Ann E. Mayer Faculty Profile

Ann E. Mayer
Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics

PhD, University of Michigan, 1978; Certificate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1977; JD, University of Pennsylvania, 1975; MA, University of Michigan, 1966; BA, University of Michigan, 1964

Research Areas
Middle Eastern law; international human rights law; human rights and globalization; women’s international human rights; law and international business; comparative constitutional law

Recent Consulting
Human rights situation in post-liberation Kuwait, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 1991-92; Human rights issues in the Middle East and North Africa, U.S. Department of State, 1991-92; Human rights and Middle Eastern politics, CIA, 1996-97

Current Projects
Problems of human rights universality; human rights and globalization; recent developments affecting human rights and constitutionalism in the Middle East.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1977-present. Visiting appointments: Princeton University; Georgetown University; Yale University

Other Positions
Summer Law Clerk, Goodman and Ewing, 1975; Summer Law Clerk, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews and Ingersoll, 1974

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Fulbright Fellowship, Morocco, 1992; Tunisia, 1993; Residency at the Bellagio Center of the Rockfeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy April - May 1998

Professional Leadership 2003-2007
Editorial Review Board, Human Rights Quarterly, 1994-present; Editorial Board, Arab Law Quarterly, 1986-present

Representative Publications
Islam and Human Rights. Boulder: Westview Press, 4th edition, 2006.

“Clashing Human Rights Priorities: How the United States and Muslim Countries Selectively Use Provisions of International Human Rights Law.” 9 Satya Nilayam: Chennai Journal of Intercultural Philosophy 44 (2006).

“The Evolution of the Concept of Human Rights,” in Islam and Human Rights: Advancing a U.S.-Muslim Dialogue, Shireen Hunter, ed. with Huma Malik (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2005).

“Conundrums in Constitutionalism: Islamic Monarchies in an Era of Transition.” 1 UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law (Spring/Summer 2002).