Felipe Ford Cole is a comparative legal historian of the political and institutional relations of local, subnational, and national governments with the creditors that lend them money and the investors that direct capital into their economies. Professor Cole’s 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’s current research projects explore 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. Professor Cole’s work has been published in the University of Chicago Law Review, the 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.
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