Victoria Sahani

Associate Provost for Community & Inclusion, Professor of Law at Boston University

Speaker

Victoria Shannon Sahani is the Associate Provost for Community and Inclusion at Boston University and a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Professor Sahani is an internationally recognized legal scholar in arbitration law and third-party litigation funding law and an award-winning teacher. She has 15 years of experience in international arbitration and more than 12 years of expertise in third-party funding. She also serves as an independent arbitrator, consultant, and expert witness, and she has testified before the United States Congress about her research. She is a co-author of the book Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration (Wolters Kluwer, 2d ed. 2017) (with Lisa Bench Nieuwveld) – the first book in the world on this topic. She has also authored chapters in books published by Cambridge University Press, Brill Nijhoff, LexisNexis/Matthew Bender, Springer, JURIS, Edward Elgar Publishing, and Wolters Kluwer; and law review articles and essays published in the UCLA Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Tulane Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, DePaul Law Review, Fordham International Law Journal, AJIL Unbound, and other domestic and international journals. She is the Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on International Law, a Counsellor of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), an Elected Member of the American Law Institute (ALI), an American Bar Foundation (ABF) Fellow, and the Immediate Past Chair of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA).

Before teaching law, Professor Sahani served as Deputy Director of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in North America for the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) International Court of Arbitration and Deputy Director of the Arbitration and ADR Committee of the US Council for International Business (USCIB). Before joining the ICC and USCIB, she practiced law at Pillsbury and worked on transactions relating to affordable housing and community-based real estate development, matters involving American Indian law, and housing discrimination claims in New Orleans immediately after Hurricane Katrina.

Professor Sahani received her law degree from Harvard Law School and her undergraduate degree in psychology from Harvard College. She remains an active member of the bar in New York and the District of Columbia.