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Felipe Ford Cole

Assistant Professor

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Felipe Ford Cole is a comparative legal historian of the political and institutional relations of local, subnational, and national governments with theÌýcreditors that lend them money and the investors that direct capital into their economies. Cole’s research is situated broadly within the fields of public international law, international investment law, and local government law and focuses on the U.S. and Latin America.

Cole’s current research projects exploreÌýthe evolution of the foundational doctrines of international investment law, the neglected history of Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy, and the transformation of theories of sovereignty in U.S. federalism and international law wrought by the legal enshrinement of creditor and investor expectations. Cole’s work has been published in theÌýUniversity of Chicago Law Review,ÌýtheÌýUniversity of Chicago Law Review Online, and in edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.

Before coming to ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ Law, Cole was a Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Cole holds a Ph.D. in History from Northwestern University, a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, an MPhil in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. in History from New York University.Ìý

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