Faculty and Lecturers
PROFESSOR FRÉDÉRIC BACHAND
LL.B., Université de Montréal; LL.M., Cambridge University; Hague Academy of International Law; Barreau du Québec; Doctorat, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), Assistant Professor of Law, McGill University, Resident Director of the Program
Frédéric Bachand is particularly interested in the judicial and extrajudicial resolution of civil and commercial disputes, whether they occur in a domestic or international context.
PROFESSOR ANDREA K. BJORKLAND
B.A. (University of Nebraska—Lincoln), M.A. (New York University), J.D. (Yale).
Professor of Law, University of California at Davis School of Law; formerly a Bigelow Fellow, Univ. of Chicago; Attorney–Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Dept. of State; and a Judicial Clerk for the Honorable Sam J. Ervin III, U.S. Fourth Circuit.
Professor Bjorkland is a recognized expert in NAFTA Arbitration and International Trade and Transborder Litigation.
PROFESSOR THOMAS E. CARBONNEAU
A.B. (Bowdoin College), M.A. (Oxon), M.A., J.D. (Virginia), LL.M., S.J.D. (Columbia), Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor of Law, Penn State Law. Founder and Director of the Program.
Professor Carbonneau is a leading national and international authority on arbitration and international litigation.
PROFESSOR PATRICK DUMBERRY
LL.B. (University of Montréal), D.E.S. and Ph.D. (Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland).
Professor Dumberry is Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa (Civil Law Section). He practiced international law and arbitration with law firms (in both Geneva and Montreal), as well as with Canada's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Trade Law Bureau).
PROFESSOR FABIEN GÉLINAS
LL.M. and LL.B. (Université de Montréal), D. Phil. (Oxford), Associate Professor of Law, McGill University. Professor Gélinas teaches and pursues research in international dispute resolution, constitutional law, and legal theory. He is formerly General Counsel to the ICC International Court of Arbitration and was a law clerk to Mr. Justice Gonthier of the Canadian Supreme Court.
PROFESSOR GENEVIÈVE SAUMIER
B.Com., B.C.L., LL.B. (McGill), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Associate Professor of Law, McGill University. (on sabbatical leave during the summer 2012)
Professor Saumier teaches international law, consumer law, and civil liability. Her research interests and publications focus on international dispute resolution in commercial and consumer matters. She is a Canadian national correspondent to the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and a member of the Working Group on Choice-of-Law in International Contracts at the Hague Conference on Private International Law.
PROFESSEUR CHRISTOPHE SERAGLINI
Professeur Agrégé, Université de Paris XI (Jean Monnet); teaching and research interests: international arbitration, litigation, and contracts (widely published in all these fields); of Counsel, White & Case (Paris)
