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Faculty Committees
The IILJ Faculty Advisory Committee members are:
Philip Alston, one of the best-known scholars in international human rights law, chaired the U.N. Committee on Economic and Social Rights for eight years and is now U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, as well as Faculty Director of the new Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.
Jose Alvarez, until moving to NYU he has been the Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law at Columbia Law School. José Alvarez is a prolific scholar of remarkable interdisciplinary breadth, and is regarded as one of the leading academics in international law. He teaches courses on international law, foreign investment, international legal theory, and global governance. From 2006-2008, he was the President of the American Society of International Law, and is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Sujit Choudhry, whose principal areas of expertise are comparative constitutional law and Canadian constitutional law. Prior to NYU, he was an associate dean and Scholl Professor of Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He was also a Global Visiting Professor of Law at NYU Law in the fall of 2008. Choudhry provides constitutional advice to a broad range of public sector and private sector organizations, and is extensively involved in public policy development. Choudhry is widely considered to be one of the world's most renowned public-law scholars working in the area of comparative constitutional law and comparative constitutional development.
Kevin Davis, who joined NYU from a professorship at the University of Toronto, works on commercial and financial law aspects of law and development and related issues of governance. He has particular expertise on Caribbean and small island economies and polities. Currently, he directs the IILJ's Financing Development Project. He is co-author of a major study of these issues with Michael Trebilcock (2005), and has also written an economic analysis of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.
Gráinne de Búrca, focuses in her work on a wide range of topics related to E.U. law and policy, including doctrine, institutional design, and broad questions about the integration of the E.U. legal order with the international legal system. She co-authored the most widely used and influential E.U. law casebook for English-language courses in Europe, the U.K., and other countries. De Búrca has written more than 50 scholarly articles and book chapters as well, and co-edits Oxford University Press’s series Oxford Monographs in European Law. She sits on the editorial board of the European Law Journal, and on the editorial and advisory boards of numerous other journals.
Franco Ferrari, a member of the Global faculty and Executive Director of the Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law, teaches at NYU every year and coordinates Law School initiatives in international private litigation, arbitration, and transactional law. A prolific scholar and energetic teacher, he advises the NYU Vis arbitration moot court teams and other student initiatives. He is a professor at the University of Verona.
David Golove, a prominent writer on constitutional aspects of U.S. foreign relations, teaches courses on international justice and is a faculty co-Director of the Law School’s new Center on Law and Security.
Ryan Goodman, also an associated member of the Department of Sociology and an affiliated member of the Department of Politics at NYU. A leading academic in the areas of international human rights law, public international law, and international relations, Professor Goodman utilizes his theoretical depth in the social sciences to yield important insights for the design of international law and institutions.
Robert Howse, Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice. A leading scholar of the law of the World Trade Organization, he is co-author of one of the leading textbooks and several important articles on connections of trade with labor, environment, human rights, and climate change. He also teaches international investment law, global financial architecture, and the history and theory of international law.
Benedict Kingsbury, Director (on leave) of the Institute for International Law and Justice; Fellow, Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice, 2009-10. He works on the issues of indigenous peoples and directs the Program in the History and Theory of International Law and the Global Administrative Law Project. (List of Professor Kingsbury's publications - full text)
Martti Koskenniemi was Counselor for Legal Affairs at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland for many years. In addition, he has represented Finland to the General Assembly and on the Security Council of the United Nations. He also has been an active litigator on the International Court of Justice, serving as co-agent of Finland in the case concerning passage through the Great Belt. He has published three books and more than fifty articles and book reviews. 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.
Mattias Kumm is an international and comparative law scholar, who joined the NYU full-time faculty in Fall 2000. Drawing on and expanding the scope of liberal democratic constitutional theory, Professor Kumm asks under what conditions national courts should enforce supranational laws, even when they conflict with national law.
Samuel Rascoff worked in the New York City Police Department as Director of the Intelligence Division before joining the permanent faculty in 2008. A summa cum laude from Harvard University with an A.B. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, he went to Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, where he earned a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics with first class honors, then returned to the US for law school and a U.S. Supreme Court clerkship with Justice David Souter. He served as a Special Assistant to the Office of Secretary of Defense and Coalition Provisional Authority in Washington and Baghdad, and worked on complex litigation as an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the NYU Center on Law and Security.
Linda Silberman's early articles on US federal magistrate judges and special masters are considered the authoritative works in the field. More recently, her writing in the area of international child abduction led to her service as expert consultant to the Hague Conference on Private International Law to review the operation of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, and subsequently as a member of the United States delegation. She is Co-Reporter (with Professor Andreas Lowenfeld) of an American Law Institute Project on International Jurisdiction and Judgments, directed to the development of federal legislation to govern the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in US courts.
Richard Stewart is recognized as one of the world's leading scholars in environmental and administrative law. He has published eight books and more than 70 articles in this area. His writing has been influential in shifts to the recognition of the value of markets in strengthening environmental protection, rather than the command and control regulation that was long the only model. Professor Stewart directs the school's Center on Environmental and Land Use Law, which sponsors research, conferences, and publications on cutting-edge issues of environmental and land use law. The Hauser Global Law School Program and the IILJ's Global Administrative Law Project are also under his direction. He is the author of important works on the use of tradable permits to increase the efficiency of controls on global climate change and co-directs a major research project on genetically modified organisms.
Joseph H. H. Weiler, a preeminent scholar of the European Union and the World Trade Organization, moved from Harvard Law School to head two NYU School of Law initiatives, the Hauser Global Law School Program and the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice. He handed over the Global Law School Program to Dick Stewart's directorship in 2007, and then became editor of two leading journals in the field, the European Journal of International Law (EJIL), and the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-Con).
Katrina Wyman's research focuses on regulatory and market-based approaches to reducing atmospheric pollution and to fisheries management. She also writes on restitution for historic wrongs, and on indigenous peoples' property rights. Her teaching interests include international environmental law and international fisheries law.
