geo. J. Int’l L. 441 (2009).
Jacob Katz Cogan, Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law, 119 Am. J. Int’l L. 313 (2025).
Monica Hakimi & Jacob Katz Cogan, The End of the U.S.-Backed International Order and the Future of International Law, 119 Am. J. Int’l L. 279 (2025).
Haider Ala Hamoudi, Between Islamic Ideals and Regulatory Realities: Navigating Insider Trading Regimes Within the Arab World, in Research Handbook on Insider Trading 327 (Stephen M. Bainbridge ed., 2025).
Haider A. Hamoudi, Islamic Law from the Internal Point of View, 2 J. Islamic L. 226 (2021).
Katharine V. Jackson, Towards a Stakeholder-Shareholder Theory of Corporate Governance: A Comparative Analysis, 7 Hastings Bus. L.J. 309 (2011).
Bert Lockwood is the editor of the multi-disciplinary academic journal Human Rights Quarterly for the Johns Hopkins University Press, available at https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/human-rights-quarterly.
Bert Lockwood is the Series Editor for Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, a book series for the University of Pennsylvania Press that has published over 180 books, available at https://www.pennpress.org/search-result/?series=pennsylvania-studies-in-human-rights.
Anne Marie Lofaso, Workers’ Rights as Natural Human Rights, 71 U. Miami L. Rev. 565 (2017).
Bradford C. Mank, Book Review, 46 Hum. Rts. Q. 734 (2024) (reviewing Mario G. Aguilera, Environmental Human Rights: New Thinking from Latin America and the Caribbean (2023)).
Bradford Mank & Chiddy Ukonne, Book Review, 36 Hum. Rts. Q. 258 (2014) (reviewing David R. Boyd, The Right to a Healthy Environment, Revitalizing Canada’s Constitution (2012)).
Michael E. Solimine, Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int’l L.J. 51 (1992).
Michael E. Solimine, Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgements in American Courts and the Limits of the Law Market Model, 23 Theoretical Inquiries Law 97 (2022).
Ryan Thoreson, Dignifying Queerness, 46 Cardozo L. Rev. 63 (2024).
Ryan Thoreson, Dignity Deferred: Supriyo v. Union of India and LGBTQ Rights, 15 J. Indian L. & Soc’y 1 (2024).
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Jennifer S. Bard
Professor of Law and Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Law
Areas of Interest: Health Law, Torts
Kristie Bluett
Associate Professor of Clinical Law | Director, Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic
Jacob Katz Cogan
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law | Faculty Director, Cincinnati Center for the Global Practice of Law, College of Law | Affiliate Faculty, Department of History
Areas of Interest: Comparative Law, Contracts, International Business, International Law, Legal History,
Haider Ala Hamoudi
Dean and Nippert Professor of Law, College of Law
Bert B. Lockwood
Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, College of Law
Areas of Interest: Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Human Rights
Anne Lofaso
Professor of Law, College of Law
Areas of interest: Labor Law, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, Constitutional Law, First Amendment, U.S. Supreme Court, Comparative and International Labor & Employment Law, Human Rights
Bradford C. Mank
James B. Helmer, Jr. Professor of Law, College of Law
Areas of Interest: Administrative Law, Environmental and Natural Resources Law, Property
Michael E. Solimine
Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law, College of Law
423 College of Law Building
Areas of Interest: Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, Conflict of Laws, Election Law, Federal Courts
Ryan Thoreson
Associate Professor of Law., College of Law
Areas of interest: Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law, Law and Sexuality, Torts