Pierre-Hugues Verdier

Pierre-Hugues Verdier specializes in public international law, banking and financial regulation, and international economic relations. His current research focuses on the implications of geopolitical competition for international finance and its governance. He is the author of Global Banks on Trial: U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance (2020) and a co-editor of Comparative International Law (2018), both published by Oxford University Press. He has also authored numerous scholarly articles in law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and shorter contributions, and has lectured extensively 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 faculty, he has been a visiting professor at Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Münster and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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. He is a member of the bars of New York and Ontario, and an elected member of the American Law Institute.