Law School welcomes Fall 2010 visitors

Twenty visiting professors will teach at the Law School for the fall term, including visitors from Hungary, Italy, and the Netherlands. The visiting faculty have expertise in areas as diverse as venture capital, Latin American law, cyberlaw, and food and drug safety. Read more about the lineup below.

(Detailed profiles of the Fall 2010 visitors and others spending time at NYU Law in 2010-11 can be found in the 2010 issue of The Law School, which will soon be available online.)

Visiting Faculty

	Kenneth Ayotte Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law When: Fall 2010 Course: Corporate Finance Research: Bankruptcy; corporate finance; economics of property law and legal entities Representative publications: Co-author, “Asset-Backed Securities: Costs and Benefits of Bankrupcty Remoteness,” Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming); co-author, “Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11,” The Journal of Legal Analysis (2009); co-author, “Bankruptcy and Entrepreneurship: The Value of a Fresh Start,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2007) Education: Ph.D. in economics, Princeton University
	Jonathan Barnett Associate Professor of Law, University of Southern California Law School When: Fall 2010 Courses: Contracts Research: Intellectual property, with a focus on technology, organization, and political economy Representative publications: Co-author, “The Fashion Lottery: Cooperative Innovation in Stochastic Markets,” Journal of Legal Studies (2010); “Property as Process: How Innovation Markets Select Innovation Regimes,” Yale Law Journal (2009); “Is Intellectual Property Trivial?” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2009) Education: J.D., Yale Law School
	Michal Barzuza Associate Professor, University of Virginia School of Law When: 2010-11 Courses: Corporations; Current Issues in Corporate Governance Seminar Research: Corporate law; corporate finance; securities law; law and economics Representative publications: “Delaware’s Compensation,” Virginia Law Review (2008); co-author, “The Market for Corporate Law,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (2006); “Price Considerations in the Market for Corporate Law,” Cardozo Law Review (2004) Education: LL.B., Tel Aviv University; S.J.D. and LL.M., Harvard Law School
	Victor Fleischer Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School When: Fall 2010 Course: Deals Research: Tax policy; venture capital; private equity Representative publications: “Regulatory Arbitrage,” Texas Law Review (forthcoming, 2010); “A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth,” NYU Law Review (2009); “Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds,” NYU Law Review (2008); “Taxing Blackstone,” Tax Law Review (2008) Education: J.D., Columbia Law School Clerkships: Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Judge M. Blane Michael of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
	James Forman Jr. Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center When: Fall 2010 Courses: Juvenile Defender Clinic; Juvenile Defender Clinic Seminar Research: Civil rights and criminal justice Representative publications: “Why Care About Mass Incarceration?” Michigan Law Review (2010); “The Rise and Fall of School Vouchers: A Story of Religion, Race and Politics,” UCLA Law Review (2007); “Community Policing and Youth Assets,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (2004) Education: J.D., Yale Law School Clerkships: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court; Judge William Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Related experience: Co-founder, Maya Angelou Public Charter School, Washington D.C.; Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia
	Maximo Langer Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law When: 2010-11 Courses: Criminal Law; Global Perspective on Criminal Procedure; International Criminal Law Research: Criminal law and procedure; comparative and international criminal law; Latin American law; globalization of law Representative publications: “Revolution in Latin American Criminal Procedure: Diffusion of Legal Ideas from the Periphery,” American Journal of Comparative Law (2007); “The Rise of Managerial Judging in International Criminal Law,” American Journal of Comparative Law (2005); “From Legal Transplants to Legal Translations: The Globalization of Plea Bargaining and the Americanization Thesis in Criminal Procedure,” Harvard International Law Journal (2004) Education: LL.B., University of Buenos Aires Law School; S.J.D., Harvard Law School Clerkships: Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C.; Federal District Court No. 2, Buenos Aires
	Dotan Oliar Associate Professor, University of Virginia School of Law When: 2010-11 Courses: Copyright Law; Survey of Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property Theory Seminar Research: Intellectual property; property; cyberlaw; economics Representative publications: “The (Constitutional) Convention on IP: A New Reading,” UCLA Law Review (2009); co-author, “There’s No Free Laugh (Anymore): The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy,” Virginia Law Review (2008); “Making Sense of the Intellectual Property Clause: Promotion of Progress as a Limitation on Congress’s Intellectual Property Power,” Georgetown Law Journal (2006) Education: LL.B., Tel-Aviv University; S.J.D. and LL.M., Harvard Law School Clerkship: Justice Jacob Kedmi of the Supreme Court of Israel
	Adam Samaha Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School When: Fall 2010 Courses: Second Amendment; Religion and the Constitution Research: Constitutional law; constitutional theory; courts and society Representative publications: “On Law’s Tiebreakers,” University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming, 2010); “Dead Hand Arguments and Constitutional Interpretation,” Columbia Law Review (2008); “Undue Process,” Stanford Law Review (2006) Education: J.D., Harvard Law School Clerkships: Justice John Paul Stevens of the U. S. Supreme Court; Chief Justice Alexander M. Keith of the Minnesota Supreme Court

Senior Fellows

Senior Golieb Fellow Sir John Baker Downing Professor of the Laws, Cambridge University When: Fall 2010 Course: English Legal History Research: English legal history, especially the early modern period; early history of the inns of court; legal manuscripts Representative publications: Baker and Milsom’s Sources of English Legal History (second edition, 2010); editor, Oxford History of the Laws of England, Vol. VI (2003); An Introduction to Legal History (fourth edition, 2002) Education: LL.B. and Ph.D., University College of London Related experience: Literary Director of the Selden Society

Senior Fellow Anne Milgram '96 When: 2010-11 Course: Human Trafficking Seminar Education: J.D., New York University; M.A. in social and political theory, University of Cambridge Clerkship: Judge Anne E. Thompson of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey Related experience: Attorney General for the State of New Jersey; Federal Prosecutor, Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Assistant District Attorney, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

Multi-Year Returning Faculty

	Charles Cameron Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University When: Spring 2011 Course: Political Environment of the Law Seminar Research: Political institutions and policy making Representative publications: Co-author, “Strategic Defiance and Compliance in the U.S. Court of Appeals,” American Journal of Political Science (2010); “Changing Supreme Court Policy Through Appointments: The Impact of a New Justice,” Minnesota Law Review (2009); co-author, “Bargaining and Opinion Assignment on the U.S. Supreme Court,” Journal of Law, Economics & Organization (2007) Education: Ph.D. in public affairs, Princeton University
	Daniel Rubinfeld Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law and Economics, University of California, Berkeley When: Fall 2010 Courses: Antitrust Law and Economics; Quantitative Methods Research: Antitrust; economics of litigation; federalism Representative publications: “Econometric Issues in Antitrust Analysis,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (2010); co-author, “Empirical Study of the Civil Justice System,” Handbook of Law and Economics (Volume 1, 2007); co-author, Econometric Models and Forecasts (2002) Education: Ph.D. in economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Related experience: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
	Geoffrey Stone Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School When: Fall 2010 Courses: Constitutional Decision-Making Seminar; First Amendment Rights of Expression and Association Research: Constitutional law Representative publications: War and Liberty: An American Dilemma: 1790 to the Present (2007); Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (2007); Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004) Awards: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004) Education: J.D., University of Chicago Law School Clerkships: Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court; Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Global Visiting Faculty

	Eyal Benvenisti Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights, Tel Aviv University When: Fall 2010 Courses: Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflicts; Law and Global Governance Research: Constitutional law; international law; human rights and administrative law Representative publications: The International Law of Occupation (second edition, forthcoming, 2010); “Reclaiming Democracy: The Strategic Uses of Foreign and International Law by National Courts,” American Journal of International Law (2008); co-author, “The Empire’s New Clothes: Political Economy and the Fragmentation of International Law,” Stanford Law Review (2007) Education: LL.B., Hebrew University of Jerusalem; LL.M. and J.S.D., Yale Law School Clerkship: Justice M. Ben-Porat of the Supreme Court of Israel
	Sabino Cassese Justice of the Italian Constitutional Court When: Fall 2010 Course: Law and Global Governance Representative publications: “Private Participation in Public Decisions: Essay in Comparative Law,” Quarterly Journal of Public Law (2007); Beyond the State (2006); “The Globalization of Law,” Journal of International Law and Politics (2005) Education: J.D., University of Pisa
	János Kis University Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Central European University When: Fall 2010 Courses: Colloquium on Law, Economics, and Politics; Introduction to Political Philosophy Research: Distributive justice; democratic theory Representative publications: Politics as a Moral Problem (2009); “Constitutional Precommitment Revised,” Journal of Social Philosophy (2009); “Popular Sovereignty,” Fundamentum (2006) Education: Diploma in philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Related experience: Co-founder and chairman, Alliance of Free Democrats (Hungarian Liberal Party)
	Martti Koskenniemi Academy Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland; Director, Erik Castrén Institute of International Laws and Human Rights When: Fall 2010 Course: Intellectual History of International Law Research: History of international legal thought Representative publications: La Politique de Droit International (2007); From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument (2005); The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (2001) Education: LL.M., LL.B., and Doctor of Laws, University of Turku, Finland; Diploma in Law, University of Oxford Related experience: U.N. International Law Commission; Counsellor and Attaché to the First Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland; Justice, Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank
	Ariel Porat Former Dean and Alain Poher Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University When: Fall 2010 Course: Tort Theory Research: Torts; contracts; remedies; economic analysis of law Representative publications: “Private Production of Public Goods: Liability for Unrequested Benefit,” Michigan Law Review (2009); co-author, “Total Liability for Excessive Harm,” Journal of Legal Studies (2007); co-author, Tort Liability under Uncertainty (2001) Education: LL.B., LL.M., and J.S.D., Tel Aviv University
	Janine Ubink Senior Lecturer, Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development, Leida Law School, Netherlands When: Fall 2010 Course: Law and Governance in Africa Research: Legal anthropology; land law; customary law; traditional authorities; gender; legal empowerment; rule of law, with a focus on Africa Representative publications: “Negotiated or Negated? The Rhetoric and Reality of Customary Tenure in an Ashanti Village in Ghana,” Africa (2008); co-author, “How to Combine Tradition and Modernity? Regulating Customary Land Management in Ghana,” Land Use Policy (2008); “Customary Tenure Security: Wishful Policy Thinking or Reality? A Case from Peri-Urban Ghana,” Journal of African Law (2007) Education: Ph.D. in international law, Leiden University, Netherlands Related experience: Executive Secretary, Commission on Legal Pluralism; Advisor, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
	Benjamin Van Rooij Professor of Chinese Law and Regulation, Amsterdam Law School; Director, Netherlands China Law Center When: Fall 2010 Courses: Enforcing Regulation for Emerging Markets Seminar; Law & Society in China: Access to Justice Research: Compliance; law and development; land management and zoning; pollution regulation; occupational health; food and drug safety Representative publications: “Pollution Law Enforcement in Emerging Markets (Journal Special Edition),” Law & Policy (2010); co-author, Lawmaking for Development, Explorations into the Theory and Practice of International Legislative Projects (2008); Regulating Land and Pollution in China, Lawmaking, Compliance, and Enforcement; Theory and Cases (2006) Education: Ph.D., Leiden University, Netherlands