Shruti Rana

Phone:

(812) 856-7238

Email:

ranas@iu.edu

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Professor Rana joined the Hamilton Lugar School faculty in 2017, focusing on international law and practice and human rights law. She is also the director of the International Law and Institutions degree program, a joint endeavor by HLS and IU’s Maurer School of Law. Rana is legal scholar who has published widely in top international law and general law journals, and has been a PI on several major grants including most recently a Discovery Project grant from the Australian Ministry of Education.

As senior assistant dean for curricular and undergraduate affairs, Rana works to develop and strengthen curricular offerings for undergraduate students and expand experiential and global learning opportunities. She is also the Hamilton Lugar School's Diversity Officer and oversees the school’s recruitment, professional development and career services, and Living-Learning Center teams. She was instrumental in the creation of the Global Leaders and Professionals Program, which prepares HLS students for post-graduate careers, as well as the development of the International Law and Institutions degree program.

Rana has a broad range of leadership and other experience in academia, legal practice and international human rights organizations. Prior to joining the IU faculty, she served as Of Counsel at Brooks Pierce LLP, where she helped grow the firm’s international law practice, and she has also served as a Social Affairs Officer at the United Nations, where she worked on international women’s human rights issues and treaties. She was a professor at the University of Maryland Law School, where she co-developed the school’s international law clinic, and was also a visiting professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Rana’s other legal experience includes serving as a judicial law clerk for the Hon. James R. Browning at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and practicing in the areas of international, corporate and regulatory law at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, DC and Quinn Emanuel LLP in San Francisco, CA. As a member of the HLS faculty, Rana has led annual student delegations to the UN's Commission on the Status of Women, and has worked with students and NGOs to produce and publish human rights reports.

Rana is a frequent speaker and author on international and comparative law topics, including international women’s rights, corporate social responsibility, business technology policies and regulation, and immigration and refugee law. She recently testified before the Indiana legislature on women’s rights and reproductive health legislation and has filed a number of Supreme Court and federal court amicus and merits briefs on immigration and refugee law issues.

Rana is also an active member of the Bloomington community, having served on a number of community organizations and boards. This includes a mayoral appointment to the City of Bloomington Commission on the Status of Women.

Educational Background

• J.D., Columbia Law School
• M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science
• B.A., University of California, Berkeley

Representative Publications

Recent Human Rights Reports

• How to Use Treaty Bodies’ Concluding Observations to Advance Women’s Land and Property Rights, with the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2020)

Recent Amicus Briefs

• Brief of Seven Immigration/Administrative Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, U.S. Supreme Court, Nielsen v. Preap, August 13, 2018
• Brief of Administrative Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner, O.L.B.D. v. Sessions/Whittaker/Barr, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, March 11, 2019
• Brief of Administrative Law Professors as Amici Curiae In support of Plaintiffs, Grace v. Sessions, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, September 28, 2018

Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Other Works

• Seismic Shifts: The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Gendered Fault Lines and Implications for International Law, 39 AUSTRALIAN YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (peer-reviewed) (forthcoming 2021)
• Addressing Asian (In)Visibility in the Academy, SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW (Invited Symposium article) (with Cyra Akila Choudhury) (forthcoming 2022)
• Crisis, Rupture and Structural Change:Re-imagining Global Learning and Engagement While Staying in Place During the Covid-19 Pandemic, FIU LAW REVIEW (Covid Care Crisis Symposium Issue, Invited article) (with Hamid Ekbia) (forthcoming 2021)
• The Pandemic Paradox in International Law, 114 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 598 (2020) (peer-reviewed) (with Peter Danchin et al.).
• Navigating the Backlash Against Global Law and Institutions, 38 AUSTRALIAN YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 33 (2020) (peer-reviewed) (with Peter Danchin et al.)
• The Populist Backlash to Gender Equality in International Fora: Analyzing Resistance & Response at the United Nations, 35 MARYLAND JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 156 (2019).
• The Global Battle over Copyright Reform: Developing the Rule of Law in the Chinese Business Context, 53 STANFORD JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 89 (2017). 
• The Emergence of New Corporate Responsibility Regimes in India and China, 14 U.C. DAVIS BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL 175 (2014) (Invited article) (with Afra Afsharipour);
• Philanthropic Innovation and Creative Capitalism: A Historical and Comparative Perspective on Social Entrepreneurship, 64 ALABAMA LAW REVIEW 1121(2013).
• Chevron Without the Courts? The Supreme Court’s Recent Chevron Jurisprudence Through an Immigration Lens, 26 GEORGETOWN IMMIGRATION LAW JOURNAL 313 (2012).
• “Streamlining” the Rule of Law: How the Department of Justice Is Undermining Judicial Review of Agency Action, 2009 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 829 (2009).
• Fulfilling Technology’s Promise: Enforcing the Rights of Women Caught in the Global High-Tech Underclass, 15 BERKELEY WOMEN’S LAW JOURNAL 272 (2000).
• Restricting the Rights of Poor Mothers: An International Human Rights Critique of “Workfare”, 33 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF LAW & SOCIAL PROBLEMS 393 (2000).
• Pro Bono Legal Services for Human Rights, Iangel Pro Bono Whitepaper (with Nancy Newman and Mary Maloney) (1st ed. 2015; 2nd ed. 2016); available at: http://www.iangel.org/pro-bono-legal-services-for-human-rights-2016/.
• Taxation and Incentives in the Business Enterprise, in ENTERPRISE LAW: CONTRACTS, MARKETS, AND LAWS IN THE US AND JAPAN (Edward Elgar Press, 2014) (with David Gamage) (Book Chapter).
• Immigration Law’s New Frontiers, 75 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL FURTHERMORE 19 (2014).
• Corporate Social Responsibility In India, CONFERENCE BOARD DIRECTOR NOTES (2014) (with Afra Afsharipour).
• Teaching Amidst Transformation: Integrating Global Perspectives on the Financial Crisis in the Classroom, 8 JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY LAW 197 (2013).
• The Emergence of the New Chinese Banking System: Implications for Global Politics and the Future of Financial Reform, 27 MARYLAND JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 215 (2012).
• “Streamlining” the Rule of Law: How the Department of Justice Is Undermining Judicial Review of Agency Action, 2009 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 829 (2009), reprintedin30 IMMIGR. & NAT’LITY L. REV. 715 (2009).
• Touched by Greatness, 73 Montana Law Review 21 (2012).
• Citizenship Under Fire: The Forging of the New Americans, 47 TULSA LAW REVIEW 31 (2011). 
• From Making Money Without Doing Evil to Doing Good Without Handouts: The Google.org Experiment in Philanthropy, 3 JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY LAW 87 (2008).
• Fulfilling Technology’s Promise: Enforcing the Rights of Women Caught in the Global High-Tech Underclass, 15 BERKELEY WOMEN’S LAW JOURNAL 272 (2000), reprintedin  WOMEN, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: A READER IN FEMINIST SCIENCE STUDIES 322 (Mary Dwyer et al. eds., 2d ed., Routledge 2008).
• America’s Forgotten Families: Voices of Welfare Reform,2000 NATIONAL REPORT OF THE WELFARE & HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING PROJECT (Publication of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee,2000). ​