Anita Ramasastry Anita Ramasastry
Visiting Fellow
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Anita Ramasastry is the Associate Director of the Center for Law, Commerce & Technology and an Assistant professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. She joined the faculty in 1996. Her research and teaching areas include law and technology, international commercial law and banking and payment systems.

Ramasastry is a Faculty Associate of the University's Center for Internet Studies. Under Ramasastry's supervision, University of Washington students and faculty are working on various research projects relating to self regulation of the Internet, on-line dispute resolution and consumer protection. She is a frequent speaker at national conferences on topics relating to the Internet, banking and consumer protection. Ramasastry is currently the reporter for the American Bar Association's Joint Task Force on E-Commerce and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Ramasastry is also the reporter for the Uniform Money Services Act, an act produced by the Uniform Law Conference, which governs the licensing, and regulation of non-bank issuers of e-money and stored value.

During 1998, Professor Ramasastry served as a senior attorney and advisor to the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, which was established to resolve claims to dormant Holocaust-era bank accounts. She recently authored the first major law review article on the status of Swiss bank accounts during the Second World War. She has spoken at numerous national and international conferences on legal issues relating to restitution of Holocaust-era assets.

From January to June 1999, Professor Ramasastry was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary Westfield College, University of London. She has been reappointed as a Senior Fellow at the Center through 2002. Ramasastry received an Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy from the British Government to undertake research at the University of London. She was also a Visiting Scholar at the British Financial Services Authority.

Prior to joining the University of Washington, Ramasastry was a staff attorney at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She has also worked as an attorney for the international law firm of White & Case in Budapest, Hungary, and as an assistant professor of law at the Central European University in Budapest (founded by financier George Soros). She is currently a law reform consultant to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.