Stephen Park

Associate Professor

Business Law

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Education/Professional Certification

J.D., Harvard Law School
M.A.L.D. (International Affairs), The Fletcher School, Tufts University
B.A., Ethics, Politics, & Economics, Yale University

Areas of Expertise

International economic law
Corporate social responsibility and accountability
Corporate compliance

Biography

Stephen Park is an Associate Professor of Business Law at the University of Connecticut School of Business. His research is in the areas of international economic law, corporate social responsibility and accountability, and corporate compliance. His current scholarship primarily focuses on ethical, sustainability, and human rights issues in financial regulation, corporate law, and international law.

Professor Park’s research has been published in the American Business Law Journal, American Journal of International Law, Boston College Law Review, Harvard International Law Journal, Journal of International Economic Law, Stanford Journal of Law, Business, & Finance, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Virginia Journal of International Law, and Yale Journal of International Law, as well as the Business and Human Rights Journal and Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, among other scholarly outlets. Among the awards and honors that he has received for his research are the Holmes-Cardozo Award for Best Conference Paper, the Ralph J. Bunche Award for Outstanding Paper in International Law, and the Kubasek Award for Outstanding Environmental Sustainability Paper from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB), the Distinguished Paper Award from the Canadian Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and the Hoeber Memorial Award for Excellence in Research from the American Business Law Journal. He is a recipient of the ALSB’s Distinguished Early Career Achievement Award, given in recognition of demonstrated excellence and exceptional promise in research, teaching, and service.

At UConn, Professor Park has taught in the School of Business’s MBA, Executive MBA, MS in Financial and Enterprise Risk Management, MS in Accounting, MS in Social Responsibility and Impact in Business, and undergraduate programs. He has been twice awarded the MSFERM Program’s Outstanding Faculty Member for his teaching. He is co-academic director of the Corporate and Regulatory Compliance Graduate Certificate Program (co-administered by the School of Business and the School of Law) and serves on the President’s Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Sustainability Policy, Energy, and Environment Advisory Committee at UConn.

Professor Park holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a M.A.L.D. in International Affairs from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, & Economics from Yale University.

Featured Publications

• “The Sticky, Muddled Geopolitics of Sustainable Finance Regulation” 28 Journal of International Economic Law 707 (2025) Download Now
• “Disclosure of Corporate Risk from Socio-Economic Inequality” 15 Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment 714 (2025) (with Todd Cort and Decio Nascimento) Download Now
• “Re-Thinking the Sustainability of Sovereign Debt” 27 Journal of International Economic Law 336 (2024) (with Daniel D. Bradlow and Rosa M. Lastra) Download Now
• “Untangling the Extraterritoriality of ESG Regulation” 49 North Carolina Journal of International Law 419 (2024) Download Now
• “Climate Change and a Just Transition to the Future of Work” 60 American Business Law Journal 701 (2023) (with Norman D. Bishara) Download Now
• “Legal Strategy Disrupted: Managing Climate Change and Regulatory Transformation” 58 American Business Law Journal 711 (2021) Download Now
• “Distrust, Disorder, and the New Governance of Sovereign Debt” 62 Harvard International Law Journal 175 (2021) (with Tim R Samples) Download Now
• “ESG Disclosure in Comparative Perspective: Optimizing Private Ordering in Public Reporting” 41 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 249 (2019) (with Virginia Harper Ho) Download Now
• “Investors as Regulators: Green Bonds and the Governance Challenges of the Sustainable Finance Revolution” 54 Stanford Journal of International Law 1 (2018) Download Now
• “Organic Corporate Governance” 59 Boston College Law Review 21 (2018) (with Robert C. Bird) Download Now
• “Social Bonds for Sustainable Development: A Human Rights Perspective on Impact Investing” 3 Business and Human Rights Journal 233 (2018) Download Now