Aharon Barak
Constitutional Courts and Constitutional Rights (JPJ2133H1F)
Intensive Course: Purposive Interpretation in Law
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 takes place in September 2006 when he reaches the age of mandatory retirement. He has received number 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.
Ilan Benshalom
Intensive Course: Tax Policy and Theory
Ilan Benshalom, L.L.B. (University of Jerusalem) 2002, LL.M (University College London) 2003, LL.M (Yale Law School) 2005, JSD (Yale Law School) 2007 is an Associate Professor in the Hebrew University Faculty of Law. Taught previously at Northwestern School of Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Researches in a great array of tax issues including: theory of the tax base, international taxation, tax and charity, tax and welfare policy. Was a grantee of Chevening and Fulbright scholarships.
Eyal Benvenisti
Intensive Course: Transnational Adjudication and Global Governance
Eyal Benvenisti, LL.B (Jerusalem) 1984, LLM (Yale) 1988, JSD (Yale) 1990, is Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Previously Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law (2002-2005), and Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University (2000-2002). He serves on the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of International Law, and International Law in Domestic Courts. Was founding Co-Editor, THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW (1997-2002, Editor in Chief 2003-2006). He is Global Visiting Professor at New York University School of Law (since 2003), and was Visiting Professor at several US law schools (Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Pennsylvania). Was a Humboldt Fellow at the Humboldt University and the University of Munich and a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International Law at Heidelberg. Areas of teaching and research include international law, constitutional law and administrative law.
Dieter Grimm
Constitutional Courts and Constitutional Rights (JPJ2133H1F)
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.
James C. Hathaway
Intensive Course: Refugee Rights
James C. Hathaway, the William Hearn Professor and Dean of the Melbourne Law School, is a leading authority on international refugee law whose work is regularly cited by the most senior courts of the common law world. He is also Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Programme, and President of the Cuenca Colloquium on International Refugee Law. Hathaway was previously the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor and founding Director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan, USA (1998-2008), Professor of Law and Associate Dean of the Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada (1984-1998), Counsel on Special Legal Assistance for the Disadvantaged to the Government of Canada (1983-1984), and Professeur adjoint de droit at the Université de Moncton, Canada (1980-1983). He has been appointed a visiting professor at the Universities of Cairo, California, Macerata, and Tokyo and has provided training on refugee law to academic, non-governmental, and official audiences around the world.
Hathaway’s publications include more than sixty journal articles, a leading treatise on the refugee definition (The Law of Refugee Status, 1991), an interdisciplinary study of models for refugee law reform (Reconceiving International Refugee Law, 1997) and, most recently, The Rights of Refugees under International Law (2005) – the first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees set by the UN Refugee Convention, all linked to key international human rights norms and applied to the world’s most difficult protection challenges. He serves as Counsel on International Protection to both the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants and Asylum Access, a non-profit organization committed to delivering innovative legal aid to refugees in the global South. Hathaway also sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Refugee Studies and the Immigration and Nationality Law Reports and directs the Refugee Caselaw Site (www.refugeecaselaw.org), a website that collects, indexes, and publishes leading judgments on refugee law.
Frank Iacobucci
Constitutional Courts and Constitutional Rights (JPJ2133H1F)
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.
Ralf Michaels
Intensive Course: Globalization and Domestic Courts
Ralf Michaels, 1st State Examination (Passau) 1994, LLM (Cambridge) 1995 2nd State Examination (Hamburg) 2000, Dr. jur. (Passau) 2000), is professor at Duke University School of Law. Since coming to Duke in 2002, he has been the Lloyd Cutler Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, and a visiting professor at the University Paris II. In 2009/10, he is a Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Law and Public Affairs Program of Princeton University. Professor Michaels teaches and researches in the areas of comparative law, conflict of laws, and law and globalization. He is co-editor and author of several books and articles in these areas, published in the United States and in Europe; he has lectured in English, German and French in several different countries. Currently, he is engaged in two projects: a theory of US courts as world courts, and, together with Karen Knop (U of Toronto) and Annelise Riles (Cornell), conflict of laws as theory of global law. He and his wife have three daughters and too little time.
Hans-Bernd Schäfer
Intensive Course: Law and the Poverty of Nations
Hans-Bernd Schäfer is professor of law and economics at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg (Germany). Until 2008 he was professor of economics in the law department of the University of Hamburg. He published widely in the field of law and economics and has written a textbook on the economic analysis of civil law, now in its 4th edition, coauthored with Claus Ott. His latest publication is a book on law and development, coauthored with Robert D. Cooter, titled "Solomon’s knot, how law can end the poverty of nations," which will be published by Princeton University Press this year. He was cofounder and director of the Hamburg Institute for Law and Economics, director of the European (EMLE) master program in law and economics and president of the European Association for Law and economics (2004-07). He has taught as visiting professor at George Mason Law School, University of Torino, Bilkent University in Ankara, Indira Gandhi Institute in Mumbai and was a visiting fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science in Oslo.
Michel Troper
Intensive Course: Constitutional Theory
Michel Troper graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in 1959, received a doctorate degree from the University of Paris in 1967, with a dissertation on « the separation of powers in French constitutional History ». After having served as assistant professor at the Universities of Lyon from 1963 to 1965 and Paris between 1966 and 1968, he won the “agregation” in public law in 1968 and became a professor at the University of Rouen, where he taught constitutional Law and Legal theory until 1978. In 1978, he was appointed at Paris X, where he has been teaching these same subjects. In 1993 he received an appointment to a chair of the Institut Universitaire de France. He has been emeritus professor since 2006.
He has been a visiting professor and gave lectures in many universities in various countries, including the United States (Boston College Law School, Cardozo School of Law, University of Chicago Law School), Italy, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Israel, Brazil, Japan, Canada.
He has served in several scientific societies, in the French Society for legal and political philosophy (SFPJ) as president, in the International Association for Legal and social philosophy (IVR) as member of the executive committee. He is honorary president of the French association for Constitutional Law, and is also a member of the editorial or scientific committee of several journals.
Michel Troper has written several books and many articles in the areas of Legal Philosophy, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory and Constitutional History.
Chenguang Wang
Intensive Course: Introduction to the Legal System of the People's Republic of China
Chenguang Wang, B.A., Master of law and Ph.D. of Law from Peking University respectively in 1980, 1983 and 1999, LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1996. Mr. Wang worked at Peking University Law School as a Lecturer, Associate Professor and Vice Dean from 1985 to 1994, worked at Hong Kong City University Law School as an Associate Professor from 1994 to 1999. He has been Professor of Law at Tsinghua University since 2000, served as Dean of Tsinghua Law School from 2002 to 2008 and Director of Health Law Research Center from 2008. He currently teaches Legal Theory, Legislative and Judicial Theory and Practice, Legal Clinic, Comparative Law and Health Law Seminar (co-teaching) at Tsinghua University Law School.
He visited University of Florida as a visiting professor in 1991, University of Wisconsin as a Fulbright Scholar and Honourable Research Fellow from 1993 to 1994, New York University Law School as a Visiting Professor at Hauser Global Law Faculty, from Jan. to March, 2008, Anthony W. & Lulu C. Wang Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Cornell Law School in the spring term, 2009 and Bok Visiting International Professor at Law School, University of Pennsylvania, in Jan. to Feb. 2010.
He has been a Special Adviser to the Supreme People’s Court since 2003, and an Arbitrator at China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission since 1993. He also served as Deputy Chairman of China Association of Comparative Law (from 2003 to 2006), Deputy Chairman of China Association of Legal Theory (since 2003), Deputy Chairman of China Association of Legal Education (since 2007), Deputy Chair of China Health Law Association (since 2007).
