Potts, Shaina

Potts, Shaina is an Assistant Professor in Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research sits at the intersection of economic, political, and legal geography, international political economy, and critical legal studies. Most broadly, she is interested in the legal geographies that structure transnational economic relationships between North and South. She has written extensively about sovereign debt crises, and she is currently completing a book project on how US courts and domestic law have claimed increasing authority over transnational economic governance since World War II, bolstering global US power, reconstituting postcolonial territorial sovereignty, and helping forge a particular form of (neo)liberal globalization.