Mona PAULSEN

Dr Mona Paulsen is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science Law School. An expert in international economic law, Dr Paulsen researches and writes on economic security policies, the scope and breadth of security exceptions, the intersection of trade and national security interests, and the law, politics, and history of the multilateral trading, financial, and investment law systems. Ongoing research examines how trade rules and frameworks can help address real-world challenges, particularly those related to economic security risk management, selective discrimination, trade diversification, and legal predictability and stability amid extreme uncertainty and technology-driven change.

Prior to joining the LSE, Mona was a Teaching Fellow for the International Economic Law, Business, and Policy LL.M. Program at Stanford Law School. Before that, she was an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice at New York University. She has been a visiting lecturer in the law departments at the University of California (Davis) and King’s College London. Mona is a qualified Canadian lawyer, admitted to the bar in Ontario (2007). She has served as both an advisor and a legal researcher in several international investment treaty disputes and trade disputes arising from subsidisation.

She holds a PhD in International Economic Law from The Dickson Poon School of Law, KCL and an LLM in International Law from The George Washington University School of Law.