Global Faculty: Academic Year 2009-2010
Fall Semester
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 Cafaggi
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
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
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:
International Commercial Sales
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, 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 received his law degree from Tel-Aviv University and his Ph.D. 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 published extensively on comparative constitutional law and politics in journals such as Law & Social Inquiry, American Journal of Comparative Law, Constellations, Human Rights Quarterly, Annual Review of Political Science, 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 short stories and of European soccer, married to Ayelet Shachar, Professor of Law and 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, 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