Steven S. Nam

Commission Member

Steven S. Nam, Esq. is a commission member of the Model International Mobility Treaty Commission under Columbia University's Global Policy Initiative, where he is helping to draft the International Convention on the Rights and Duties of All Persons Moving from One State to Another.

Nam's book chapter on transnational corporate accountability is forthcoming in the Routledge History of Human Rights (2017). From 2015 to 2016, he was a Visiting Professor of Law at UC Davis Law School and taught business & human rights, Asia-Pacific politics of memory, and antitrust; in 2014, he was a Visiting Fellow at Columbia Business School's Center on Japanese Economy and Business. Prior to transitioning into academia, Nam practiced antitrust & competition law at Jones Day's New York office. 

His Stanford research focuses on treatment of foreign labor in South Korea and on the evolution of corporate accountability in liberal (versus illiberal) East Asian states. He earned his B.A. at Yale and his J.D. and M.A. degrees at Columbia.