J.D., Syracuse University College of Law, 2000
M.A., The Maxwell School of International Relations, 2000
LL.M., Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II), Paris, 2011
Diploma, University of Ghana School of Law, Post Graduate Study, 2017
Diploma, Swiss Arbitration Academy, 2014
Certificate, Universities Lucerne, Neuchâtel & Swiss Arbitration Academy, 2014
Certificat d'Aptitude à la Profession d'Avocat, Ecole de Formation Professionnelle des Barreaux de Paris, Paris, France, 2012
CAPA Art. 100 French Bar for Foreign Lawyers, Ecole de Formation Professionnelle des Barreaux de Paris, Paris, France, 2012
M.A., Middlebury College Language School,1995
B.A., Binghamton University, 1994

Rose Rameau is an Associate Professor of Law at Albany Law School and an internationally recognized expert in public international law, international arbitration, and investor–State dispute settlement. She has over two decades of experience advising sovereign States, international organizations, and private parties in complex cross-border disputes, with particular expertise in international investment law, State responsibility, and the law of international adjudication.

Professor Rameau’s practice spans multiple legal systems and jurisdictions. She has represented States and investors in high-stakes proceedings, including securing a complete victory for the Federal Republic of Nigeria in a multi-billion-dollar investment arbitration involving expropriation claims. She is currently serving as co-counsel in an oil and gas dispute involving the Government of Jamaica and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, further reflecting her continued engagement with complex disputes implicating State conduct, natural resources, and international legal responsibility.

A dual-trained lawyer in both civil and common law traditions, Professor Rameau has been appointed as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, and president of arbitral tribunals in international disputes. She was appointed as Global Arbitration Counsel for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and has acted in proceedings under UNCITRAL and other arbitral frameworks involving States, international organizations, and private actors.

Professor Rameau holds numerous international appointments. She is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, appointed by the Republic of Haiti, and a member of the Chambre de Conciliation et d’Arbitrage d’Haïti in Port-au-Prince, reflecting her continued engagement with the development of dispute resolution mechanisms in her country of nationality. She is a former Court Member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris and a member of the ICC Task Force on Addressing Issues of Corruption in International Arbitration. She also serves on arbitral panels across Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia.

Her academic career is equally international. Prior to joining Albany Law School, Professor Rameau held academic appointments at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and Université Paris-Est Créteil, where she taught comparative law and international business law. As a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Ghana School of Law, she conducted research on investment arbitration and natural resource governance, focusing on State responsibility and the regulation of extractive industries.

Professor Rameau’s scholarship focuses on public international law, international economic law, and comparative legal systems, with a particular emphasis on State responsibility, corporate accountability, and the legal frameworks governing emerging markets. Her work has been published in leading journals and academic presses, including the Minnesota Journal of International Law, Northeastern Law Review, the Dickinson Law Review, and Cambridge University Press.

Her most recent article, Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations in National Courts and International Tribunals (18 Northeastern University Law Review, forthcoming 2026), advances a framework for addressing corporate involvement in human rights abuses. In this work, she examines gaps in existing enforcement mechanisms and argues for the development of more coherent systems of accountability capable of holding corporate actors responsible across jurisdictions. In doing so, she situates corporate conduct within the broader architecture of international responsibility, highlighting the continuing relevance—and limits—of traditional doctrines of State responsibility in addressing transnational harm involving non-State actors. Her broader scholarship reflects a sustained engagement with questions of accountability, governance, and the evolution of international legal structures.

Professor Rameau is actively engaged in the global legal community. She serves as Co-Chair of the International Investment and Development Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law and has held multiple leadership positions within the ABA. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the International Arbitration Institute (Paris). She also represents the American Bar Association at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), contributing to initiatives advancing the rule of law, access to justice, and legal development globally.

Her contributions have been widely recognized. She is the recipient of the American Bar Association’s Mayre Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law and the 2024 AALS Mark Tushnet Prize in Comparative Law. She was also named among the “25 Women Who Inspire” by the Institute for African Women in Law in 2025.

Through her teaching, scholarship, and practice, Professor Rameau bridges doctrinal rigor and real-world application, preparing the next generation of lawyers to engage with complex international legal systems while actively contributing to the development and practice of international law in transnational dispute resolution.