Sarah Dadush

Sarah Dadush is a Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School where she writes and teaches in the areas of contract law, business and human rights, and consumer law. Professor Dadush is the Founding Director of the Responsible Contracting Project, the mission of which is to improve human rights in supply chains through innovative contracting practices.

She is a leading member of several working groups and committees focused on integrating human rights and environmental due diligence principles into commercial contracts, including the American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law Section Working Group to Draft Human Rights Protections in International Supply Contracts, the European Model Contract Clauses for Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains Working Group, and the ABA’s CSR committee where she leads an initiative to draft Responsible Investor Model Clauses (RIMCs).

Before joining the Rutgers faculty in 2013, Professor Dadush was Legal Counsel for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations based in Rome. Prior to that, she was a Fellow at NYU Law School’s Institute for International Law and Justice and an associate attorney at the global law firm, Allen & Overy. She received her J.D. and LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Duke University School of Law in 2004.