Hossein Fazilatfar, JD

Associate Professor

Contact

hosseinfazilatfar@creighton.edu
Faculty - Law

Hossein Fazilatfar, JD

Associate Professor

Professor Fazilatfar joined Creighton Law in Fall 2023. His teaching and research interests lie primarily in the areas of Arbitration, Contracts, and Conflict of Laws. He is also interested in teaching Commercial Law, Mediation, Negotiations, International Business Transactions, International Arbitration, and Comparative Law. His scholarship has appeared in flagship law reviews, and he is the author of Overriding Mandatory Rules in International Commercial Arbitration (Edward Elgar Publishing 2019).
 
Professor Fazilatfar received his J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law and an S.J.D. from Emory Law School. He also holds an LL.B. from the University of Isfahan, Iran and an LL.M. from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
 
Prior to joining Creighton, he taught in the Business Law program at Western Carolina University. Fazilatfar is a dually educated lawyer and a licensed attorney.
 
Published scholarship on SSRN.

Position

Associate Professor

Books

  • Fazilatfar Hossein, Overriding mandatory rules in international commercial arbitration 2019

Publications

  • Journal of Dispute Resolution
    Fazilatfar Hossein, Arbitration and the mandatory law problem
    2024:2, p. 56 - 81 2024
  • Texas Tech Law Review
    Fazilatfar Hossein, In defense of separability
    54:2, p. 183 - 230 2022
  • South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business
    Fazilatfar Hossein, Public policy norms and choice-of-law methodology adjustments in international arbitration
    18:2, p. 88 - 110 2022
  • South Carolina Law Review
    Fazilatfar Hossein, Adjudicating 'arbitrability' in the Fourth Circuit
    71:4, p. 741 - 758 2020
  • Willamette Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution
    Fazilatfar Hossein, Following the Supreme Court in liberal construction of arbitration agreements under the fedearl pro-arbitration policy
    23, p. 61 - 92 2015
  • The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa
    Fazilatfar Hossein, The impact of supervening illegality on international contracts in a comparative context
    45:2, p. 158 - 188 2012
  • City University of Hong Kong Law Review
    Fazilatfar Hossein, Transnational public policy
    3:2, p. 289 - 313 2012