Professor Kish Parella

Kish Parella is a Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law where she teaches business associations, contracts, international business transactions, and corporate social responsibility.  Her research explores the intersection between corporate governance and international law, including supply chain governance, corporate foreign policy-making, human rights due diligence, and supply chain resilience for critical and emerging technologies.  Her scholarship has been published in Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Boston University School of Law, Vanderbilt Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Harvard International Law Journal, the American Business Law Journal, and the Journal of International Economic Law, among others. She has advised government officials, corporate executives, and UN working groups on various issues of business and human rights and has served on the Board of Directors for Corporate Accountability Lab, a non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies to hold corporations accountable for human rights abuses.  She currently serves on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and as an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation, Saïd Business School, Oxford University. Prior to entering the legal academy, she practiced international litigation and arbitration at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP where her clients were multinational and sovereign entities engaged in complex disputes before U.S. courts and international tribunals. She graduated from Duke Law School and specialized in international law with a LL.M. in International & Comparative Law and Master of Philosophy in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, England. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.