Global Faculty

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.

Courses:
Comparative Constitutional Law: The South African Experience
Law of War and International Criminal Courts

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.

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).

Courses:
Comparative Corporate Governance
Securities Regulation in Europe

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.

Courses:
International Intellectual Property Law (co-taught with Rochelle Dreyfuss)
Comparative Trademarks

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).

Courses:
Gender Issues in Islamic Law
Legal Anthropology: How Culture Affects Law

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), 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).

Courses:
International and Comparative Competition Policy (co-taught with Eleanor Fox)
The Scope of Labor Law

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 visiting 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.

Course:
Human and Constitutional Rights in Europe (co-taught with Mattias Kumm)

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.

Courses:
European Competition Policy
Regulatory Competition

Martti Koskenniemi
Martti Koskenniemi, Member of the International Law Commission (UN), is a professor at the Academy of Finland. Until taking up a 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.

Course:
International Law and Politics

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. Professor Lee's 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).

Courses:
Tax Treaties
Taxation of International Business Transactions (co-taught with Georg Kofler)

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.

Courses:
Law's Authority: Democracy, Revolutions and Coups (co-taught with Lewis Kornhauser)
Latin American Problems and Latin American Law

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.

Courses: TBA