Professor of Law, Arthur L. Dickson Scholar, and Codirector, Global Legal Studies (on leave 2007-08). (Business Associations; Contracts; Comparative Law; International Business Transactions; Seminars investigating the intersection of commerce and human rights.) Permanent Visiting Professor, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon. Professor Dickerson earned her J.D. from Columbia School of Law, where she was a Stone Scholar, and an LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law. She also graduated from Wellesley College, where she was a Durant Scholar. She began her career in New York at the international law firm of Coudert Brothers, where she became a partner specializing in international commercial transactions and worked principally with French multinationals. In recognition of her service, the French Republic's Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur awarded her its Medaille d'Honneur. Following 12 years at Coudert, she became partner of, and later counsel to, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, a Philadelphia-based firm. In 1986, Professor Dickerson began her teaching career at St. John's University School of Law.

Professor Dickerson's scholarship has applied socioeconomic principles to business-related areas of the law, with a particular focus on standards of performance. Her research interests have taken her to Africa, principally Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Senegal, and she has presented her work both overseas and at home. Among her recent publications are "Harmonizing Business Laws in Africa: OHADA Calls the Tune" in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (2005); "Corporations as Cities: Targeting the Nodes in Overlapping Networks" in the Journal of Corporation Law (2004); "Ozymandias as Community Project: Managerial/Corporate Social Responsibility and the Failure of Transparency" in the Connecticut Law Review (2003); "Human Rights: The Emerging Norm of Corporate Responsibility" in the Tulane Law Review (2002); "Transnational Codes of Conduct Through Dialogue: Leveling the Playing Field for Developing-Country Workers" in the Florida Law Review (2001); and the following chapters: "Bracketed Flexibility: Standards of Performance Level the Playing Field" in Governance in Partnership and Close Corporation Law in Europe and the United States (Oxford University Press, 2004) and "The Recognition of the Individual: A Human Rights Perspective for International Commerce" in Moral Imperialism: A Critical Anthology (NYU Press, 2002). Active in several professional legal organizations, including the Law & Society Association, the Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics, and the American Society of International Law, Dickerson has served on the executive committee of the socioeconomics section of the Association of American Law Schools.