Online Master of Legal Studies in International Business Law

Evelyn Aswad

Evelyn Aswad is a Professor of Law, the Herman G. Kaiser Chair in International Law, and the Director of the Center for International Business and Human Rights. She teaches International Business, Corporate Responsibility, and Human Rights. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of international human rights law, technology, corporate responsibility standards, and freedom of expression. She is a recipient of the David Ross Boyd Professorship. Aswad is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute, and she serves on the Advisory Committee on International Law to the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser. She previously served as the U.S. Substitute Member to the Council of Europe’s Commission for Democracy Through Law, a member of the State Department’s Stakeholder Advisory Board to the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy, and was nominated in 2021 to be the U.S. candidate for the International Law Commission. Aswad served for almost 14 years as an attorney in the Legal Bureau at the State Department, most recently as the Director of the Office of Human Rights and Refugees. She served as legal adviser for U.S. delegations in a variety of settings and received superior honor awards for advancing international human rights through bilateral and multilateral diplomacy. In a prior position, she worked on nuclear non-proliferation matters providing legal advice on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), various regional nuclear weapon free zone treaties, and nuclear safeguards agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), serving as legal adviser for U.S. delegations at IAEA and NPT conferences. Aswad taught international human rights law and multilateral negotiations to U.S. diplomats at the Foreign Service Institute and international courses as an adjunct professor at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and its Law Center. Prior to joining the State Department, she worked at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter and clerked for the Honorable Arthur J. Gajarsa at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.

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Jason Biros

Jason Biros teaches Introduction to Legal Studies and European Union Business and Competition Law. He serves as an attorney in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, with a focus on regional security matters related to European affairs and NATO. Previously, he was Deputy Head of Legal Affairs at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna and Counsel in the Office of Legal Affairs at INTERPOL. From 2015 to 2018, he served as Legal Adviser to the United States Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, where he actively advised on international, U.S., and EU law relating to all aspects of EU-U.S. relations. His work with the State Department includes serving as primary legal counsel to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, providing advice regarding U.S. and international law on a broad range of intelligence and law enforcement matters and in the legal offices for management and employment, handling broad portfolios regarding counterintelligence, cybersecurity, and litigation matters. Prior to joining the Office of the Legal Adviser, he worked in private practice in Washington and was a law clerk at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School/European University Institute, an M.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an A.B. in Politics from Princeton University.

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Lisa Grosh

Lisa Grosh teaches International Commercial and Investment Arbitration. She is a member of the Senior Executive Service of the federal government and the Assistant Legal Adviser for International Claims and Investment Disputes in the U.S. Department of State. She and her team meet regularly with U.S. companies and their counsel to discuss their objectives in pursuing investor-State arbitration against other States, and the wide variety of circumstances in which these claims arise. Grosh is lead counsel for the U.S. before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, where she has led teams in defending the U.S.in billions of dollars in treaty and contract claims and presented claims on behalf of U.S. citizens and businesses before the Tribunal. She is also one of the leads in defending the U.S. in the Certain Assets and Alleged Violation cases brought by Iran before the International Court of Justice under the 1957 Treaty of Amity. Grosh represented the U.S. before the UN Compensation Commission and has played a lead role in the negotiation and U.S. implementation of various major claim settlement agreements involving worth more than $2 billion. In 2011 and 2017, Grosh received the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive, and in 2024 received the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive. In 2018, she received the American Bar Association’s Mayre Rasmussen Award. Following the dismissal of the multi-billion dollar claims by Apotex against the United States under NAFTA Chapter 11, the Food and Drug Administration awarded Grosh and her team the Commissioner’s Special Citation. Grosh earned her J.D. from the National Law Center at George Washington University, and received a B.A. in French from Millersville University. She is also a docent at the National Gallery of Art and passionate about spending time outdoors.

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Tom Heinemann

Tom Heinemann teaches Combatting International Corruption. He has years of experience handling sensitive international law enforcement issues in cases of direct interest to U.S. and foreign companies operating internationally. Since 2012, he has practiced law in the U.S. Department of State’s legal office handling international law enforcement and intelligence issues, including as the office’s Assistant Legal Adviser and a member of the Senior Executive Service from 2012 to 2020. In that capacity, he supervised a team of lawyers and paralegals managing the Department’s extradition practice, providing legal advice on a number of international legal issues including corruption, terrorism, drug trafficking, and trafficking in persons. Heinemann was part of the U.S. delegation that negotiated the UN Convention Against Corruption, which plays a central role in the international legal framework governing corruption issues affecting international business. Prior to joining the international law enforcement and intelligence office, he worked in several of the State Department’s other legal offices, including those focused on sanctions and terrorist financing, as well as political-military affairs. Prior to joining the State Department, he worked as an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Arnold & Porter, specializing in legislative issues, campaign finance compliance, and lobbying law.

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Steven Hill

Steven Hill teaches International Sanctions Regimes, International Payment Systems, and International Sales & Other Business Transactions. He has an extensive experience as an in-house counsel and a leader of multinational institutions. Since 2022, he has led the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ). He served as the Director for Global Criminal Justice on the National Security Council staff at the White House in 2021 and 2022. From 2014 to 2020, Hill served as the chief legal counsel to the NATO Secretary General. Prior to joining NATO, he was Counselor for Legal Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.From 2008 to 2010, he led the legal unit at the International Civilian Office / European Union Special Representative in Kosovo. Hill began his international law career in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the State Department in 2001. From 2023 to 2025, Hill served as a Vice President of the American Society of International Law. In 2021, he received the American Bar Association International Law Section’s Award for Best Lawyer in a Government and International Organization. He has taught at Johns Hopkins Univeristy’s Hopkins-Nanjing Center in China and Catholic University Leuven in Belgium as well as Vanderbilt University Law School. He graduated from Yale Law School and Harvard College and is a member of the New York Bar. Discover how Professor Hill brings real-world international experience to OU Law’s programs: From the White House to the Classroom: Professor Steven Hill Brings Global Experience to OU Law's International Business Law Programs

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Jason Hubbert

Jason Hubbert is an Adjunct Professor of Law teaching Sources of International Law. He is a member of the Oklahoma Bar and a Partner at Shanor & Franklin, LLC. His practice focuses on real property, with expertise in oil and gas title and carbon sequestration law, as well as real property transactions, oil and gas transactions, mining law, probate, and quiet title. He graduated with honors from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2016. While there, he served as Articles Editor for the Oklahoma Law Review and received the Outstanding Case Note Award for his note on the Oklahoma Marketable Record Title Act. He completed a one-semester externship in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law, where his work consisted of the strategic analysis of the drafting papers of various treaties and memoranda on the legal and political impediments to the ratification of certain treaties and the feasibility of various projects proposed by intergovernmental organizations. Prior to attending law school, he was a staff member and adjunct professor at Southern Nazarene University. He holds advanced degrees in Christian theology and Hebrew Bible, where his primary research areas included hermeneutics and the Deuteronomic History. He is an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene. Get to Know Professor Jason Hubbert: His Teaching Philosophy, Global Expertise, and Passion for History Discover how Professor Hubbert bridges the ancient and modern worlds through his dynamic teaching style and deep knowledge of international law and historical texts. Read the full story in our blog post: From Ancient Text to International Treaties: Meet Professor Jason Hubbert

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Karen Kizer

Karen Kizer teaches Sources of International Law and International Trade & Investment. She is an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. StateDepartment, where she has served for almost two decades in positions leading and providing legal advice to U.S. delegations in a variety of multilateral negotiations. Most recently, she represented the U.S. at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), and the International Institute for the Unification of Private International Law (UNIDROIT) in negotiations on a variety of international commercial matters. Kizer currently provides legal advice on environmental matters related to international trade and has previously provided legal advice on the negotiation and implementation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and disputes related to BITs and investment chapters of free trade agreements. She has provided legal advice on a variety of international policy matters related to national security, including the review of transactions by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and negotiations at the World Health Organization related to U.S. global health security goals. Her expertise in dispute settlement includes participation in cases before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and ad hoc international tribunals. Kizer has served as an Adjunct Professor at the Washington School of Law at American University in Washington, D.C. Before joining the State Department in 2006, she worked as an attorney at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in international dispute resolution and litigation. She also clerked for Judge Jane R. Roth on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She has a J.D. from the University of Chicago, an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a B.A. from the University of Arizona.

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Brian McCall

Brian McCall teaches International Finance: Capital Markets and Comparative Corporate Law. He received honors for obtaining the highest grades over the three-year law degree and for his specific work in Corporations, Torts, and Wills and Future Interests. During his third year of law school, he taught a course in legal writing and research for foreign lawyers studying for their LL.M. He also served as a teaching assistant for a course on Law and Philosophy taught in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. After obtaining his law degree, McCall joined the international law firm of Dechert LLP, where he focused on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions. From 1999 to 2006, he practiced in the firm’s London office to focus exclusively on cross-border transactions. In 2004, he was elected a partner of the firm, advising clicnts including Citigroup, JP Morgan, The London Stock Exchange, Comcast Corporation, Tate & Lyle PLC and Rabobank. He worked on many groundbreaking transactions, including one of the first public to private transactions in Germany and the first U.S. company conducting a Regulation S offering on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM Market. McCall has spoken at several conferences on consumer finance, corporate governance, legal philosophy, international securities offerings and private equity law. He has authored several books and articles on corporate governance law, commercial law, and legal philosophy. He joined the OU College of Law in 2006 and was awarded tenure in 2012. In 2013, he was selected to hold the Orpha and Maurice Merrill Endowed Professorship of Law. In 2014, he was invited to be a Visiting Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, where he taught Business Associations and a seminar on Law, Business, Society, and Catholicism. Meet Professor Brian McCall: Legal Scholar, Global Business Strategist, and Dedicated Educator Discover how Professor McCall blends real-world legal expertise with international business insight to prepare students for success in today’s global economy. Read the full story in our blog post: Bridging Global Business and Law: How Professor Brian McCall Brings a World of Experience to Online IBL Students

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Chris Odinet

Chris Odinet is a professor of law at the Texas A&M University School of Law and was previously on the faculty at the University of Iowa College of Law, the University of Oklahoma College of Law, and the Southern University Law Center. He teaches courses in international banking and finance, consumer finance, and real estate transactions. His research specializes in commercial and consumer finance, with an emphasis on mortgage lending and financial technology (fintech). His book, Foreclosed: Mortgage Servicing and the Hidden Architecture of Homeownership in America, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019 and featured on NPR’s Planet Money podcast. His work has also appeared in leading American law reviews, including the Virginia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the North Carolina Law Review, and the Washington University Law Review. Odinet has chaired both the Commercial and Consumer Law Section and the Real Estate Transactions Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He currently serves as co-editor of the Annual Survey of Consumer Finance Law. He served as a commissioner with the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and is an elected member of the American Law Institute.

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