This list, alphabetical by last name, includes all faculty who have taught or are teaching as members of the Hauser Global Law Faculty.
Professor Georges Abi-Saab is a preeminent Egyptian scholar in the field of international law. A former judge of the International Court of Justice and member of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Abi-Saab has been a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Law in Geneva since 1969. He has served as a member of the Institute of International Law, and was a part of the Egyptian delegation to the Conference of Government Experts and the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts.
Bina Agarwal is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University. Educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Delhi she has held distinguished positions at many universities in the USA and UK and lectured world-wide. She was Harvard’s first Daniel Ingalls Visiting Professor and is an honorary visiting research fellow at the Ash Institute, Kennedy School of Government. She has taught at Delhi, Harvard, Michigan (Ann Arbor), and the University of Minnesota where she held the Winton Chair. She has also been Vice-President of the International Economic Association, was elected the first Southern President of the International Association for Feminist Economics, has served on the Board of the Global Development Network from its inception till 2006, and is a founder member of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics. Currently she serves on the UN Committee for Development Policy, the Commission for the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (set up by the President of France), and the Indian Prime Minister’s National Council for Land Reforms. She is also a member of the editorial boards of several international academic journals.
Professor Philip Allott is Professor Emeritus of International Public Law, Cambridge University, and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Additionally, he is a Fellow of the British Academy. A diplomat and a scholar, a seasoned participant and objective observer, he possesses a rare perspective on international relations. From the beginning of his legal career more than thirty years ago, Allott has been at the center of global affairs. As an official in the British Foreign Office, he served as Legal Adviser to the British Military Government in Berlin, Legal Counsellor to the British representative to the European Community, and adviser and alternative representative in the British delegation to the United Nations Law of the Sea Conference. He has also served as special adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Community and to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. While Allott's specialities are international and European Community law, he has also made a major contribution to legal philosophy with the publication of Eunomia, a sweeping new vision of global order.
Professor Giuliano Amato has had a distinguished career, combining academic life with public service. A former Prime Minister of Italy and President of the Italian Antitrust Authority, he has taught for many years at the University of Rome. Currently, he is a member of the Italian Senate. He also holds a chaired professorship at the Robert Schuman Center of the European University Institute in Florence. Amato has over forty books and articles to his credit, in both Italian and English. Most of his work focuses on constitutional structure, finance, and the European Union, where he often approaches these subjects as a comparativist.
Professor Mohammed Arkoun is Emeritus Professor of the History of Islamic Law at the University of Paris III, Sorbonne, and Scientific Director of the journal Arabica. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Ismaili Studies in London, and at several American and European Universities. He is a holder of the French "Chevalier de la Legion el'honneur" and "Officier des palmes academiques" and a member of the French National Ethics Committee for Life and Health Sciences. A scholar with a broad range, he is widely regarded as one of the leading interpreters of Islamic law and culture. At least four of his books have been translated into English.
Brian J. Arnold
Brian J. Arnold is with Goodmans LLP, Toronto, and taught tax law at a Canadian law school for 28 years. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D., 1969). He has been a consultant to various government departments and is currently an advisor to the OECD and the Australian Taxation Office. He has written widely on tax matters and is a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee (PSC) of the International Fiscal Association.
Professor Bernard Audit is a prominent scholar in the increasingly important field of commercial dispute resolution. A graduate of the University of Paris and Harvard Law School, Audit teaches at the University of Paris II. In 1987, he was Director of the Center for Studies and Research in International Law at The Hague Academy of International Law. He is also a member of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law and the Committee on International Commercial Arbitration of the French branch of the International Law Association. He has published in both French and English.
Professor John Baker has taught at Cambridge University since 1965. A fellow of the British Academy, Professor Baker is the foremost authority on the development of English legal institutions. In addition to being author of several acclaimed works on legal history, Professor Baker enjoys an unmatched reputation as bibliographer. He is currently Senior Golieb Fellow at NYU School of Law.
Fareda Banda BL Hons, LLB (Zimbabwe), DPhil (Oxon). Fareda Banda is a Reader in the Laws of Africa at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. Her areas of interest/expertise include the human rights of women, family law and issues pertaining to law and society in Africa. She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Oxford. Following her doctorate she worked as a Research Assistant at the Law Commission of England and Wales before returning to Oxford on a two year Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship. She co-edits the Journal of African Law, is an Associate Editor (Africa) of the International Survey of Family Law while also sitting on the editorial board of the Journal of Southern African Studies and the international advisory boards of three other publications. Her publications include a book entitled Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective. Other publications include consultancy reports for the Lord Chancellor's Department on why women and ethnic minorities are under represented in the ranks of Queens Counsel (with Kate Malleson), for Minority Rights Group on gender and indigeneity (with Christine Chinkin) as well as for the United Nations on laws that discriminate against women. She has taught on courses in Kampala, Harare, Oslo, Pretoria, Onati and continues to teach on the Oxford summer Mst human rights programme. Her most recent and best work is the co-production of two daughters, Azera and Shamiso. She very much looks forward to spending the semester at NYU.
Professor Upendra Baxi is one of India's best-known scholars. Educated at the University of Bombay and University of California at Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall), where he received an LL.M. and J.S.D., Baxi began his teaching career at the Sydney University Law School, Australia. When he joined the law faculty of Delhi University in 1971, Baxi was the youngest law professor in India. Currently, he teaches at the University of Warwick, England. From 1975 to 1978, Baxi was Dean of the Delhi University Law School and from 1989 to 1994, he was the Vice Chancellor of Delhi University (equivalent to a university president in the United States). Since the early 1980s, Baxi held the position of Research Director of the Indian Law Institute, in which capacity he had editorial responsibility for the Journal of the Indian Law Institute. Known as a thoroughly devoted teacher with broad intellectual interests, Baxi has published about fifteen books and more than one hundred articles.
Professor Hanina Ben-Menahem is Professor of Law and head of the Institute for Research in Jewish Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. A prolific writer and a popular teacher, he is a graduate of the Hebrew University and Oxford University. While writing his doctoral dissertation at Oxford, he also served as research fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies. He has received the Silberg prize for research in Jewish law and has visited at prominent American law schools, including as Gruss Visiting Professor of Jewish Law at Harvard Law School. He has published four books and two dozen articles or book chapters. He has also organized conferences on Jewish law and edited a prominent journal.
Eyal Benvenisti is Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Previously director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Tel Aviv University and Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law, and Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights. A former law clerk to Justice M. Ben-Porat of the Supreme Court of Israel, Benvenisti received his legal training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale Law School. He has been a visiting professor at leading law schools in the United States, and a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. He has written or edited eight books, and published several articles in prominent journals.
Dr. Alexander Boraine was born and educated in Cape Town, South Africa. He was awarded an M.A. at Oxford University and his Ph.D. at Drew University Graduate School. He was a member of the opposition Progressive Party in South Africa's Parliament for 12 years before resigning to establish a non-governmental organization which focused on promoting negotiation politics. In 1995, he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela as Vice Chairperson of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In 2001, he was appointed President of the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York and is now the Chairperson. From 1999 to 2002, he was director of the Project on Transitional Justice and Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Law, and in 2004-2005 he was a Senior Global Research Fellow at the Law School.
Fabrizio Cafaggi is Professor of Comparative Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is an affiliate of the American Law Institute. He earned his J.D cum laude at University of Rome and his P.h.D in Law at University of Pisa, Italy. He has been visiting professor at Columbia Law School NYC and at San Andres Law School, B.A. Argentina.His teaching and research activity is mainly focused on comparative private law, analysed also under the Law & Economics perspective. He has taught courses on European contract law and contract law in regulated markets. The current subjects of his research include European private law, private regulation and multilevel governance. A continuous interest is dedicated to private regulation in its different forms: self-regulation, co-regulation and standard setting. He coordinates a research project on transnational private regulation, constitutional foundations and governance design which builds on previous research activity devoted to the European level.
A second research project concerns networks of firms in Europe and industrial policies directed at promoting the creation of transnational networks.A new research project concerns the impact of European private law in New Member States and candidate countries. Current academic activities in collaboration with the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute focus on the creation of a European Law Institute by different institutional actors and also private organizations. Particular attention is devoted to the role of national Supreme Courts in the creation of European legal integration.
Eva Cantarella is a professor of Roman law and ancient Greek law at the University of Milan, Italy. Previously, she was dean of the law school at the University of Camerino. She has taught and lectured at many universities in Europe and the United States. A leading classicist, she examines ancient law from a law and society perspective and relates it to modern legal issues. She has written intensively on criminal law, women's conditions and the legal and social history of sexuality. Many of her books have been translated into several languages, including English. She is a regular contributor to Corriere della Sera, a leading Italian newspaper.
Professor Cassese is Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Roma-La Sapienza. Previously, he was Director of the Institute of Public Law at the University of Roma-La Sapienza. He has also held public office, having served in the Italian government as Minister for Public Administration. A prolific scholar and prominent figure in the European legal academy, he has published many books and articles. His areas of interest include the history of administrative law, the role of independent administrative authorities, and the administrative structure of the European Union. He has frequently been a visitor to law schools and research centers in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
Seung Wha Chang
Seung Wha Chang is a Visiting Professor of Law at NYU Law School. Since 1995, he has taught international trade, international business transactions, and international arbitration and antitrust as Professor of Law at Seoul National University College of Law in Korea. Professor Chang also taught as Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Duke, Georgetown and UCLA. Prior to teaching, he practiced at Covington & Burling and was a Judge at the Seoul District Court. Professor Chang served as a WTO Panelist for seven dispute settlement proceedings and as an Arbitrator for the ICC International Court of Arbitration for many cases. He is an Editorial Board Member of The Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford).
Professor Wejen Chang is a leading scholar of China's legal history. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Previously he was director of the Center on Chinese Legal History at the Academia and a Professor of Law at the National Taiwan University. Professor Chang's major publications include a three-volume annotated bibliography of Chinese legal history, a three-volume study of the Ch'ing legal system, and a 340-volume edition of the Ming and Ch'ing Archives.
Professor Charlesworth is Professor and Director of the Center for International and Public Law at the Australian National University, Canberra. Previously, she taught at the Universities of Melbourne and Adelaid, having been a law clerk at the High Court of Australia and associate with a New York City law firm. She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School. She is Hearing Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, a former part-time member of the Australian Law Reform Commission, current President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, and a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law. Among her many publications is a book on the application of feminist methods in international law.
Sujit Choudhry holds the Scholl Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where he serves as Associate Dean (First Year Program). He holds law degrees from Oxford, Toronto, and Harvard. Professor Choudhry was a Rhodes Scholar, a Graduate Fellow at the Harvard University Centre for Ethics and the Professions, and served as law clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Professor Sijbren Cnossen is one of the top fiscal economists in Europe. He teaches in both the economics and law faculties of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is also an Alternate Judge of the Dutch Tax Court. Previously, he was a staff member of the International Monetary Fund and the Inspector of Taxes of the Dutch Ministry of Finance. Cnossen has authored or edited sixteen books, journal volumes, and brochures, and has published more then 160 articles on a wide range of subjects. A number of his publications have been translated in to Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Professor Cnossen has been consultant to the OECD, IMF, World Bank, and USAID and has advised many countries on the design of their tax systems. He has testified before the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. Congress, as well as the Canadian House of Commons Committee on Finance.
Professor Coester-Waltjen, a top German scholar of family law, teaches at the University of Munich. With more than 100 publications, Coester-Waltjen has examined a wide variety of legal issues, including the legal problems of artificial reproduction; protection of pregnant women and young mothers under the laws of the European Community; sex discrimination and cohabitation; and international law of contracts and civil procedure. She also has produced a manual concerning some problems of international procedure law and has worked on a comprehensive law reform project, which, among other things, involves the abolishment of illegitimacy.
Hugh Collins has recently completed his term as head of the department of law at the London School of Economics, where he holds the chair of English Law. His research interests include labour law, contract law, and legal theory. He has been a regular advisor to the UK government on employment and consumer law matters. His books include Marxism and Law, The Law of Contract, Justice in Dismissal, Regulating Contracts, Employment Law, and, most recently in 2008, The European Civil Code: The Way Forward. He is General Editor of the Modern Law Review and founding editor of the European Review of Contract Law. He holds an MA and BCL from Oxford University and an LLM from Harvard Law School, and he is also a Fellow of the British Academy. His current main research interest lies in the intersection between human rights law and private law including employment law.
Professor Radhika Coomaraswamy is concurrently the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She holds degrees from Yale, Columbia and Harvard, and she has been a lecturer at Colombo University. She has spoken at numerous conferences and symposia and has published several articles, monographs, and edited volumes on issues ranging from the institutional and doctrinal development of constitutional norms by the Sri Lankan Supreme Court to the impact of religion and traditional culture on women's rights in the third world.
Graeme Cooper is Professor of Taxation Law at the University of Sydney. His principal research and teaching focus is corporate taxation, comparative tax law, taxation in developing countries, consumption taxes including VAT, and tax policy. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Virginia, Katholieke University Belgium and the Tilburg University in The Netherlands. He has worked as a consultant on a variety of tax design and implementation projects in Asia, Europe and Africa for the OECD, IMF, World Bank and other NGOs and been an expert witness in international tax arbitrations. In Australia, he has worked on projects for the Australian Treasury, Taxation Office, the Board of Taxation and the Australian National Audit Office. He is the author of many articles in Australian and international tax journals, co-author of a leading student work on the Australian income tax system and serves on the editorial boards of several Australian and international tax journals. His latest book – Executing an Income Tax – was recently published by the Australian Tax Research Foundation.
Judge of the High Court since 1998, Dennis Davis is currently Judge President (Chief Judge) of the Competition Appeal Court of South Africa. Before appointment to the Bench, Davis was Professor of Law at University of Cape Town (UCT) and Professor of Law at University of Witwatersrand (WITS) and Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (joint appointment with WITS). Since 1998, he has been Hon. Professor at UCT where he continues to teach tax, competition and constitutional law. His latest book published is Constitutional Law in South Africa; The Bill of Rights (with M.H. Cheadle and N.R.L. Haysom). At present, he is completing a book on lawyering in South Africa, the key cases during Apartheid, and the first decade of constitutional democracy and their lessons for global human rights (with M.M. LeRoux).
Gráinne de Búrca
Gráinne de Búrca has been professor of European Union Law at the European University Institute since 1998. Prior to that she was a lecturer in law at Oxford University and fellow of Somerville College from 1990-1998. She has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Toronto, Michigan and Columbia. Her field of expertise is broadly in EU law, with particular focus on constitutional issues of European integration, EU human rights policy and European and transnational governance. She is co-director of the EUI's Academy of European Law and series co-editor of two OUP book series: Oxford Studies in European Law, and the Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law. She is co-author with Paul Craig of the textbook EU Law, currently in its third edition.
Olivier de Schutter
Olivier De Schutter (LL.M., Harvard, 1991; Ph.D., UCL, 1998) is professor of international and European human rights at the University of Louvain (Belgium). He is the director of the CIEDHU Seminar for advanced research in the field of comparative and international human rights at the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg). He is the coordinator of the EU Network of independent experts on fundamental rights, set up in September 2002 by the European Commission upon the request of the European Parliament to monitor the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU in the European Union and its Member States. He has acted regularly since 1995 as an expert for the Council of Europe and for the European Union.
Anna de Vita
Anna de Vita, Chaired Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Florence Law School, is a comparativist of England, France, Germany, and the United States. De Vita has not only studied their legal systems but has taught in the countries as well. Her particular interest lies in the law of real property, housing, and landlord-tenant relations and in the role of government regulation. De Vita's impressive body of scholarship is characterized by a close reading of legal texts, often from a critical stance. De Vita has served as Director of the Institute of Comparative Law of the University of Florence Law School and Director of Research in Comparative Law, sponsored by the Italian Research Council. She has also been President of the Italian chapter of the Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la Culture Juridique Française.
Professor Alexander Domrin is a consultant for the Russian Foundation for Legal Reform in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of International Relations and has doctoral degrees from Moscow Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has served on the professional staff of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet and as the Moscow Consultant of the United States Congressional Research Service. He has also taught at prominent law schools in the United States, in addition to having been a Fulbright Research Scholar at Harvard Law School. He has participated in numerous conferences worldwide and is the author of over sixty publications.
Professor Dreier is a Professor of Law at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Previously, he was senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich. Since 1996, he was also teaching international and European intellectual property harmonization at the Institute for European Law, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He has published and lectured extensively on a variety of intellectual property issues, including copyright and digital technology, and legal protection of computer software and integrated circuits. He advised the government prior to the reunification of Germany on how to deal with trademarks that were separately owned in the East and the West, and he has been consultant to the Commission of the European Communities on copyright questions of cable and satellite.
Professor Drexl holds the Chair for Private Law and European and International Economic Law at the University of Munich and is the Co-Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law. In addition to serving as a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute, Professor Drexl is a member of the Administrative Council of the Association of International Economic Rights (AIDE) and Chair of the Academy Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA). Professor Drexl has a Ph.D. in law from the University of Munich, a LL.M. from the University of California at Berkeley and completed his German Habilitation in private law, commercial and business law, intellectual property law, European law, comparative law in Munich. In 2005 he served as a Visiting Professor at the Liberà International University of Social Sciences (LUISS) in Rome, Italy.
David Dyzenhaus is a professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, of the Faculty of Law, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law in 1990, Professor Dyzenhaus served as Assistant Professor and Canada Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Queen's University from 1989-1991. He has taught in South Africa, England and Canada in Law, Philosophy and Sociology. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University and law and undergraduate degrees from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. In 2002, he was the Law Foundation Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland. In 2005-06 he was Herbert Smith Visiting Professor in the Cambridge Law Faculty and a Senior Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Werner F. Ebke
Werner F. Ebke holds the chair of German, European, and International Corporate Law at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and serves as director of the University's Institute of German and European Corporate and Business Law. Previously, he was dean and held the chair of Business and Tax Law at the University of Konstanz School of Law. He was an assistant professor of law at Southern Methodist University as well. He was educated in the United States and in Germany and has written extensively in both English and German. His article, "Controlling the Modern Corporation" (with Bernhard Grossfeld), is generally acknowledged to be a groundbreaking piece on comparative company law.
Niva Elkin Koren
Niva Elkin-Koren is a professor of law at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law, and the Director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT). While visiting NYU during Spring 2010, she will teach Copyright Law in the Digital Era and work on a new book concerning the evolving structures of governances in social networks. She is the author of Intellectual Property in the Information Age (2004); coauthor of The Limits of Analysis: Law and Economics of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (forthcoming 2009) and Law, Economics and Cyberspace: The effects of Cyberspace on the Economic Analysis of Law (2004). She is the coeditor of Law and Information Technology (forthcoming 2009) and The commodification of Information (2002).
Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production and dissemination of information. She has written extensively on copyright law and information policy, and published many articles in Hebrew and in English in prominent journals. Elkin-Koren earned her S.J.D from Stanford Law School in 1995, her LL.M from Harvard Law School in 1991, and her LL.B from Tel-Aviv University School of Law in 1989. She has been a visiting professor at leading law schools in the United States and in Europe.
Professor Menachem Elon is the retired Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Israel and the world's leading authority on Jewish Law. An ordained rabbi, Elon has been Professor of Jewish Law, head of the Institute for Research in Jewish Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the editor of the division of Jewish Law of the Hebrew Encyclopedia. He is the recipient of the Israel Prize, the country's highest civilian award, for his three-volume work on Jewish law and other outstanding contributions to his field.
Professor Franco Ferrari is tenured professor of international law at Verona University School of Law. Previously, he was tenured professor of comparative law at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and Bologna University in Italy. After serving as member of the Italian Delegation to various sessions of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) from 1995 to 2000, he served as Legal Officer at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, International Trade Law Branch (2000-2002), with responsibility for numerous projects, including the preparation of the UNCITRAL Digest on Applications of the UN Sales Convention. Professor Ferrari, who has been a visiting professor in very many US and foreign law schools, such as Columbia Law School, has published more than 180 law review articles in various languages and 12 books in the areas of international commercial law, conflict of laws, comparative law and international commercial arbitration. Professor Ferrari is a member of the editorial board of various peer reviewed European law journals (Internationales Handelsrecht, European Review of Private Law, Contratto e impresa, Contratto e impresa/Europa, Revue de droit des affaires internationales); Professor Ferrari also acts as an international arbitrator.
Guido Ferrarini graduated from the Genoa Law School in 1972, and obtained an LL.M. from Yale Law School in 1978. He is a professor of law at the University of Genoa, Italy, and director of the Centre for Law and Finance. He is the lead independent director of Telecom Italia S.p.A.; independent director of Autostrade S.p.A., and chairman of TLX (a new Italian investment exchange). He is vice chairman of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), Brussels; a member of the board of trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC), London; and Independent Director of Assogestioni (the Italian Asset Managers Association). He is the author of various books and articles in the fields of financial law, corporate law, and business law. He is a visiting professor at the University College London and was a visiting professor at Columbia Law School (2003) and Hamburg University (2002). He is co-editor of the Rivista delle Società and editor of ECGI Law Working Papers.
Victor Ferreres Comella
Victor Ferreres Comella is Professor of Constitutional Law at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He is currently teaching Constitutional Law and European Community Law at the Spanish "Escuela Judicial" (Judicial School), where young judges are trained. Professor Comella obtained his J.S.D. at Yale Law School, with a thesis entitled Judicial Review and Democracy (1996). His most important work has focused on constitutional review of legislation and fundamental rights. He has written two books in Spanish: Justicia constitucional y democracia (1997), which won the "Francisco Tomás y Valiente" Prize (awarded by the Spanish Constitutional Court and the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales), and El principio de taxatividad en material penal y el valor normativo de la jurisprudencia (2002). He is currently working on the role of Constitutional Courts in Europe. His most recent articles in this field include: "The European Model of Constitutional Review of Legislation: Toward Decentralization?", I.CON, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Volume 2, Number 3, 2004, and "The Consequences of Centralizing Constitutional Review in a Special Court: Some Thoughts on Judicial Activism," Texas Law Review, Volume 83, June 2004. Professor Comella has taught at the law schools of Universidad de Puerto Rico, University of Texas, and New York University. He visited NYU as a Global Visiting Professor of Law in 2001 and 2003. He is one of the Articles Editors of I.CON, International Journal of Constitutional Law, and a member of the organizing committee of SELA (Seminario en Latinoamerica de Teoría Constitucional y Política), an annual gathering at the Southern Cone that brings together scholars from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, México, Paraguay, Perú, Puerto Rico, Spain and the United States.
Professor Cyrille Fijnaut, who resides in the Netherlands, is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He also is affiliated with Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He has more than 400 publications in several languages, including a book, Organized Crime and its Containment: A Transatlantic Initiative, that was edited with Professor James Jacobs of NYU School of Law. Fijnaut is the founder and editor of European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, an English-language journal in European criminal law, and the general editor of the International Encyclopedia of Criminal Law, a series in comparative criminal law that plans to publish a volume on criminal law in every major country.
Daniel Fitzpatrick is a Reader in Law at the Australian National University. He has written widely on property theory in a law and development context, with a particular focus on natural disasters and armed conflicts. He was the UN's land rights adviser in post-conflict East Timor (2000) and post-tsunami Indonesia (2005-6). In 2007 he won the Hart Article Prize from the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association. He has published in the Yale Law Journal, the Law and Society Review, and the Yale Journal of International Law. Dr Fitzpatrick is the primary author of the UN’s guidelines on addressing land issues after natural disasters. He has undertaken professional consultancies on law and development with the World Bank, AusAID, the Asian Development Bank, Oxfam International, the OECD, UNDP and UN-Habitat. He has been a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore (2006-09), a Visiting Professor at the University of Muenster (2002), and a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto (2007).
One of Japan's leading authorities, Koichiro Fujikura is a Professor of Law at the Waseda University of Tokyo. Until recently, he taught at the University of Tokyo. His areas of scholarly concentration are Anglo-American law, comparative torts, and environmental law. From 1969 to 1971, he was a Research Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies at Emory and Yale Law Schools. He also has been a visiting professor at several leading schools in America. From 1978 to 1980, he has Dean of the Faculty of Law of Doshisha University. He is a registered member of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, a representative director of the Japanese American Society for Legal Studies, a member of the Board of Directors of the Japanese Association of Comparative Law, and a member of the American Law Institute.
Michal Gal is a senior lecturer and director of the Law and MBA Program at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research focuses on competition law and policy. She is the editor of Competition Policy for Small Market Economies (Harvard University Press, 2003), and has also written and spoken extensively about competition law in developing economies, the intersection between antitrust and intellectual property, and the political economy of antitrust. Gal served as an adviser to the OECD and the U.N. on competition-related issues and is a non-governmental adviser to the International Competition Network (ICN). She won the Zeltner Prize for Young Researcher in 2004.
Professor Giovanoli is Professor of Banking Law at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. In addition to his appointment at Lausanne, Professor Giovanoli is General Counsel of the Bank of International Settlements, and Chair of the Committee on International Monetary Law of the International Law Association. He graduated from the University of Lausanne with degrees of Doctor of Laws and Master of Political Science. Professor Giovanoli is a prolific writer with at least 40 publications to his credit, on topics such as international financial standards, legal aspects of money, international bank insolvencies, and the use of electronic communications in international transactions. From 1999 to 2002, he also served on the Experts Committee appointed by the Swiss government to prepare a revision of the Swiss Constitutional provisions with respect to currency, the monetary legislation, and law on the Swiss National Bank.
From 1994-2003, Justice Richard Goldstone was a member of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He is Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. From 1994 to 1996, Goldstone was Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He has also served as Co-Chairman of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry regarding Public Violence and Intimidation, and President of the National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Rehabilitation of Offenders. He is a member of the United Nations Independent Investigation Committee into the Iraq Oil for Food Program (the Volcker Committee). Justice Goldstone has received many human rights awards and has lectured on human rights and South African constitutional issues at universities around the world.
Professor Goshen teaches corporate law at Hebrew University, Israel. He earned his law degree from Hebrew University, and an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School. He has been a visiting professor at American law schools and has published in leading American and Israeli journals. He has also held several public appointments, including most recently as Director of the Israeli Securities Authority. He was director and founder of Community Legal Assistance Service, the first legal assistance program for Jerusalem's poor neighborhoods.
Leslie Green (B.A., Queen's; M.A., M.Phil., D.Phil. Oxford) is Professor of Law and Philosophy at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto. He is also a Regular Visiting Professor at the School of Law, University of Texas at Austin. A former Fellow of Lincoln College Oxford, he has also taught at Queen's (Canada) and UC Berkeley. Professor Green works mainly in jurisprudence and in related areas of political philosophy, and in sexuality and the law. He is author of The Authority of the State and co-editor of Law and the Community: The End of Individualism, and has published many papers on topics including the nature of law, freedom of expression, minority rights, language rights, and the philosophy of gender and sexuality. He is currently writing about general jurisprudence, about the relationship between social groups and the state, and about sexuality and justice.
Professor Grimm is a Permanent Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin and a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. After receiving his law degree from the University of Frankfurt in 1962, Professor Grimm continued his legal studies at the University of Paris and Harvard Law School, where he obtained an LL.M. in 1965. For many years prior to his judicial appointment in 1987, Professor Grimm was Professor of Public Law at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and director of the University's Center for Interdisciplinary Research. He has published extensively in German and English, and he has been a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and a Distinguished Global Fellow at NYU School of Law.
Professor Bernhard Grossfeld is the author of many books on corporate, commercial, and international law. Currently, he is a member of the law faculty at the University of Münster in Germany. In addition, he is director of both the Institute for International Business Law and the Institute for Cooperative Research at Munster. Grossfeld received his J.D. from the University of Munster and earned an LL.M. from Yale.
Professor Jürgen Habermas is widely recognized as one of the most important moral philosophers of the twentieth century. His writings are central to debates not only on legal theory but also on literary theory, political theory, psychology, and sociology. Habermas' political life began with the Nuremberg Trials and the appearance of the first documentary films on the Nazi concentration camps. Realizing that Nazi Germany was politically criminal, Habermas resolved to work against any recurrence of such abhorrent behavior. He then associated himself with the intellectuals and ideas of the Frankfurt School, a group of philosophers and social thinkers, which gathered at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt. Since then he has continued to infuse his intellectual work with concern for social justice.
Professor Moshe Halbertal teaches Talmud at the Hartmann Institute of Advanced Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. He is an ordained Rabbi, and his scholarship focuses on hermeneutics, the interpretation of Jewish Law. Halbertal has received the Bruna Award in Israel, and his books have been published to critical acclaim both in Israel and the United States. He has also served as Gruss Professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law Schools, and beginning in fall 2004, at NYU School of Law.
Professor Hasebe is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Tokyo. Having served as a member of many study groups and consultative councils of the Japanese government, as well as a member of the executive committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL), he now also serves as General Secretary of Japan Association of Law Schools (JALS). His fields of interest include legal philosophy, media law and constitutional law.
Xin He is an associate professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. He obtained his LL.B. LL.M from Peking University and J.S.M and J.S.D. from Stanford Law School and was a Hauser Research Scholar at NYU Law School. He has published widely in the leading journals in the fields of law and society, and the Chinese legal system, including recently "Why Do They Not Comply with the Law? in Law & Society Review, 2005, "The Recent Decline of Economic Caseloads in China: Exploration of a Surprising Puzzle" in The China Quarterly, 2007, "Why Do Chinese Courts Not Take on the Disputes?" in International Journal of Law in Context, 2007, "Enforcing Commercial
Judgments in the Pearl River Delta of China," in American Journal of Comparative Law, 2009 forthcoming, and "Routinization of Divorce Law Practice in China: Institutional Constraints' Impact on Judicial Behavior, " in International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 2009 forthcoming.
Professor Matthias Herdegen holds the Chair for Public Law and is Director of the Institute for International Law at the University of Bonn. Previously, he was a chaired professor at the University of Konstanz. Herdegen has written five books on European law, nuclear energy law, constitutional law, and international economic law. In 1989 he was awarded the Meier-Leibnitz-Preis-a special prize for constitutional law granted by the Federal Minister of Science-for his article, "The Liberty of Conscience and the Normativity of Positive Law." In 1985 he held an appointment at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. He also has lectured widely and has been a consultant to Germany and foreign governments.
Gérard Hertig is professor of law at ETH Zurich. He was previously professor of administrative law and director of the Centre d’Etudes Juridiques Européennes at the University of Geneva Law School (1987-1995). His research and teaching cover topics in law & economics, with a focus on corporate governance and banking. He has published extensively in both books and journals, his most recent contributions including the Anatomy of Corporate Law (2007), with Reinier Kraakman at al. Hertig is ECGI research associate and a member of the Comparative Law and Economics Forum and the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee. He has been a visiting professor at leading law schools in Europe, Japan and the U.S. and practiced law as a member of the Geneva bar.
Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science and Law, and Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto. His scholarship focuses on comparative constitutional law, constitutional and judicial politics, and comparative legal traditions and institutions more generally.
Professor Hirschl is the author of Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2004 & 2007), Constitutional Theocracy (Harvard University Press, 2010), and Comparative Matters (Harvard University Press, forthcoming), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on comparative constitutional law and politics published in leading social science journals, law reviews, and edited collections.
He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, a Fulbright Scholar, a Fellow at Princeton University's Program in Law and Public Affairs, and served as the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Most recently, he was awarded a Straus Fellowship at NYU Law School, received a University of Toronto Outstanding Teaching Award, and delivered the 2010 Annual Lecture in Law and Society at Oxford University. He is married to Ayelet Shachar (Professor of Law, Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism at the University of Toronto), and is the father of a dazzling 5th grader.
Klaus Hopt is one of Europe's top commercial law scholars. He is a professor of business and banking law and director at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law in Hamburg, Germany. He has been a professor at the University of Munich, a professor and dean of law faculty at University of Tubingen, Germany, and a professor and head of department at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has also been a visiting professor at leading law schools in Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States. He is vice president of the German Research Foundation and independent director of the German Stock Exchange Corporation. Hopt has authored or edited numerous books on corporate and commercial law topics and is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and the International Faculty of Corporate and Capital Market Law, Philadelphia.
Professor Inoue, the most highly regarded law and philosophy scholar in Japan, is Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Graduate School of Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. Previously, he taught at the faculty of law and economics at Chiba University. He was a Fulbright Scholar for two years at the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University and a research fellow in both law and social sciences at Tokyo University. Serving as a member of the board of directors of the Japan Association of Legal Philosophy, he won the 1986 Suntory Academic Award for the Best Books in History and Philosophy.
Professor Christian Joerges is Professor of Economic Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Previously, he was Professor of Civil Law, Private International Law and International Economic Law at Bremen University, Germany, and co-director of its Center for European Law and Politics. A prolific scholar with wide-ranging interests, his work has been translated into several languages. In recent years his work had focused on the process of Europeanization and its impact on private law regimes. He is co-director of the European Law Journal and the journal of International Studies on Private Law Theory.
Professor Ratna Kapur, India's leading feminist scholar and activist, is director of the Center of Feminist Legal Research in New Delhi, India. She has taught a number of law schools in India, Canada and the U.S. and has been training coordinator for the Asia-Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development. She holds undergraduate and graduate law degrees from Cambridge University and a graduate degree from Harvard Law School, and she has been a Visiting Scholar at both these institutions. She has co-authored two books, published numerous articles, reviews and reports, and presented at numerous international seminars and conferences.
Wolfgang Kerber is Professor of Economics at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. After receiving his Ph.D. at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, he was a director of the Walter-Eucken-Institut in Freiburg, and a professor of economics at the Ruhr-University Bochum. He was a visiting fellow at George Mason University (Fairfax), University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). His general research interests are competition policy, evolutionary and innovation economics, institutional economics, law and economics, and European integration. In the last years his main fields of research are European and international competition policy, and multi-level legal systems and regulatory competition. He has written extensively in both German and English. His most recent publications include articles in European Journal of Law and Economics, World Competition, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, and Journal of European Public Policy.
Professor Catherine Kessedjian is Professor of Law at the University of Paris II (Pantheon-Assas), France. Previously, she taught at the University of Bourgogne. From 1996 to 2000, she served as Deputy Secretary-General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in The Hague, Netherlands with responsibility for numerous projects, including a proposed worldwide convention on jurisdiction and judgments and background reports for a study on international internet and e-commerce regulation. She has published extensively--over 90 books and articles--on all aspects of international private law and dispute resolution. She was a practicing lawyer in Paris for many years and has been active in the International Bar Association. She is a member of the American Law Institute and is an advisor on several ALI projects.
Professor Janos Kis is a distinguished political and social theorist who, after many years as a dissident under the Communist regime, emerged as an important political figure in Hungary's transition to democracy. He began as a student and intellectual collaborator of the eminent Marxist Georg Lukács, but at a fairly early stage of his career was barred from academic employment on political grounds. During this time he occupied himself with dissident politics and publications in Samizdat, as well as private scholarship. For example, he produced a Hungarian translation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
Martti Koskenniemi, Member of the International Law Commission (UN), is a professor at the Academy of Finland. Until taking up position as Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki in 1995, he was Counsellor for Legal Affairs at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. He has represented Finland at numerous international bodies, among them the UN General Assembly and the Security Council. He also litigated with the International Court of Justice. Alongside a busy career in diplomacy, Professor Koskenniemi enjoys a wide reputation as an international law scholar. His main works, From Apology to Utopia. The Structure of International Legal Argument (reissue with a new epilogue 2005) and The Gentle Civilizer of Nations. The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (2001), have become leading works in the theory and history of international law. He holds a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Turku, where he also earned his LL.B. and LL.M., and a Diploma in Law from Oxford.
Annette Kur is a senior member of research staff and head of unit at the Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law. She is associate professor at the University of Stockholm and a lecturer in trademark law, intellectual property law and private international law at Munich University (LMU), Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Member of foreign faculty, Santa Clara University (CA), and was a visiting professor (Hauser global program) at NYU, fall 2006. She has served as adviser in the American Law Institute’s project “Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes. She is president of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) for the term 2007-2009. A. Kur is the author of books and numerous articles in the field of national, European and international trademark, unfair competition and industrial design law as well as international jurisdiction and choice of law.
Professor Nicola Lacey holds a chair in criminal law at the London School of Economics. Previously, she was a professor in the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a fellow and tutor in law at New College, Oxford. Her interdisciplinary scholarship draws upon several fields: criminal law doctrine, criminology and criminal justice studies, feminist theory and political philosophy. She has published several books and many articles and reviews, and has recently been a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin.
Michael Lang received a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Vienna (1990) and is recipient of many awards an honors. He is Professor of tax law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Head of the Department of Austrian and International Tax Law at this university, and also Scientific Head of the postgraduate programme for International Tax Law. Among many other functions he is currently Vice President of the International Fiscal Association (Austria) and member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of IFA and of the Academic Committee of the European Association of Tax Law Professors.
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Chang Hee Lee is Professor of Law at Seoul National University where he has taught taxation since 1997. He also taught taxation at Harvard Law School (2005) and the University of Tokyo (2001) as a visiting professor of law. He has published an over 1,100-page treatise of Korean tax law as well as several dozen articles. His representative publications in English include "Impact of E-Commerce on Allocation of Tax Revenue between Developed and Developing Countries," first published in 18 Tax Notes International 2569 (1999) and updated in 4 Journal of Korean Law 19 (2004); "Law and Taxation of Corporate Merger and Division in Korea," 3 Journal of Korean Law 1 (2003); "Instability of the Concept of Dependent Agent Permanent Establishment," 97 Tax Notes 271 (2002); "A Strategic Approach for Capital Importing Countries under the Arm’s Length's Principle," 18 Tax Notes 677 (1999).
Professor Lehner occupies a prestigious tax law chair at the University of Munich. Previously, he taught at the universities of Bielefeld, Cologne, and Berlin. He was educated at the University of Heidelberg. Regarded highly in the international tax community, Professor Lehner is an exceptionally broad scholar and prolific writer, both in German and English. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the German Division of the International Fiscal Association, German Associates for Tax Law, and the Association for International Law.
Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir is Louis Marshall Associate Professor of Environmental Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her research interests are property law and land use and planning law. Lewinsohn-Zamir has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Hebrew University President's Prize for the Excellent Young Scholar, the Fulbright Scholarship, and the Rothschild Fellowship. She has been a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School and a visiting scholar at Yale Law School. She has published articles in the New York University Law Review, the Texas Law Review and the Yale Law Journal.
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Sharon Rabin Margalioth, a top Israeli scholar of labor and employment law, is a faculty member at the Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Israel. Rabin Margalioth has examined a wide variety of legal issues, including the decline of unionization, employment class actions, the growth of the contingent workforce, and the implication of various anti- discrimination and accommodation mandates. Her articles in Hebrew are cited often by the Israeli Supreme Court and the National Labor Court. A former law clerk to Justice Gabriel Bach of the Supreme Court of Israel, Rabin-Margalioth received her legal education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and NYU Law School. She is the co-editor of Labor, Society and Law, the leading employment law journal in Israel.
Yoram Margalioth is a professor of law at Tel Aviv University, teaching tax, tax policy, welfare and economic growth polices, and supervising the Micro-business and Economic Justice Clinical Program. His area of expertise is Tax Policy. His areas of research include: optimal tax and transfer systems, international taxation, tax and development, economic growth, IP vs. tax, social security and pension law, racial profiling, antidiscrimination, affirmative action, anti-terror, family taxation, fertility and childcare, environmental taxation, mandated benefits, and labor economics. Prof. Margalioth is an outside director of IDB Development Corp. Ltd., the investments arm of IDB Holding Corporation Ltd., one of the largest and most influential holding companies in Israel. Holds LL.B. Hebrew University, LL.M. in Taxation and J.S.D. at N.Y.U.; Clerked for Justice Nethanyahu of the Supreme Court of Israel; Worked as an attorney at the fiscal department of the State General Attorney Office; Served as deputy director of Harvard’s International Tax Program (teaching Tax and Development) and visited Northwestern (teaching Tax Policy).
Professor Yoshihiro Masui is Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo, where he has taught taxation since 1990. Having served as an Expert Member for the Tax Commission of the Japanese government, he is currently a member of the steering committee of the Japanese Society for Tax Law and a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association. His monograph "Taxation of Corporate Groups" (University of Tokyo Press, 2002, in Japanese) won the Insitute of Tax Research and Literature Award. For more information, see http://www.j.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~masui/english.html.
Professor Nils Mattsson of Uppsala University in Sweden is a leading scholar in the area of tax and social policy, and international taxation. He served recently as dean of the law faculty at Uppsala University. Prior to becoming professor at Uppsala, Mattsson served as judge, as senior lecturer at Lund University, and as adviser to the Tetra Pak Group, one of Sweden's largest multinational corporations. And, he regularly acts as a consultant on tax policy for the Swedish government. A wide-ranging scholar, Mattsson has published eight books on tax law and more than 40 articles on other topics, including company law and constitutional law. He has also collaborated on a seven nation comparative study of tax policy with an international group of tax scholars.
Professor Menachem Mautner, a leading Israeli scholar of contract theory and bankruptcy, serves as dean of the Tel Aviv University Law School. He holds degrees from that university as well as Yale Law School. As a major in the army, Mautmer served as Senior Legal Adviser in the International Law Branch of the Military Advocate General where he participated as a member of high-level governmental teams in preparing the Camp David Accords in 1978 and the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty of 1979. Since 1986, Mautner has been a member of the Committee in the Ministry of Justice for Preparation of a New Civil Code of the State of Israel. He also has served as chairperson of the Committee for Revision of Israeli Secured Transactions Law, also within the Ministry of Justice.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is President, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi. He is also a participant in the Global Faculty Program of NYU Law School. He was previously Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University; Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard. He was also Professor of Philosophy and of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has held a visiting appointment at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of research include political theory, constitutional law, society and politics in India, governance and political economy and international affairs. Mehta has a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University (St. John's College); and a Ph.D in Politics from Princeton University. He has has also done extensive public policy work. He was Member-Convener of the Prime Minister of India’s National Knowledge Commission; Member of the Supreme Court appointed on Regulating Indian Universities and has authored a number of papers and reports for leading Government of India and International Agencies, including the World Bank, UNRISD, DFID. He has advised a number of institutions in Higher Education. He is on the Board of Governors of International Development Research Council (IDRC), and numerous other academic institutions, including National Institute of Finance and Public Policy. He is also a member of the WEF's Global Governance Council. He is a prolific columnist and editorial consultant to the Indian Express. His columns have also appeared in a number of national and international dailies including the Financial Times, Telegraph, International Herald Tribune, The Hindu, Outlook etc. He is also on the Editorial Board of numerous journals including the American Political Science Review, Journal of Democracy and India and Global Affairs.
Professor Mir-Hosseini, who is Iranian by birth, works freelance as a researcher, writer and consultant on gender and family law in Islam. She is Research Associate at the London Middle East Institute and the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, both at SOAS, University of London. An anthropologist by training, she has done extensive research in Iran and Morocco. Her publications include the books Marriage on Trial: A Comparative Study of Family Law in Iran and Morocco, Islam and Gender: the Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran, and Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform. She has also co-directed two award-winning feature-length documentaries filmed in Iran: Divorce Iranian Style and Runaway. Her appointment to the Global Law Faculty, along with that of Mohammed Arkoun, as Mamdouha Bobst Professor, will serve to bring an Islamic perspective to core elements of teaching and research at the New York University School of Law.Setsuo Miyazawa
Professor Setsuo Miyazawa, of Kobe University, Japan, holds doctoral degrees in law (Hokkaido University) and Sociology (Yale). He is the author of several books and articles in English and Japanese on a wide range of subjects, including criminal law, criminology, legal profession, and the Japanese judicial system. He is also active in Japanese and international academic associations and is Editorial Advisor of the Law & Society Review, Policing and Society, and the International Journal of Sociology of Law.
Professor Marcia Neave, one of Australia's leading academics, was the third woman to be awarded a chair in Australia. She held the John Bray Chair of Law and was Dean at Adelaide University; she now holds a chair at Monash Law School. The author of numerous books, Professor Neave is among the very few lawyers who are fellows of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences. She has served as Commissioner of two State Law Reform Commissions in Australia and as a consultant to the Australian Law Reform Commission for its reference on matrimonial property. She also conducted an inquiry into prostitution for the Victorian government and has advised the federal government on AIDS-related issues for a decade.
Tunde Ogowewo teaches corporate finance law, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions law at King’s College London, University of London. He is recognised as a leading expert on UK takeover law. He created the first course in the University of London’s LL.M. programme on the UK Takeover Code. Judicial citations of his expertise, which covers corporate finance law to Nigerian public law, can be found in Santolina Investment Corp Chancery Division  EWHC 437 (Ch) (proprietary claims), Re Williams  EWHC 1304 (illegality), Re Alamieseyegha  EWHC 2704 (sovereign immunity and federations) and Koroi v. Commissioner of Inland Revenue and Attorney General of the Republic of Fiji (2001) Civil App. 78/2000S (rule of law). His expertise has also been cited by broadsheets including the London Financial Times. His academic works include three books and numerous articles in international peer reviewed academic and practitioner journals on a wide range of topics. He was co-editor of the Journal of African Law (Cambridge University Press) between 2000 – 2007 and is presently on the editorial board of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law (Edinburgh University Press) and the Securities Market Journal.
H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo is Professor of Public Law at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He has served as Chair of the Department of Public Law, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Director of the Population Studies and Research Institute, and member of both the University Senate and the University Council. He is a prolific writer and has been a visiting professor or delivered public lectures at several European and American Universities. He is a member of the Commission of Environmental Strategy and Planning of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the International Law Association (HQ Branch), the International Centre for Land Policy Studies, and the International Association of Constitutional Law.
Phoebe Okowa is a Reader in Public International Law at Queen Mary, University of London. She read Law at the Universities of Nairobi and Oxford, where she obtained an LLB, BCL, and a doctorate (D.Phil) respectively. She has also taught at the University of Bristol and held visiting appointments at the Universities of Stockholm, Helsinki and Lille. Okowa is the joint editor of Foundations of Public International Law (Oxford University Press) and the Queen Mary Studies in International Law (Brill). She also serves on the editorial board of International Community Law Review.
Phoebe Okowa’s teaching interests are in the field of public international law broadly construed. She has published extensively on a wide range of topics especially on the law of state responsibility, use of force and the protection of natural resources in conflict zones, and the relationship between state and individual responsibility for international crimes. In 2006, she completed a major study, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council on International Law Questions Arising from the disintegration of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Professor Oloka-Onyango is dean of the law school at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He is a member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, and he has drafted numerous resolutions for the United Nations Commission for Human Rights. He has published several books, book chapters, articles, and reviews in African, European and U.S. journals. He holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School and had been Visiting Professor there and at other law schools in the U.S. and Africa. He has done work for the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights in New York, and has advised other human rights organizations and United Nations agencies. He has also served as a member of the editorial boards of journals devoted to human rights and related issues.
Catherine (Kate) O'Regan was born in Liverpool, England but grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. She obtained a BA and an LLB at the University of Cape Town, an LLM at the University of Sydney in Australia and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. During the 1980s, she worked as an attorney in Johannesburg specialising in labour law and land rights law. At the end of that decade, she joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town where she taught civil procedure, evidence and labour law. In 1994, she was appointed a judge of the newly established Constitutional Court of South Africa. Her fifteen year term of office came to an end in 2009. Since then she has served as an ad hoc judge of the Namibian Supreme Court, chairperson of the United Nations Internal Justice Council (since 2008), President of the International Monetary Fund Administrative Tribunal and as a visiting professor at the University of Oxford and an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town.
Professor Hisashi Owada is President of the Japan Institute of International Law in Tokyo. Previously, he was the Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations. He was educated at the University of Tokyo and at Cambridge University, and has had a long and distinguished career both as a scholar and as a diplomat. Early in his career, he had postings to the Soviet Union and the United Nations. He has also served as Private Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, Director of the U.N. Political Affairs Division and Director of the Treaties Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister in charge of foreign affairs during the Fukuda Government, Ambassador of Japan to the OECD in Paris as its Permanent Representative, and Deputy Minister and Vice Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Owada has also taught International Law and International Organizations at the University of Tokyo since 1963 and Harvard University (1979-1981, 1987, 1988). He is the author of numerous books and articles on international political, legal, and economic affairs.
Born in Naples, Italy (1948), Pasquale Pasquino is currently a Global Distinguished Professor of Politics at NYU. Dr. Pasquino is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Centre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit, Paris (CNRS). He obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Classics from the University of Naples and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Paris I-Sorbonne. Dr. Pasquino has been working in different research and teaching institutions, notably the Collège de France; Ecole Normale Supérieure; Université de Paris I, Sorbonne; Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris; Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen; Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; King's College, Cambridge; The University of Chicago; Universities of Turin, Milan and Rome I, Italy. Since 1995, he has been a Visiting Professor at NYU in the Politics Department and in the Global Law School Program. Dr. Pasquino published 3 books, including Sieyes et l'invention du constitutionalisme en France (Editions Odile Jacob, Paris, 1998), and eighty articles on constitutional and political theory and history of European countries. He is currently writing a book entitled The Divided Power on the role of courts in the Athenian democracy and in contemporary constitutional systems. Dr. Pasquino's fields of interest and expertise are the constitutional theories of Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, German Staatslehre in the 17th and 18th centuries, political and constitutional theory of the French Revolution, the Weimar Republic, and contemporary constitutional adjudication in comparative perspective.
Ariel Porat is the former Dean of Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. He is Alain Poher Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University and Fischel-Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago (on an annual basis). He was also a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, and the University of Virginia. He is a member of the American Law Institute, a board member of the American Law and Economics Association and a former president of the Israeli Law and Economics Association. From 1997-2002, Ariel Porat was the Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law. He is the founder of the journal Theoretical Inquiries in Law and was its editor in chief in the years 1999-2003, author of Contributory Fault in the Law of Contracts (1997), co-author (with Alex Stein) of Tort Liability under Uncertainty (Oxford University Press 2001), and author of many articles in torts and contracts, most recently, "Total Liability for Excessive Harm" 36 Journal of Legal Studies (2007) (with R. Cooter), "Offsetting Risks" 106 Michigan Law Review (2007), "A Comparative Fault Defense in Contract Law" 107 Michigan Law Review (2009) and "Private Production of Public Goods: Liability for Unrequested Benefits" 108 Michigan Law Review (2009).
Professor Carlos Rosenkrantz is a professor at the University of Palermo Law School, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a visiting professor at Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. He also is affiliated with the Centro de Estudios Institucionales, a legal and political policy institute. For more than ten years, Rosenkrantz has been integrally involved in the Argentinean constitutional reform process and the reform of private law and private procedure. In the 1980s he served on the commission headed by the late Carlos Nino, the chief architect of constitutional reform in Argentina. In 1994 he served as Chief Advisor to former President Alfonsin at the Argentine Constitutional Convention.
Ruth Rubio-Marin is global visiting professor of law at NYU School of Law, and associate professor of constitutional law at the University of Seville, Spain. She has held several visiting positions in North America, having been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley Law School, a fellow at Princeton University, a visiting scholar at Queen's University, Canada, and an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School. She has published three books and several articles and chapters, and she has presented papers at conferences in Europe, North America, and Latin America. She has also done work as a consultant in the area of gender, human rights, and antidiscrimination. Her primary research interests are immigration law and policy, gender studies, citizenship theory, nationalism, language rights, and minority rights.
Professor Andras Sajo is Professor of Law and Chair of the Constitutional Law Institute at the Central European University in Budapest. He was the founding dean of Legal Studies at that University. In addition to his stature as a prominent constitutionalist, he also is distinguished in market economy fields, including media regulation that post-communist regimes must confront. Fluent in six languages, Sajo has been deeply involved in the drafting of constitutions throughout Eastern Europe. His honors include the Hungarian Academy Book Prize in 1986 and serving as the Blackstone Lecturer at Oxford University. He has served as Counsel to the President of the Republic of Hungary, as chair of the Media Codification Committee of the Hungarian Government, and as Deputy Chair of the National Deregulation Board of Hungary. He also was the principal draftsman of the Environment Code for the Hungarian Parliament, as well as the founder and speaker of the Hungarian League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.
Professor Philippe Sands is the director of the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, London University. Since 1988, he has lectured on public international law, EEC law, and international environmental law, at London University's Kings College and the School of Oriental and African Studies. Earlier, he was a Research Fellow in international law at Cambridge University. For several years, he has performed advisory work for governments, non-governmental organizations, and corporations. He has appeared as a barrister before the English High Court, the European Court of Justice, the European Commission of Human Rights, the International Court of Justice, and the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal.
Born in 1961; Education in law and economics at Bonn University. Dissertation on partner-ship taxation in 1985. Postdoctoral lecturing qualification (Habilitation) in 1992. Full Pro-fessor at Bielefeld University 1992 - 1996. From 1996 – 2002 Full Professor at Bonn University. Since 2002 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law (Department of Accounting and Taxation) in Munich and Professor at Munich University; Member of the board of the German Lawyers Association (since 1998).Member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the German Federal Ministry of Finance (2003 – 2006); Chairman of the German Law Professors’ Working Group on Accounting Law (since 2002) and Chairman of the Scientific Council to the German Tax Law Association (since 2003). Member of the Research Board of Munich University (since 2007).
Professor Sang-Hyun Song of the Seoul National University in Korea is an authority on the subject of Korean law and society. He received his LL.B. from Seoul National University in 1963, LL.M. from Tulane University in 1968 (Fulbright Fellow), a Diploma from Cambridge University in 1969, and J.S.D. from Cornell Law School in 1970. He has been a Humboldt Fellow at Hamburg University and an ACLS Fellow at Harvard Law School. Professor Song was an attorney with a New York City law firm for two years and has been a member of the Korean Bar since 1964. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the University of Melbourne Law School and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Professor Song is the president of Korean Intellectual Property Research Society, Inc. and a member of the Advisory Committee to the Korean Supreme Court. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Korea Stock Exchange and an arbitrator for the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes of the World Bank. He has published widely in English and Korean.
Professor Brigitte Stern is a professor at both University of Paris I and the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and is the director of the CEDIN-Paris I (Centre de Droit International de Paris I). An expert in international dispute resolution, Professor Stern's work examines the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, the U.S.-Iran Claims Tribunal, and the Iraqi Compensation Commission. She has a parallel interest in commercial arbitration in which a state is a party. Stern has also written about collective security and peacekeeping operations, producing important works on the juridical aspects of the Gulf crisis, dispute settlement following the Iran crisis, and the legal character of emerging norms in the new international economic order.
Rolf Stürner, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for German and Comparative Civil Procedure at the University of Freiburg, Germany, will visit the NYU School of Law in spring and teach a seminar on Comparative Civil Procedure together with Oscar Chase. Stürner has published numerous books and articles in the fields of comparative and national civil procedure, insolvency and real property law and the law of financial products in German, English, French and Spanish. Important publications in English are the books “German Civil Justice” (2004, Carolina Press) and the “Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure” (2006, Cambridge University Press), where he served as a co-reporter of the first joint project of the ALI and Unidroit. Furthermore he wrote English articles on comparative civil procedure published in the International Lawyer, RabelsZeitschrift, the Unidroit Law Review and congress volumes. Stürner served as a judge of the State Court of Appeal of the German state Baden-Württemberg for more than 20 years. He is a member of the American Law Institute, a corresponding member of Unidroit, Rome, a member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Heidelberg and a member of the Council of the International Association of Procedural Law. As a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (2001, 2003, 2005) and many other universities he taught International Civil Litigation.
Alan Tan is Associate Professor and Vice-Dean at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Law School. Born in Penang, Malaysia, Alan obtained his LLB from NUS and his LLM and JSD from Yale Law School. His doctoral thesis at Yale was on the law and politics of shipping regulation. Alan has clerked for the Supreme Court of Singapore and also interned at the International Maritime Organization in London. He researches into Aviation Law, Maritime Law and Environmental Law, particularly in the context of Asian countries. In 2006, his book Vessel-Source Marine Pollution: The Law and Politics of International Regulation, was published by Cambridge University Press. Alan has also taught at the University of Sydney and served as consultant to various governments and donor agencies, including the Vietnamese government and the UNDP. His work on liberalizing the aviation industry in Asia has resulted in studies for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). He is currently in charge of the graduate programs at NUS Law, and helps to run the NYU@NUS dual LLM program.
Professor Yasuhei Taniguchi is Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University. He is a distinguished authority on comparative law, an expert in European and American laws, and a specialist in dispute resolution, both domestic and international. His teaching experience includes visiting professorships at several law schools in Europe and America. He holds degrees from Kyoto University, University of California at Berkley and Cornell Law School. A prolific scholar, Professor Taniguchi has published many books and articles in Japanese and English on a variety of topics. His professional affiliations include Chairman of the Kyoto Prefectural Labor Relations Commission and membership on the Law Revision Commission of the Ministry of Justice of Japan as well as membership in many international and domestic academic organizations such as the International Association of Procedural Law.
JD cum laude (Bologna, Italy, 1994), LLM in European Business Law (Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 1998), he was admitted to the Bologna Bar (Italy) in 1997 (top 1%) and is currently Professor of Law at Bologna University, Faculty of Law, and Verona University, Faculty of Law. His teaching activity covers several subjects, including Comparative Private Law, Law & Language, International Contracts, and International Business Transactions. His previous Visiting Professorships include those at Columbia Law School (2004/05 BNL Visiting Professor), the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, the University of Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense (France), Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Loyola University Chicago, the University of Western Ontario (Canada), as well as at several Italian Universities. He was also a Guest Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg (Germany) and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School, and served as the Italian Delegate at UNCITRAL (the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law), Working Group on International Contract Practices (2000). He is the author of several articles and books in English and Italian dealing with comparative law, international business transactions, international contracts and other legal issues.
Professor Michael Trebilcock is Chairman of the International Business and Trade Law Program at University of Toronto School of Law. He has advised the Canadian government on a variety of issues and has served as the vice-president of the Consumer Association of Canada (CAC) and Research Director of the Professional Organizations Committee of the Government of Ontario. Trebilcock also has been a member of the Academic Advisory Panel of the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs as well as the Presidential Advisory Committee on Institutional Strategy. He won the Walter Owen Prize for Best English Legal Text in Canada for his book The Common Law of Restraint of Trade.
Janine Ubink is a Senior Lecturer at the Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden Law school, the Netherlands. She holds a Bachelor of Law together with a Master of international Law from Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her doctoral thesis was on customary land management in Ghana, for which she spent a total of sixteen months in the field. Her areas of specialization include customary law; traditional leadership; land tenure; legal anthropology; and legal empowerment. Her regional focus is on Africa, but she has also been involved in comparative research in Africa, Asia and Latin America. She has worked as an advisor to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the rule of law in developing countries. She currently coordinates a research project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on change processes in customary law, which tries to bring together academics, policymakers and development specialists working in rule of law strengthening programs. This project includes fieldwork in Namibia to study the promotion of gender equality among a Traditional Authority in northern Namibia. She has published several edited volumes and articles in prominent journals, including the ‘Journal of African Law’, ‘Africa’, and ‘Land Use Policy’. She has taught courses on law and governance in Africa, legal systems worldwide, law and culture, and legal anthropology. She is the executive secretary of the international Commission on Legal Pluralism.
Kees van Raad
Kees van Raad is a professor of law at Leiden University in The Netherlands. He also serves as director of the International Tax Center Leiden (LL.M. Program in International Taxation). Currently he is a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association and chairman of the Academic Committee, and also a board member of the European Association of Tax Law Professors. He further serves as an adjunct judge in two tax courts in The Netherlands and is of counsel to Loyens and Loeff, a law firm. One of the leading academics in the international tax area, van Raad has published widely in multiple languages.
Roger Van Den Bergh
Professor Roger Van den Bergh is Director of the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics (RILE). Prior to his current position as a Professor of Law and Economics at the Faculty of Law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, he held positions as an associate professor at the University of Antwerp and as a professor at the Universities of Utrecht and Hamburg. He has been a visiting professor at many universities, including Aix-en-Provence, Oslo, Moscow, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Bologna and Haifa. From 1987 until 2001 he was the President of the European Association of Law and Economics. From 2000 onwards, he is the Coordinator of the “European Master Programme in Law and Economics”, which has been awarded the Erasmus Mundus quality label by the European Commission. Professor Van den Bergh’s publications cover a wide range of topics in Law and Economics. He published extensively in both books and leading scientific journals on Competition Law and Economics, European Law and Economics, Tort Law and Insurance, and Harmonisation of Laws. He is a member of the Editorial Board of several scientific journals, including the Review of Law and Economics and the Journal of Consumer Policy.
Professor Richard Vann is the leading legal tax scholar in Australia. He holds degrees from the University of Queensland and Oxford University. For the past ten years, Vann has been Professor of Law at the University of Sydney. Vann has taken leaves to work for international organization, including the International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in setting up taxation systems in developing countries and economics in transition.
Benjamin Van Rooij
Benjamin van Rooij is Professor of Chinese law and Regulation at Amsterdam Law School and director of the Netherlands China Law Center. His expertise covers Chinese law, law enforcement, compliance, regulation, law and development and socio-legal theory. Van Rooij studied Law and Chinese language and culture at Leiden University. He obtained his PhD with honors (cum laude) in 2006 in Leiden, with his dissertation Regulating Land and Pollution in China: Lawmaking, Compliance and Enforcement, Theory and Cases. Van Rooij worked at Leiden University's Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development from 2000, where he was lecturer/researcher and - from 2006 onwards -university lecturer. Over the past years he has served as an adviser to the Netherlands Prime Minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment. He regularly publishes in international academic journals and has co-edited an edition of Law & Policy on regulatory enforcement in emerging economies set to appear in early 2010. Since 2000, Benjamin van Rooij has lectured in the Netherlands and abroad on topics related to Chinese Law, Environmental Law, Sociology of Law, Comparative Law, Legal Anthropology, and Law and Development. Benjamin van Rooij currently supervises and conducts research on the formation and functioning of law and regulation in China, as well generally on law and development. Areas of research include land management and zoning, pollution regulation, occupational health, and food and drugs safety. In all this research key aspects of investigation are lawmaking, law enforcement, compliance, regulatory instruments and access to justice. The research is interdisciplinary, combining legal with social-scientific methods and theories. It is also comparative, relating findings from China to data from Europe, the US, Australia, Asia and Latin America. His work has been published in leading journals including Law & Policy, Environment and Planning A, the Journal of Contemporary China and Development and Change.
Vincenzo Varano, professor and former dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Florence, is a highly respected European comparative lawyer. A graduate of the University of Florence Law School, he completed his legal education at Stanford Law School in 1966. He has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School, Brooklyn Law School, Northwestern Law School, and the European University Institute. As a member of the Global Faculty, he visited NYU in 1994, 1998, 2004. His main research interests include comparative methodology, and comparative civil procedure. He has written extensively on civil justice: his latest book is Civil Litigation in Comparative Context (St. Paul, Thomson/West, 2007), co-authored with O. G. Chase, H. Hershkoff, L. Silberman, Y. Taniguchi, and A. Zuckerman.
Armin von Bogdandy
Armin von Bogdandy is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and a Professor of Law at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He also teaches at the University of Frankfurt, Main. Previously, he taught at the Humboldt University in Berlin. After completing his studies in law at the University of Freiburg and philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin, he earned a doctorate in law from the University of Freiburg. In 2001, he was appointed to the bench of the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal, Paris, and became its president in 2006. He served as a member of the German Science Council from 2005 to 2008.
B.A. (Hons.), M.A., LL.B. (Osgoode), D.Phil. (Oxford), member of the Ontario Bar, former Associate Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School.
Professor Walker teaches Conflict of Laws and International Commercial Arbitration at Osgoode, where she has also taught Civil Procedure and International Business Transactions, and has served as the Director of the Part-time LL.M. Program in Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution, and the Convener of the LL.B. Litigation and Dispute Resolution Stream. She also enjoys teaching Conflict of Laws in other law schools: as a special lecturer in Wuhan and X'ian (2000); as a visitor in Monash (2002), Haifa (2006), and the University of Toronto (2006); and in the Masters Program in Common Law at Tunis II as a Foreign Research Professor each year since the inception of the Program in 2001. In 2005, she gave a series of Special Lectures at The Hague Academy on "Federalism, Regionalism and the Evolution of the Conflict of Laws." This will form the focus of her work in the Global Visitors Program. Professor Walker is the author of Castel and Walker: Canadian Conflict of Laws and the General Editor of The Civil Litigation Process (6 ed). Other publications can be found at: http://research.osgoode.yorku.ca/walker.
Professor Walker was an International Advisor to the American Law Institute in its project with Unidroit to develop Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure (1998-2004) and she was a member of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada Committee on National Class Actions (2005-2006). She has been elected a member of the American Law Institute, the International Association of Procedural Law and the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council on International Law, and she has been appointed the common law Advisor to the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal Rules Committee. She is also a member of the International Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Panel of Arbitrators and the American Arbitration Association, International Centre for Dispute Resolution, Panel of Arbitrators, and she has served as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chair in ICC Arbitrations. She is a member of Arbitralwomen and the Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto; and she has been a coach and arbitrator at the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna since 2001. She was the Co-Chair of the 72nd Biennial Conference of the International Law Association in June 2006.
Neil Walker is currently the Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at Edinburgh University. He returned to Edinburgh in 2008 after 8 years as the Professor of European Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Europe's leading posttgraduate centre in Law, Humanities and Social Sciences. He was also the inaugural Dean of the European University Institute. He has written extensively on questions of national, European and global constitutional law and theory, and also on the relationship between law and security, including fifteen authored or edited books. Last year he conducted an inquiry on behalf of the Scottish government into the future of final appellate jurisdiction in Scotland in the increasingly decentralized constitutional framework of the UK. He has been a visiting professor at a number of leading institutions in Europe and United States.
Dean Wang is a prominent academic and Law Professor from Tsinghua University in China where he teaches Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy while simultaneously serving as Dean of the School of Law. In addition, he is an arbiter of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), as well as serving as Vice-President of the China Association on Legal Theory. Dean Wang is the author of numerous publications on Chinese law and his most recent publications include a book entitled Trends in Comparative Law and an article entitled "Law-making functions of the Chinese Courts: Judicial Activism in a Country of Rapid Social Change." Dean Wang holds advanced degrees from Beijing University (LL.M.), Harvard (LL.M.) and Peking University (Ph.D.).
Professor Thomas Weigend is Professor of Law at Koln University, Germany. Before taking up this position, he was a Researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. He holds a doctorate in law from the University of Freiburg and a masters in comparative law from the University of Chicago. He is co-author of one of Germany's most authoritative criminal treatises. His international reputation rests on his work in comparative criminal procedure and various aspects of criminal justice, some of which has been published in English.
Patrick Weil is a Senior Research Fellow at the French National Research Center in the University of Paris1, Pantheon-Sorbonne. Professor Weil's work focuses on comparative immigration, citizenship, and Church States law and policy. Dr. Weil has worked with the French government including participation in a 2003 French Presidential Commission on secularism, established by Jacques Chirac, and writing a report on immigration and nationality policy reform for Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in 1997 which led to the implementation of new immigration laws adopted the following year. Dr. Weil also holds an appointment as Professor at the Paris School of Economics.
Professor Manfred Weiss is Professor of Law at J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, where he has also served as dean of the law school. He is well-known for his writings on German and European Economic Community labor and employment law. He has been the President of the German Association of Industrial Relations since 1990 and serves on the executive committees of the International Industrial Relations Association and the German Law Association. In addition, he has been the German correspondent for the International Labor Law Reports, for the International Encyclopedia on Labour Law and Industrial Relations, and for the United States Academy of Arbitrators. Since 1986, he also has been a consultant to the EEC Commission.
Professor Michael Zander is a member of the law faculty of the London School of Economics, United Kingdom. He graduated from Cambridge University, U.K., and Harvard Law School. Author or editor of thirteen books, numerous chapters and more that a hundred journal articles, Zander is a prolific and highly regarded scholar. From 1967-1982, he also served as legal correspondent of The Guardian in London. In addition to his scholarship, Zander has been highly influential in the reform of criminal justice and of the legal profession. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice from 1991-93 and was also a key figure in the Commission's study of Crown Courts.
Su Li Zhu
Suli Zhu, the most cited legal scholar in China, is a professor of law of Peking University Law School. He obtained his LL.B from Peking University, LL.M from McGeorge School of Law, and M.A and Ph.D from Arizona State University. His research focuses on law and society, judicial process in China, and law and literature. His major books include Rule of Law and Its Native Resources (1996, 2003), How the Institution Evolves (1999, 2007), Sending Law to Countryside (2000, 2010), Roads Lead to Cities, Legal Transformation in China (2004), Something May Have Happened, Legal Academic Transformation in China (2004), and Law and Literature, A Study of Drama in Yuan Dynasty (2006), and other articles and book reviews. He also translated many American legal works into Chinese. Professor Zhu served as vice dean (1999-2000) and then dean (2001-2010) of Peking Unversity Law School. And he has been visiting scholar of Harvard-Yenching Institute (1999), and Yale Law School (2000); and visiting professor of Cornell Law School (fall, 2011).
Sami Zubaida is emeritus professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London, and research associate of the London Middle East Institute. He has held visiting positions in Cairo, Istanbul, Aix-en-Provence, Paris and Berkeley, California. His research and writing are on religion, culture and law in the politics of Middle Eastern societies, and on food and culture. Publications include: Law and Power in the Islamic World (2003); Islam, the People and the State (1993); and A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East (co-edited with Richard Tapper, 2000). His current interests include the drawing of social boundaries in the modern Middle East, law and ideology in the politics of the region, and cultural themes in modern Iraqi history.