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Anita Ramasastry
Seattle, WA (98105)
Anita Ramasastry is an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Shidler Center for Law, Commerce & Technology at the University of Washington, where she has worked since 1996. Her research interests include commercial law, banking and payments systems, law and development, and comparative law.
She has been recognized by the students as the Philip A. Trautman Professor of the Year in 1997, 2003, and 2006. In 1998, she received the UW Distinguished Teaching Award and in 2002, she received the UW Outstanding Public Service Award for her work with battered immigrant women and children.
She served as a staff attorney at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an associate attorney at the international law firm of White & Case in Budapest, Hungary, and assistant professor of law at the Central European University in Budapest, founded by financier George Soros. She was the symposium editor for the Harvard International Law Journal and has clerked for Justice Alan B. Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
In 1998-99, she served as a special attorney and advisor to a special claims resolution tribunal in Zurich, Switzerland, established to resolve claims to World War II-era bank accounts. She has been a visiting professor and Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary Westfield College, University of London. Professor Ramasastry served as a visiting scholar at the British Financial Services Authority. During the fall of 2001, she was a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
Professor Ramasastry is a commissioner and chair of the Washington state delegation to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. She has been a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program, the European Commission, The Open Society Institute and the International Commission of Jurists.
She earned her bachelors’ and law degree at Harvard University, and a Masters’ degree at the University of Sydney.
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