Aharon Barak
Course: Proportionality, Constitutional Rights And Their Limitations
Aharon Barak, born in Lithuania in 1936, is married and the father of four. He studied law, economics and international relations at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Barak received an MA in law in 1958, and a doctorate in 1963. He was appointed Associate Professor of Law at the Hebrew University in 1968 and became Dean of that Faculty in 1974. From 1975-8, he occupied the position of Attorney General of Israel, an appointed and independent position in the Ministry of Justice overseeing the justice system. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel in 1978 and became its President in 1995. His retirement from the Court took place in September 2006 when he reached the age of mandatory retirement. He has received a number of prizes and honours, including the Kaplan Prize for excellence in science and research and the Israel Prize in legal sciences as well as numerous honorary degrees. He is the author of a number of books in Hebrew and in English as well as numerous articles on a wide variety of legal topics. His publications in English include Judicial Discretion, Purposive Interpretation in Law and The Judge in a Democracy, from Princeton University Press and Proportionality, Constitutional Rights And Their Limitations, from Cambridge University Press.
Martin Friedland
Course: Issues in Criminal Justice
Martin Friedland, C.C., Q.C., is University Professor and James M. Tory Professor of Law Emeritus at the Faculty of Law. He holds a B.Comm., LL.B., and honorary LL.D. from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. and LL.D from Cambridge University. Professor Friedland taught at Osgoode Hall Law School until 1965 when he joined the University of Toronto as an associate professor. He was promoted to professor in 1968 and served as dean from 1972-1979. He also served as a full time member of the Law Reform Commission of Canada in Ottawa from 1971 to 1972. He was appointed a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983 and in 1985 was awarded the Canadian Association of Law Teachers/Law Reform Commission of Canada Award for an 'Outstanding Contribution to Legal Research and Law Reform.' In 1987 he was awarded the University of Toronto Alumni Faculty Award, in 1990 was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 2003 was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. In 1994 he received the Canadian Bar Association's Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award and the Criminal Lawyers Association's G. Arthur Martin Award, and in 1995 was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences for 'outstanding achievements and exceptional contribution to the enrichment of the cultural life of Canada.' He received the Royal Society of Canada's John William Dawson Medal in 2003 for 'important contributions of knowledge in multiple domains'. He is currently a fellow of Massey College. Professor Friedland specializes in Criminal Law and is author or editor of eighteen books including Detention Before Trial, Double Jeopardy, Access to the Law, A Place Apart: Judicial Independence and Accountability in Canada, The Trials of Israel Lipski, The Case of Valentine Shortis and The Death of Old Man Rice, as well as many law review articles and reports. His book The University of Toronto: A History was published in 2002, on the 175th anniversary of the University's foundation. A second edition, with a new introduction, was published in 2013.
Johanna Gibson
Course: Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health
Professor Johanna Gibson is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI), Queen Mary University of London, where she researches and teaches in intellectual property law and policy. She consults regularly to industry and the profession and is the Chair of the Expert Advisory Group on Trade and Development for the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) as well as an author of the DG-Research and Innovation expert report on international knowledge transfer (2011) and Project Lead on the IPO research into lookalike packaging and consumer protection (2013). Johanna is the author of numerous articles and books, including Creating Selves: Intellectual Property and the Narration of Culture (2006), cited with approval in the Gowers Review, and the forthcoming The Logic of Innovation (2013). She is also the author of Community Resources: Intellectual Property, International Trade and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge (2005); Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health (2009); editor of Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development (2008); and is consultant editor with Lord Hoffmann for the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property. Before moving to academia, Johanna was in commercial practice in intellectual property, media and competition law at a top-tier law firm in Melbourne, Australia.
Gillian K. Hadfield
Course: Legal Innovation
Gillian K. Hadfield is the Richard L. and Antoinette Schamoi Kirtland professor of law and professor of economics at the University of Southern California. She studies the design of legal and dispute resolution systems; contracting; and the performance and regulation of legal markets and the legal profession.
Her recent publications include “What is Law: A Coordination Model of the Characteristics of Legal Order” (with Barry Weingast, Journal of Legal Analysis 2012); "The Dynamic Quality of Law: Judicial Incentives, Legal Human Capital and the Adaptation of Law (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2011); "Legal Infrastructure for the New Economy” (I/S: Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society 2012) and "Higher Demand, Lower Supply? A Comparative Assessment of the Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans" (Fordham Urban Law Journal 2010).
Professor Hadfield holds a B.A.H. from Queen’s University, a J.D. from Stanford Law School and Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. She served as clerk to Chief Judge Patricia Wald on the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Columbia and NYU law schools, a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Law Institute, director of the American Law and Economics Association and the International Society for New Institutional Economics and past president of the Canadian Law and Economics Association. She serves on advisory boards for the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law, LegalZoom, Pearl.com, and Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers, and on the Editorial Committee of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
Fleur Johns
Course: Geographies of International Law
Fleur Johns (BA, LLB (Hons) (Melb.); LLM, SJD (Harvard)) is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, and Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law. Fleur is author of Non-legality in International Law: Unruly Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and editor of International Legal Personality (Ashgate, 2010) and Events: The Force of International Law (Routledge-Cavendish, 2011, with Sundhya Pahuja and Richard Joyce). Fleur is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Leiden Journal of International Law, the Australian Journal of Human Rights, the interdisciplinary journal Global Peace, Change & Security, and the Australian International Law Journal, and an Advisory Editor of the London Review of International Law and the Australian Feminist Law Journal. Fleur is a member of the New York Bar and practised as a corporate lawyer in New York for six years. She has also worked with a range of non-governmental and international organizations in Australia and elsewhere
Roy Kreitner
Course: Legal History of Money
Roy Kreitner teaches in the fields of private law, legal history, and law and political thought at the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine (Stanford University Press, 2007). In 2009-10 he was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and an ACLS Fellow, and in 2010-11 he was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. He is currently working on a book on the history of money in the U.S. from the Civil War until World War I.
Zhenmin Wang
Course: Introduction to the Legal System of the People's Republic of China
Zhenmin Wang, Professor and Dean of Tsinghua University School of Law, received his LL.B. in Zhengzhou University (1989) , LL.M. and PhD in Law from Renmin (People's) University of China (1992 and 1995). He also studied in the Law Faculty of Hong Kong University from 1993 to 1995.
After completing his study in HKU, Professor Wang joined Tsinghua Unviersity in July 1995. Since then, he has been the Assistant Chair, Deputy Chair and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law. In July 2008 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law at Tsinghua University.
In 2004 he was appointed member of the Committee for the Macao Basic Law under the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People’s Congress, and concurrently a member of the paralleling Committee for Hong Kong Basic Law in 2006. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the Hong Kong and Macao Institute under the Development Research Center of the State Council (since 2003). In 2007 he was elected Deputy to the 13th Beijing City People’s Congress.
Professor Wang serves an executive director of the China Law Society and an executive director of the National Taiwan Society. He is also Vice President of China Association of Constitutional Law. In his teaching and research areas, focus is on constitutional and administrative law, the Basic Laws of HK and Macao, and Taiwan issues. He is the author of Central-Special Administrative Region Relationship in China——from a Legal Perspective(Beijing, 2002) and Constitutional Review in China (Beijing, 2004). He has published over 50 articles and presented papers at many regional and international conferences on Chinese constitutional law, legal reform and Hong Kong / Macao Basic Law. He is a Member of the Forum of Young Global Leaders of World Economic Forum.
He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School in 2000-2001. He is Sir Y K Pao Chair Professor in Constitutional Law at School of Law of Ningbo University. He was also visiting professor at Universit Paris II, France, William S. Richardson School of Law of University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Dedman School of Law of Southern Methodist University (USA), etc.
