NYU School of Law

Dr. Joseph David
Berkowitz Fellow
Israel

Dr. Joseph (Yossi) David has received a B.A. in philosophy and Jewish history from the Open University and a LL.B. from Bar Ilan University, Israel. His M.A. and Ph.D. are in philosophy and Jewish thought from the Hebrew University, Israel. He is the editor of The State of Israel: Between Judaism and Democracy (Israel Democracy Institute, 2003), and Questioning Dignity: Human Dignity as Supreme Modern Value, (Magnes Press, 2006). He is also the author of the forthcoming Between Logos and Nomos – Studies in Jewish Comparative Jurisprudence.  Professor David's research and teaching have focused on various topics in the Jewish legal tradition from historical and jurisprudential perspective. His recent studies have focused on Jewish-Islamic comparative theories of adjudication (judicial analogy and judicial error), epistemology of law in pre-modern legal systems (memory and transmission), nature and law, violence and ethics of weapons of mass destruction. He has published numerous articles and book chapters, including articles in Ratio Juris and The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. His research proposal is entitled "Legal Imagination and Religious Identity in Jewish and Islamic Jurisprudential Thought."

Dr. Ludovic Hennebel
Global Research Fellow
Belgium

Dr. Ludovic Hennebel holds a Ph.D. in Law (ULB, 2005), the Diploma on International Protection of Human Rights from the Institut Rene Cassin in Strasbourg (2001), an LL.M. in human rights and civil liberties (University of Leicester, UK, 1999), and a B.A. and M.A. in law (ULB, 1998). He has been a member of the Perelman Center for Legal Philosophy of the Law Faculty of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles since 2000, where he conducts his research and acts as director of the Brussels based academic association Magna Carta - Human Rights Network International. His research focuses on international human rights law. He has worked on the inter-American system of human rights, the UN system of human rights, business and human rights, global justice and global law. He is the author and editor of various publications, including, inter alia, 'Classer les droits de l¹homme' (Book with Emmanuelle Bribosia, Bruylant, 2004), 'Responsabilite des entreprises et coregulation' (Book with Thomas Berns and others, Bruylant, 2006), and 'La Convention americaine des droits de l'homme' (Bruylant, 2007) among others. At NYU, he will work on "Towards global justice: How to ensure an access to justice for the human rights violations' victims?" at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.

Professor Johanna Hey
Senior Global Emile Noel Fellow
Germany

Professor Hey is a German professor of tax law living in Cologne.  In 1996 she received her Doctor Juris summa cum laude, at the University of Cologne with her thesis on "Harmonization of Business Taxation in Europe". After completing two years of a Senior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Tax Law of the University of Cologne as an assistant to Professor Joachim Lang in 2001 she finished her Postdoctoral Thesis (Habilitation) on "Tax Planning Reliability as a Legal Problem". Professor Hey is currently the Director of the Institute of Tax Law and a full professor at the University of Cologne where she teaches courses on Principles and Constitutional Framework of Taxation, Personal Income Tax, Business Taxation, Value Added Tax, Tax Procedure, European Tax Law, Administrative and Constitutional Law.   In addition to her academic duties, Professor Hey is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance, the Expert Group for Tax Codification of the Stiftung Marktwirtschaft; Head of Business Tax Integration Working Group as well as a member of the Board of the German Professors’ Association, where she was elected Vice President in 2006. She has published approximately 70 academic publications on various aspects of German, European and international tax law and German public and constitutional law. Professor Hey’s research proposal is entitled "United States Experiences with Tax Competition: Potential Answers for Germany and the European Union."   Professor Hey will be affiliated with the Tax Program and the Jean Monnet Center.

Dr. Job Jindo
Gruss Scholar in Residence
Japan

Dr. Job Y. Jindo received a B.A. in the Bible and Talmud from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 1997. In 1999, he earned a M.A. in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, United States. He then completed a Ph.D. in the Department of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2006, with a dissertation entitled: “Biblical Metaphor Reconsidered: A Cognitive Approach to Poetic Metaphor in Biblical Prophecy” (awarded distinction). His research interests include: ancient cosmology, poetics of ancient literature, biblical law, New Testament in light of rabbinic literature, Jewish Biblical Exegesis, and history of modern biblical scholarship.  While in residency at NYU, his research focuses on the cognitive approach of the poetics and the Weltanschauung of ancient literature as set forth in his dissertation.

Dr. Thomas Krebs
Global NYU-Oxford Research Fellow
United Kingdom/Germany

Educated in Germany, Dr. Krebs earned his LL.B. at the University of Kent at Canterbury (English and German Law), then earned the postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law degree followed by doctorate at Christ Church, University of Oxford where his thesis, supervised by Professor Peter Birks, focused on the comparative law of restitution. His book 'Restitution at the Crossroads' was awarded the Cavendish Book Prize at the Annual Dinner of the Society of Legal Scholars 2001. After three years as Norton Rose Lecturer in Commercial Law at University College London, Dr. Krebs took up his present post as University Lecturer in Commercial Law at Oxford University and his Fellowship of Brasenose College. Dr. Krebs is also a practicing barrister with an associate tenancy at Serle Court, Lincoln's Inn.

During his residency at NYU, Dr. Krebs will be working on a book on agency that plans to look at the use of intermediaries from a business/management perspective, evaluating the relevant law against this background.

Dr. Junjiao Liang
Global Research Fellow
China

Dr. Liang is an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of the School of Taxation, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China.  She received a Bachelor's Degree in Economics (in finance) from the Central University of Finance & Economics in 1987 and her Ph.D. in Economics (in taxation) from the same University in 2002. Her major fields of research and teaching are taxation administration, the taxation system of China, taxation auditing and planning. Before becoming an academic, Dr. Liang was an accountant at China Sigma Limited Corporation.  Dr. Liang has an impressive academic background that includes having been awarded the San Hao Scholarship and receiving first-class honors each year of her undergraduate education.  In addition, Dr. Liang has a significant publication record that includes ten books, three of which are widely used textbooks, and over 40 academic papers and articles.  Her research proposal, an extension of her Ph.D. thesis, is titled "Taxpayer Compliance and Incentive Mechanism" and examines tax administration and compliance interests in China. During her residency, Dr. Liang will be affiliated with the Tax Program.

Professor Yixin Liao
Senior Global Research Fellow
China

Professor Yixin Liao received his degree of Master of Law in International Law from Xiamen University, P.R.C., in December of 1984. Because of his excellent performance during his post-graduate studies, in early 1985 he became one of the faculty members at the Law School of Xiamen University.  Currently, Professor Liao is a Professor of International Law as well as the Dean of the Law School of Xiamen University, a member of the Advisory Committee of National Legal Education of the Ministry of Education of China, vice-president of the Society of International Economic Law of China and vice-president of the Educational Society of Finance and Tax Law of China. In addition to being a legal scholar, Professor Liao also has rich legal practice experience. Since 1985 he has been a part-time attorney at the United Xingshi Law Firm in Xiamen City and an arbitrator of both the China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), and since 1997 an arbitrator at the Xiamen Arbitration Commission.  Prof. Liao's academic area focuses on international economic law and tax law. Within the field of international tax law he has published some influential textbooks, monographs, articles, and completed six research projects entrusted respectively by the National Social Science Fund, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Justice of China. Between September 1993 and August 1994, Professor Liao was invited to conduct research as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, and in February 2002 he was a senior visiting scholar at the Faculty of Law of Cambridge University, U.K.   In recent years Professor Liao interests have turned to international tax issues such as taxation on electronic commerce and harmful tax competition, in addition to the comparative study on income tax laws of China and foreign countries. As a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar and a Senior Global Research Fellow at NYU Law School, Professor Liao will conduct his research project on "Comparative Study on Corporate Income Tax Laws between China and the United States."

Dr. Amparo Martinez
Global Research Fellow
Spain

Dr. Amparo Martinez Guerra is a member of the research project Reforms, Universal Jurisdiction and Fundamental Rights Criminal Protection of Madrid directed by Dr. Luis Rodriguez Ramos and supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems Universitat (Bonn), Max Planck-Institut fur auslandisches und internationales Strafrecht (Freiburg am Breisgau) and the Ortega and Gasset Foundation. She is also a consultant at the Center for Political and International Studies.  Amparo received her LL.B from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 2001. In 2002, she became a Ph.D. candidate and predoctoral fellow in the Criminal Law Department, Universidad Complutense of Madrid. She completed her Ph.D. in Law cum laude in 2006 with her dissertation on Criminal Law and consumer protection in the EU and the U.S.A. She has been a visiting researcher at the European Law Research Center Harvard Law School under the supervision of Prof. David. W. Kennedy (2003); at the Institut fur Kriminologie und Wirtschaftsstrafrecht, Albert-Ludwig Universitat with Dr. Prof. h.c Klaus Tiedemann (2004); at the European University Institute, Department of Law, in Florence (2005) and at the New York University Law School Library in 2006. Before joining the University, she was trainee at the Investment Promotion Bureau, Spanish Ministry of Economy. In her research proposal, "International Criminal Jurisdiction" Dr. Martinez will focus on the role of the International Criminal Court Prosecutor and national Prosecutors applying the Universal Jurisdiction Principle investigating international crimes and crimes against humanity.

Dr. Makane Mbengue
Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow
Senegal

Dr. Makane Moise Mbengue, a native of Senegal, is a Teaching Assistant and Researcher at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1997, he received his LL.B. from the University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis (Senegal) in Public Law. In 1998, he received a Masters degree (Maitrise in the French system) in Public Law from the University of Saint-Louis. In 1999, he received an LL.M. in Business and Economic Law from the same University. In 2001, he obtained the Certificate of the Center for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations. Dr. Mbengue completed his Ph.D. in international law, summa cum laude, from the University of Geneva in June 2007.   Dr. Mbengue is also the author of a number of articles in widely respected and cited scientific journals and books on trade and environment, international dispute-settlement, the law of treaties, law of international watercourses and WTO law. From 2001 to 2005, he worked as a researcher for the Swiss National Science Foundation on a project entitled "Trade, the Environment and the International Regulation of Biotechnology". From September 2004 to June 2005, he was a law clerk at the International Court of Justice (The Hague, Netherlands). He has been a consultant for the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the Nile Basin Initiative and the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health. At NYU School of Law, he will focus on the relationship between Globalization and Regionalism in the Protection of the Environment and of Health. The research will identify and describe the various types of relations between multilateralism and regionalism in the field of natural resources management and health protection.  Dr. Mbengue's research proposal is entitled "Globalization and Regionalism in the Protection of the Environment and of Health."  During his residency, Dr. Mbengue will be affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice.

Dr. Ronen Perry
Global Research Fellow
Israel

Dr. Perry is currently serving as an Associate Professor at the University of Haifa where he has received two awards for excellence in teaching.  Dr. Perry received his LL.B. magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University in 1996. He was admitted to the special program for excellent students (top 0.5% of undergraduate students in all disciplines), and the IDF academic reserve (top undergraduate students in select disciplines). In 1997, he completed with distinction his LL.M. studies, as part of the direct doctoral track requirements, at the Hebrew University. He then served for three years in the IDF JAG Corps. He received his LL.D. summa cum laude from the Hebrew University in 2001.  In addition, Dr. Perry is one of the founding editors, and a senior editor (one of six) of the Journal of Tort Law, a University of California-Berkeley Publication, and the editor-in-chief of the Haifa Law Review. Dr. Perry has published more than twenty articles on tort, insurance, remedies, jurisprudence, and legal education and his book, Economic Ricochets, discusses the problem of relational purely economic loss from historical, comparative, and theoretical perspectives.  His research proposal is entitled "A Critical Study of the Consequential/Relational Economic Loss Dichotomy in Tort Law."

Professor Michelle Ratton-Sanchez
Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow
Brazil

Professor Ratton-Sanchez is a professor at the Law School of Getulio Vargas Foundation (DireitoGV/ FGV-EDESP), in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Research (CEBRAP), for the project entitled "Democracy and Law in Brazil."  She earned a Ph.D. with distinction from the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil, Department of Philosophy and General Theory of Law (2004). She was a visiting scholar at the International Law Department of the Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS), in Geneva, Switzerland (2001) and she has a Bachelor in law from the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a specialization in Business Law (1998). She received a fellowship from the State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) during her Ph.D. studies (2001-2004) and, during her undergraduate studies (1995-1998), as well as a fellowship from the Brazilian Governmental Foundation in the Special Program Trainee for Undergraduate and Graduate Students (PET-CAPES). Her areas of interest include international economic law, recent changes in international regulation and how non-state actors influence and participate in international fora and policies. Since 2003, she has worked together with other researchers on the creation of an innovative course on global law for the DireitoGV Law School, this course was started for undergraduates in 2005.  Professor Ratton-Sanchez's research proposal is entitled, "The Incorporation of OECD Rules and Practices by the Brazilian Legal System: Intergovernmental System vs. Transnational Regulation."  During her residency, Professor Ratton-Sanchez will be affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice's Global Administrative Law project.

Professor Stavros Tsakyrakis
Senior Global Emile Noel Fellow
Greece

Professor Tsakyrakis is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at Athens University where he teaches courses on Human Rights, General Theory of the State, and Legal Ethics while simultaneously serving as a practicing attorney where he has successfully argued cases before the European Court of Human Rights.  Dr. Tsakyrakis has published extensively on numerous Human Rights issues including terrorism, hate speech and the death penalty.  Professor Tsakyrakis has had various sabbaticals in Paris, Harvard University, and Columbia University, and while at NYU Law he will spend his time conducting on a research project entitled "The Balancing Approach on the Balance: Human Rights Limitations in the ECHR" which will provide research for another book he will write on the general theory of human rights law.  During his residency, Professor Tsakyrakis will be affiliated with the Jean Monnet Center.

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Dr. Marian Angeles Ahumada
Global Research Fellow
Spain

Dr. Marian Angeles Ahumada, a native of Santander, Spain, is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In 1988, she received her LL.B. from the Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. In 1990 she was conferred her Diploma of Specialization in Constitutional Law and Political Science from the Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, Spain, and received the Constiutional Law Prize. Dr. Ahumada completed her Ph.D. in law (doctor europeus), cum laude, premio extraordinario, from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, in 2004.

She has being visiting researcher at Max-Planck-Institut in Heidelberg, Harvard Law School and NYU School of Law, and visiting scholar at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the University of Essex. Since 1998 she has been Guest Professor at the Universidad Externado de Colombia as a member of the Faculty teaching the Master Course on Constitutional and Parliamentary Law in Bogotá. During the academic years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 she taught the course Introduction to Civil Law and Comparative Constitutional Law in the William & Mary Summer Law Program in Madrid. She is Tutor and Professor at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid, Spain, and in 2004 was named collaborator of the Global Law Garrigues Chair at the Universidad de Navarra. She has lectured in various countries in Europe and Latin America and taken part in the Doctoral Program organized by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Beijing University of Foreign Studies. From 2001 to 2004, Dr. Ahumada was Academic Director of the EU-China Legal and Judicial Program (Lawyers’ Training) in Madrid.

Dr. Ahumada has published a number of legal articles in the fields of constitutional law, law of constitutional courts and comparative constitutionalism. Her Ph.D. research was focused on the comparison between the American and European approaches to constitutional review. This research was awarded the “Nicolás Pérez Serrano” Prize for doctoral dissertations in constitutional law and political science in 2005, and served as the basis for two books: La Jurisdicción Constitucional en Europa. Bases teóricas y políticas (Constitutional Jurisdiction in Europe. Political and Theoretical Foundations), published in 2005, and Judicial Review: el control de constitucionalidad en los Estados Unidos (forthcoming).  

At NYU School of Law, she will embark on research on the relationships among state and federal courts and the way “judicial federalism” influences and is influenced by the performance of federalism in broader sense. For a variety of reasons she thinks that United States is a unique laboratory for this work, even if she plans not confining the research to the American case. To spend time at the Law School, she was granted a fellowship by the Caja Madrid Foundation and obtained a permission of leave from her university.

Dr. Leora Batnitzky
Berkowitz Fellow
United States of America

Dr. Leora Batnitzky is Associate Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She received a B.A. in philosophy from Barnard College, Columbia University and a B.A. in biblical studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.  Her M.A. and Ph.D. are in religion from Princeton University.  She is the author of Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (Cambridge, 2006) and Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (Princeton, 2000). She is also the editor of the forthcoming Martin Buber: Schriften zur Philosophie und Religion (Gütersloher) and, since 2004, the co-editor of Jewish Studies Quarterly.

Professor Batnitzky's research and teaching have focused on modern religious thought and on Jewish thought particularly. Increasingly, she has focused on the historical and philosophical continuities between religious thought and political theory as they relate to the development of modern legal theory.  She has published numerous articles and book chapters, including articles in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Cardozo Law Review. 

At NYU School of Law, Professor Batnitzky's work will focus on the conceptual relation between one of the first proponents of legal positivism Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) and the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) to show some of the ways in which Kelsen's theory of law in general and his theory of international law in particular may be conceptually related if not indebted to Cohen's Jewish theological corrective of Kant.  This research aims to demonstrate the common philosophical and political endeavor of modern Jewish thinkers and modern legal theorists influenced by Kelsen to define a concept of law that denies that coercion is an intrinsic part of law.  This work is part of a larger project that examines the concept of law in modern religious thought (Jewish and Christian) and modern legal theory (Anglo-American and Continental).  Professor Batnitzky's project is supported by a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. 

Rabbi Naftali Cohn
Gruss Scholar in Residence
United States of America

Rabbi Naftali Cohn received a B.A. from Harvard University, United States, in 1996.  In 2001 he earned an M.A. in Talmudic Studies from Yeshiva University, United States, and in 2002 was ordained by the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University.  He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, United States.  In addition, since 2002, he has served as an Adjunct Instructor in Judaic Studies at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University.

His current research, on the ancient Jewish legal work known as the Mishnah, combines the perspectives of narrative theory and ritual theory to read ritual narrative texts as cultural documents.  He is also exploring the cultural construction of women's lives in the Mishnah and in other ancient Jewish legal and narrative texts.

Dr. Catriona Drew
Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow
United Kingdom

Dr. Catriona Drew holds an LL.B. from the University of Aberdeen and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She lectured in public international law at the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow in Scotland before joining the School of Oriental and African Studies, of the University of London, in 2003. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program of Harvard Law School, and is co-founder of the Centre for International Law and Colonialism at SOAS. Her principal research interest relates to the international law of self-determination. She is currently working on an international legal history of the relationship between the principle of self-determination and population transfer.

Dr. Dimitrios Kyritsis
Global Research Fellow
Greece

Dr. Dimitrios Kyritsis graduated from the University of Athens earning a degree in Law in 2000. One year later he was awarded the M.Jur. from Mansfield College, University of Oxford. He then received the M.Phil. and D.Phil. from Brasenose College, University of Oxford. His thesis, entitled "Divided Authority: Separation of Powers and Legal Theory," addressed the controversy over the nature of law through an account of the ideal of separation of powers. After completing his thesis, Dr. Kyritsis returned to Greece and was actively involved in teaching and research in legal philosophy at the University of Athens. 

Dr. Kyritsis's primary research interests range from analytic jurisprudence to constitutional theory. In his current research he aims to step back into moral philosophy and advance a theory of practical authority that can be applied to law as well as to other systems of authoritative guidance more generally.

Dr. Michael Likosky
Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow
United States of America

Dr. Michel B. Likosky teaches in the Law School of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. In 2006, he published Law, Infrastructure, and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press) with the underlying research supported by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. A second book, The Silicon Empire (Ashgate 2005), was based upon doctoral work completed in the Law Faculty of Oxford University examining the continuities and discontinuities between colonial and present-day high technology-based transnational legal orders. He has edited two books: Transnational Legal Processes (Cambridge University Press 2002) and Privatising Development (Martinus Nijhoff 2005). He has twice contributed to the Oxford Amnesty Lectures (Oxford University Press 2003, 2006). He teaches International Economic Law, Law and Globalization, and Public International Law. Dr. Likosky has held fellowships at the University of Oxford, the University of Bonn, and the Center for Media Education in Washington, D.C. He has consulted for corporation and worked with non-governmental organizations.

Dr. Nicola Lucchi
Global Engelberg Research Fellow
Italy

Dr. Nicola Lucchi is a lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Ferrara, Italy, and research associate at the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Ferrara. He is a Fellow of the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law School and he is currently a Global Engelberg Research Fellow at the NYU School of Law.

Dr. Lucchi was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and at the University of Texas at Austin, School of Law.

His current research focuses on intellectual property issues and rights in digital media. At NYU School of Law, he will work on a project concerning the management of digital intellectual property rights and its impact on consumer protection.

His awards include the European Commission's Kaléidoscope Programme scholarship and the Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship to the University of Texas at Austin.

From June 2001 to May 2005 he worked as Honorary Judge at the Court of Ferrara. Before joining the academia, Dr. Lucchi was a public relations assistant to one of Italy's foremost classical music conductors Claudio Abbado and also to the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

He has published on legal informatics, comparative intellectual property, information society and cyberlaw. Among his recent publications are: "Intellectual Property Rights in Digital Media: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Protection, Technological Measures and New Business Models under E.U. and U.S. Law" (Buffalo Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 4, Fall 2005); "The Supremacy of Techno-Governance: Privatization of Digital Content and Consumer Protection in the Globalized Information Society" (International Journal of Law and Information Technology, forthcoming 2006) and Digital Media & Intellectual Property (Berlin, Springer-Verlag, forthcoming 2006).

Professor Patrick Macklem
Senior Global Human Rights and Global Justice Research Fellow
Canada

Patrick Macklem is a Professor of Law at University of Toronto, a Permanent Visiting Professor at Central European University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He holds law degrees from Harvard and Toronto, and an undergraduate degree in political science and philosophy from McGill. He served as Law Clerk for Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada and as a constitutional advisor to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School in 1988 and at U.C.L.A. School of Law in 1992. In 2003, he was selected as a Fulbright New Century Scholar, taught at the European University Institute, and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School.

Professor Macklem is the author of Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada (2001) (awarded the Canadian Political Science Association 2002 Donald Smiley Prize for best book on Canadian governance and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2002 Harold Innis Prize by for the best English-language book in the social sciences), co-editor of Canadian Constitutional Law (2003), The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada's Anti-terrorism Bill (2001), and Labour and Employment Law (2004), and has published numerous articles on international human rights law, cultural minorities, constitutional law, indigenous peoples and the law, and labour law.

Prof. Dr. C.W. Maris
Senior Global Research Fellow
The Netherlands

Prof. Dr. C.W. Maris has been a professor of legal philosophy at the University of Amsterdam since 1988. Since 1992, he has been avisiting professor at the Universities of Surinam and the Dutch Antilles. He is the editor of several journals in the fields of jurisprudence and philosophy. His main fields of research concern the concept of liberty and its practical applications, multiculturalism, love, art, law and literature, and epistemology. Among his publications are A Critique of the Empiricist Explanation of Morality (doctoral dissertation, cum laude); Letters on Liberty; Law, Order, and Freedom; and Twelve Loves. He also wrote and brought on stage the philosophical oratorio Horror Vacui (in cooperation with the composer José-Luis Greco) and the philosophical dialogue The Dance of Zarathustra.

Mr. Ben McFarlane
Global NYU-Oxford Research Fellow
United Kingdom

Mr. Ben McFarlane is the University Lecturer in Property Law & Trusts at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He holds M.A. and B.C.L. degrees from Oxford, having graduated first in his undergraduate class. He has published articles on contract law and the law of restitution, but his primary current research interest is property law. He is the Convenor of the Land Law teaching group at Oxford and is currently preparing a textbook on Land Law. He also has an interest in French law and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris II in 2005-6.

Mr. McFarlane has written widely on the doctrine of proprietary estoppel, and spoke on comparative aspects of that topic at the Obligations III conference in Brisbane in July 2006. His particular interest is in the possible expansion of that doctrine in English law, and he is therefore keen to examine the application of the related doctrine of equitable estoppel in the law(s) of the United States. He wishes to use his time in New York to explore the practical application of equitable estoppel, especially in relation to commercial disputes, and hopes to use the American experience as a means of finding some valuable lessons for the future development of English law. He has undertaken such comparative research before, when writing an article entitled "The Recovery of Money Paid On Judgments Later Reversed" which looked extensively at American law.

Dr. Mario Savino
Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow
Italy

Dr. Mario Savino is a researcher at the Tuscia University of Viterbo, Italy. He received his Ph.D. in Administrative Law from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 2004. In 2005, he was UE Law Poros Chair Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. He teaches European Administrative Law at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and is coordinator of the research team on "Evolution of a polycentric administrative space," within the Connex Network (Connecting Excellence on European Governance), at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research-Mzes, University of Mannheim, Germany.

His fields of research interest are global and European administrative law. He has published a monograph on the EU committee system (I comitati dell’Unione europea, Milano, Giuffrè, 2005). He has also written on international transgovernmental bodies, the European Commission, Italian administrative reforms and other topics related to domestic administrative law. He is currently researching on public order, public security and immigration at national, European and global levels. At NYU School of Law he will work on the specific issue of the accountability of transgovernmental networks.

Dr. Pierpaolo Settembri
Global Emile Noel Fellow
Italy

Dr. Pierpaolo Settembri holds a degree in Political Science from LUISS "Guido Carli" University, Rome (2001), a master in European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges (2002), and a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Florence and the IEP of Paris (2006). He is a researcher in EU Institutions and Decision-Making at the European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, and assistant to the chair of Political Science at LUISS "Guido Carli" University. His research interests lie in various aspects of European politics, including the role of political parties and interest groups at the European level, transparency and accountability issues, and institutional evolution and dynamics. Presently, he is working on the publication of his doctoral dissertation and a co-authored monograph on the European Parliament. At the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law, he will mainly focus on the impact of the enlargements of the European Union on its institutions, exploring in particular the complex relationship between widening and deepening.

Dr. Noam Sher
Global Law and Economics Research Fellow
Israel

Dr. Noam Sher is an Assistant Professor of Law (Lecturer) at Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel. He received his J.S.D. in 2004, LL.M. in 2000 and LL.B. in 1991 from Tel-Aviv University; and his M.A. in 1992 and B.A. in 1989 both in economics from Tel-Aviv University. The subject matter of his doctoral dissertation is: Underwriters' Civil Liability for IPO's.

After his LL.B. and economics studies, Dr. Sher practiced law with Efraty-Galili and Co., Law-Office and then he joined the Radzyner School of Law, IDC. Dr. Sher's main areas of research and teaching are: corporate law, securities regulation, economic analysis of law, property law and bankruptcy law. Dr. Sher served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Law & Business, and the IDC Law Review, in the period of its establishment. Dr. Sher has been a member of the Israeli Bar Association since 1992.

For the period of academic year 2006-2007 Dr. Sher is a Global Law and Economics Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. His main projects are in the areas of economic analysis of medical malpractice, securities regulation and intellectual property law.

Dr. Jichun Shi
Global Research Fellow
China

Dr. Jichun Shi is a professor at Renmin University of China School of Law, Beijing. He received a Bachelor of Law majoring in politics education from Anhui Normal University, P.R. China, in 1982. He then continued into Anhui University Department of Law and, a few years later, went to Renmin University of China, specialized in civil law, earning his Master of Law in 1985 and Doctor of Law in 1991. He has written and lectured on companies and enterprises law, competition law, consumer law, intellectual property law, and the theory of civil, business and economic law, etc.

He currently focuses on the Chinese anti-trust legislation, paying attention to privatization of, and anti-monopoly on public utilities. He has been appointed as one of the Expert Consultants of the Legislative Committee on Chinese Antimonopoly Law by the Legislative Affairs Office of the PRC State Council. He is also interested in the thinking and institutions of Anglo-Saxon law compared with that of continental law, and wishes to develop comprehensive first-hand experience in the U.S. legal system.

Dr. Yan'an Shi
Global Crime and Justice Research Fellow
China

Dr. Yan'an Shi is an associate professor at the School of Law of Renmin University of China (RUC), and the fellow of the Research Center for Criminal Jurisprudence at RUC, one of the key national research institutes of humanistic and social sciences in universities of China. He is a part-time fellow of the College for Criminal Science at Beijing Normal University. He is also the editor of the criminal law part of Jurists Review, which is one of the most influential law journals in China.

He received his master degree in July of 2000, and his doctorate in July of 2003 from RUC. From August of 1994 to August of 1997, he worked in Mudanjiang Procuratorate of Heilongjiang Province, China, and he received the title of associate procurator in May of 1996.

His major interest is criminal law, and his favorite field is criminal policy and international cooperation in criminal matters. He has published one book entitled Inter-regional Concurrent Criminal Jurisdiction in China, and cooperated with another young scholar in writing a book on the offences against decency. Since 2000, he has published more than 40 papers on criminal law.

Dr. Benjamin Straumann
Global Research Fellow
Alberico Gentili Fellow in the Program in the History and Theory of International Law
Switzerland

Dr. Benjamin Straumann completed his doctoral dissertation (insigni cum laude) on the classical foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural and international law in 2005 at the University of Zurich after studies in Zurich and Rome. He is currently a Global Research Fellow in the Hauser Global Law School Program. He is also an Alberico Gentili Fellow in the Program in the History and Theory of International Law. Previously, Benjamin has worked for the Swiss Mission to the United Nations and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. His research interests include the history of natural and international law, natural rights and social contract theories as well as the early modern reception of Roman law and classical political thought.

His publications include "'Ancient Caesarian Lawyers' in a State of Nature: Roman Tradition and Natural Rights in Hugo Grotius' De iure praedae," Political Theory 34, 3 (June 2006), pp. 328-50; "The Right to Punish as a Just Cause of War in Hugo Grotius' Natural Law," Studies in the History of Ethics 2 (February 2006), pp. 1-20, available at http://www.historyofethics.org/022006/022006Straumann.shtml; and an article on Rome and her influence in modern culture and scholarship in Brill's New Pauly. Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World, ed. M. Landfester (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming).

Prof. Dr. Michael Tumpel
Global Tax Research Fellow
Austria

Prof. Dr. Michael Tumpel was born in 1964 in Vienna, Austria. He holds a M.B.A. and a doctoral degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. After receiving venia docendi (Habilitation) for Tax Law and Tax Management from Vienna University he became an associate professor of the Vienna University. In 2000, he was appointed full professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria.

Professor Tumpel's research interests include various aspects of Austrian, international and European tax law. He has authored or edited several books and has published articles in national and international journals. His current research focuses on the reform of the EU Value Added Tax system to combat tax fraud.

He has been awarded the Albert Hensel Award of the German Tax Law Association 1998, Münster 1998 and the Scientific Award of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), Austrian Branch, Vienna 1998 for his habilitation thesis on Value Added Tax on Intra-Community Trade. 

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Marian Angeles Ahumada
Global Research Fellow
Spain

Dr. Marian Angeles Ahumada, a native of Santander, Spain, is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In 1988, she received her LL.B. from the Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. In 1990 she was conferred her Diploma of Specialization in Constitutional Law and Political Science from the Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, Spain, and received the Constiutional Law Prize. Dr. Ahumada completed her Ph.D. in law (doctor europeus), cum laude, premio extraordinario, from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, in 2004.

She has being visiting researcher at Max-Planck-Institut in Heidelberg, Harvard Law School and NYU School of Law, and visiting scholar at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the University of Essex. Since 1998 she has been Guest Professor at the Universidad Externado de Colombia as a member of the Faculty teaching the Master Course on Constitutional and Parliamentary Law in Bogotá. During the academic years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 she taught the course Introduction to Civil Law and Comparative Constitutional Law in the William & Mary Summer Law Program in Madrid. She is Tutor and Professor at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid, Spain, and in 2004 was named collaborator of the Global Law Garrigues Chair at the Universidad de Navarra. She has lectured in various countries in Europe and Latin America and taken part in the Doctoral Program organized by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Beijing University of Foreign Studies. From 2001 to 2004, Dr. Ahumada was Academic Director of the EU-China Legal and Judicial Program (Lawyers’ Training) in Madrid.

Dr. Ahumada has published a number of legal articles in the fields of constitutional law, law of constitutional courts and comparative constitutionalism. Her Ph.D. research was focused on the comparison between the American and European approaches to constitutional review. This research was awarded the “Nicolás Pérez Serrano” Prize for doctoral dissertations in constitutional law and political science in 2005, and served as the basis for two books: La Jurisdicción Constitucional en Europa. Bases teóricas y políticas (Constitutional Jurisdiction in Europe. Political and Theoretical Foundations), published in 2005, and Judicial Review: el control de constitucionalidad en los Estados Unidos (forthcoming).  

At NYU School of Law, she will embark on research on the relationships among state and federal courts and the way “judicial federalism” influences and is influenced by the performance of federalism in broader sense. For a variety of reasons she thinks that United States is a unique laboratory for this work, even if she plans not confining the research to the American case. To spend time at the Law School, she was granted a fellowship by the Caja Madrid Foundation and obtained a permission of leave from her university.

Alicia Cebada-Romero
Global Emile Noel Fellow
Spain

Dr. Alicia Cebada-Romero received her Master in European Union Law from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in 1995. In 2000, she received her Doctor in Law, cum laude, from the the same institution. She was awarded with the “premio extraordinario” for her doctoral thesis and with an award from the Spanish Royal Academy of Doctors for the best thesis in the Legal and Social Studies Area. Recently she was the Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Italy.

Dr. Cebada-Romero's areas of research interest are external action of the European Union, international organizations, and international responsibility. At NYU School of Law she will be researching trade policy as a means to promote development from the perspective of the European Union.

Cathryn Costello
Global Emile Noel Fellow
Ireland

Ms. Cathryn Costello holds a B.C.L. from University College Cork, Ireland; a LL.M. from the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium; and a B.L. from the Honorable Society of King's Inns, Ireland. In October 2003, she took up a Senior Research Fellowship in Public and EC Law at Worcester College, Oxford University, United Kingdom. She is currently working on a monograph on EU immigration law. From 1998 to 2003, she was Lecturer in European Law at the Law School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where she taught the mandatory general course on EU law as well as advanced courses in various other aspects of EU law and WTO law. From 2000 to 2003, she also held the position of Director of the Irish Centre for European Law. She has published on EU equality, immigration and constitutional law, and has co-edited a major volume on the new equality directives titled Equality in Diversity: The New Equality Directives, ed. Costello and Barry, Dublin: ICEL No 29, 2003.

Jean d'Aspremont Lynden
Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow
Belgium

Dr. Jean d’Aspremont Lynden received his Ph.D. from the University of Louvain, Belgium, in August. He received his LL.M. from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. His doctoral research was devoted to the topic of Non-Democratic States and International Law, a research conducted in an empirical perspective (publication in 2006). He is also the author of various articles in the Revue générale de droit international public (RGDIP) or the Revue belge de droit international (RBDI) on questions pertaining to unilateral acts of States or normativity in International Law. He contributed to the third edition of the commentary of the United Nations Charter as well. Dr. d'Aspremont Lynden has also been a correspondent for the Bulletin of Legal Developments published by the British Institute for International and Comparative Law for several years. At a domestic level, he has written a couple of articles on issues related to the exercise of universal jurisdiction or the relation between international law and municipal law. 

Dr. d'Aspremont Lynden has taught International Law at the University of Louvain for 4 years where he has been in charge of seminars and examination. He has also taken part in several conferences where he delivered speeches. At the last research forum of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), he made a contribution on the Creation of Democratic States through International Administration of Territory. In 2004, he was a member of the International Law Seminar (ILS) set up under the auspices of the United Nations International Law Commission. In August 2003, he was a visiting researcher at McGill University, Canada. During the summer of 2005 he was invited by the National Univeristy of Burundi to be a professor of a general course in International Law. As a Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow at NYU School of Law, he is engaged in a research on the Effects of War on International Treaties.

Rabbi David Flatto
Gruss Scholar in Residence
United States of America

Rabbi David Flatto received a B.A. from Yeshiva University, United States, in 1994. He then continued into law school earning a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, United States, in 1997. In 1998 he obtained Ordination from Yeshiva University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, United States.  He has written and lectured on Maimonides, Jewish legal philosophy and the critical and historical study of rabbinics.

His current research focuses on the interdisciplinary field of law and Jewish studies, and particularly topics in rabbinic jurisprudence.  This research entails analyzing various aspects of the rabbinic judicial system, including issues of legal procedure and governance, as theoretically envisioned and actually implemented in late antiquity.  A comparative perspective, assessing the rabbinic system alongside other early imperial and religious legal systems, is also employed in his study.

Frank Haldemann
Global Research and Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Fellow
Switzerland

Dr. Frank Haldemann is a Global Research Fellow and Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Fellow. His research encompasses international human rights law, international criminal law, constitutional law, legal history, legal philosophy and bioethics. He is particulary interested in exploring issues at the border between law and ethics. At NYU School of Law, he will work on the question of transitional justice as an emerging field of international law.

In 1999, Dr. Haldemann received his lic.iur., cum laude, from University of Fribourg, Switzerland, after completing a year in the Erasmus Exchange Program at the University of Vienna, Austria. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as a legal researcher for the Independent Commission of Experts: Switzerland–Second World War. In 2002, he obtained his LL.M. degree in Legal Theory and History, with merit, from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, where he was awarded the British Chevening Scholarship. He wrote a doctoral thesis in the field of legal philosophy and constitutional law titled Responsibility as a Constitutional Principle and, in February 2004, earned his Ph.D. in Law, magna cum laude, from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. In 2003, he became a research assistant/junior lecturer (maître assistant) at the Bioethics Center of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Haldemann has carried out several research and consulting projects for the Swiss Federal Administration. He is a committee member of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics.

Changyin Han
Senior Global Research Fellow
China

Professor Changyin Han is Professor of Law at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Law School, China. He received his Ph.D. in law from Renmin University of China in 2001. His major fields of research and teaching are bankruptcy law, corporate law and commercial law. Before joining the Shanghai Jiao Tong University faculty, he was dean of the Henan University Law School, China. To date he has published more than 40 academic papers and articles, and chief-authored or co-authored more than ten books on various legal areas.

Dr. Shahar Lifshitz
Berkowitz Fellow
Israel

Dr. Shahar Lifshitz is a senior lecturer, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He received a Bachelor Degree in Law and Psychology from Bar-Ilan University in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Law from the same institution in 2002. His doctoral dissertation, which received a distinction, is titled Contractual Regulation of Spousal Relationship in Civil Law. Dr. Lifshitz's areas of academic interest are contractual law and family law especially the philosophical basis of these fields. In 2004, he won the Alon scholarship for the "excellent scientist," awarded by the Higher Council for Academic Studies in Israel which fully sponsors young scholars in their university positions for three years. In 2005, he won the Rothschild Fellowship for post-doctorate program as well as the Fulbright Award.

Dr. Lifshitz is a researcher in the Israeli Institute for Democracy, which advances a process of legislation for an accepted constitution for Israel. His specific task is to suggest a version for a law which will regulate the registration of secular spouses in Israel to the civil spousal register. He participates in the meetings of the legislative committee of the "Kneset" and counseling of the legislators in family law issues. He is Legislative Committee Member of the Ministry of Justice on the Israeli law for the rights of children. He lectures at seminars for judges and lawyers in the fields of family law and contract law. Finally, Dr. Lifshitz was appointed to a judge of the special court of adhesion contracts

Recently, his first book Cohabitation Law in Israel from the Perspective of a Civil Law Theory of the Family, written in Hebrew and published by Haifa University Press in 2005, was awarded The Bahat Prize. Dr. Lifshitz is currently editing his second book Civil Regulation of Spousal Regulation for publication by The Harry and Michael Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His publication list includes, among others:

"The Future of Secular Family Law in the Next Fifty Years: Classical Liberalism vs. Commuinitarian Liberalism," Bar-Ilan Law Studies 17 (1) 2001 159.

"A Civil Reorientation in Israeli Family Law," ed. By Prof. Yedidia Z. Stern & Dr. Yaffa Zilbershats, Tzivyon (3) 2002.

"Equality in Marriage, the Right to Divorce and Autonomy of Communitarian–," Tel Aviv University Law Review, 27 2003, 139. (Hebrew)

"The External Rights of Cohabitations," Israel Law Review, 37 (2) 346.                   

At NYU School of Law,  he will work on projects in the subjects of cohabitation law and property relationship between spouses as well as on project deals with "Unconscionability Contracts: A Jewish Law Perspective."

Julie Ringelheim
Global Research and Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Fellow
Belgium

Dr. Julie Ringelheim has been a researcher at the Center of Philosophy of Law of the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, since 2003. In 1998, she graduated with a degree in law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and was awarded an LL.M. in 1999 from Trinity Hall College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, where she specialized in international law and jurisprudence. Between 1999 and 2005, she wrote her Ph.D. thesis at the European University Institute, Italy, on Cultural Diversity in the European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law. She also was a visiting researcher at the University of Paris XI in Spring 2003. Her areas of interests include international human rights law, minority protection, anti-discrimination law, public international law, legal and political theory.

Her current research focuses on the tension between the promotion of equality and the protection of personal data. It is based on a comparative study of the legislation and policies adopted by the U.S. and several European countries to combat racial, ethnic or religious discrimination in the fields of employment, education and housing. The project seeks to define ways in which the sometimes conflicting imperatives of the affirmative pursuance of equality and the protection of personal data may be reconciled.

Tracy Robinson
Mauro Cappelletti Global Fellow in Comparative Law
Jamaica

Ms. Tracy Robinson is Jamaican and received her LL.B. in 1991 from the University of the West Indies, Cavehill Campus, Barbados. In 1994 she received her B.C.L. from Balliol College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and one year later her LL.M. from Yale Law School, United States. She returned to the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, as a lecturer in 1996. At UWI she teaches family law, gender and the law, constitutional law and human rights law, and, until recently, was the editor of the Caribbean Law Bulletin.

In her research and publications, she has been most concerned with questions of gender, citizenship and constitutionalism, gender-based violence, and family law reform in the Caribbean. She has been involved with a number of regional initiatives that have family law and family policy reform in mind, including the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Family Law and Domestic Violence Judicial and Legislative Reform Project and the UNIFEM/UWI Child Support, Poverty and Family Responsibilities Research Project in the Caribbean. She is also a member of the Barbados Family Law Council and a member of a Barbados women's advocacy group established in 2003 to press for legislation dealing with sexual harassment.

Benjamin Straumann
Global Research Fellow
Alberico Gentili Fellow in the Program in the History and Theory of International Law
Switzerland

Dr. Benjamin Straumann completed his doctoral dissertation (insigni cum laude) on the classical foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural and international law in 2005 at the University of Zurich after studies in Zurich and Rome. He is currently a Global Research Fellow in the Hauser Global Law School Program. He is also an Alberico Gentili Fellow in the Program in the History and Theory of International Law. Previously, Benjamin has worked for the Swiss Mission to the United Nations and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. His research interests include the history of natural and international law, natural rights and social contract theories as well as the early modern reception of classical antiquity.

His publications include "'Ancient Caesarian Lawyers' in a State of Nature: Roman Tradition and Natural Rights in Hugo Grotius' De iure praedae," Political Theory (forthcoming); "The Right to Punish as a Just Cause of War in Hugo Grotius' Natural Law," Studies in the History of Ethics (forthcoming); and an article on Rome and her influence in modern culture and scholarship in Brill's New Pauly. Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World, ed. M. Landfester (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming).

Michal Tamir
Global Research Fellow
Israel

Dr. Michal Tamir graduated in 1995 with her LL.B., magna cum laude, from the University of Haifa, Israel.  She then became a clerk for Israeli Supreme Court Justice Itzhak Zamir.  After her admission to the Israeli Bar, she served a short time as a legal assistant in the Supreme Court.  In 1999, she received her LL.M., summa cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and, in 2005, her LL.D. from the same institution.  The topic of her doctoral dissertation is Selective Enforcement. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Shaárei Mishpat College of Law, Israel.

Throughout her studies Dr. Tamir has won numerious prizes. Among the courses she currently teaches are Administrative Law, Criminal Procedure, Law of Tenders, Human Rights in Private Law, Equality in Law, and Freedom of Occupation. Her main work focuses on issues concerning administrative and constitutional law. She published several articles in the leading Israeli law journals, and wrote the entry "Israel" for an international encyclopedia.

Eyal Zamir
Senior Global Research Fellow
Israel

Professor Eyal Zamir was born in 1961 in Moshav Hayogev, Israel. He holds an LL.B. (1982) and Dr.Jur. (1989) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. After spending one year at Harvard Law School as a Visiting Researcher (1990-91), he was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University. In 1996-97 he was a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School. In 1998 he became full professor and in the same year was appointed Augusto Levi Professor of Commercial Law at the Hebrew University; he then served as Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University from 2002 to 2005.

Professor Zamir’s research interests include contract law and contract theory, economic analysis of law, and proprietary aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He authored or edited ten books and published more than twenty articles in Israeli and American law reviews, including The American Journal of International Law, the Columbia Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review.

Since 1987, Professor Zamir has been a member of the Israeli Codification of Private Law Committee, headed by Chief Justice Aharon Barak. In 1995 he participated in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on the Interim Agreement concerning the West Bank and Gaza Strip ("Oslo B"). In 2004-05 he chaired a Committee (appointed by Israel’s Attorney General) that examined the Land Registry in the West Bank.

Professor Zamir has been awarded numerous fellowships and awards, including the Y. Sussman Law Prize (1988) and the Hebrew University President’s Prize for Excellent Young Scholar named after Y. Ben Porat (1994, first recipient).

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Alexander Boraine
Senior Global Research Fellow
South Africa

Dr. Alexander Boraine was born and educated in Cape Town, South Africa. He was awarded his Ph.D. at Drew University Graduate School.

He was a member of the opposition Progressive Party in South Africa's Parliament for 12 years before resigning to establish a non-governmental organization which focused on promoting negotiation politics. In 1995, he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela as Vice Chairperson of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

In 2001, he was appointed President of the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York and is now the Chairperson. In 1999, he was appointed Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law and is now a Visiting Professor at the Law School.

Raphael De Coninck
Global Research Fellow
Belgium 

Raphaël De Coninck (Ph.D. in Economics, University of Chicago) specializes in the fields of Empirical Microeconomics and Law and Economics, and is particularly interested in providing empirical evidence for key legal issues. In his most recent research papers, he estimated the effect of laws reducing the length of the workweek in France and analyzed retroactivity in criminal law from an economic point of view. His next research projects include evaluating the returns on spending in judicial systems across the world, and estimating the factors affecting legal dispute settlements.

In addition to his Ph.D., Raphaël holds degrees in economics and law from the University of Liège in Belgium , and has spent a semester as an Erasmus exchange student at the Faculty of Law at Humboldt University in Berlin. He has also taught the course Economic Analysis of Law at the University of Chicago, and has spent a summer as an intern at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.

Raphaël is a native French speaker, and is also fluent in English and Spanish. His current webpage is http://home.uchicago.edu/~rndeconi.  

Li Luo
Global Research Fellow
China

Dr. Li Luo is an associate professor at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPSL) in Beijing, China. She started her teaching career after receiving her LL.B. and LL.M. in 1993 and 1996, respectively, from CUPSL. In 2003 she finished her doctoral studies at the University of Cologne, Germany with honors magna cum laude. From January to June 2004 she taught at the College of Staten Island, the City University of New York. Her research interests include corporation law and economic reform in China and intellectual property law. Presently she is very interested in information and technology law and policy, with a focus on the intersection of information technology and intellectual property law. She has published books and articles mostly in Chinese and German.

Avishai Margalit
Senior Global Research Fellow
Israel

Avishai Margalit was born in Israel (Palestine) in 1939, and was raised and educated in Jerusalem. After high school, army service and a stay in a kibbutz, he began his university studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. While a student, he spent several years as an educator in a youth village for new immigrant children.He obtained his B.A. in philosophy and economics in 1963 and an M.A. in philosophy (summa cum laude) in 1965. His doctoral dissertation, on TheCognitive Status of Metaphors, was written under the supervision of the late Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, whose assistant and associate he was for several years. He received his Ph.D., summa cum laude, in 1970. He joined the faculty of the department of philosophy at the Hebrew University in 1970, where he stayed ever since (serving as its Chairman twice), and where he is the Schulman Professor of Philosophy.

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Avishai Margalit was a British Council Scholar at Oxford University, and a Tutor at The Queens College, Oxford (1968-70); a visiting Scholar at Harvard University (197405); a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford (1979-80); a Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin and a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Berlin (1984-5); a Visiting Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford (1990); a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University (1995-6), and a Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York (2001-2002). In addition, he held short-term visiting professorships at the Central European University in Prague, and at the European University in Florence.

In May 1999 he delivered the Horkheimer Lectures, at the University of Frankfurt, on The Ethics of Memory.

On December 14, 2001 Avishai Margalit received the Spinoza Lens Prize, awarded by the International Spinoza Foundation, for "a significant contribution to the normative debate on society."

In 2001-2002 he delivered the inaugural lectures at Oxford University as the first Bertelsman Professor there.

In the summer of 2005 he shall be the Tanner Lecturer at Stanford University.

In addition to a number of books, Margalit has published widely in various philosophical journals, on a variety of philosophical topics, including philosophy of language, logical paradoxes and rationality, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. His most recent book is Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (with Ian Buruma), New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.

He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. Margalit was among the founders of Peace Now, of which he still is an active member. He is married (to the philosopher Edna Ullmann-Margalit); they have four children.

Ana Peyro Llopis
Global Crystal Eastman Fellow
Spain

Ana Peyro is an international lawyer whose research focuses on the law of international organizations, enforcement of international law, peacekeeping, international criminal law and international environmental law. At NYU School of Law, she will work on questions of international law dealing with enforcement (The Position of International Law in Recent Supreme Court Decisions, The Role of the Private Sector in the Observance Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, etc.)

A native of Spain, Peyro received her education in Switzerland, Italy and in her home country, where she obtained a Master's Degree in Law at University of Valencia in 1998. She then moved to France to do a Master's Degree in International Law and Law of International Organizations at University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). At the same time, she completed a Master's Degree in Constitutional Rights and Duties in Spain.

In 1999, she became an Assistant Researcher and, in 2001, an Assistant Professor at Sorbonne University and prepared, from 1999 to 2004, a Doctoral thesis on "The Relations between the United Nations and Regional Organizations Regarding Enforcement Action" which will be published in 2005 (Bruylant). She has taught international law, constitutional law, juridical methodology and international relations.

In the field of international law, Peyro has published a book on "Universal Jurisdiction for Crimes Against Humanity" and several articles on other international law topics. She has obtained various distinctions and grants. She is a member of the French Society for International Law (SFDI), of the Centre de droit international de Paris I (CEDIN-Paris I) and the Centre de Recherches et d'études sur les droits de l'Homme et le droit humanitaire (CREDHO-Paris XI), of the Editorial Committee of the Bancaja Euromediterranean Courses of International Law (CEBDI, Castellón, Spain) and of the journal Actualité et Droit International (ADI).

Eva Pils
Global Research Fellow
Germany

Eva studied law, philosophy and sinology at Heidelberg University, Germany, and graduated from there with a law degree in 1996. After obtaining her professional qualification as a German lawyer she practiced law for a while at Baker & McKenzie, Frankfurt, and then went to London to do research. After taking an LL.M. degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, in 2000, she began writing a Ph.D. at University College London, on rights protection and justice in contemporary China. In 2003, Eva was one of eight European participants in the EU-China judicial and legal co-operation programme in Beijing. She gained her Ph.D. degree from the University of London in January 2005, having passed the examination in September 2004.  

Her main research interests are Chinese law and legal philosophy. With her current research project at NYU, a case study on land seizures, she is exploring how property law and constitutional rights protection could be combined in China to address problems of legal certainty, social deprivation and justice.

Boris Rotenberg
Global Emile Noel Fellow
Belgium

Boris Rotenberg's research interests include media law, competition law (antitrust), free speech theory, intellectual property rights, and e-government; mainly in the European context. For the Jean Monnet Center and Hauser Global Law School Program, he will further develop his ideas on the intriguing relation between European software regulation and the right to freedom of expression.

He received his basic legal education at Leuven (Belgium). He then read for the Magister Juris degree at Oxford (Freshfields & Artal scholarships - Honours & Clifford Chance Prize (best performance)). Between 2000 and 2004, he wrote a Ph.D. thesis at the European University Institute ( Italy), on "The Legal Regulation of Communications Bottlenecks in the European Digital Broadcasting Market." During these doctoral studies, he was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (Spring 2002).

Boris is an editor of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy(www.ijclp.org ), of the European Political Economy Review, and a contributing editor to the monthly European Current Law. In addition, he was a 'stagiaire' with the European Commission, DG Information Society (2004), and a trainee with the BBC (2001), Clifford Chance (1999), and PricewaterhouseCoopers (1998).

Marta Torre-Schaub
Global Research Fellow
France

She is a Full Tenured Researcher Fellow at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), and at the Law School of the University Paris I-La Sorbonne (France), since 2001. She is Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan-Paris since 2004, and International Lawyer at Paris and Madrid Bars. Marthe Torre-Schaub has a Ph.D. in private law from the Université Paris X-Nanterre. She is a Global Researcher Fellow and a Fulbright Grantee.

She is working on Global Climate Change risks and Precautionary Principle (Europe and US comparison). She is studing as well new law perspectives in the implementation of the flexibility mechanisms and economic tools in Environmental law (Europe and US comparison), and on the different perspectives of the notion of responsibility, property and public goods between US and Europe.

Her PHD summa cum laude has been published as a book in 2002 " Essai sur la construction juridique de la catégorie de marché  », Paris, éd LGDJ. She published also several papers in international scientific reviews (« La protection juridique du climat : entre sécurité juridique et négociation économique », Revue Thémis , Universidad Nueva Lisbonne, avril- mai 2003, p. 47-71 ; « Le marché : entre ordre et désordre », Revista UMB , Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, juin 2003, p. 4-12 ; « La construction du principe de précaution à la lumière des négociations internationales dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique », Revue européenne de l'environnement, forthcoming, septembre-octobre 2003 ; « UK Emissions trading system : a new market has born », Revue Internationale de droit économique , Belgium, forthcoming, june 2004; « Mouvement citoyen et risques environnementaux : l'exemple de l'amiante en France », in Démocratie citoyenne et gouvernance des techniques , Odile Jacob, 2004 ; « Les biens environnementaux : qualification juridique» in Bicentenaire du Code civil français . Université Paris I, Panthéon-La Sorbonne, éd La Sorbonne, 2004).

She received her education in Spain, England and France. She obtained her LLMsumma cum laude in Law at the University of Oviedo (Spain in 1990). She then moved to France as an Erasmus Grantee to obtain a Master's Degree in Bussiness and Economic Law in 1991. In 1992, she obtained another Master's Degree in Property rights and Intellectual Property at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) as a FYCIT Fondation Grantee. At the same time, she obtained a Master's Degree summa cum laude in Contemporay History and History of Economic ideas at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She became, in 1993, a Junior Researcher and Junior Professor Assistant at the University of Paris X. The same year, the French Agency of the Research, give her a Graduate Scholarship.

In 1996 she became Full Assistant Professor at Cergy Pontoise University (Paris). In 2001 she obtained an Academic Prize of the "Chancellerie des Universités de Paris", the Dupin Aîné Prize, for her Ph.D. and a French Ministry of Research Grant for the publication of the Ph.D. The same year, she became a Full tenured Rechercher and Professor at the CNRS of Paris and the University of Paris I.

She is presently teaching Theory of Economic Law and Environemental Economic Perspectives and heading a research about new market-based solutions and new contractual environmental legal instruments in US and Europe Environmental Law in a comparative perspective in collaboration with the Center of Environmental Law at the Law School of New York University.

Rasmus Wandall
Global Research Fellow
Denmark

Rasmus Wandall is from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Master of Law, 2000; ph.d., 2004). He has previously been a visiting scholar at Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley (2001) and at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Warsaw (2003). He has worked for the Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman (1997-1999) and recently arrives from a position in the Danish Court Administration (2004).

His main areas of interest and experience lie within the realm of criminal and sentencing law, and punishment theories and practices. But he also holds a strong interest in the study of courts and in socio-legal theory. Wandall recently completed an empirical study of sentencing decision-making in Danish county courts (Wandall, 2004). Presently he is carrying out a comparative study of legal techniques of structuring the discretion of judges in sentencing decision-making. The main purpose is to further the understanding of how principles of consistency in sentencing and of equality before the law are implemented through different techniques of structuring sentencing decision-making.

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Keiji Aoyama
Global Research Fellow
Japan

Mr. Keiji Aoyama is a senior official at the National Tax Agency (NTA) in Japan. He graduated from Tokyo University with a Master of Laws degree in 1973. He passed the highest level examination for Japanese National Government Service and joined NTA as a junior administrator. Since then, he has been engaged in a variety of jobs at NTA, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). He has been with NTA for over twenty years.

In his early years at NTA, he was engaged in planning and middle management at headquarters. After having served seven years at MOF and three years at MOFA, he returned to NTA as a senior official in charge of international taxation. Since then, he has served seven years in representing some international units in NTA, which include competent authority in charge of tax treaty issues as well as Japanese permanent delegate to the Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA) OECD, etc. Furthermore, he was vice chairman of the Working Party No. 6, CFA OECD, from 1998 to 2000.

Alessandra Arcuri
Global Research Fellow
Italy

Ms. Alessandra Arcuri's academic work focuses on Environmental Law and Law & Economics. Alessandra holds a law degree with honors from Rome's La Sapienza University (1997) and a LL.M. in Law and Economics with honors from Utrecht University (1998). On September 1999, after having trained for a short period as an acting lawyer in civil law at the Rome bar, she joined the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics (RILE). She is currently finalizing a Ph.D. thesis on the legal tools for the governance of catastrophic risks, next to which she teaches in the Erasmus Master Programme in Law and Economics. During this period she has also spent a term (Spring 2001) at Hamburg University as a Marie Curie Fellow.

Ms. Arcuri has published on topics of safety regulation (Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 1999); environmental liability in Europe (Tijdschrift voor Milieu en Recht, 2001); the use of cost-benefit analysis in regulatory contexts (Mercato, Concorrenza, Regole, 2001); and the history and methodology of Law and Economics (Enciclopedia Giuridica, 2002). Her most recent work deals with the Precautionary Principle. Ms. Arcuri regularly lectures in the (post) graduate courses Economics of Public Law and Law and Economics before the Courts at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She has also lectured on environmental law and policy at The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden, at the Maastricht University in cooperation with the University of Benin, Lomè, Togo, and at the LUISS Management University of Rome, Italy.

Nicholas Bamforth
Global Research Fellow
United Kingdom

Fellow in Law, The Queen's College, Oxford; University Lecturer in Law, Oxford University, 1999 to date. Previously: Cambridge University 1996-9; University College London 1994-6. Degrees: B.C.L., First Class, and M.A., First Class (Oxford).

Research and teaching interests lie in public (constitutional and administrative) law, human rights law, anti-discrimination law and philosophy of law.

Books to date: Sexuality, Morals and Justice (London, Cassell, 1997); Public Law in a Multi-layered Constitution (ed. with P. Leyland, Oxford, Hart, 2003). Articles in Law Quarterly Review, Cambridge Law Journal, Public Law, Modern Law Review. Cited in Aston Cantlow PCC v. Wallbank [2001] EWCA Civ 713 (English Court of Appeal).

Currently completing work on textbooks for Oxford University Press (human rights law) and Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell (comparative UK/European anti-discrimination law; co-authors G.Bindman & M.Malik) and on a monograph for Hart Publishing on property and the public law-private law distinction. Also editor of the 2002 series of Oxford Amnesty Lectures concerning human rights, gender and sexuality (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Annyssa Bellal
Global Research Fellow
Switzerland

Ms. Annyssa Bellal was born in 1973 and is of Swiss nationality. She obtained a first degree in international relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. As she became more interested in human rights law, she received a second degree in Law from the University of Geneva, and a Masters Degree in Philosophy of Law from the Universities of Lyon/Grenoble, France. After some experience in a human rights NGO in Colombia, she came back to the Graduate Institute of International Relations where she obtained her Masters Degree in Public International Law. Ms. Bellal began her doctoral thesis in 2000, on the influence of human rights on the evolution of public international law, while working as a research and teaching assistant at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva.

Kyoungkyu Choi
Global Research Fellow
Republic of South Korea

Mr. Kyoungkyou Choi graduated from the Police University with an LL.B. in 1991. He then received his LL.M. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1996 as a Korean Government Fellow.

As a police lieutenant, he led a local police sub-station from 1994 to 1995, and taught at Police Academy from 1997 to 1999 as an Instructor. After being promoted to a Police Captain, he worked at a local police station as a deputy-chief of police for a year and a half. Then he joined the Police University as a Professor in January 2002.

After joining the Police University, he wrote the textbooks Crime Prevention (co-author with Professor Kim), Community Policing (co-author with Professor Park), Human Rights and Policing. He also authored many articles: "Juvenile Crimes," "Gun Use," "Civilian Crime Prevention Unit," "Miranda Warnings in US and Korea," etc.

Mr. Choi visited Japan, Australia and New Zealand police agencies in 2003 with the President of the University and 12 chiefs of police. He is an advisory member of Student 'Go' Club (Amateur 5 dan), and previously was head of University Faculty Tennis Club.

Jean Marc Coicaud
Global Research Fellow
France

Dr. Jean Marc Coicaud is acting head of the United Nations University Office to the United Nations in New York. From 1996 to 2003 he served as senior academic officer in the Peace and Governance Program at the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo. Before joining the UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School 1986-1992), Dr. Coicaud has held appointments as cultural attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, legislative aide with the European Parliament, associate professor at the University of Paris and visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He holds a Ph.D. in political science-law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in Philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris.

He is the author of books in French on authoritarian democracy and political legitimacy (the latter published in English by Cambridge University Press in 2002). His latest books in English include, as a co-author, Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001), and as a co-editor, Ethics and International Affairs: Extent and Limits (2001), The Legitimacy of International Organizations (2001), and The Globalization of Human Rights (2003). His book Beyond the National Interest. The United Nations' Response to Humanitarian Crises in the Era of US Supremacy, which he wrote whilst on sabbatical with the United States Institute of Peace (Washington D.C.), was published in 2004.

Andrew Hurrell
Global Research Fellow
United Kingdom

Mr. Andrew Hurrell is University Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford University and a Fellow of Nuffield College. Recent publications include: (co-editor with Ngaire Woods), Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (Oxford University Press, 1999); Hedley Bull on International Society (Macmillan 2000); and (co-editor with Rosemary Foot and John Gaddis), Order and Justice in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2003). Current research interests cover two areas: first, the relationship between international law and institutions on the one hand and power and hegemony on the other; and, second, the history of international law.

Marisa Iglesias
Global Research Fellow
Spain

Dr. Marisa Iglesias is Associate Professor of Legal Philosophy at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. She holds a law degree from the Universitat de Barcelona (1990), and a Ph.D. in law from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1997). She has been a visiting scholar at the European Humanities University of Minsk (Belarus), Oxford University (Balliol College), and the Law Faculty of Puerto Rico University. She has worked several times as expert-evaluator for the European Commission, and has briefly practiced law as substitute judge. Most of her research and publications focus on legal epistemology and theory of interpretation. Her main publication in those fields is the book Facing Judicial Discretion. Legal Knowledge and Right Answers Revisited, Kluwer (2001). She is now researching the moral and legal scope of individual responsibility in a global age.

Akitsu Kida
Global Japanese Federation of Bar Fellow
Japan

Ms. Akitsu Kida graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the Tokyo University in 1999. In the same year, she passed the Bar Exam and was admitted to the Judicial Research and Training Center established by the Supreme Court of Japan. After completing the program, she was admitted to the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) in 2000.

As a lawyer she has been involved in several human rights issues, with particular focus on the rights of children. She has been an active member of the International Committee on Human Rights of the JFBA and the Committee of the Children's Human Rights and Juvenile Law of the Tokyo Bar Associations. She contributed to the Second World Congress on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children as a member of the working team formed by JFBA. She also represented JFBA at the 12th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, United Nations, the theme of which was "Trafficking in Human Beings, especially Women and Children."

Alyona Kucher
Global Research Fellow
Russia

Dr. Alyona Kucher is a Professor at the Moscow State University, School of Law. She received her Ph.D. from Moscow State University and specialized in contract law (with concentrations in contract formation and precontractual relations) and international private law.

Dr. Kucher has authored several articles and a book on contract formation and foreign investments in Russia.

Tatsuya Murata
Global Research Fellow
Japan

Mr. Tatsuya Murata graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1990. He passed the First-rank National Public Service Examination of Law in 1989 and, following graduation, he worked for the National Police Agency (NPA) which is an administrative law enforcement agency working on criminal investigation, crime prevention, national security, protection of traffic safety, etc. While at NPA, he gave legal advice on investigative activities to local police and played an important role in making a draft to amend the Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Act against high-tech crimes as an assistant manager of the Investigative Planning Section. He also passed the National Bar Exam in 1995 and finished the professional legal training.

Mitsuhiru Nagai
Global Japanese Federation of Bar Fellow
Japan

Mr. Mitsuhiro Nagai graduated from Chuo University with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1986. After passing the National Law Examination, he joined the Kobe Bar Association in 1995. That same year, Kobe suffered a massive earthquake and Mr. Nagai was active in promoting tort litigation for victims of "defective housing" in the Kobe region. He has also been active in promoting pro bono projects that relate to environmental issues. Additionally, he has an interest in medical malpractice, having been a lawyer for plaintiffs in several cases. In 2001, he joined the Wetland research project instituted by the JFBA and is very interested in conserving the wetlands. At NYU, he planned to research environmental and land use regulation, and also investigated the actual conditions of "ecosystem management" in the U.S.

Janneke Elisabeth Nijman
Global Research Fellow
The Netherlands

Ms. Janneke Elisabeth Nijman is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Law and Justice in the History and Theory of International Law Program and a Ph.D. candidate at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her research currently focuses on questions of corporate responsibility addressed from a legal-historical angle. This research builds to some extent on her dissertation which deals with the concept of international legal personality. She is the author of "Sovereignty and Personality: a process of inclusion," in G. Kreijen (et al.), State, Sovereignty, and International Governance (OUP, 2002). After studies in law at Leiden University, she was a research fellow at the T.M.C. Asser Institute (The Hague) in the Asser Dissertation Program.

Xavier Oberson
Global Research Fellow
Switzerland

Mr. Xavier Oberson is Professor of Swiss and International Tax Law at the University of Geneva. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Geneva and completed the International Tax Program at Harvard Law School where he also obtained an LL.M.

His main research interests are Swiss and international fiscal law, as well as administrative litigations. He published several books and articles in these subjects. Worth mentioning are the books Droit fiscal suisse (Bâle 1998, Helbing & Lichtenhahn) and Switzerland in international tax law, Amsterdam 2nd edition (IBFD) 2001 (co-author Howard R. Hull).

Professor Oberson is partner in a Geneva-based law firm specifying in tax matters and member of various commissions of experts, associations or foundations in fiscal law as for example the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association (IFA).

Jun Oshino
Global Research Fellow
Japan

Mr. Jun Oshino graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1994. While working as an Ishikawa Prefectural official, he passed the Bar Exam and then was admitted to Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan as a legal intern.

After completing the training program, he was appointed by the Cabinet of Japan to be an assistant judge in 2000. He heard civil trial cases as an assistant judge in a panel at Tokyo District Court. The cases which he was hearing included mass litigation, medical malpractice, defamation. Recently, he was also handling prejudgment remedy cases including issues such as privacy or nuisance. His main interest is comparative analysis of civil procedure, such as planned proceeding in trials, and measures to cope with the cases which require professional knowledge.

Gideon Rosen
Global Research Fellow
United States of America

Gideon Rosen is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is the author of A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Reconstrual in Mathematics (Oxford 1997) and numerous articles in metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of mathematics. His year at NYU School of Law is supported by a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation. His project for the year is a philosophical study of moral and legal responsibility.

Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein
Gruss Scholar in Residence
United States of America

Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein has served as a congregational rabbi and an educator while completing a PhD in Post-Biblical Jewish History and Literature. His main area of interest is the intersection of text and practice, both in terms of reading texts to find new insight into practice and ideals of the religion as well as studying how Jews have read and continue to derive practical guidance on building a spiritual relationship with God from their readings of earlier texts. He has published, on-line, a series of e-mail classes on the Book of Samuel, the third section of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, as well as several other seminal texts in Jewish law and thought. In print, he has articles forthcoming arguing that Jews have for hundreds of years misunderstood what medieval texts meant by sunset, by reincarnation, and by the prohibition against coercing divorce. On the academic side, he combines an interest in hermeneutics with one in Jewish thought. His dissertation, "Writing Midrash Avot," showed that fifteenth century interpreters of Ethics of the Fathers--a third century Rabbinic text--began to treat it as they would a Biblical text, reading into it the multiplicity and fluidity of meaning heretofore reserved for the Divine Word. His current research on the Noahide laws seeks to show that this corpus teaches about the Jewish worldview as a whole, while also offering insight into how societies can and should manage the differences between citizens, foreigners, and lawful permanent residents.

Jeffrey A. Segal
Global Research Fellow
United States of America

Jeffrey Segal is professor of political science at Stony Brook University. His articles include "Predicting Supreme Court Cases Probabilistically: The Search and Seizure Cases, 1962-1981" (American Political Science Review, 1984), which won the Wadsworth Award (2002), for book or article, ten years or older, that has had a lasting influence on the field of law and courts. His books include Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court (Cambridge University Press, 1999, with Harold Spaeth), which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award of the American Political Science Association for best book in law and judicial politics. His most recent book, again with Spaeth, is The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Jingxia Shi
Global Research Fellow
China

Dr. Jingxia Shi earned her LL.B. in 1992 from Wuhan University and then continued her graduate education at the same institution. She received a Ph.D. in law in June 1998. Thereafter, she served as a lecturer in the Law School, China University of International Business & Economics (UIBE). In July 2001, she was promoted to associate professor. In December 2002, she took up a full professorship at the Law School of UIBE. She is also a research fellow at the China National Institute of WTO Studies.

During 2000, she was in residence at the Center for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary College, University of London as a visiting scholar. She has been one of members in the Drafting Committee of the Enterprise Bankruptcy and Reorganization Law of the PRC (organized by Fiscal and Economic Committee of NPC) since 2000. She also practices law at Beijing Zhongyin Law Firm as a part-time lawyer.

Dr. Shi has taught in the fields of WTO law, transnational corporation law and private international law. Her research interests focus on various aspects of international trade in services, cross-border insolvency, and international investment. Dr. Shi also takes charges in several national research projects on cross-border insolvency and international trade in services, which are subsidized by the State Fund. Dr. Shi has published numerous articles in the INSOL International Insolvency Review, Social Sciences in China, China Legal Science, CASS Studies in Law and other professional journals in China and abroad. She was awarded the "National Prize for 100 Excellent Ph.D. Dissertations" (the only such prize in the legal subject) jointly by The Ministry of Education and The Degree Committee of State Council of China for her Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Legal Issues in Cross-border Insolvency" in 2000.

Viktor Soloveytchik
Global Research Fellow
Bulgaria

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1965. After graduation from law school at the Sofia University, Professor Soloveytchik completed his legal traineeship and worked as a legal adviser in commercial law and banking. In 1992-93, he spent a year at the George Washington University, Washington D.C. completing an LL.M. in international and comparative law. Upon his return to Sofia he was admitted to the Bulgarian Bar and practiced for a year.

Since the end of 1994 Professor Soloveytchik has been living and working in Strasbourg, France. He started initially at the former European Commission of Human Rights and, after 1998, continued at the European Court of Human Rights. In 1997-98, he attended an advanced studies program (D.E.A.) in public international law at the Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg.

Since 1996 he has travelled to many countries in Central and Eastern Europe where he gave talks and conducted training sessions on the European Convention of Human Rights. In the last several years, Professor Soloveytchik has given seminars for students at the summer school of the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg. He speaks English, French, Russian and Bulgarian.

Hang Wu Tang
Global Research Fellow
Singapore

Hang Wu Tang is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Mr. Tang is currently in residence at Magdalene College, Cambridge as a Ph.D. candidate where he is writing a dissertation on unjust enrichment focusing on mistaken transfers of wealth under the supervision of Mr. Graham Virgo of Downing College, Cambridge.

While at NYU, he researched the following areas: the American modern legal history of the law of restitution; the boundary between contract law and restitution; and the issue of restitution for mistaken gifts. Mr. Tang graduated on the Dean's List from the National University of Singapore in 1995 and obtained his LL.M. from Cambridge University in 1999 where he was the top student of his class. Prior to joining NUS, he was in practice as a commercial litigator in Singapore. He also did several work attachments with numerous leading law firms and barristers' chambers in London.

Xiemei Wang
Global Research Fellow
China

Dr. Xiumei Wang is Associate Professor of Renmin University of China. After she obtained her first degree of law in 1988, she went to the court and was promoted to the position of judge in 1995. Later, she discovered that it would be beneficial for her to do further study of law and for this purpose went to Renmin University Law School receiving her LL.M. and Ph.D. separately in 1997 and 2000.

Presently, she is very interesting in the field of criminal law, environmental criminal law and international criminal law especially the international criminal court. Recent publications include: Criminalizing and Sentencing on Environmental Crime (Supreme People's Court Press, 1999); and Study on International Criminal Court (Renmin University Press, 2002). Additionally, she has translated Manual for Ratification and Implementation of Rome Statute of International Criminal Court (Zhongxin Press, 2002); and Resources and Concept of International Criminal Law (Law Press, 2003).