Baistrocchi, Eduardo
Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Law and Economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Law School

Prof. Eduardo BaistrocchiEduardo Baistrocchi, J.D. (Hons) (Universidad de Buenos Aires) 1990, LL.M. (Harvard Law School) 1993, LL.M. (Hons) (London School of Economics) 1999, is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Law and Economics at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Law School. He is admitted to legal practice in Argentina, and worked as Law Clerk for Justice Petracchi of the Argentine Supreme Court on Constitutional and Tax Law cases. He specialises in international tax law, and has particular expertise in transfer pricing. His current research focuses on electronic commerce, and the transfer pricing problem in developing countries. He has worked as a consultant for major transfer pricing litigation in Argentina. He was a Fulbright Scholar at University of Michigan Law School in 2003.

 

Barak, Aharon
President, The Supreme Court of Israel

 

Botchwey, Kwesi
Executive Chairman, African Development Policy Ownership Initiative

Kwesi Botchwey, LLB(Hons) (University of Ghana) 1966, Qualifying Certificate in Law, University of Ghana,1997, LLM (Yale) 1968, JSD (Michigan) 1970, is currently Executive Chairman of the African Development Policy Ownership Initiative (ADPOI) and Nonresident Fellow at the Du Bois Institute, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He is a member of the Ghana Bar and has taught at the University of Zambia Law School, the University of Dar es Salaam Law School in Tanzania, and the University of Ghana Law School. His fields of specialization are corporate law and practice and the legal aspects of international trade and investment. He also has a particular interest in the political economy of development. He served as Ghana’s Minister of Finance and Economic Planning from 1982 to 1995 and was Director of the Africa program at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University for a number of years.

Coleman, Jules L.  
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of Philosophy in Yale University

Jules L. Coleman is the Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of Philosophy in Yale University. He is also special advisor to the President and Provost of New York University. He is the author of many books and articles, including The Practice of Principle (Oxford, 2001), Risks and Wrongs (Cambridge, 1992, Oxford 2002), and Markets, Morals and the Law (Cambridge, 1988, Oxford, 2002). He has won numerous academic awards and honors. His main fields of research include tort theory, the foundations of rational choice and jurisprudence. He writes audio and record reviews at www.6moons.com and is an amateur blues guitarist of no distinction.

Curtis, Dennis
Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Prof. Dennis CurtisDennis Curtis is a Clinical Professor of Law at the Yale Law School, where he teaches about the legal profession, prisoner’s rights and sentencing, and campaign financing and governmental ethics. He was one of the founders of Yale’s clinical program in 1970, where he taught until 1980. After Yale, he taught at the University of Southern California, where he directed the Law School’s clinical program. That program, like the one at Yale, provided legal services to both male and female prisoners in federal and state prisons. Professor Curtis returned to Yale in 1997. Professor Curtis’ interest in sentencing reform dates from the early 70’s, when law students under his supervision represented federal inmates in parole hearings. At these hearings, parole guidelines similar to the current sentencing guidelines were used to determine release dates for inmates. In 1977, Professor Curtis wrote, with Pierce O’Donnell and Michael Churgin, Toward a Just and Effective Sentencing System: Agenda for Legislative Reform (Praeger), a book that advocated the adoption of a federal sentencing guideline regime

Grimm, Dieter
Former Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany

Former Justice Dieter Grimm, studied Law and Political Science at the universities of Frankfurt, Freiberg, Berlin, Paris and Harvard. Law degree Frankfurt 1962; LL.M. (Harvard) 1965; Dr. iur. (Frankfurt) 1970. From 1967 to 1979 he was Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt. In 1979 he became Professor of Law at the University of Bielefeld and was for several years Director of its Center for Interdisciplinary Research. In 1987 he was appointed Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. After completion of the 12 year term he became Professor of Law at Humboldt University Berlin. In addition he is the Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study). He also teaches Constitutional Law at New York University Law School and Yale Law School. He is co-editor of several law reviews, among them I-CON International Journal of Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press). He is a member of the Academia Europaea and an Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Hor, Michael
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

Prof. Michael HorMichael Hor, LL.B. (Singapore) 1984, B.C.L. (Oxford) 1990, LL.M. (Chicago) 1998, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, where he teaches criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence. His primary focus of research and writing is on the balance of criminal due process values and the demands of crime control in Singapore, as compared with the rather more liberal jurisdictions of the developed West, something he has worked on for about 15 years. A brief introduction is to be found in his article “Singapore’s Innovations to Due Process” (2001) 12 Criminal Law Forum 25-40. He is also Chief Editor of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies.

 

Iacobucci, Frank
Former Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada

Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci, B.Com. (UBC) 1961; LL.B. (UBC) 1962; LL.M. (Cambridge) 1964; Dip. Int'l L. (Cambridge) 1966. He was called to the Bar of Ontario, 1970 and was awarded a Q.C. by the Federal government in 1986. In 1987, he was awarded the Law Society Medal of the Law Society of Upper Canada. He has been awarded honorary degrees from the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, the University of Ottawa and the Law Society of Upper Canada. In 1993, the Italian Government conferred upon him the honour of Commendatore dell'Ordine Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. In 1999 he was made an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge University, and of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has also received special awards from Italo-Canadian and multicultural communities in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto, and has been made an honorary citizen of Mangone, Cosenza, Italy. He joined Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood of New York, New York in 1964 and specialized in corporate law and related fields until 1967. In 1967, he became Associate Professor of Law of the University of Toronto, and was a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto from 1971 to 1985. The Honourable Mr. Justice Iacobucci was appointed Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto in 1973, Vice-President, Internal Affairs in 1975, Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1979, and was Vice President and Provost of the University of Toronto from November 1983 to September 1985, at which time he was appointed Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General for Canada. In September 1988 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Federal Court for Canada. He was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada on January 7, 1991. He retired from this position in 2004, and later that year was appointed Interim President of the University of Toronto, and re-joined the University of Toronto as Professor of Law. Mr. Justice Iacobucci acted in various consulting capacities for federal and provincial departments and offices and served as a special adviser. From 1982 to 1985, he served as a member of the Ontario Securities Commission. He has also written articles and texts on a number of subjects.

Likhovski, Assaf
Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University School of Law

Prof. Assaf LikhovskiAssaf Likhovski, LL.B. (Tel Aviv) (cum laude) 1993, M.A. (Tel Aviv) (summa cum laude) 1993, S.J.D. (Harvard) (1997), is an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University School of Law where he teaches taxation, legal history, comparative law and jurisprudence. Professor Likhovski is a former clerk and legal assistant to Justice Aharon Barak of the Israeli Supreme Court. He has written extensively on the intellectual and cultural history of law in the United States, Britain and Israel as well as the history of taxation. His work has been published in journals such as the Law and Society Review, American Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of Interdisciplinary History as well as a number of law reviews. Professor Likhovski is a former Fulbright and Rothschild fellow at Harvard. In 2003 he was a Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law.

 

Loughlin, Martin
Professor of Public Law, London School of Economics & Political Science

Martin Loughlin is Professor of Public Law at the London School of Economics & Political Science. He is a graduate of the LSE (LL.B. 1975), Harvard Law School (LL.M. 1977) and the University of Warwick (LL.M. 1977) and has previously taught at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Universities of Warwick, Glasgow and Manchester. His main publications are Local Government in the Modern State (1986), Public Law and Political Theory (1992), Legality and Locality (1996) and Sword & Scales: An Examination of the Relationship between Law and Politics (2000). His most recent book, The Idea of Public Law (2003), which forms the basis of his intensive course, was written while he held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2000-02).

Melody, William H.
Managing Director, Learning Initiatives on Reforms for Network Economies (LIRNE.NET)

William H. Melody, a native of Hamilton, Ontario, is Visiting Professor, Center for Tele-Information, Technical University of Denmark; Media@LSE Dept., London School of Economics; Economics of Infrastructures Dept, Delft University of Technology, NL; and LINK Centre, University of Witwatersrand, S. Africa. He is Managing Director of Learning Initiatives on Reforms for Network Economies (LIRNE.NET), www.lirne.net, a collaboration among the four university centres, and the World Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies, www.regulateonline.org. He has a PhD in Economics (Nebraska) 1966, and has held academic appointments leading new multidisciplinary program development in seven countries - University of Pennsylvania 1971-76; Simon Fraser University 1976-85; Economic and Social Research Council and Oxford University 1985-89; Center for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies, Melbourne 1989-94; Technical University of Denmark 1995-97; Delft University of Technology 1997-02. Contributor to the research and policy literature for many years with more that 150 publications. Periodic consultant and advisor to universities and research centres around the world, UN and other international organisations, government and corporate organisations in many countries. Awarded the honorary degree of doctor technices, honoris causa, in recognition of "outstanding research contributions on the interaction between technology, economics and regulation in the area of communications, with emphasis on telecommunications" by the Technical University of Denmark, 2001.

Ramraj, Victor V.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

Prof. Victor V. RamrajVictor V. Ramraj is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore). He has qualifications in both law (LLB Toronto, 1993) and philosophy (BA McGill, 1989; MA Toronto, 1990, PhD Toronto, 1998) and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. His main areas of teaching and research are legal theory, criminal law and theory, and constitutional law. Before joining the Faculty of Law at NUS in 1998, he served as a judicial law clerk at the Federal Court of Appeal in Ottawa and as a litigation lawyer in Toronto. His recent publications include articles on criminal and constitutional law in leading law journals, most recently "Four Models of Due Process" (2004) 2 International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming). He has presented papers to audiences in Canada, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Singapore, South Africa, and the United States.

 

Resnik, Judith
Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Prof. Judith ResnikJudith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches courses on procedure, large-scale litigation, federal courts, federalism, feminist theory, and gender, locally, globally. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, NYU Law School, and prior to joining Yale, she was the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law Center. She has also been a visiting professor at NYU, Harvard, and the University of Chicago Law Schools. She is the co-author (with Owen Fiss) of the book Adjudication and its Alternatives: An Introduction to Procedure (Foundation Press, 2003) and is the author of Processes of the Law: Understanding Courts and their Alternatives (Foundation Press, 2004). Recent contributions to books include the chapter "Civil Processes" in The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies (eds. Peter Cane & Mark Tushnet, Oxford Press, 2003) and "The Rights of Remedies: Collective Accountings for and Insuring Against the Harms of Sexual Harassment," in Directions in Sexual Harassment Law (eds. Catharine MacKinnon and Reva Siegel, Yale Press, 2003). Professor Resnik's articles include "Adding Insult to Injury: Questioning the Role of Dignity in Conceptions of Sovereignty," 55 Stanford Law Review 5 (2003); "Categorical Federalism: Jurisdiction, Gender and the Globe," 111 Yale Law Journal 619 (2001); "Trial as Error, Jurisdiction as Injury: Transforming the Meaning of Article III," 113 Harvard Law Review 924 (2000); and "Managerial Judges," 96 Harvard Law Review 374 (1982). Professor Resnik has chaired the Section on Procedure, the Section on Federal Courts, and the Section on Women in Legal Education of the American Association of Law Schools. She has served on committees and task forces of the American Bar Association, is a member of the American Law Institute, and was a consultant to the Institute for Civil Justice of RAND. Professor Resnik has testified many times before congressional and judicial committees, including a subcommittee of the Canadian House of Commons, as it was considering methods of selecting judges, a subcommittee of the United States Senate as it was addressing the Senate’s role in the nomination process, and an advisory committee to the Judicial Conference of the United States Judiciary on revisions to the class action rules. She is also an occasional litigator and court-appointed expert. In 2001, she was elected a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2002, a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Sajo, Andras
Head, Constitutional Law, Central European University

Andras Sajo J.D. (Dr. Juris, Budapest), Ph.D. in sociology of law (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest). He is Head, Constitutional Law, Central European University. He taught in the past ten years recurrently in U.S. law schools (University of Chicago, Cardozo, New York University). Member of the American Law Institute and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He advised constitution drafting in a number of East European countries and has experience as a World Bank consultant. He served as legal counsel to the President of Hungary and as Deputy Chair of the Hungarian Deregulation Board. He gave the 1993 Blackstone lecture at Oxford University. His academic publications include articles and books on comparative constitutional law and the sociology of legal change.

Sands, Philippe
Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals, University College London

Prof. Philippe SandsPhilippe Sands, B.A. (Cambridge) 1982, LL.M. (Cambridge), 1983, is Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. In 1998 he co-founded the Project on International Courts and Tribunals. He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, including Principles of International Environmental Law (2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2003), From Nuremburg to the Hague (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Butterworths Manual of International Courts and Tribunals (1999). He is a barrister at Matrix Chambers and in 2003 was appointed a Queen’s Counsel. He regularly acts in cases before international courts and tribunals, including the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the International Court of Justice.

Straus, Joseph
Professor of Law (Universities of Munich and Ljubljana)

Prof. Joseph StrausJoseph Straus, Professor of Law (Universities of Munich and Ljubljana), Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr. jur. h.c.), University of Ljubljana and University of Kragujevac, Marshall B. Coyne Visiting Professor of International and Comparative Law, George Washington University School of Law, and Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition Law and Tax Law, Munich, Chairman of the Managing Board, Munich Intellectual Property Law Center; Visiting Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, N.Y. (between 1989 and 1998). Author or co-author of more than 200 publications in the field of intellectual property law, especially in the field of the protection of biotechnological inventions. Consultant to OECD, WIPO, UNCTAD, UNIDO, EC-Commission, World Bank, Scientific Services of the German Parliament and the German Government, as well as the European Parliament and the European Patent Organisation. Active in many international associations, e.g. Chair Intellectual Property Rights Committee of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO), Chair Programme Committee, International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), former President, International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). Member Academia Europaea, and of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Corresponding Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Recipient of the Science Award 2000 of the Foundation for German Science. Member of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center’s List of Neutrals.