Omario S. Kanji

Associate Professor of LLM

International business strategy, pioneer/emerging markets, Africa, ASEAN

Omario Kanji is a cross-border attorney who began his legal career in securities law, assisting Chinese companies’ initial public offerings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He has since assisted entrepreneur and SME-clients in their corporate growth, intellectual property management, and global business strategies. Omario resided in Italy for three years and in Beijing and Hong Kong for eight years and speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, Italian, Spanish, French, and Kutchi (a dialect of Gujarati, from the Indian subcontinent), and is conversational in Korean. Omario is licensed to practice law in the states of California and New York and the District of Columbia.

In the past, Omario served as Adjunct Associate Professor and Assistant Academic Director of Global Immersions at Temple University’s Fox School of Business in Philadelphia, assisting MBA candidates in understanding the international business environment. Omario has led two-week business study excursions to Athens, Beijing, Berlin, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Munich, San Juan P.R., Santiago, São Paulo, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Tokyo, and Wuhan. Omario’s MBA students elected him Professor of the Year in 2013 and 2014. Omario has also served as adjunct professor in the Temple University–Tsinghua Rule LL.M. Program in Beijing, China, teaching corporate compliance, torts, and intellectual property law.

Omario currently serves as Senior Fellow at the National Security Institute (NSI) at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School. Along with NSI Founder and Executive Director Jamil N. Jaffer and NSI Deputy Executive Director Jessica L. Jones, Omario launched NSI's summer study program, where Scalia Law students traveled abroad to study the Separation of Powers and National Security & Interbranch Conflicts with Professor Jaffer and SCOTUS Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch.

Omario also serves as legal and strategy counsel to a family real estate office, managing real estate portfolios in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Toronto and Porto.

Omario shows both clients and students how theoretical concepts of international law and international business practices collide with practical realities such as culture, history, and developmental economics. Omario delights in demonstrating the immense challenges and rewards of conducting business abroad, whether in Europe, South America, Asia or Africa.

Courses Taught

Civil Procedure, Torts

Education

B.A. Psychology, Italian - University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

M.A. International Relations, China Studies, Conflict Management - The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

J.D. - The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor

LL.M., Chinese Law - Tsinghua University, Beijing