Global Faculty: Academic Year 2011-2012
Fall Semester
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:
International Law and the Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Law and Global Governance Seminar
Daniel Fitzpatrick
Daniel Fitzpatrick is a Reader in Law at the Australian National University. He has written widely on property theory in a law and development context, with a particular focus on natural disasters and armed conflicts. He was the UN's land rights adviser in post-conflict East Timor (2000) and post-tsunami Indonesia (2005-6). In 2007 he won the Hart Article Prize from the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association. He has published in the Yale Law Journal, the Law and Society Review, and the Yale Journal of International Law. Dr Fitzpatrick is the primary author of the UN’s guidelines on addressing land issues after natural disasters. He has undertaken professional consultancies on law and development with the World Bank, AusAID, the Asian Development Bank, Oxfam International, the OECD, UNDP and UN-Habitat. He has been a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore (2006-09), a Visiting Professor at the University of Muenster (2002), and a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto (2007).
Courses:
Humanitarian Assistance after Armed Conflicts and Natural Disasters: Problems of Land & Property Rights Seminar
Land & the Environment in Asian Economic Development
Phoebe Okowa
PHOEBE Okowa is a Reader in Public International Law at Queen Mary, University of London. She read Law at the Universities of Nairobi and Oxford, where she obtained an LLB, BCL, and a doctorate (D.Phil) respectively. She has also taught at the University of Bristol and held visiting appointments at the Universities of Stockholm, Helsinki and Lille. Okowa is the joint editor of Foundations of Public International Law (Oxford University Press) and the Queen Mary Studies in International Law (Brill). She also serves on the editorial board of International Community Law Review.
Phoebe Okowa’s teaching interests are in the field of public international law broadly construed. She has published extensively on a wide range of topics especially on the law of state responsibility, use of force and the protection of natural resources in conflict zones, and the relationship between state and individual responsibility for international crimes. In 2006, she completed a major study, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council on International Law Questions Arising from the disintegration of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Courses:
International Criminal Law Seminar
International Law of Armed Conflicts
Marco Torsello
JD cum laude (Bologna, Italy, 1994), LLM in European Business Law (Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 1998), he was admitted to the Bologna Bar (Italy) in 1997 (top 1%) and is currently Professor of Law at Bologna University, Faculty of Law, and Verona University, Faculty of Law. His teaching activity covers several subjects, including Comparative Private Law, Law & Language, International Contracts, and International Business Transactions. His previous Visiting Professorships include those at Columbia Law School (2004/05 BNL Visiting Professor), the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, the University of Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense (France), Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Loyola University Chicago, the University of Western Ontario (Canada), as well as at several Italian Universities. He was also a Guest Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg (Germany) and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School, and served as the Italian Delegate at UNCITRAL (the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law), Working Group on International Contract Practices (2000). He is the author of several articles and books in English and Italian dealing with comparative law, international business transactions, international contracts and other legal issues.
Courses:
Comparative Private Law
International Commercial Agreements in Practice Seminar
Neil Walker
Neil Walker is currently the Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at Edinburgh University. He returned to Edinburgh in 2008 after 8 years as the Professor of European Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Europe's leading posttgraduate centre in Law, Humanities and Social Sciences. He was also the inaugural Dean of the European University Institute. He has written extensively on questions of national, European and global constitutional law and theory, and also on the relationship between law and security, including fifteen authored or edited books. Last year he conducted an inquiry on behalf of the Scottish government into the future of final appellate jurisdiction in Scotland in the increasingly decentralized constitutional framework of the UK. He has been a visiting professor at a number of leading institutions in Europe and United States
Courses:
Crimes that Shape States: History & Global Prospects
Jurisprudence and Global Law
Patrick Weil
Patrick Weil is a Senior Research Fellow at the French National Research Center in the University of Paris1, Pantheon-Sorbonne. Professor Weil's work focuses on comparative immigration, citizenship, and Church States law and policy. Dr. Weil has worked with the French government including participation in a 2003 French Presidential Commission on secularism, established by Jacques Chirac, and writing a report on immigration and nationality policy reform for Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in 1997 which led to the implementation of new immigration laws adopted the following year. Dr. Weil also holds an appointment as Professor at the Paris School of Economics.
Courses:
Comparative Church State Relations: Old Regimes, New Challenges Seminar
Comparative Immigration, Citizenship and Antidiscrimination Laws and Policies
Immigration, Citizenship, Church-State Relations and Antidiscrimination Policies and Laws Seminar
Ran Hirschl
Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science and Law, and Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto. His scholarship focuses on comparative constitutional law, constitutional and judicial politics, and comparative legal traditions and institutions more generally.
Professor Hirschl is the author of Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2004 & 2007), Constitutional Theocracy (Harvard University Press, 2010), and Comparative Matters (Harvard University Press, forthcoming), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on comparative constitutional law and politics published in leading social science journals, law reviews, and edited collections.
He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, a Fulbright Scholar, a Fellow at Princeton University's Program in Law and Public Affairs, and served as the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Most recently, he was awarded a Straus Fellowship at NYU Law School, received a University of Toronto Outstanding Teaching Award, and delivered the 2010 Annual Lecture in Law and Society at Oxford University. He is married to Ayelet Shachar (Professor of Law, Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism at the University of Toronto), and is the father of a dazzling 5th grader.
Courses:
Comparative Constitutional Law & Politics Seminar
Spring Semester
Brian Arnold
Brian J. Arnold is a senior adviser at the Canadian Tax Foundation. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D., 1969) and taught tax law at a Canadian law school for many years. He has been a consultant to various governments, the OECD, and the United Nations, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School from 2005 to 2011. He currently teaches international tax courses at Melbourne and Sydney Law Schools and will be a Visiting Professor at New York University School of Law in 2012. He is the co-editor of the Bulletin for International Taxation and the author of several books and articles on tax issues, including Reforming Canada’s International Tax System: Toward Coherence and Simplicity, published by the Canadian Tax Foundation in 2009, and (with Hugh J. Ault) Comparative Income Taxation: A Structural Analysis, 3rd edition, published by Kluwer in 2010. He is the author of The Arnold Report, a regular feature on the Canadian Tax Foundation website.
Courses:
International Tax Policy Seminar
Tax Treaties
International Tax Policy
Catherine O'Regan
Catherine (Kate) O'Regan was born in Liverpool, England but grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. She obtained a BA and an LLB at the University of Cape Town, an LLM at the University of Sydney in Australia and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. During the 1980s, she worked as an attorney in Johannesburg specialising in labour law and land rights law. At the end of that decade, she joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town where she taught civil procedure, evidence and labour law. In 1994, she was appointed a judge of the newly established Constitutional Court of South Africa. Her fifteen year term of office came to an end in 2009. Since then she has served as an ad hoc judge of the Namibian Supreme Court, chairperson of the United Nations Internal Justice Council (since 2008), President of the International Monetary Fund Administrative Tribunal and as a visiting professor at the University of Oxford and an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town.
Courses:
Colloquium on Law, Economics and Politics of Urban Affairs
Courts, Rights & Democracy: The South African Experience Seminar
Su Li Zhu
Suli Zhu, the most cited legal scholar in China, is a professor of law of Peking University Law School. He obtained his LL.B from Peking University, LL.M from McGeorge School of Law, and M.A and Ph.D from Arizona State University. His research focuses on law and society, judicial process in China, and law and literature. His major books include Rule of Law and Its Native Resources (1996, 2003), How the Institution Evolves (1999, 2007), Sending Law to Countryside (2000, 2010), Roads Lead to Cities, Legal Transformation in China (2004), Something May Have Happened, Legal Academic Transformation in China (2004), and Law and Literature, A Study of Drama in Yuan Dynasty (2006), and other articles and book reviews. He also translated many American legal works into Chinese. Professor Zhu served as vice dean (1999-2000) and then dean (2001-2010) of Peking Unversity Law School. And he has been visiting scholar of Harvard-Yenching Institute (1999), and Yale Law School (2000); and visiting professor of Cornell Law School (fall, 2011).
Courses:
Introduction to East Asian Legal Systems
Law and Culture: An Asian Perspective Seminar