John Borrows
Intensive Course: Anishinaabe Law in Toronto: Understanding Constitutionalism in Context (LAW710H1)
John Borrows B.A., M.A., J.D., LL.M. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Osgoode Hall Law School), LL.D. (Hons., Dalhousie & Law Society of Upper Canada) F.R.S.C., is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria Law School in British Columbia. His publications include, Recovering Canada; The Resurgence of Indigenous Law (Donald Smiley Award for the best book in Canadian Political Science, 2002), Canada's Indigenous Constitution (Canadian Law and Society Best Book Award 2011), Drawing Out Law: A Spirit's Guide (2010), Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism (Donald Smiley Award for the best book in Canadian Political Science, 2016), The Right Relationship (with Michael Coyle, ed.), all from the University of Toronto Press. He is the 2017 Killam Prize winner in Social Sciences. John is Anishinaabe/Ojibway and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario, Canada.
Menaka Guruswamy
Intensive Course: Constitutional Design in Post Conflict Democracies (LAW705H1)
Dr. Menaka Guruswamy currently teaches Constitutional Design in Post Conflict Democracies at Columbia Law School, where she is the B.R. Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law. She also practices law at the Supreme Court of India where litigates large constitutional rights cases.
Dr. Guruswamy has litigated significant constitutional cases before the Supreme Court of India, including, successfully initiating national bureaucratic reform (TSR Subramanium v Union), the unconstitutionality of the use of state sponsored vigilante groups (Salwa Judum) in Chhattisgarh (Nandini Sundar) and challenging the constitutionality of colonial era sodomy statute (Navtej Singh Jauhar). The constitutional challenge to India’s sodomy law will be heard by the Supreme Court later this year (2018). She is also the Supreme Court’s amicus curiae in Victims of Extra Judicial Executions Association v Union of India and State of Manipur that concerns allegations of 1528 extra judicial killings by security personnel.
Dr. Guruswamy has been visiting faculty at Yale Law and at New York University School of Law. She was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskoelleg zu Berlin/Institute for Advanced Studies, for 2016-2017. She has also worked at the Office of the Attorney General of India, advised the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) advised the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in New York and UNICEF in South Sudan. She has supported and advised on constitution-making processes in Nepal.
Dr. Guruswamy is a Rhodes Scholar, who was educated at Oxford University, Harvard Law School and the National Law School of India. Her doctorate (D.Phil.) from Oxford University was on Constitutionalism in India, Pakistan, and Nepal.
She has contributed chapters to collections of essays on constitutionalism bought out by Cambridge University Press (2013), Routledge (2013), Bloomsbury (2015), Oxford University Press (2016), a case note for the American Journal of International Law (2017), an essay on South Asian Constitutionalism to the Handbook on Constitution Making (Edward Elgar) (forthcoming 2018) and is also co-editor on a book project on ‘Founding Moments.'
Janet Halley
Intensive Course: Feminisms and Pornography, c1975-1995 (WITHDRAWN) (LAW706H1)
Janet Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is the author of Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism (Princeton 2006), and Don’t: A Reader’s Guide to the Military’s Anti-Gay Policy (Duke 1999). She coedited Left Legalism/Left Critique with Wendy Brown(Duke 2002) and After Sex? New Writing Since Queer Theory with Andrew Parker(Duke 2011), and solo-edited Critical Directions in Comparative Family Law, 58 American Journal of Comparative Law. With Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché, and Hila Shamir, she has published Governance Feminism: An Introduction (Minnesota 2018), which will be followed by Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field early next year. She is an expert on family law, anti-trafficking, Title IX, feminist legal theory, and queer theory. She holds a Ph.D. in English from UCLA and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Zhaojie (James) Li
Intensive Course: An Introduction to the Contemporary Chinese Legal System (WITHDRAWN) (LAW265H1)
Professor Li Zhaojie (James Li) received his LL.B. from Peking University, both his LL.M. and Master in Information and Library Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and his S.J.D. from the University of Toronto. He is a Professor of International Law at Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing, China. Prior to joining the faculty at Tsinghua Law School, he taught in the Department of Law at Peking University. He served as Co-Chief Editor for the Chinese Yearbook of International Law and Vice President of the Chinese Society of International Law. He is widely published in both the English and Chinese languages.
Doreen Lustig
Intensive Course: Governance Histories of International Law (LAW713H1)
Dr. Doreen Lustig is an associate professor at the Tel Aviv University Law Faculty. Since joining the faculty in 2012, she has written on the history and theory of public international law, comparative constitutional law and global regulation. Her forthcoming book, International Law and the Private Business Corporation, 1886 – 1980: A History of Failure? will be published by Oxford University Press in 2018. Lustig received a joint B.A.-LL.B. (majoring in sociology and anthropology) from Tel Aviv University and earned an LL.M. (2007) and J.S.D. (2012), both from New York University (NYU). As part of her doctoral studies at NYU, she was a Hauser Research Scholar and fellow of the Institute of International Law and Justice (IILJ).
Sarah Morales
Intensive Course: snuwyulh: Indigenous Legal Traditions in the Coast Salish World (LAW717H1)
Sarah Morales received her J.D. from the University of Victoria in 2004. She received her LL.M. from the University of Arizona in 2006, where she was the Department of Justice Congressional Fellow. In 2005-2006, she clerked for the Pasqua Yaqui Tribal Appellate Court and the Navajo Nation Supreme Court. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Victoria in 2015, where she was awarded the Canadian Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council. She was also the Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois in the School of American Indian Studies.
Professor Morales joined the Faculty of Law, at the University of Ottawa, in 2011, where she teaches Tort, Aboriginal Legal Issues and International Human Rights & Indigenous Peoples. Professor Morales’ research interests are generally in the area of Aboriginal and human rights law. Specifically, she is committed to the recognition and reconciliation of Indigenous legal traditions with the common law and civil law traditions in Canada. In addition to these academic interests, Sarah has been actively involved with Indigenous nations and NGOs across Canada through her work in nation building, inherent rights recognition and international human rights law. Her community-based research has resulted in the creation of policies and procedures that are reflective of the traditional laws of the communities who utilize them.
Chaim Saiman
Intensive Course: The Rabbinic Idea of Law (LAW721H1)
Chaim Saiman is a Professor of Law at Villanova University Law School where he teaches Jewish law, insurance law and private law. Saiman is the author of Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law (Princeton U. Press, 2018) as well as many articles, essays and book chapters on Jewish law and private law theory. Saiman has lectured nationally and internationally to academic, professional and lay audiences on his fields of research. He has served as the Gruss Visiting Professor of Talmudic Law at both Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and as the William Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life at Princeton University. Saiman has been the Jewish law editor for the Journal of Law, and he has served on the advisory committees of doctoral candidates. He has also visited at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan Law Faculty, and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.
Chaim received his undergraduate degree in finance from Georgia State University and his J.D. from Columbia Law School. He studied Talmud at both Yeshivat Har Etzion and Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavne in Israel. Prior to joining the Villanova faculty, Saiman served as an Olin Fellow at Harvard Law School, a Golieb Fellow in legal history at NYU Law School, as a law clerk to Judge Michael McConnell on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced corporate law in New York City.
Mark Tushnet
Intensive Course: Comparative Constitutional Law of Free Expression (LAW701H1)
Mark Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1967. He received a J.D. and M.A. in history from Yale University in 1971. He clerked for Judge George Edwards and Justice Thurgood Marshall before beginning to teach at the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1973. In 1981 he moved to the Georgetown University Law Center, and in 2006 to Harvard Law School. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas, University of Southern California, University of Chicago, Columbia University, New York University, and Harvard law schools.
Professor Tushnet is the co-author of four casebooks, including the most widely used casebook on constitutional law, Constitutional Law (with Stone, Seidman, and Sunstein). He has written more than a dozen books, including a two-volume work on the life of Justice Thurgood Marshall, A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law, Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law, and Why the Constitution Matters, and edited eight others. He has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Humanities Program, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and has written numerous articles on constitutional law and legal history. He was President of the Association of American Law Schools in 2003. In 2002 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
