Cora True-Frost

Climenko Fellow

Lecturer on Law

Additional Information

Ms. True-Frost will teach a section of First Year Legal Research and Writing in both the Fall Term 2009 and Spring Term 2010.

Biographical Statement

Cora True-Frost's current scholarship examines the virtues of and challenges presented by the fragmentation of norms at the international level. This most recent project analyzes case studies in family law, trade law, and criminal law. Her scholarship generally draws from the areas of international relations theory, administrative law, and public international law. She has written about both the accountability of international organizations and international organizations' consumption of human rights norms. Cora earned an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2006 and a J.D.-M.P.A. magna cum laude as one of two Law Fellows at the Syracuse University College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in 2001. She is a member of the Order of Coif, was a Gammon Fellow at Harvard Law School and a Graduate Fellow at the Safra Foundation for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University. She has worked at the Judicial Systems Monitoring Programme in East Timor where she published the first report on women's access to the formal justice sector and established a Women's Justice Unit. She also served as Legal Consultant to the Fofana Defence Team before the Special Court for Sierra Leone and led the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security at UN headquarters, and was a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine and Moore LLP for two years. Prior to law school, Cora taught middle school English and Social Studies for two years each in Baltimore and Harlem with the Teach For America program. Her publications include, The Security Council and Norm Adoption, 40 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. and Pol. 115 (2007), and Signaling Credibility: The Development of Standing Before and Against the UN, Berkeley Int.'l L. J. (forthcoming).