Professor Alveena Shah's research examines economic law, with a particular focus on the colonial legacies embedded in international market structures and international economic law. Her scholarship explores financial markets and related legal regimes through the perspectives of critical race theory, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), and feminist political economy.
Before joining Pitt Law, Professor Shah served as a visiting professor at Tulane University School of Law and practiced as a law clerk in the Global Finance group at Dechert LLP. She earned her BA from Boston University and her JD from UCLA School of Law, where she concentrated in International and Comparative Law, Critical Race Studies, and Public Interest Law and Policy. During law school, she also served as Editor-in-Chief of the UCLA Law Review.
- JD, UCLA
- BA, Boston University
