Zachary R. Calo - Professor of Law

631-761-7113
zcalo@tourolaw.edu

Education
BA, Johns Hopkins University, 1997
MA, Johns Hopkins University, 1997
JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 2005
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
MA, University of Virginia, 2020
LLM, Pepperdine University, 2021

Mediation
Arbitration
Property
International Business Transactions

 

Zachary R. Calo joined the Touro Law faulty in 2025 where he will teach courses including Mediation, Arbitration, Property and International Business Transactions. He came to Touro Law after serving for a decade as Full Professor of Law at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar. Zachary was a Founding Professor at HBKU, which was established in 2015 through a partnership with Northwestern Pritzker School of Law as the first JD-granting law school in the Middle East.  Zachary is also Professor of Law (Adj.) at the University of Notre Dame Australia and has been a Visiting Professor at a number of international universities including The Open University (UK), Tashkent State University of Law (Uzbekistan), the British University in Egypt, and Handong International Law School (Korea).  He was previously on the faculties of Valparaiso University School of Law, Notre Dame Law School, and DePaul College of Law in the United States.  

Author of more than 80 articles, he is a leading scholar of international dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration, sports law, and comparative religion and law.  He is co-editor of two books - Christianity, Ethics, and the Law: The Concept of Love in Christian Legal Thought (Routledge) and Agape, Justice, and Law: How Might Christian Love Shape Law? (Cambridge University Press) – as well as a forthcoming commentary on the Code of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cambridge University Press).  His recent scholarship has spanned a number of topics including the ethics of using artificial intelligence in mediations, religious arbitration, dispute system design and labor rights in Qatar, human rights arbitration, the Singapore Convention on Mediation, legal ethics in international commercial courts, human dignity and biotechnology, and the legal philosophy of Pope Benedict XVI.

In addition to his scholarship, Zachary maintains an active international legal and dispute resolution practice, having recently practiced with law firms in Doha, Abu Dhabi, London, Amsterdam, and Washington, DC.  He is currently Of Counsel with Kalbian Hagerty and Schelstraete Equine Law.  He serves as both counsel and neutral across a range of subject areas.  As a sports lawyer, he has recently represented athletes before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in disciplinary and Olympic selection matters.  He is a founding partner of Gulf Mediation, the first boutique provider of commercial mediation services in the Middle East, and serves on a number of international dispute resolution panels including with Sport Resolutions in London and the Qatar Sports Arbitration Tribunal.  He is an Officer of the International Bar Association Mediation Committee, Secretary of the Ethics Committee of the International Mediation Institute, and a member of the Academic Counsel of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. 

He holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, LLM in Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute at Pepperdine University School Law, B.A. and M.A. from The Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. in religious history from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.A. in theological ethics from the University of Virginia.  He also studied flute at the Peabody Conservatory of Music.