Michael Fakhri
Assistant Professor
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Michael Fakhri's academic interests are in international economic law with an emphasis on questions of development. He is currently working on a historical examination of the sugar trade and its relationship to the creation of multilateral trade institutions. He is a resident scholar for 2011-2012 at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics where he will interrogate the theme of "Capitalism and the Common Good."
Professor Fakhri's other research interests include Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), trade and development in the Middle East, public international law, international legal history, legal accounts of imperialism, and law and globalization. He has given talks at Harvard Law School, Princeton University, Brown University, Cornell University, London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, and the American University in Cairo.
Professor Fakhri received his doctorate from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, LL.M. from Harvard Law School, LL.B. from Queen's University, and B.Sc in biology from the University of Western Ontario. Prior to pursuing graduate studies, Professor Fakhri began his legal career with one of Canada's leading business law firms, later shifting to a practice in social justice advocacy.
See also Professor Fakhri's curriculum vitae.
Sample publications include:
- The 1937 International Sugar Agreement: Neo-Colonial Cuba and Economic Aspects of the League of Nations, 24:4 Leiden Journal of International Law 89 (2011)
- Reconstruing WTO Legitimacy Debates, 2:1 Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law 64 (2011)
- Images of the Arab World and Middle East, Debates About Development and Regional Integration, 28:3 Wisconsin International Law Journal 390 (2011)
- Law as the Interplay of Ideas, Institutions, and Interests: Using Polanyi (and Foucault) to Ask TWAIL Questions, 10 International Community Law Review 455 (2008)
