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Perry Bechky

Perry Bechky is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut. Before turning to legal education, he practiced international law in Washington, DC for fourteen years. He also taught as an adjunct professor at the law schools at Virginia, Howard, and George Mason, as well as the Stanford-in-Washington program for undergraduates. He has taught courses on civil procedure, international business transactions, international investment law, and international trade law, as well as moot courts about international arbitration, human rights, and public international law.

Professor Bechky's research interests focus on international investment law, especially the relationships between international investment law and other policy interests. As an example of this, his current projects concern the movement among state and local governments to divest their investments companies doing business in Sudan.

Professor Bechky drafted the U.S.-Hong Kong Policy Act. He is a Senior Advisor to the International Law Institute, and he previously was a fellow at the Salzburg Seminar, research fellow at the Fair Trade Center in Tokyo, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Bechky holds his A.B. (with honors) from Stanford University and he earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was the managing editor of the Journal of Chinese Law and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Recent Courses

• Civil Procedure II (Spring 2009)
• International Business Trans (Spring 2009)
• Civil Procedure I (Fall 2008)
• International Investment Law (Spring 2008)
• International Business Trans (Fall 2007)