Robert B. Ahdieh is an Associate Professor of Law at Emory Law School. A graduate of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Yale Law School, Ahdieh served as law clerk to Judge James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, before his selection for the Honor's Program in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. While still in law school, Ahdieh published his Princeton undergraduate thesis, which remains one of the seminal treatments of the constitutional transformation of post-Soviet Russia: Russia's Constitutional Revolution - Legal Consciousness and the Transition to Democracy. Ahdieh's work has also appeared in the Michigan Law Review, the New York University Law Review, and the Southern California Law Review, among other publications. Ahdieh served as a student leader of the Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, and as a member and chair of the board of the Tahirih Justice Center, a non-profit organization committed to serving the legal, medical, and social needs of immigrant and refugee women and girls. Ahdieh's scholarly interests revolve around questions of regulatory design. His particular emphasis has been the utility and function of various non-traditional modes of regulation. These include non-coercive forms of state regulation, the influence of groups on the formation and evolution of contracting and other social norms, and other mechanisms of market coordination. Game theoretic accounts of the latter patterns are of particular interest. Ahdieh has explored these issues in a variety of transactional areas, including contracts, corporate law and securities regulation, and international trade law.
Human rights courses: LAW 717 – International Trade Law & Policy: offered every two years, spring semester; LAW 805 – Emerging Markets Law: offered annually, spring semester. |
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