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Law School Faculty working in International Law

The core New York University School of Law faculty is complemented each year by up to 20 Hauser Global Law Faculty from all over the world. While remaining affiliated with their national universities, Hauser Global Law Faculty are in residence at NYU Law for seven weeks or a full semester, to teach courses, engage in research, and to enrich the Law School with their expertise in such areas as African constitutional law, criminal law and feminist legal thought, among many others. A few among the large group of Hauser Global Faculty specializing in international law are described here.

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2009-10 Academic Year

Fall Semester 2009

Fareda Banda
Fareda Banda BL Hons, LLB (Zimbabwe), DPhil (Oxon). Fareda Banda is a Reader in the Laws of Africa at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. Her areas of interest/expertise include the human rights of women, family law and issues pertaining to law and society in Africa. She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Oxford. Following her doctorate she worked as a Research Assistant at the Law Commission of England and Wales before returning to Oxford on a two year Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship. She co-edits the Journal of African Law, is an Associate Editor (Africa) of the International Survey of Family Law while also sitting on the editorial board of the Journal of Southern African Studies and the international advisory boards of three other publications. Her publications include a book entitled Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective. Other publications include consultancy reports for the Lord Chancellor's Department on why women and ethnic minorities are under represented in the ranks of Queens Counsel (with Kate Malleson), for Minority Rights Group on gender and indigeneity (with Christine Chinkin) as well as for the United Nations on laws that discriminate against women. She has taught on courses in Kampala, Harare, Oslo, Pretoria, Onati and continues to teach on the Oxford summer Mst human rights programme. Her most recent and best work is the co-production of two daughters, Azera and Shamiso. She very much looks forward to spending the semester at NYU.
Courses:
Human Rights of Women
Law and Society in Africa

Eyal Benvenisti
Eyal Benvenisti is Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Previously director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Tel Aviv University and Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law, and Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights. A former law clerk to Justice M. Ben-Porat of the Supreme Court of Israel, Benvenisti received his legal training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale Law School. He has been a visiting professor at leading law schools in the United States, and a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. He has written or edited eight books, and published several articles in prominent journals.
Courses:
Law and Global Governance
Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict

Fabrizio Caffaggi
Fabrizio Cafaggi is Professor of Comparative Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is an affiliate of the American Law Institute. He earned his J.D cum laude at University of Rome and his P.h.D in Law at University of Pisa, Italy. He has been visiting professor at Columbia Law School NYC and at San Andres Law School, B.A. Argentina.His teaching and research activity is mainly focused on comparative private law, analysed also under the Law & Economics perspective. He has taught courses on European contract law and contract law in regulated markets. The current subjects of his research include European private law, private regulation and multilevel governance. A continuous interest is dedicated to private regulation in its different forms: self-regulation, co-regulation and standard setting. He coordinates a research project on transnational private regulation, constitutional foundations and governance design which builds on previous research activity devoted to the European level.

A second research project concerns networks of firms in Europe and industrial policies directed at promoting the creation of transnational networks.A new research project concerns the impact of European private law in New Member States and candidate countries. Current academic activities in collaboration with the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute focus on the creation of a European Law Institute by different institutional actors and also private organizations. Particular attention is devoted to the role of national Supreme Courts in the creation of European legal integration.
Courses:
Transnational Regulation
Private Law in Europe and US: Convergence and Divergence

Pratap Mehta
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is President, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi. He is also a participant in the Global Faculty Program of NYU Law School. He was previously Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University; Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard. He was also Professor of Philosophy and of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has held a visiting appointment at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of research include political theory, constitutional law, society and politics in India, governance and political economy and international affairs. Mehta has a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University (St. John's College); and a Ph.D in Politics from Princeton University. He has has also done extensive public policy work. He was Member-Convener of the Prime Minister of India’s National Knowledge Commission; Member of the Supreme Court appointed on Regulating Indian Universities and has authored a number of papers and reports for leading Government of India and International Agencies, including the World Bank, UNRISD, DFID. He has advised a number of institutions in Higher Education. He is on the Board of Governors of International Development Research Council (IDRC), and numerous other academic institutions, including National Institute of Finance and Public Policy. He is also a member of the WEF's Global Governance Council. He is a prolific columnist and editorial consultant to the Indian Express. His columns have also appeared in a number of national and international dailies including the Financial Times, Telegraph, International Herald Tribune, The Hindu, Outlook etc. He is also on the Editorial Board of numerous journals including the American Political Science Review, Journal of Democracy and India and Global Affairs.
Courses:
Comparative Law and Religion

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Alan Tan
Alan Tan is Associate Professor and Vice-Dean at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Law School. Born in Penang, Malaysia, Alan obtained his LLB from NUS and his LLM and JSD from Yale Law School. His doctoral thesis at Yale was on the law and politics of shipping regulation. Alan has clerked for the Supreme Court of Singapore and also interned at the International Maritime Organization in London. He researches into Aviation Law, Maritime Law and Environmental Law, particularly in the context of Asian countries. In 2006, his book Vessel-Source Marine Pollution: The Law and Politics of International Regulation, was published by Cambridge University Press. Alan has also taught at the University of Sydney and served as consultant to various governments and donor agencies, including the Vietnamese government and the UNDP. His work on liberalizing the aviation industry in Asia has resulted in studies for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). He is currently in charge of the graduate programs at NUS Law, and helps to run the NYU@NUS dual LLM program. Alan is married to fellow NUS academic, Sun Lim, who specializes in new media. They have two young children, Kai Ryn (6) and Kai Wyn (3), who both think academics are cool.
Courses:
Global Aviation Law and Policy

Spring Semester 2010

Seung Wha Chang
Seung Wha Chang is a Visiting Professor of Law at NYU Law School. Since 1995, he has taught international trade, international business transactions, and international arbitration and antitrust as Professor of Law at Seoul National University College of Law in Korea. Professor Chang also taught as Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Duke, Georgetown and UCLA. Prior to teaching, he practiced at Covington & Burling and was a Judge at the Seoul District Court. Professor Chang served as a WTO Panelist for seven dispute settlement proceedings and as an Arbitrator for the ICC International Court of Arbitration for many cases. He is an Editorial Board Member of The Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford).
Courses:
WTO: Core Issues and Dispute Settlement

Hugh Collins
Hugh Collins has recently completed his term as head of the department of law at the London School of Economics, where he holds the chair of English Law. His research interests include labour law, contract law, and legal theory. He has been a regular advisor to the UK government on employment and consumer law matters. His books include Marxism and Law, The Law of Contract, Justice in Dismissal, Regulating Contracts, Employment Law, and, most recently in 2008, The European Civil Code: The Way Forward. He is General Editor of the Modern Law Review and founding editor of the European Review of Contract Law. He holds an MA and BCL from Oxford University and an LLM from Harvard Law School, and he is also a Fellow of the British Academy. His current main research interest lies in the intersection between human rights law and private law including employment law.
Courses:
Human Rights in the Workplace

Graeme Cooper
Graeme Cooper is Professor of Taxation Law at the University of Sydney. His principal research and teaching focus is corporate taxation, comparative tax law, taxation in developing countries, consumption taxes including VAT, and tax policy. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Virginia, Katholieke University Belgium and the Tilburg University in The Netherlands. He has worked as a consultant on a variety of tax design and implementation projects in Asia, Europe and Africa for the OECD, IMF, World Bank and other NGOs and been an expert witness in international tax arbitrations. In Australia, he has worked on projects for the Australian Treasury, Taxation Office, the Board of Taxation and the Australian National Audit Office. He is the author of many articles in Australian and international tax journals, co-author of a leading student work on the Australian income tax system and serves on the editorial boards of several Australian and international tax journals. His latest book – Executing an Income Tax – was recently published by the Australian Tax Research Foundation.
Courses:
Theory and Design of Value Added Tax
Tax Treaties

Niva Elkin-Koren
Niva Elkin-Koren is a professor of law at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law, and the Director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT). While visiting NYU during Spring 2010, she will teach Copyright Law in the Digital Era and work on a new book concerning the evolving structures of governances in social networks. She is the author of Intellectual Property in the Information Age (2004); coauthor of The Limits of Analysis: Law and Economics of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (forthcoming 2009) and Law, Economics and Cyberspace: The effects of Cyberspace on the Economic Analysis of Law (2004). She is the coeditor of Law and Information Technology (forthcoming 2009) and The commodification of Information (2002).
Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production and dissemination of information. She has written extensively on copyright law and information policy, and published many articles in Hebrew and in English in prominent journals. Elkin-Koren earned her S.J.D from Stanford Law School in 1995, her LL.M from Harvard Law School in 1991, and her LL.B from Tel-Aviv University School of Law in 1989. She has been a visiting professor at leading law schools in the United States and in Europe.
Courses:
Copyright law in the Digital Era

Franco Ferrari
Professor Franco Ferrari is tenured professor of international law at Verona University School of Law. Previously, he was tenured professor of comparative law at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and Bologna University in Italy. After serving as member of the Italian Delegation to various sessions of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) from 1995 to 2000, he served as Legal Officer at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, International Trade Law Branch (2000-2002), with responsibility for numerous projects, including the preparation of the UNCITRAL Digest on Applications of the UN Sales Convention. Professor Ferrari, who has been a visiting professor in very many US and foreign law schools, such as Columbia Law School, has published more than 180 law review articles in various languages and 12 books in the areas of international commercial law, conflict of laws, comparative law and international commercial arbitration. Professor Ferrari is a member of the editorial board of various peer reviewed European law journals (Internationales Handelsrecht, European Review of Private Law, Contratto e impresa, Contratto e impresa/Europa, Revue de droit des affaires internationales); Professor Ferrari also acts as an international arbitrator.
Courses:
Comparative Law of Contracts

Gerard Hertig
Gérard Hertig is professor of law at ETH Zurich. He was previously professor of administrative law and director of the Centre d’Etudes Juridiques Européennes at the University of Geneva Law School (1987-1995). His research and teaching cover topics in law & economics, with a focus on corporate governance and banking. He has published extensively in both books and journals, his most recent contributions including the Anatomy of Corporate Law (2007), with Reinier Kraakman at al. Hertig is ECGI research associate and a member of the Comparative Law and Economics Forum and the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee. He has been a visiting professor at leading law schools in Europe, Japan and the U.S. and practiced law as a member of the Geneva bar.
Courses:
Comparative Corporate Governance
Banking Regulation and Supervision

Ran Hirschl
Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Toronto, where he holds a senior Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy & Development. His work combines comparative examination of constitutional law and institutions with exploration of the extra-judicial (political, economic) origins and consequences of the global expansion of constitutionalism and judicial review. Among his specific topics of interest are: the judicialization of politics worldwide; theories of constitutional transformation; the intellectual foundations of comparative constitutional law; patterns of substantive convergence and enduring divergence in comparative constitutional jurisprudence; comparative constitutionalism and distributive justice; and the secularizing role of constitutional law and courts in a post-secularist world. Professor Hirschl received his law degree from Tel-Aviv University and his PhD in political science from Yale University. He has won several teaching awards, has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, and at Princeton University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs, and served as Jeremiah Smith Jr. Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Professor Hirschl is the author of Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2004 & 2007), and the editor (with Christopher L. Eisgruber) of a special symposium issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law entitled “North American Constitutionalism” (2006). His two new books, entitled: Comparative Matters: Legal Studies for the 21st Century and Sacred Judgments: The Challenge of Constitutional Theocracy are forthcoming in 2010 by Harvard University Press.Professor Hirschl has also published extensively on comparative constitutional law and politics in journals such as Annual Review of Political Science, Law & Social Inquiry, American Journal of Comparative Law, Constellations, Human Rights Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Political Theory, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Middle East Law and Government, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, as well as numerous articles in law reviews, including most recently Cardozo Law Review, William and Mary Law Review, Harvard International Law Journal and the Texas Law Review, and has contributed chapters to edited collections such as The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence (Cambridge, 2005); The Migration of Constitutional Ideas (Cambridge, 2006); The Oxford Handbook of Law & Politics (Oxford, 2008); Montesquieu and His Legacy (SUNY 2009); and The Limits of Constitutional Democracy (Princeton, 2010). Professor Hirschl is an avid follower of world politics, an aficionado of smart short novels and of European soccer, married to Ayelet Shachar, Professor of Law & Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism at the University of Toronto, and father of Shai, a fabulous 3rd grader.
Courses:
Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics

Rolf Sturner
Rolf Stürner
Rolf Stürner, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for German and Comparative Civil Procedure at the University of Freiburg, Germany, will visit the NYU School of Law in spring and teach a seminar on Comparative Civil Procedure together with Oscar Chase. Stürner has published numerous books and articles in the fields of comparative and national civil procedure, insolvency and real property law and the law of financial products in German, English, French and Spanish. Important publications in English are the books “German Civil Justice” (2004, Carolina Press) and the “Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure” (2006, Cambridge University Press), where he served as a co-reporter of the first joint project of the ALI and Unidroit. Furthermore he wrote English articles on comparative civil procedure published in the International Lawyer, RabelsZeitschrift, the Unidroit Law Review and congress volumes. Stürner served as a judge of the State Court of Appeal of the German state Baden-Württemberg for more than 20 years. He is a member of the American Law Institute, a corresponding member of Unidroit, Rome, a member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Heidelberg and a member of the Council of the International Association of Procedural Law. As a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (2001, 2003, 2005) and many other universities he taught International Civil Litigation.
Courses:
Comparative Civil Procedure

2008-9 Academic Year

Fall Semester 2008

Bina Agarwal
Bina Agarwal is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University. Educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Delhi she has held distinguished positions at many universities in the USA and UK and lectured world-wide. She was Harvard’s first Daniel Ingalls Visiting Professor and is an honorary visiting research fellow at the Ash Institute, Kennedy School of Government. She has taught at Delhi, Harvard, Michigan (Ann Arbor), and the University of Minnesota where she held the Winton Chair. She has also been Vice-President of the International Economic Association, was elected the first Southern President of the International Association for Feminist Economics, has served on the Board of the Global Development Network from its inception till 2006, and is a founder member of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics. Currently she serves on the UN Committee for Development Policy, the Commission for the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (set up by the President of France), and the Indian Prime Minister’s National Council for Land Reforms. She is also a member of the editorial boards of several international academic journals.
Courses:
Property & Inequality: Development & Legal Change in South Asia

Eyal Benvenisti
Eyal Benvenisti is a professor of law and director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Previously, he served as Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of International Law and director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A former law clerk to Justice M. Ben-Porat of the Supreme Court of Israel, Benvenisti received his legal training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale Law School. He has been a visiting professor at leading law schools in the United States, and a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. He has written or edited four books, and published several articles in prominent journals. He is the editor-in-chief and founding co-editor of Theoretical Inquiries in Law, a forum for interdisciplinary legal study.
Courses:
Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflicts
Institute for International Law and Justice Fellowship Seminar: Fragmentation and Defragmentation of International Law

Sujit Choudhry
Sujit Choudhry holds the Scholl Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where he serves as Associate Dean (First Year Program). He holds law degrees from Oxford, Toronto, and Harvard. Professor Choudhry was a Rhodes Scholar, a Graduate Fellow at the Harvard University Centre for Ethics and the Professions, and served as law clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Courses:
Comparative Constitutional Adjudication
Comparative Constitutional Law

David Dyzenhaus
David Dyzenhaus is a professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, of the Faculty of Law, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law in 1990, Professor Dyzenhaus served as Assistant Professor and Canada Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Queen's University from 1989-1991. He has taught in South Africa, England and Canada in Law, Philosophy and Sociology. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University and law and undergraduate degrees from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. In 2002, he was the Law Foundation Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland. In 2005-06 he was Herbert Smith Visiting Professor in the Cambridge Law Faculty and a Senior Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Courses:
Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: Pathologies of Legality
Legal & Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes

Sharon Margalioth
Sharon Rabin Margalioth, a top Israeli scholar of labor and employment law, is a faculty member at the Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Israel. Rabin Margalioth has examined a wide variety of legal issues, including the decline of unionization, employment class actions, the growth of the contingent workforce, and the implication of various anti- discrimination and accommodation mandates. Her articles in Hebrew are cited often by the Israeli Supreme Court and the National Labor Court. A former law clerk to Justice Gabriel Bach of the Supreme Court of Israel, Rabin-Margalioth received her legal education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and NYU Law School. She is the co-editor of Labor, Society and Law, the leading employment law journal in Israel.
Courses:
Employment Law

Yoram Margalioth
Yoram Margalioth is a professor of law at Tel Aviv University, teaching tax, tax policy, welfare and economic growth polices, and supervising the Micro-business and Economic Justice Clinical Program. His area of expertise is Tax Policy. His areas of research include: optimal tax and transfer systems, international taxation, tax and development, economic growth, IP vs. tax, social security and pension law, racial profiling, antidiscrimination, affirmative action, anti-terror, family taxation, fertility and childcare, environmental taxation, mandated benefits, and labor economics. Prof. Margalioth is an outside director of IDB Development Corp. Ltd., the investments arm of IDB Holding Corporation Ltd., one of the largest and most influential holding companies in Israel. Holds LL.B. Hebrew University, LL.M. in Taxation and J.S.D. at N.Y.U.; Clerked for Justice Nethanyahu of the Supreme Court of Israel; Worked as an attorney at the fiscal department of the State General Attorney Office; Served as deputy director of Harvard’s International Tax Program (teaching Tax and Development) and visited Northwestern (teaching Tax Policy).
Courses:
Taxation of Property Transactions

Ziba Mir-Hosseni
Professor Mir-Hosseini, who is Iranian by birth, works freelance as a researcher, writer and consultant on gender and family law in Islam. She is Research Associate at the London Middle East Institute and the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, both at SOAS, University of London. An anthropologist by training, she has done extensive research in Iran and Morocco. Her publications include the books Marriage on Trial: A Comparative Study of Family Law in Iran and Morocco, Islam and Gender: the Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran, and Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform. She has also co-directed two award-winning feature-length documentaries filmed in Iran: Divorce Iranian Style and Runaway. Her appointment to the Global Law Faculty, along with that of Mohammed Arkoun, as Mamdouha Bobst Professor, will serve to bring an Islamic perspective to core elements of teaching and research at the New York University School of Law.
Courses:
Gender Issues in Islamic Law
Islamic Law and Human Rights

Spring Semester 2009

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. She is associate professor at the University of Stockholm and a lecturer in trademark law, intellectual property law and private international law at Munich University (LMU), Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Member of foreign faculty, Santa Clara University (CA), and was a visiting professor (Hauser global program) at NYU, fall 2006. She has served as adviser in the American Law Institute’s project “Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes. She is president of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) for the term 2007-2009. A. Kur is the author of books and numerous articles in the field of national, European and international trademark, unfair competition and industrial design law as well as international jurisdiction and choice of law.
Courses:
Comparative Trademarks
International Intellectual Property Law

Sharon Rabin Margalioth
Sharon Rabin Margalioth, a top Israeli scholar of labor and employment law, is a faculty member at the Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Israel. Rabin Margalioth has examined a wide variety of legal issues, including the decline of unionization, employment class actions, the growth of the contingent workforce, and the implication of various anti- discrimination and accommodation mandates. Her articles in Hebrew are cited often by the Israeli Supreme Court and the National Labor Court. A former law clerk to Justice Gabriel Bach of the Supreme Court of Israel, Rabin-Margalioth received her legal education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and NYU Law School. She is the co-editor of Labor, Society and Law, the leading employment law journal in Israel.
Courses:
Labor & Employment Law Theory
Women at Work

Tunde Ogowewo
Tunde Ogowewo teaches corporate finance law, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions law at King’s College London, University of London. He is recognised as a leading expert on UK takeover law. He created the first course in the University of London’s LL.M. programme on the UK Takeover Code. Judicial citations of his expertise, which covers corporate finance law to Nigerian public law, can be found in Santolina Investment Corp Chancery Division [2007] EWHC 437 (Ch) (proprietary claims), Re Williams [2007] EWHC 1304 (illegality), Re Alamieseyegha [2005] EWHC 2704 (sovereign immunity and federations) and Koroi v. Commissioner of Inland Revenue and Attorney General of the Republic of Fiji (2001) Civil App. 78/2000S (rule of law). His expertise has also been cited by broadsheets including the London Financial Times. His academic works include three books and numerous articles in international peer reviewed academic and practitioner journals on a wide range of topics. He was co-editor of the Journal of African Law (Cambridge University Press) between 2000 – 2007 and is presently on the editorial board of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law (Edinburgh University Press) and the Securities Market Journal.
Courses:
Law and Institutions in Africa
The Regulation of the Conduct of Mergers & Acquisitions in the UK

Wolfgang Schön
Born in 1961; Education in law and economics at Bonn University. Dissertation on partner-ship taxation in 1985. Postdoctoral lecturing qualification (Habilitation) in 1992. Full Pro-fessor at Bielefeld University 1992 - 1996. From 1996 – 2002 Full Professor at Bonn University. Since 2002 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law (Department of Accounting and Taxation) in Munich and Professor at Munich University; Member of the board of the German Lawyers Association (since 1998).Member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the German Federal Ministry of Finance (2003 – 2006); Chairman of the German Law Professors’ Working Group on Accounting Law (since 2002) and Chairman of the Scientific Council to the German Tax Law Association (since 2003). Member of the Research Board of Munich University (since 2007).
Courses:
Tax Policy: Comparative
Tax Policy: European Union

Roger Jozef Van den Bergh
Professor Roger Van den Bergh is Director of the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics (RILE). Prior to his current position as a Professor of Law and Economics at the Faculty of Law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, he held positions as an associate professor at the University of Antwerp and as a professor at the Universities of Utrecht and Hamburg. He has been a visiting professor at many universities, including Aix-en-Provence, Oslo, Moscow, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Bologna and Haifa. From 1987 until 2001 he was the President of the European Association of Law and Economics. From 2000 onwards, he is the Coordinator of the “European Master Programme in Law and Economics”, which has been awarded the Erasmus Mundus quality label by the European Commission. Professor Van den Bergh’s publications cover a wide range of topics in Law and Economics. He published extensively in both books and leading scientific journals on Competition Law and Economics, European Law and Economics, Tort Law and Insurance, and Harmonisation of Laws. He is a member of the Editorial Board of several scientific journals, including the Review of Law and Economics and the Journal of Consumer Policy.
Courses:
European Competition Law & Economics
European Consumer Law

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.
Courses:
Comparative Civil Procedure
Comparative Law

Armin Von Bogdandy
Armin von Bogdandy is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and a Professor of Law at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He also teaches at the University of Frankfurt, Main. Previously, he taught at the Humboldt University in Berlin. After completing his studies in law at the University of Freiburg and philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin, he earned a doctorate in law from the University of Freiburg. In 2001, he was appointed to the bench of the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal, Paris, and became its president in 2006. He served as a member of the German Science Council from 2005 to 2008.
Courses:
Constitutionalism: Global and National
Global Regulation and Governance

He Xin
Courses:
Law and Society in East Asia

2007-8 Academic Year

Fall Semester 2007

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.
Courses:
Intellectual Property and Competition Law
European Union: Economic Law

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Michal Gal
Dr. Gal is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Law and M.B.A. Program at the University of Haifa School of Law. 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. Dr. Gal served as an advisor to the OECD and the UN on competition-related issues and is a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network (ICN) since its inception. She won the Zeltner Prize for Young Researcher in 2004.

Course:
Competition Law and Policy in Emerging Markets

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.

Courses:
International Monetary Law
Selected Issues of International Payments and Financial Law

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.

Course:
Constitutional Democracies Colloquium

Spring Semester 2008

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.

Courses:
International Commercial Sales
Comparative Law of Torts and Contracts

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.

Courses:
International Commercial Transactions
Rule Making in a Global World

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 Institute of Tax Research and Literature Award.

Course:
Tax Treaties

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.

Courses:
Comparative Constitutional Law
Media Law in the Global Perspective

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.).