Stephen Park

Prof. Dr.

Business

Stephen Park is an Associate Professor of Business Law and the Satell Fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility at the University of Connecticut School of Business. His research is in the areas of international financial regulation, international trade law, corporate social responsibility and accountability, and corporate compliance. His current work primarily focuses on sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and human rights in the global financial markets, including in the context of sovereign debt, sustainable finance and ESG investing, and corporate environmental and social reporting.

Professor Park’s research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Business Law Journal, the Harvard International Law Journal, the Virginia Journal of International Law, the Stanford Journal of International Law, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, the Georgetown Journal of International Law, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, the Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, the Boston College Law Review, and the Business and Human Rights Journal, among other academic journals. 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) 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 in the business law discipline.

At UConn, Professor Park has taught in the School of Business’s Executive MBA, Part-time MBA, MS in Financial Risk Management, MS in Accounting, and undergraduate programs. He has been twice awarded the MSFRM Program’s Outstanding Faculty Member for his teaching. Professor Park is the inaugural Director of the Business and Human Rights Initiative, a partnership between the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, the School of Business, and the Human Rights Institute, and Co-Director of the Corporate and Regulatory Compliance Graduate Program, co-administered by the School of Business and the School of Law.

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.