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Global Faculty
This list, alphabetical by last name, includes all faculty who have taught or are teaching as members of the Hauser Global Law Faculty.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Z
Georges Abi-Saab
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.
Philip Allott
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.
Giuliano Amato
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.
Mohammed Arkoun
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.
Bernard Audit
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.
John Baker
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.
Upendra Baxi
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.
Hanina Ben-Menahem
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
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.
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.
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.
Sabino Cassese
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.
Wejen Chang
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.
Hilary Charlesworth
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.
Sijbren Cnossen
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.
Dagmar Coester-Waltjen
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.
Radhika Coomaraswamy
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.
Dennis Davis
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.
Alexander Domrin
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.
Thomas Dreier
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.
Josef Drexl
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.
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
Professor Elkin Koren is a Senior Lecturer at the University of
Haifa School of Law and a co-director of the Haifa Center for Law &
Technology. Her research focuses on the legal institutions that shape the
information environment. She has written and spoken extensively about the
privatization of information policy, copyright law and democratic theory,
the effects of cyberspace on the economic analysis of law, the regulation
of search engines, liability of information intermediaries, and the significance
of the public domain. She is the co-editor of Elkin-Koren & Netanel,
The Commodification
of Information (Kluwer Information Law Series, 2002). Her recent book
Law, Economics and Cyberspace: The Effects
of Cyberspace on the Economic Analysis of Law (co-authored with Eli
M Salzberger) was published in 2004 by Edward Elgar. She received her LL.B.
from Tel-Aviv University School of Law in 1989, her LL.M. from Harvard Law
School in 1991, and her J.S.D. from Stanford Law School in 1995.
Menachem Elon
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.
Franco Ferrari
Professor Franco Ferrari is a chaired professor at Verona University School of Law. Previously, he was chaired professor 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), he served as Legal Officer at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, International Trade Law Branch, with responsibility for numerous projects, including the preparation of the UNCITRAL Digest on Applications of the UN Sales Convention. Professor Ferrari has published more than 120 law review articles in various languages and 9 books in the areas of comparative law, private international law and international commercial law. He is a member of the editorial board of various peer reviewed European law journals (Internationales Handelsrecht, European Review of Private Law, Contratto e impresa, Revue de droit des affaires internationales); Professor Ferrari also acts as an international arbitrator.
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.
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.
Cyrille Fijnaut
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.
Koichiro Fujikura
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
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.
Mario Giovanoli
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.
Richard Goldstone
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.
Zohar Goshen
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
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.
Dieter Grimm
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.
Bernhard Grossfeld
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.
Jürgen Habermas
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.
Moshe Halbertal
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.
Yasuo Hasebe
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.
Matthias Herdegen
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
Gérard Hertig is Professor of Law at ETH Zurich, where he is the responsible professor for the post-graduate program in Intellectual Property. He was previously Professor of Administrative Law and Director of the Centre d'Etudes Juridiques Européennes at the University of Geneva Law School (1987-95). He served as a visiting professor at various universities, including Louvain-la-Neuve (1989-95), College of Europe (1993-94), and Tokyo Todai (1996 and 2005), and practiced law as a member of the Geneva bar. Recent publications include: "On-Going Board Reforms: One Size Fits All and Regulatory Capture," 21 Oxford Review of Economic Policy 269 (2005); The Anatomy of Corporate Law, A Comparative and Functional Approach, with Reinier Kraakman et al. (Oxford University Press 2004); "An Agenda for Reform: Company and Takeover Law in Europe," with Joseph A. McCahery, in Ferrarini et al. (eds.), Reforming Company and Takeover Law in Europe (Oxford University Press 2004) 21; "Four Predictions about the Future of EU Securities Regulation," with Ruben Lee, 3 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 359 (2003).
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.
Tatsuo Inoue
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.
Christian Joerges
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.
Ratna Kapur
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
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.
Catherine Kessedjian
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.
Janos Kis
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
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
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, and an associate professor at the University of Stockholm. She is an executive committee member and president-elect of ATRIP (Association for Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property); representative of the MPI in the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs, and Geographical Indications (SCT); and an advisor in the ALI project entitled Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes. She is a lecturer in trademark law, intellectual property law and private international law at Munich University (LMU), Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), and Swedish School of Economics, Helsinki, in addition to being a member of foreign faculty, Santa Clara University, California. 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.
Nicola Lacey
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
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.
Chang Hee Lee
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).
Moris Lehner
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
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.
Yoshihiro Masui
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/%7Emasui/english.html.
Nils Mattsson
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.
Menachem Mautner
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.
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Ziba Mir-Hosseini is an independent consultant, researcher and writer on Middle Eastern issues, specializing in gender, family relations, Islamic law and development. A Senior Research Associate at the London Middle Eastern Institute, SOAS, University of London, she obtained her B.A. in Sociology from Tehran University (1974) and her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from University of Cambridge (1980). She has held numerous research fellowships and visiting professorships, most recently: 2004-5 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; 2002, 2004, and 2006 Global Visiting Professor of Law, NYU School of Law. Dr. Mir-Hosseini's publications include the monographs Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law in Iran and Morocco (I. B. Tauris, 1993, 2002), Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran (Princeton University Press, 1999; I. B. Tauris, 2000), and (with Richard Tapper) Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform (I. B. Tauris, 2006). She has also directed (with Kim Longinotto) two award-winning feature-length documentary films on contemporary issues in Iran: Divorce Iranian Style (1998) and Runaway (2001).
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.
Marcia Neave
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.
H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo
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.
Joseph Oloka-Onyango
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.
Hisashi Owada
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.
Pasquale Pasquino
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.
Carlos Rosenkrantz
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
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.
Andras Sajo
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.
Philippe Sands
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.
Sang-Hyun Song
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.
Brigitte Stern
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.
Yasuhei Taniguchi
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.
Michael Trebilcock
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.
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.
Richard Vann
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.
Vincenzo Varano
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. He has also edited several books – the latest being The Reforms of Civil Procedure in Comparative Perspective (with N. Trocker, Torino, Giappichelli, 2005) and L’altra giustizia. I metodi alternativi di soluzione delle pntroversie in diritto comparato, Milano, Giuffrè, 2007- ; he is also the author of dozens of articles in Italian and English. Professor Varano has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Association of Comparative Law, and is member of the editorial board of the Rivista di diritto civile, and Director or co-Director of several series of publications. He has been since 2002 the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Law at the University of Florence.
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.
Janet Walker
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.
Chenguang Wang
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.).
Thomas Weigend
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.
Manfred Weiss
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.
Michael Zander
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.
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.