Vera Korzun

 

Fordham Professor of Law

Adjunct Professor of Law

vkorzun@law.fordham.edu

SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=736596

 

 

Vera Korzun is Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law, where she teaches international business transactions, international negotiations, contracts, and sales. Professor Korzun researches and writes in international investment law and dispute resolution, international commercial arbitration, and corporate and business law. Her scholarship has appeared in leading international law journals, such as the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Berkeley Journal of International Law, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, and Fordham International Law Journal.

For her article Enforcing Soft Law in International Investment Arbitration, 56 Vanderbilt J. Transnat'l L. 1 (2023), Professor Korzun received the ALAA’s 2024 Thomas G. Byers Memorial Award for the Outstanding Faculty Scholarly Publication.

Professor Korzun is active with professional organizations in the areas of international, comparative, and foreign law. She is a member of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA), Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), and the Academic Forum on ISDS. She serves on the Finance Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) and previously chaired the ASCL Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) and the ASIL Midwest Interest Group.

Prior to joining the University of Kansas School of Law in Summer 2025, Professor Korzun worked as Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Research & Development at the University of Akron School of Law. For her teaching, Professor Korzun was recognized as the Finalist for the 2024 Outstanding Professor of the Year Award.

Before that, Professor Korzun taught and worked for Fordham Law School in New York City, Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands, and the leading University in Belarus. As an attorney, she volunteered for a district attorney’s office in the United States and interned with the European Commission in Brussels and the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs in New York.

 

Education

  • Fordham University School of Law, Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.), 2016
  • The University of Michigan Law School, Master of Laws (LL.M.), 2009
  • Belarusian State University, Ph.D. in Law, 2007
  • The University of Hamburg, European Master in Law and Economics (cum laude), 2006 
  • Central European University, LL.M. in International Business Law (with merit), 2003
  • Belarusian State University, five-year law degree (with distinction), 2001