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Eyal Benvenisti
Eyal Benvenisti is a professor of law and director of
the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Tel Aviv University,
Israel. Previously, he served as Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of International
Law and director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. 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 four books, and published several articles
in prominent journals. He is the editor-in-chief and founding co-editor
of Theoretical Inquiries in Law, a forum for interdisciplinary
legal study.
Courses:
Legal
Restraints on the War on Terrorism
Humanitarian
Law of Armed Conflicts
IILJ
Scholarship Seminar: Advanced Issues in International Law
Alexander Boraine
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.
Courses:
Toward
a New Democracy: The South African Model
Transitional
Justice (co-taught with Paul van Zyl)
Guido Ferrarini
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.
Course:
Corporate
Governance and Capital Markets in the EU: Law, Regulation and Policy
Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir (fall and spring)
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.
Course:
Advanced
Property Law: Theoretical and Comparative Aspects
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 recently has become
a member of the German Science Council.
Courses:
International
Law
International
and Regional Trade Law: The Law of the WTO
Eva Cantarella
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.
Courses:
From
Roman to Modern Law: Family, Abortion, Homosexuality and Capital Punishment
Sexuality,
Voice, and Resistance (co-taught with David Richards and Carol Gilligan)
Capital
Punishment in Classical Antiquity
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.
Courses:
Comparative
Corporate Law: US and European Union
Workshop
for Diploma in Corporate and Commercial Law
Michal Gal
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.
Course:
Comparative
Competition Policy
Klaus Hopt
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.
Course:
European Corporate Law and Securities Regulation
Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir (fall and spring)
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.
Course:
Urban
Planning: Theoretical and Comparative Aspects
Ruth Rubio-Marin
Ruth Rubio-Marin is associate professor 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.
Courses:
Ethnocultural
Diversity in Constitutional Democracies
Constitutions
and the Treatment of Gender
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.
Course:
Tax
Treaties
Sami Zubaida
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.
Courses:
Law
and Power in the Islamic World
Religion,
Law and Modernity: Europe and the Middle East