John J. Barceló III
Is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of International and Comparative Law and the Reich Director of the Berger International Legal Studies Program at Cornell Law School. He is also the founding director and this year (2010) a co-director of the 2010 Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law. He received a doctorate in law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School and a J.D. degree from Tulane University Law School. He teaches international trade and business law (including WTO law), international commercial arbitration, and European Union law. Professor Barceló is a coauthor of International Commercial Arbitration—A Transnational Perspective (4th ed., 2009) and coeditor and contributing author for an upcoming volume on The WTO System in the World Economy (to be published in 2010 or 2011). He is also coeditor of A Global Law of Jurisdiction and Judgments—Lessons from the Hague (2002) and Lawyers' Practice and Ideals—A Comparative View (1999). He has published widely in U.S. and European legal journals, especially in the field of international trade law. He was a Fulbright scholar in 1966-67 at the University of Bonn, Germany, and has taught or lectured in Argentina, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the U.K., and Spain. He has experience as an international arbitrator. Professor Barceló was a consultant to the U.S. Department of Commerce on international trade law from 1981 to 1983. He has held visiting positions at St. John's College, University of Oxford (1987); the University of Siena, Italy (1987); the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1996 and 1998); Pompeu Fabra law faculty in Barcelona (2002); the Bucerius law faculty in Hamburg (2004 and 2007); and the Centre for Law, Economics and Institutions at Torino, Italy (2006). He is currently a visiting professor at the Central European University, in Budapest, Hungary (since 1995) and at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (since 2004).
Xavier Blanc-Jouvan
Is Professor of Law Emeritus on the Law Faculty of the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he taught comparative law and labor law. Until 1999, he was director of the Centre d'Études Juridiques Comparatives (Université Paris I), president of the Société de Législation Comparée, and president of the International Association of Legal Science. He is now the director of the Revue internationale de droit comparé and a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and of the Academia Europaea. Professor Blanc-Jouvan has written extensively in French and English on comparative law and labor law, including Les rapports collectifs du travail aux États-Unis (1956); Dispute Settlement Procedures in Five Western European Countries (1971); Industrial Conflict: A Comparative Survey (1972; in cooperation); Discrimination in Employment (1978; in cooperation), and Le Droit Anglais (1994; with Rene David).
He was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School in 1963 and at UCLA (Department of Political Science) in 1967, at Columbia Law School in 1998, at Cornell Law School in 1999, at Tulane Law School in 2000, and at Louisiana State University in 2001; he held the distinguished Goodhart Chair in Legal Science at Queen's College, University of Cambridge, England, in 1976-77. He was a fellow of Queen's College at Cambridge in 1976-77 and a graduate law student at Cornell Law School in 1953-54.
Cynthia Grant Bowman
Is the Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, where she teaches Family Law, Torts, and Feminist Jurisprudence. She received a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College, a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, and a J.D. with honors from Northwestern University School of Law in 1982. Professor Bowman clerked for Judge Richard D. Cudahy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit during 1982-83 and was an associate at the law firm of Jenner & Block in Chicago from 1983 to 1988, before joining the law faculty at Northwestern University School of Law. She came to Cornell as the Marc and Beth Goldberg Distinguished Visiting Professor during 2006-2007 and joined the faculty permanently in July 2007. She has published widely in diverse areas having to do with law, women, and domestic relations, both in the United States and in comparative context, including articles concerning domestic violence, sexual harassment, women and the legal profession, and the legal treatment of common law marriage and cohabitation. She is an author of a major text on women and the law published by West Publishing Company, Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously (3d ed., 1994), as well as a 2003 text on Women and Law in Subsaharan Africa, co-authored with Akua Kuneyehia. She has most recently been working on a book about the legal treatment of unmarried couples, which is to be published by Oxford University Press in February 2010.
Claire M. Germain
Is the Edward Cornell Law Librarian and professor of law at Cornell Law School, as well as the Director of dual-degree Degree programs, Paris and Berlin. She was born and raised in France, and received a Licence-en-Lettres degree in 1971 and Licence en Droit (LL.B.) in 1974 from the Université de Paris, an M.C.L. in 1975 from Louisiana State University, and an M.L.L. in 1977 from the University of Denver.
She served as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Private International Law, in Hamburg, Germany, in 1980. In 1993, after spending a number of years at Duke University, she joined the Cornell Law School faculty, where she teaches a seminar on French law and various courses on legal research. In 2003, she received a Cornell University Faculty Innovation in Teaching grant, which allowed her to create a multimedia web site, "French Law in Action," where students can find over 240 video-clips of interviews with French judges, lawyers, and professors, on many aspects of French law. In 2007, she was honored with the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur medal, France's highest honor, for her efforts in bridging the American and French legal cultures.
Professor Germain is actively involved in all aspects of legal information, particularly the use of technology for research and teaching. She has published two books, Guide to Foreign Legal Materials: French (1985) and Germain’s Transnational Law Research: A Guide for Attorneys (1991; loose-leaf), for the second of which she received the 1992 Joseph L. Andrews Award. She has served as an expert witness on a point of French law in U.S. litigation. She also wrote Approaches to Statutory Interpretation and Legislative History in France, 13 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 195-206 (2003). She frequently speaks on comparative law and legal research issues in the United States, Europe, Canada, and most recently Brazil. In 2006, she served as President of the American Association of Law Libraries, an association of over 5,000 members, which provides leadership in the field of legal information.
James J. Hanks, Jr.
Is a partner in the 550-lawyer firm of Venable LLP, with offices in Baltimore, New York, Los Angeles and Washington, and is an adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School. He received an A.B. degree from Princeton University; an LL.B. degree from the University of Maryland Law School, where he was an editor of the Maryland Law Review; and an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School. During the 1967-68 term, he served as law clerk to Judge Charles Fahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In private practice, Professor Hanks represents publicly- and privately-held corporations and other entities in securities offerings and other financing transactions. Professor Hanks has advised buyers or sellers in more than 250 mergers or acquisitions, including many valued at more than one billion dollars. He has also represented parties in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other transactions. Professor Hanks regularly serves as independent counsel to the boards of directors of major U.S. corporations and as an expert witness in connection with major transactions, stockholder litigation, conflicts of interest, and corporate governance issues. He also advises foreign governments on revision of their corporate and securities laws. At Cornell Law School, Professor Hanks has taught courses in securities regulation, corporate counsel, and business combinations. He has also taught classes in corporation law at law schools in the United States and the Republic of South Africa and at the Institute of Law in Beijing. Professor Hanks is the author of Maryland Corporation Law and the coauthor (with former Stanford Law School Dean Bayless Manning) of the third edition of Legal Capital. He is also the author of several law review articles and is a frequent speaker on corporation law issues. He has been actively involved in the revision of the Model Business Corporation Act and is a member of the American Law Institute. During the Fall, 2003, Professor Hanks was Commerzbank Visiting Professor of Law at Bucerius Law School, in Hamburg, Germany, and has taught there occasionally since then. Mr. Hanks appears in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America in three categories: Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, and Mergers and Acquisitions Law. In 2008, he received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award of the Maryland State Bar Association Section of Business Law.
Valerie P. Hans
Is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, where she teaches courses on law and social science, empirical legal studies, torts, and the contemporary American jury. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Toronto. She conducts empirical studies of law and courts, and is a leading international authority on lay decision making in legal systems. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Law & Society Association, the Board of Directors of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies, and the American Bar Association’s Advisory Committee to the Standing Committee on Public Education. She also is one of the founding editors of the Law and Psychology Journal for the online Social Science Research Network [SSRN]. Professor Hans has carried out extensive research and lectured and written widely about law and social science. She is the author or editor of six books and more than one hundred scholarly articles on law and social science topics. Her books on the jury include American Juries: The Verdict (2007, coauthored with Neil Vidmar), as well as The Jury System: Contemporary Scholarship (2006); Business on Trial: The Civil Jury and Corporate Responsibility (2000); and Judging the Jury (1986, also coauthored with Neil Vidmar). Professor Hans is currently studying recent adoptions of new jury-like systems in a number of countries worldwide.
Mitchel Lasser
Teaches and writes in the areas of comparative law, law of the European Union, comparative constitutional law, and judicial process. Before joining the Cornell faculty in 2004, he was the Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale College (1986), received a J.D. from Harvard Law School (1989), an M.A. in French literature (1990) and a Ph.D. in comparative literature (1995) from Yale University. He served as a Fulbright Scholar in France from 1993 to 1994, where he researched the French civil judicial system. While a doctoral student at Yale, he held a Whiting fellowship and an Enders fellowship. Professor Lasser has an ongoing visiting relationship with the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne); was a Visiting Professor at the University of Lausanne and the University of Geneva in 2003 and 2004; held the Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Chair at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in 2003; was a Visiting Professor at NYU School of Law and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in 2006; was the Maurice R. Greenberg Visiting Professor at Yale Law School in 2007–2008; and will be a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at American University of Cairo in 2009.
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Muna B. Ndulo
Is a professor of law at the Cornell Law School and is Director of Cornell University's Institute for African Development. He received his LL.B. degree from the University of Zambia, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. He taught and served as dean at the School of Law, University of Zambia. He was an official at the United Nations, where he served as Legal Officer for the UN Commission on International Trade Law and as Chief Political Advisor to the UN Special Representative for South Africa. While a member of Cornell's faculty, he has continued to serve the UN, as a legal advisor in East Timor in 1999, Kosovo in 2000 and, Afghanistan in 2003. He serves on the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch and is a Board Member of Gender Links and of AFRONET. His published work includes books and articles on human rights and legal issues in Zambia; his scholarly interests include human rights, legal aspects of foreign investment in developing countries, constitution-making, governance, elections, and development.
Jens Ohlin
Earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he also served as an associate-in-law for two years. His research and teaching interests are focused on criminal law theory, public international law, and international criminal law. He is the author, with George Fletcher, of Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why (Oxford University Press, 2008), which offers a new account of international self-defense through a comparative analysis of the rules of self-defense in criminal law. His scholarly work has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the American Journal of International Law, the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, and the Journal of International Criminal Justice, and he has forthcoming chapters in books about the 15th anniversary of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and the 5-year anniversary of the International Criminal Court. He is a guest editor of a special issue on torture for the Journal of International Criminal Justice, a member of the editorial committee of the Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice, and a member of an international working group developing general rules and principles of international criminal procedure.
Faust F. Rossi
Is the Samuel S. Leibowitz Professor of Trial Techniques at Cornell Law School. He received an A.B. degree from the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, and the J.D. with distinction from Cornell Law School. After six years of law practice specializing in litigation, he joined Cornell Law School, where he has taught courses on evidence, civil procedure, trial advocacy, torts, and insurance. From 1973 to 1975, Professor Rossi served as associate dean for academic affairs at Cornell Law School. He has been a visiting professor at the New York University, Emory University, and University of San Diego law schools. In 1987, he was a visiting fellow at Wadham College of the University of Oxford. In 1988, he lectured as an academic visitor at the University of Siena, Italy. Professor Rossi has also been a recurring visiting professor in the Legal Studies Department of Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. In 1992, he was the national winner of the Jacobson Award for Teaching Excellence. He has lectured on evidence and procedure to judges, lawyers, and students throughout the United States and in Europe. Professor Rossi edited and contributed to Expert Witnesses (1992) and has written numerous monographs and articles on evidence. He is a member of the American Jurisprudence Editorial Advisory Board and of the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He served as a consultant on the Federal Rules of Evidence for the American College of Trial Lawyers, for the New York State Law Revision Commission, and for other federal and state associations.
Bernard Rudden
Is a Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell and at the universities of Paris and Tokyo. He has published books on Soviet law, French law, English law, and European Union law, as well as numerous articles in American, European, and Asian legal journals.
Chantal Thomas
Is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. Before joining the Law School in 2007, Professor Thomas taught at the University of Minnesota Law School, and prior to that, with Fordham University School of Law in New York City. She recently returned from a one-year stint as Chair of the Department of Law at the American University in Cairo. Professor Thomas teaches in the areas of International Law and Developing Countries, International Trade Law, Corporations, Contracts, and Law and Globalization. She has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, on the International Trade Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, as an International Trade Specialist with the Africa Law Initiative of the American Bar Association, and on the Board of Directors of the American Foreign Law Association. Professor Thomas focuses her scholarship on the relationship between international law, political economy, and global social justice in a variety of contexts. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume from Oxford University Press entitled Developing Countries in the WTO Legal System and a keynote author for a volume forthcoming from Cambridge University Press entitled Distributive Justice in International Economic Law. Other recent writing includes her article, Developing a Domestic Strategy: Intersections with Labor and Trade Rules, in Daniel J. Gervais ed., Intellectual Property, Trade and Development (Oxford University Press) (2007).
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Claude Bédard-Claret
Is the instructor of Beginning French. A long-term resident of Paris, where she has taught French for many years, she also has strong ties to Québec. She has a Master’s degree from the Sorbonne and a Certificate of Specialization in Teaching French to Foreigners, from École Normale Supérieure de St-Cloud, Paris. Her doctoral dissertation was on the teaching of the French language. She has been a researcher at the Centre International de Recherche sur le Bilinguisme, at the Université Laval, Québec, and is the author of two texts on teaching French as a foreign language: Français contemporain (Toronto 1980) and Français à la carte (Télé-Université, Montréal 1983).
Chantal Casanova
Is a native of France. She obtained a master’s degree from the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, where she studied American Civilization. She specializes in F.L.E. (French as a second language). In France, she has taught in various institutions, including the French and Spanish Trade Office, the "INSEE " (national institute of statistics) and the C.I.E.L.F. (International Center of French Language). From 1986-1990, she was a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Romance Languages at Harvard University, as well as a teacher in the Harvard Lifelong Learning Center. Since 1994, she has participated in the Cornell Law School Summer Program in Paris, as the instructor of Intermediate French and the coordinator of the language instruction program.
