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Larry Cata Backer Professor Backer focuses his research on issues of globalization, especially as it relates to the emergence of ways of understanding constitutional and enterprise law. His most recent work touches on the regulation of multinational corporations, sovereign wealth funds, transnational and theocratic constitutionalism, the free movement of capital within European Union law, and the convergence of public and private law. He broke new ground with the creation of an innovative course in transnational law and legal issues. Professor Backer has authored a collection of essays on legal harmonization. Professor Backer has authored a casebook, Comparative Corporate Law: United States, European Union, China and Japan and edited a collection of essays, Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization: Convergence, Divergence, Resistance. He is currently working on a casebook Transnational Law and Legal Problems: An Introduction to the Field. |
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William B. Barker Professor Barker is an expert on income taxation and is one of a small group of U.S. legal scholars who have made the study of international and comparative taxation a focus of research and writing. From 2003-2006, he held a standing appointment as a visiting professor of law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Supported by three Fulbright Scholar grants, he has conducted research at the South African universities of Cape Town, Free State, and the Riga Graduate School of Law, and in 2006 he received his third Fulbright grant to return to the Riga Graduate School of Law, which is now part of the University of Latvia. |
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William E. Butler William E. Butler, formerly of University College London, is the preeminent authority on the law of Russia and other former Soviet republics and the author, co-author, editor, or translator of more than 120 books on Soviet, Russian, Ukrainian and other Commonwealth of Independent States legal systems. He also edits the journal Russian Law, published by the Russian Academy of Legal Sciences; the journal Sudebnik, published by The Vinogradoff Institute and the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences; the East European and Russian Yearbook of International and Comparative Law, published by The Vinogradoff Institute; and is on the editorial board of a number of other journals. Professor Butler is the founder and director of The Vinogradoff Institute, which operates as a unit of Penn State Law. Under Professor Butler’s direction, the Institute coordinates research and teaching activities related to Russian and CIS legal systems. |
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Karen Bysiewicz Professor Bysiewicz brings significant international teaching and law practice experience to Penn State Law. Before joining the Law School, she practiced international trade law in New York and Brussels. She served as an attorney with the Commission of the European Union (Directorate General III). Professor Bysiewicz later represented trade law clients in transactional and litigation matters with the law firm of Coudert Brothers (now Baker & McKenzie) in Brussels and New York. She has lectured on free trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the General System of Preferences (GSP) at the World Trade Institute. Under the auspices of the Fulbright program, Prof. Bysiewicz taught in France and authored a resource guide for teachers of English as a second language. Prof. Bysiewicz directs the LL.M. program for international attorneys at Penn State Law and teaches courses for international LL.M. students. |
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Thomas Carbonneau Professor Carbonneau is a scholar of international, comparative, and domestic arbitration. He has written more than fifteen well regarded books and eighty scholarly articles. As a Fulbright Scholar, he will hold the Visiting Chair in Comparative Law and Legal Pluralism at McGill Faculty of Law in Montréal, Quebec, Canada in spring 2010. As faculty director of Penn State's Institute for Arbitration Law and Practice, Professor Carbonneau co-directs the Summer Program in Arbitration Law at the McGill Faculty of Law in, Quebec, Canada, and oversees publication of the Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation. Professor Carbonneau is a former Rhodes Scholar who previously held the Moise S. Steeg Jr. professorship at Tulane University School of Law. |
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Louis F. Del Duca The senior member of the Penn State Law faculty, Professor Del Duca is internationally recognized as a leading scholar in the fields of commercial and comparative law and as a leader in the internationalization of American legal education. A member of the American Law Institute and the U. S. Secretary of State’s Committee on International Trade Law, Professor Del Duca also presently serves as president of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law and has been The United States’ collaborator to the Rome International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). A leader in the movement among United States law schools to increase international educational opportunities, Professor Del Duca founded and manages Penn State Law’s summer programs in Europe. |
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Susan Beth Farmer Professor Farmer teaches in the fields of U.S. and comparative antitrust, criminal law, and gender and the law. She has also taught in the United Kingdom, where she directed The Dickinson Law School Semester in London program in 2003 and 2004, and has lectured in Turkey, Italy, Belgium, Austria, and France. She is actively engaged in researching and writing about U.S. and foreign antitrust and trade regulation law, including issues of federalism and comparative competition policy. She participated in the seventh annual International Competition Network conference in Kyoto, Japan, as a non-governmental advisor. She was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to research and lecture on antitrust law at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, China for the spring semester 2008. |
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James R. Fox Author of a two volume work, The Regulation of International Commercial Aviation and the Dictionary of International and Comparative Law, Professor Fox's primary interest is Aviation and Space Law. He is co-author of a casebook in the field, Aviation Law. He also teaches a course in Legislation. He is a former chair of the Association of American Law School's Section on Air and Space Law and has twice served as a scholar in residence at McGill University’s Institute of Air and Space Law and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna Institute for European Law. An expert on legal research techniques, Professor Fox teaches Advanced Legal Research and serves as advisor to our Jessup International Moot Court Team. |
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Tiyanjana Maluwa Tiyanjana Maluwa is the associate dean for international affairs at Penn State Law and holds the H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law. He was recently appointed director of the newly established Penn State School of International Affairs, which is being administered by the Law School. Recognized internationally for his extensive scholarly writings and expertise in public international law and human rights, he has been called upon to serve as a special expert and consultant to the United Nations, the AU and other organizations and was recently invited by the Swedish government to join the international jury charged with the task of selecting the winner of the Stockholm International Prize in Criminology. Prior to joining the AU and, subsequently, the United Nations, he was a Professor of International Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Extraordinary Professor of Law at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. |
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Jeffrey D. McCausland Dr. Jeffrey D. McCausland is Professor of International Law and Diplomacy. From 2004 through November 2006, he served as the director of the Leadership Initiative at Dickinson College. In this capacity he conducted leadership development seminars for over two hundred educators from major urban school districts across the United States, hosted senior Indian and Pakistani officials for discussions and lectures on the ongoing disagreement between their two countries, and organized a major conference focused on the future of the Special Relationship between the United States and United Kingdom. Dr. McCausland served for more than thirty years in the United States Army. |
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Robert E. Rains Professor Robert E. Rains is a member of the International Society of Family Law, and has a delivered papers at both its World and Regional Conferences. He has published articles in the United States on British and European family law issues, comparative Italian and American family law perspectives, and international private law with particular regard to domestic relations issues. He has been a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies in London, a visiting professor at the DeMontfort University School of Law in Leicester, England, as well as at the Unit for Law and the Vulnerable, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, England. He serves on the board of editors of the British journals, Contemporary Issues in Law and the Denning Law Journal. His review of Hindu Divorce in southern India is forthcoming in the Journal of Comparative Law (United Kingdom). |
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Randall Robinson Professor Randall Robinson is an internationally acclaimed author whose books and scholarly interests focus on U.S. foreign policy towards the Caribbean and Africa; the use of foreign policy to achieve social goals; and racial equity. Professor Robinson founded TransAfrica, which seeks to influence U.S. foreign policy towards Africa and the Caribbean, and established the Free South Africa Movement, which pushed successfully for the imposition of U.S. sanctions against South Africa and was instrumental in ending apartheid. His public advocacy on behalf of the people of Haiti spurred a multinational operation that restored Haiti’s first democratically elected government to power. |
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Catherine A. Rogers Catherine Rogers is a scholar of international arbitration and professional ethics, who holds a joint appointment as a professor of law at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Italy, where she is in residence in the Spring semesters. Professor Rogers’ scholarship focuses on the convergence of the public and private in international dispute resolution, and on the reconceptualization of the attorney as a global actor. She is an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law of International Commercial Arbitration and a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. She participated as a member of the American Society of International Law Task Force on Global Legal Ethics and as an invitee to two Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forums, and she occasionally sits as an international arbitrator. Before entering academia, Professor Rogers practiced international litigation and arbitration in New York, Hong Kong, and San Francisco. |
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Stephen F. Ross Professor Ross is the author of the casebook Principles of Antitrust Law and has published various pieces involving U.S. and Canadian antitrust and competition policies, domestic and international sports antitrust issues, and statutory interpretation, as well as comparative Canadian law. His expert testimony and advice on antitrust issues in the sports arena has been sought by various governmental entities in the U.S. and Canada over the years. |
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Geoffrey R. Scott Professor Scott has a wide range of teaching and scholarly interests, but his focus is in intellectual property and on the intersection of the worlds of artistic and scientific expression and the law. He has given particular attention to the protection of cultural properties in both Europe and Asia, to domestic and international entertainment issues with an emphasis on music, and to the representation of the individual professional athlete. Professor Scott is a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London where he has conducted complementary research into the treatment of cultural properties in the United Kingdom and Western Europe. He has taught courses and given lectures in international law and the arts and international entertainment law issues London and other European capitals as well as in Kyoto, Beijing and Seoul. |
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Laurel S. Terry Professor Terry is internationally known for her expertise in the field of legal ethics and the international and inter-jurisdictional regulation of the legal profession. Recently, Professor Terry has been participating in, and researching and writing about, issues related to the application of the World Trade Organization’s GATS agreement to legal services, the application of EU competition policy to legal services, and the effect of the Bologna Process on legal education. She serves on the International Bar Association’s World Trade Organization Working Group and has made presentations to the WTO and United Nations on the IBA’s behalf. She also provides the content for the ABA GATS-Legal Services webpage, is a special advisor to the ABA Task Force on GATS Legal Services Negotiations, is vice-chair of the Transnational Legal Practice Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law, and is a consultant to the Conference of Chief Justices’ International Agreements Committee. |
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Samuel C. Thompson Jr. Professor Thompson, who previously was a professor of law at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law and director of the UCLA Law Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions, is a highly regarded scholar of corporate and international tax, corporate governance, and antitrust and is the author of sixteen books and more than 75 articles. His teaching interests focus on the corporate, securities, tax, and antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions as well as international tax, investment banking, taxation of business entities, and economic growth policy. |
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Panagiotis Takis Tridimas Professor Takis Tridimas holds a joint appointment as a professor of law at Penn State Law and as the Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking Law at the University of London’s Queen Mary College. A native of Athens, Greece, Professor Tridimas served as senior legal advisor to the 2003 European Union (EU) presidency and chaired the committee responsible for conducting the legal negotiations and drafting the Treaty of Accession to the EU of the Central and Eastern European States. Professor Tridimas is the co-editor of the Yearbook of European Law, a member of the Editorial Board of The Company Lawyer, a member of the Advisory Board of the European Financial Services Law Review, and a prolific scholar in the areas of financial services, trade and comparative constitutional law. An active member of the European legal community, Tridimas is a barrister in England and Wales (Middle Temple), an advocate of the Bar of Athens, Greece, and, from 1992-1995, served as a law clerk for the European Court of Justice. |
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Marco Ventoruzzo Professor Marco Ventoruzzo joined the faculty of Penn State Law in summer 2009 with a joint appointment with Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, where he is director of the Ph.D. in Corporate and Business Law program and vice-director of the Paolo Baffi Research Center on Central Banking and Financial Regulation. Professor Ventoruzzo is a member of the boards of editors of several Italian peer-reviewed law journals and a member of the scientific advisory committees of the Italian Association of Independent Directors and of the Italian Association of Financial Analysts. Since 2001, Professor Ventoruzzo has been a special legal consultant for the Italian Stock Exchange (London Stock Exchange Group). He has also served on the committee that drafted the Italian Code of Corporate Governance and has been a member of the board of directors of several financial institutions in Europe. Additionally, Professor Ventoruzzo has served as an expert witness on comparative business law and is interviewed frequently by the media on current developments of corporate and business law in Europe and in the United States. |
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Nancy Welsh Professor Nancy Welsh is a leading scholar in the field of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with research and writing focusing primarily on negotiation and court-connected and agency-connected mediation. She has examined the procedural justice offered by these processes, their potential to resolve non-legal as well as legal issues, and the effect that the courts and institutionalized “alternative” processes have had on each other. In 2006, as a Fulbright Scholar, Professor Welsh conducted research regarding the Netherlands’ nationwide implementation of court-connected mediation and taught in the Private Law Department of Tilburg University. Professor Welsh is a member of the Editorial Board of the Conflict Resolution Quarterly, the Independent Standards Commission of the International Mediation Institute, the Mediation Advisory Board of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission Advisory Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. |
