Jeremiah S. Pam

Careers-in-Law-Teaching Fellow

Office: Jerome L. Greene Hall, Room 811/6
435 West 116th Street
New York NY 10027
Tel: (212) 854-5189
Email: jpam1@law.columbia.edu
Jeremy Pam joined Columbia Law School as a Fellow of the Careers in Law Teaching Program in May 2012. He is also affiliated with the Hertog Program in Law and National Security as a Research Fellow.

Pam joined Columbia after positions in the U.S. government and private practice. From 2010-12, he worked for the State Department at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on governance policy. From 2006-7, he worked for the Treasury Department at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad as financial attache. From 2007-10, he was a visiting/guest scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington.


From 2000-6, he was an associate at Cleary Gottlieb in New York, where he specialized in advising governments on sovereign debt restructurings during financial crises. In spring 2005, he was also a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and co-taught the international business transactions course.


His research interests include law and national security/foreign relations crises, law and international financial crises, administrative law, constitutional law and jurisprudence.


Education
  • J.D. (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Parker School Recognition of Achievement in International & Foreign Law), Columbia Law School, 2000
  • M.A., Political Science, Columbia University, 1996
  • B.A., Social Studies (with honors), Harvard College, 1991

Selected Publications


The Pari Passu Clause in Sovereign Debt Instruments
, 53 Emory L.J. 869 (2004) (with Lee Buchheit)

The Paradox of Complexity
, in Complex Operations: NATO at War and on the Margins of War (Christopher Schnaubelt, ed, 2010)