Moria Paz is a Lecturer at Stanford Law School and the Teaching Fellow of the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies (SPILS).  Her research examines cross-border networks, with a particular focus on networks of private schools operated by ethnic and/or religious minorities, and investigates the legal frameworks through which such groups are defined and within which they operate. She received her S.J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, where her dissertation was awarded the Laylin Prize for the best paper written in the field of public international law in 2007. While at Harvard, she was awarded a number of fellowships, including at the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations, The European Law Research Center, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.