Professor Katrin Kuhlmann is a Professor, Graduate and International Programs and the Faculty Director and Co-founder of the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development at Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Kuhlmann’s research and teaching focus on international economic law, international law and development, trade law and regional trade agreements, comparative law, international economic institutions, digital law and regulation, agricultural law and food security, sustainable development, and empirical and interdisciplinary approaches to international law. She is also the faculty director of the International Trade Law Certificate program at Georgetown Law.

In 2010, Professor Kuhlmann founded the New Markets Lab (NML), a non-profit law and development innovation lab focused on empirical legal and regulatory research.  She serves as a non-resident Senior Associate with the Global Food Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and she is a member of the Trade Advisory Committee on Africa of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). Professor Kuhlmann is also a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, WTO Gender Research Hub, and Trade and Investment Law Group of the Law Schools Global League. She serves on the advisory boards of a number of organizations, including the Forum on Trade, Environment, and the SDGs of the Graduate Institute and UN Environment Programme; the Washington International Trade Association; Listening for America; the Harvard Law and Development Society; the AI Institute for Food Systems at University of California Davis; and the Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Professor Kuhlmann was previously a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School, and she was the Yeutter Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law from 2020-21.  Earlier in her career, she served as a trade negotiator at USTR and a lawyer at two international law firms, and she has held senior positions with several non-profit organizations and think tanks, including the Aspen Institute and German Marshall Fund.  She holds degrees from Harvard Law School and Creighton University and was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to study international economics.

Professor Kuhlmann is widely published in the areas of international law and development, international trade law, and comparative international law.  Her contributions include methodological and theoretical approaches to international law, including her ongoing project on “Micro International Law” (Stanford Journal of International Law, 2025), which proposes the study of disaggregated national and sub-national legal innovations that contribute to international legal design and norm setting.