Rose RAMEAU

Rose Rameau is a Visiting Professor at Georgia State University College of Law (GSU) in Atlanta Georgia. She was a Professor at the Université Panthéon Assas and the Université Paris-Est Créteil in Paris, France (2011-2012) and a Fulbright Scholar/Visiting Professor at the University of Ghana School of Law (2014-2016). Professor Rameau’s scholarly research focusses on investment law, international law, and comparative studies with an emphasis on investment law in Africa and the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). She is the American Association Law School (AALS) Recipient of the Mark Tushnet Prize in Comparative Law for her recent paper titled “Reshaping Government’s Fiduciary Role Under the 1992 Constitution of Ghana”.

On July 22, 2022, Professor Rameau was appointed as ABA Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. As an ABA Representative to the United Nations, she supports the rule of law abroad and defends the legal profession, liberty, human rights, and access to justice. This year she was re-appointed by the ABA President as an ABA Representative to the United Nations and was tasked to attend the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 28) in Dubai as a delegate to discuss the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the Tokyo Protocol and refocus the climate agenda. In November 2021, she was also appointed ABA Advisor to the Uniform Law Commission Study Committee on the U.N. Convention on International Settlement Agreement Resulting from Mediation. This study focuses on how ratification would affect the Uniform Mediation Act and State Contract Laws in the United States. Additionally, on December 3, 2021, the United Nations Development Program appointed her as one of the Global Arbitration Counsel in employment contract cases against the U.N. She is the first woman appointed on behalf of Haiti at the International Court of Arbitration in Paris and was appointed to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague in July 2020 for a term of six years.

Professor Rameau is licensed to practice law in Paris- France as an Avocat à la Cour, in Ghana as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana and in many jurisdictions in the United States including the District of Columbia. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in the UK. She is listed as International Arbitrator at the Shanghai Arbitration Commission (SHAC), the Shenzhen Court of Arbitration (SCIA), Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA), the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration in Egypt (CRCICA), the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration of OHADA, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (CCJA), the Chambre de Conciliation et D’Arbitrage d’Haiti (CCAH), the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre (BVI-IAC), the American Arbitration Association-International for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR) and CPR Panels of Distinguished Neutrals for cross-border, Energy, Oil. She is a Former Vice-Chair of the ABA International Law Section Africa Committee and the International Energy and natural Resources Committee.

Professor Rameau is involved in diversity initiative around the world. She is a former Board of Director of ArbitralWomen, an international non-governmental organization designed to bring together women international dispute resolution practitioners. She is now a Council Member of ArbitralWomen since June 2022. She is also co-founding member of the Association of Black Arbitration Professionals, an association designed to promote Black arbitration professionals domestically and abroad as counsel, experts, and arbitrators. As a result of her diversity initiatives and mentoring commitment, she was awarded the 2020 ABA Mayre Rasmusen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law. This award is bestowed upon individuals who have achieved professional excellence in international law, encouraged women to engage in international law careers, enabled women lawyers to attain international law job positions from which they were excluded historically, or advanced opportunities for women in international law.