Rate My Professor Kevin Sobel-Read

His research specializations include global value chains, examining law's role in international commerce, supply chain accountability for labor and environmental issues, and incentives for ethical trade; sovereignty, with a focus on Indigenous sovereignty such as First Nations in Australia and American Indians, and sovereignty of small island nations like the Cook Islands; and the intersections of law, anthropology, capital flows, and governance. Sobel-Read co-created and coordinates the Newcastle Law School’s Community Legal Development Project, a work-integrated learning course, and conceived the First Nations Business Project, which provides free legal services to Indigenous business owners in Australia and develops resources for economic development and self-determination. He has led student legal internships in the Cook Islands since 2016, supporting legislative drafting, policy advice, and protections for human rights and climate change. Key publications include “Global Value Chains: A Framework for Analysis” (Transnational Legal Theory, 2014), “Recalibrating Contract Law: Choses in Action, Global Value Chains, and the Enforcement of Obligations Outside of Privity” (Tulane Law Review, 2018), “Reimagining the Unimaginable: Law and the Ongoing Transformation of Global Value Chains into Integrated Legal Entities” (European Review of Contract Law, 2020), and “A New Model of Sovereignty in the Contemporary Era of Integrated Global Commerce: What Anthropology Contributes to the Shortcomings of Legal Scholarship” (Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2016).