CONTRACTS CONFIDENTIAL: - Good Law and Practice

The Authors
Peter Rosenblum
Peter Rosenblum is the Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein Clinical Professor in Human Rights Law
at Columbia Law School and Faculty Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute. Much of Rosenblum’s
current work focuses on the intersection of human rights with trade and investment regimes. He
has served as a human rights officer with the Geneva-based precursor to the Office of the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, a program director of the International Human Rights Law Group
and a researcher for Human Rights Watch and the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights. Prior to
joining Columbia, Rosenblum was Associate Director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law
School. He holds an A.B. (Columbia), LL.M. (Columbia Law School), J.D. (Northwestern), and D.E.A.
(University of Paris).
Susan Maples
Susan Maples is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute and
Legal Fellow at The Revenue Watch Institute. Her research consists primarily of comparative analysis
of extractive industry contracts and legal regimes from a human rights-based perspective. Working
with Columbia’s Earth Institute and the European Commission, Susan assisted the government of
Liberia in its contract review and renegotiations. More recently, she was a member of The Carter
Center’s team providing independent analysis and technical assistance to the Democratic Republic of
Congo’s Ministry of Mines as it conducted a review and renegotiation of its mining contracts. Maples
has conducted field research, training and project work in Azerbaijan, Cameroon, the Democratic
Republic of Congo, Georgia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Peru and South Africa. She received a B.A. in
Philosophy from the University of Georgia and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
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