Felipe Ford Cole is a comparative legal historian of the political and institutional relations of local, subnational, and national governments with the听creditors that lend them money and the investors that direct capital into their economies. Professor Cole鈥檚 research is situated broadly within the fields of public international law, international investment law, and local government law and focuses on the U.S. and Latin America.
Cole鈥檚 current research projects explore听the evolution of the foundational doctrines of international investment law, the neglected history of Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy, and the transformation of theories of sovereignty in U.S. federalism and international law wrought by the legal enshrinement of creditor and investor expectations.听Professor Cole鈥檚 work has been published in the听University of Chicago Law Review,听the听University of Chicago Law Review Online, and in edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.
Before coming to BC Law, Cole was a Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Professor Cole holds a Ph.D. in History from Northwestern University, a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, an MPhil in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. in History from New York University.听
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