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Terra Lawson-Remer
Terra Lawson-Remer is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at The New School, where she serves as chair of the University’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, and Fellow for Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has previously served as Senior Advisor for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the first Obama administration. She earned her B.A. from Yale, and her J.D. and Ph.D. from New York University.

Research
Terra Lawson-Remer’s research focuses on opportunity and exclusion in the global economy. She examines the income and distributional effects of laws and institutions; development, poverty and inequality; natural resources and extractive industries; global economic governance and international economic law; economic & social rights; and property rights. She has written numerous academic and popular articles on these issues, and worked and conducted field studies in Latin America, North and East Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. Lawson-Remer is a co-creator of the Social & Economic Rights Fulfillment (SERF) index and author of the forthcoming book Fulfilling Economic & Social Rights (with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Susan Randolph, Oxford University Press). She has also co-authored Pathways to Freedom: Political and Economic Lessons from Democratic Transitions (with Isobel Coleman, Council on Foreign Relations Press).

Professional Positions
As Senior Policy Advisor for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Treasury, Lawson-Remer worked on economic governance challenges of the Arab Spring; cooperation with China on economic development in Africa; infrastructure investment in emerging economies; and regional integration, trade, and, foreign investment in East Africa.

Lawson-Remer previously held positions at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Latham & Watkins, Amnesty International, the Ethical Globalization Initiative, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and USAction, and served as a consultant for the World Bank and the United Nations.

Activism
A committed civic leader from a young age, Lawson-Remer has previously worked as an organizer, action coordinator, and strategist for several grassroots environmental and social justice movements and organizations.

While a teenager in San Diego, Lawson-Remer challenged the constitutionality of the city’s teen curfew law through an ACLU lawsuit, winning in the Ninth Circuit.

During undergraduate studies at Yale, Lawson-Remer organized for the United Farm Workers, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Student Labor Action Coalition, and United Students Against Sweatshops.

She later cofounded STARC (Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations), a national grassroots student organization that advocated for corporate responsibility in the face of increased globalization and greater public accountability by the World Bank, IMF, and WTO. While leading STARC, Lawson-Remer planned and participated in several national protests and demonstrations, and was arrested at the Battle in Seattle during the WTO meetings in 1999. Lawson-Remer was also on the coordinating committee that organized the first major antiwar mobilization against a unilateral US military response to 9/11, calling instead for a global partnership approach, drawing 80,000 participants to Washington D.C. on April 20, 2002.

While at NYU School of Law, Lawson-Remer worked with the Ruckus Society, the Rainforest Action Network, and Forest Ethics, and also founded Operation Sibyl to oppose the foreign policies of the Bush administration, directing the team that rappelled down the side of the Plaza Hotel two days before the 2004 Republican Convention in NYC to hang a 40x60 foot banner with the words “Truth” and “Bush” pointing in opposite directions, garnering international media coverage.

Personal Life
Lawson-Remer was born in San Diego, California, and graduated from La Jolla High School in 1996.

Academic Publications
"Security of Property Rights for Whom?," Oxford Development Studies (2014); "Property Rights and Power," Current History (2013);"Do Stronger Collective Property Rights Improve Household Welfare? Evidence from a Field Study in Fiji," World Development (2013); "Property Insecurity," Brooklyn Journal of International Law (2012); "Security of Property Rights for Whom?" UNU-WIDER (November 2011); "Property Rights, Growth, and Conflict," (under review); "Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index: Country Scores and Rankings," (with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Susan Randolph) Journal of Human Rights (August 2010); "An Index of Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment: Concept and Methodology," (with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Susan Randolph), Journal of Human Rights (September 2009); "A Role for the IFC in Integrating Environmental & Human Rights Standards into Core Project Covenants: A Case Study of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline Project," (Oliver DeSchutter, ed.), (Hart Publishing, 2007); "Integrating Environmental, Social and Governance Issues into Institutional Investment: A Handbook for Colleges and Universities," (with Lisa Sachs and Morgan Simon), (AIUSA and REC, eds.), (August 2007); "NAFTA, GATS, and the Propertization of Resources," New York University Environmental Law Journal (2006)