Emilie Hafner-Burton is associate professor and director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her research examines ways to improve compliance with international law, protections for human rights, and a wide variety of other topics related to law, economics and regulation. She has published widely on these and other subjects.
She is author of Making Human Rights a Reality (Princeton University Press, 2013) and Forced to Be Good: Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights (Cornell University Press, 2009).
Previously, she served as a professor of politics and public policy at Princeton University, where she held joint appointments in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School for International and Public Affairs. She also served as research scholar at Stanford Law School and fellow of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC).
In addition, she has been a postdoctoral prize research fellow at Nuffield College at Oxford University, a recipient of MacArthur fellowships at Stanford University's CISAC, and an affiliate at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford.
She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
