Ileana M. Porras

Areas of Interest: international law and legal theory, environmental law, globalization, international trade, corporate form and sovereignty, and religious freedom and state secularity.

Ileana M. Porras, formerly visiting professor of law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, is a visiting professor of International Studies during the fall semester of 2008. She also has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris and Boston College. She was formerly a professor at the College of Law at the University of Utah. While at Brown, she will teach courses on international law and international environmental law.

Porras received her JD from Harvard Law School, her MPhil from the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and her BA in English and Philosophy from the University of Leeds. Among her publications is Beyond 'Globalization': A Call for the Reinvention of International Environmental Law in the 21st Century (in Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 2006)