Shirley Jean Spira

Professor James E. Rogers College of Law

Shirley J. Spira, Esq. An attorney specializing in public international law and complex litigation, Shirley Spira is barred in New York and Arizona. Since 2017 she has been an adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law, where she teaches Public International Environmental Law and coaches the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Team.

For two decades Ms. Spira was a litigator in the Law Department of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in Manhattan. At the PANYNJ she managed complex insurance litigation arising out of the 9/11 attacks, as well as asbestos, premises liability, construction contract, and Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. Her subsequent work with private New York law firms included product liability insurance and construction coverage litigation.

Ms. Spira, who received her J.D. from Rutgers Law School, currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, is fluent in French and Russian.