Professor Bostian recently completed her first year of law teaching at Santa Clara, where she taught International Human Rights Law and Critical Race Theory, as well as directed the study abroad program and taught Introduction to Public International Law in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2006-07, Professor Bostian will teach Remedies and Critical Race Theory, and she will again direct and teach in the Geneva/Strasbourg program. Professor Bostian's scholarship focuses on International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, as well as U.S. Foreign Relations and National Security Law. In addition to her recently published piece, Cultural Relativism in International War Crimes Prosecutions: the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 12 ILSA J. INT'L & COMP. L 1 (2005), she recently completed a manuscript, "Speaking about the Destruction of the Armenians": Early Failures in International Criminal Justice and Lessons for Today. In 2006-07, she will draft a casenote for the Santa Clara Journal of International Law on the recent Supreme Court decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, as well as one or more related articles on the role of international law in U.S. domestic court decisions regarding "enemy combatants."

Ms. Bostian is highly proficient in German and has basic knowledge of Russian.