Pierre-Hugues Verdier

Pierre-Hugues Verdier is the John A. Ewald Jr. Research Professor of Law and the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Virginia School of Law. His research and teaching focus on international law, financial regulation, and international economic relations. His work has appeared in multiple law reviews, peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and he has delivered numerous lectures in the United States and internationally.

Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law, Verdier was a law clerk for the Supreme Court of Canada, practiced corporate and financial law with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York City, and was a visiting assistant professor at Boston University School of Law. Since joining the UVA Law faculty, he has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School.

Verdier is a graduate of the joint civil law and common law program of the Faculty of Law, McGill University, and obtained LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Harvard Law School, where he was a Trudeau Scholar, a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, and a Graduate Student Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He has also held scholarships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture du Québec.