Rosalie Silberman Abella, is a judge on the Ontario Court of Appeal. After graduating from the University of Toronto Law School in 1970, she practised civil and criminal litigation until, at the age of 29, she was appointed to the Ontario Family Court in 1976, making her Canada's first Jewish woman judge. She was a member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and chaired both the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Ontario Law Reform Commission. She was sole Commissioner on the 1984 federal Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, was the Boulton Visiting Professor at the McGill Law School for 4 years, moderated the 1988 English language Leaders' Debate, and co-chaired the 1992 Constitutional conferences, has written four books and over sixty articles and has her A.R.C.T. in piano. She has 18 honourary degrees, was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
James H. Alleman B.A., M.A. (Indiana); Ph.D. economics (Colorado) is currently a Visiting Professor in the Media, Communications, and Entertainment Program at Columbia Business School and Director of Research, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) and Professor for the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado. Dr. Alleman was previously the Director of the International Center for Telecommunications Management at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Director of Policy Research for GTE, and an economist for the International Telecommunication Union. He has conducted research in the area of telecommunications policy, with emphasis on pricing, costing and regulation as well as on international telephony settlements, telecommunications in the infrastructure and related areas. More recently he has been researching the application of real options valuation techniques to cost modelling. Dr. Alleman founded Paragon Service International, Inc., a telecommunications call-back firm in 1989. He has recently been granted patents (numbers 5,883,964 and 6,035,027) on the call-back process widely used by the industry. The main focus of Dr. Alleman's research is telecommunications economics, i.e. the examination of economic policy as applied to the telecommunications industry. His main contributions to research have been in various aspects of analysis, estimation, modelling, and policy recommendations for the industry including: Pricing, Demand, Cost, Real Options, Internet Economics, Universal Service and the Economics of Standards. His most recent work has involved the application of real options to the telecommunications industry. This research is at the cutting edge of the application of options theory to the evaluation of assets.
Enrico Colombatto is Professor of Economics, and Chair of the Department of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Turin, Italy. He has also been a faculty member at IMADEC University in Vienna (1999-2001) and he currently directs ICER, one of the most prestigious European research institutes. He holds degrees from the University of Turin (Laurea in Economia e Commercio) and the London School of Economics (M.Sc. Econ., Ph.D. Econ.). Professor Colombatto was an Olin Fellow at Cornell University in 1994, and again from 1996-1999. Professor Colombatto is in great demand as a visiting lecturer/scholar, and in the past several years has visited the Université of Aix-Marseille III, University of Arizona, the Sorbonne, Warsaw Private University, Podgorica University (Republic of Montenegro), Université de Reims, Faculté de Sciences Economique et de Gestion, and the University of California at Davis. Professor Colombatto has served as consultant to various governments including the Financial and Economic Committee of the National People's Congress of the Peoples' Republic of China, the Government of the Republic of Montenegro, the Federal Ministry for Finance for the Government of Austria and the Libyan Government. He has written extensively in the areas of development and transition, the European Union, international trade, and competition law.
Adrienne Davis joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in July 2000 as a Professor of Law. From 1994 until 2000 she was a professor and Co-Director of the Gender, Work, & Family Project at the Washington College of Law at American University. Prior to that, she taught law for three years in California. She has been a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School and a Visiting Fellow in the Princeton History Department. Professor Davis' scholarship examines the interplay of property, contract, and other private law to emphasize the gendered dimensions of American slavery. Drawing on legal, literary, and historical sources, Professor Davis' work shows how private law doctrine incorporates and influences social norms of race, gender, and sexuality. She is the recipient of a grant from the Ford Foundation to research meanings and representations of Black women and labor and the Rockefeller Foundation to research the regulation of interracial intimacy. She was the Dean's Distinguished Lecturer in Race and Legal History at Vanderbilt Law School. She teaches property, contracts, feminist and critical race theory, and a variety of advanced legal theory courses. Professor Davis is active in academic organizations and legal practice. For the last five years she has been a consultant with a litigation project seeking reparations for African-Americans, a topic on which she frequently lectures. Professor Davis is on the editorial board of the Law & History Review. She is a former editor of the Journal of Legal Education and past chair of the Law & Humanities Section of the American Association of Law Schools. She is on the board of Center of the Study for the American South at University of North Carolina. She is a frequent lecturer on the topic of race, gender, and legal history and theory and is also a lecturer with BARBRI-Nile.
George P. Fletcher is Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at the Columbia Law School. His has written seven books including the prize-winning Rethinking Criminal Law (1978) and A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial (1988). His latest book is Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy (OUP 2001). The book most clearly related to the subject of this course is Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships (OUP 1992). Fletcher's approach to law emphasis philosophical and comparative analysis. He has lectured often in Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, Israel, Hungary, Russia, and Canada.
Lech Garlicki, Univ. of Warsaw, School of Law 1968; Doctor in Law 1973, is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He was a Justice of the Constitutional Court of Poland from 1993 to 2001, expert of the Constitutional Committee of the Polish Parliament in 1992-1993, director of the American Studies Center of the Warsaw University 1992-1994. director of the State and Law Institute at the School of Law of the Warsaw University 1981-1987. Visiting Professor at several universities in the U. S. (Saint Louis University, Indiana University - Bloomington, Capital University, University of California Santa Barbara) in France (Paris I - Sorbonne, University of Aix-Marseille) and in Germany (University of Tubingen). Vice-president of the Polish Association of Constitutional Law. He is a member of Global Constitutional Seminar (Yale Law School), Groupe des Etudes et Recherches sur la Justice Constitutionnelle (Univ. of Aix-Marseille, France), Seminar: Individual v. the State (Central European University, Budapest). He is the author of numerous books and articles in the fields of constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, judicial review and human rights.
Günther Handl is the Eberhard P. Deutsch Professor of Public International Law at Tulane University Law School. He holds law degrees from the University of Graz (Dr. iur.), Cambridge (LL.B.) and Yale (SJD). He has been a Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute of Public International Law in Heidelberg, Germany and has taught at several other law schools in the United States and Europe, including Cornell, Duke, Michigan, Texas, Munich and Utrecht. He is the founder and long-time former editor-in-chief of the Yearbook of International Environmental Law, and author of several books and many articles in the field of public international law, international environmental law, law of the sea and nuclear energy law. He is the recipient of a number of awards, including, most recently, the Prix Elisabeth Haub 1997-98 for "achievements in the field of international environmental law." Prof. Handl has served as a consultant to various international organizations, including the United Nations Environment Programme, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank. In 1998, during Austria's presidency of the Council of the European Union, he served as a special adviser in the Legal Adviser's Office of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is presently chairman of the Environment Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association.
Mr. Justice 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. 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
Harold Hongju Koh, B.A., Honours B.A. (Oxon.), J.D., is Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1985. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. A graduate of Harvard, Oxford, and Harvard Law School, he served as law clerk to Judge Malcolm Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Justice Harry Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court. Before coming to Yale, he practiced law in Washington D.C. at Covington and Burling and at the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. He is the author of numerous articles and several books, including Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights (Yale 1999 with R. Slye), Transnational Legal Problems (Foundation 1994 with H. Steiner & D. Vagts), and The National Security Constitution (Yale 1990), which won the American Political Science Association's Richard Neustadt Award as the best book on the American Presidency written in 1990. Professor Koh has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Guggenheim Foundation, All Souls College, Oxford, and has received six honorary degrees and numerous awards for his human rights work, which includes the representation of Haitian and Cuban refugees before the United States Supreme Court. He was named by American Lawyer magazine as one of America's 45 leading public sector lawyers under the age of 45, and by A Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Asian-Americans of the 1990s.
Jack Knetsch is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University. After earlier degrees in Soil Science, Agricultural Economics, and Public Administration, he received a PhD in economics from Harvard University. In addition to academic positions, he has worked in public agencies in the U. S. and Malaysia, and has accepted visiting appointments at universities in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. Professor Knetsch has been a continuing contributor to the growing research literature on behavioural economics for over two decades. This has included work on the disparity between people's valuations of gains and losses, the role of fairness, rates of time preferences, and the behavioural assumptions of economic theory. Much of his research has focused on implications of the findings in law, resource and environmental valuation, and policy design.
Andrée Lajoie is research professor at the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public of Faculty of Law of the University of Montréal. Her research has focused first on constitutional law, and more recently on constitutional theory, a subject on which she teaches a doctoral seminar. She has been invited as a visiting professor at Laval and the University of Victoria, as well as in several European universities (Paris I, Athens, Padova, Trieste). She has published several articles and numerous books, the most recent ones being: Théories et émergence du droit: pluralisme, surdétermination et effectivité, (Thémis/Bruylant, 1998); Jugements de valeurs, (PUF, 1997), et Le statut juridique des peuples autochtones au Québec et le pluralisme, (Blais, 1996). She is also director of a series of books on theory of law: "Le droit aussi", at Liber/Blais, publishers.
Professor Lawrence Lessig received his B.A. in economics and B.S. in management from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.A. in philosophy from Trinity College, Cambridge, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. After law school he clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the Stanford law faculty, he was a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago from 1991 to 1997. From 1997 to 2000, he was at the Harvard Law School, where he was the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies. His "Law of Cyberspace" classes taught while he was a visiting professor at Yale in 1995, was one of the first of its kind offered at a law school. Professor Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, comparative constitutional law, and cyberspace, with a particular emphasis on such fundamentals as the First Amendment and free speech, and copyright law. His recently published book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, is a thoughtful exploration of intellectual property rights, free speech, and privacy on the Web. Of his well more than thirty articles, fifteen or so are in the field of Internet regulation, exploring the nexus of regulation and cyberspace. He has given dozens of lectures on the same topic. A regular columnist for the Industry Standard, he has also contributed essays to The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe. In 2001, Random House will publish his latest book, Open Code, Open Culture. Professor Lessig has consulted extensively with policy makers about the regulation of cyberspace, testifying before Congress regarding "Anti-paparazzi" legislation and the Child Online Protection Act. He has also been active in a number of high-profile Internet-related lawsuits, including Napster, the Microsoft antitrust case, and the merger of AT&T and MediaOne. At the time he served as Special Master to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in the Microsoft antitrust case, Time magazine called Lawrence Lessig a "leading thinker on how to adapt ancient principles to the new digital age." In 1999-2000, Professor Lessig was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Jonathan R. Macey, J. DuPratt White Professor of Law and Director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Cornell Law School. B.A. (Harvard) 1977; J.D. (Yale) 1982; Ph.D. honoris causa (Stockholm School of Economics) 1996. Member, Legal Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors, New York Stock Exchange, Scientific Advisory Panel (Comitato Scientifico), International Centre for Economic Research (ICER), Turin, Italy; Academic Advisory Board, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Policy; Advisory Board, Centre for the Study of State and Market, Faculty of Law, the University of Toronto, Board of Editors, Journal of Financial Crime; Board of Editors, Corporate Practice Commentator; Consultant Editor, Journal of European Financial Services Law; Academic Advisory Board, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green University; Associate Editor, Journal of Banking and Finance; Reporter, American Bar Association Committee on Corporate Laws' Model Business Corporation Act Revision Project, 1984-1995. Publications in corporate governance, corporate finance, securities regulation, banking law, and public choice.
Paul G. Mahoney, B.S. (MIT) 1981; J.D. (Yale) 1984, is Academic Associate Dean, Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law, and Albert C. BeVier Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. He was an Olin Fellow and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law School in fall 1996, a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School in fall 1998, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1998 and 2000. Professor Mahoney clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court, then practised law with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and London. He is the author of numerous articles in the fields of securities regulation, corporate finance, contracts, and law and development.
Guido Pincione, Lawyer (University of Buenos Aires); Doctor of Law (University of Buenos Aires); Magister of Philosophy (Argentine Society of Philosophical Analysis). He was associate professor of jurisprudence at the University of Buenos Aires between 1984 and 1995. He was also the academic director of the Law School Project at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella between 1993 and 1996. In 1996 he became full Professor of Law at the Torcuato Di Tella University, where he teaches moral and political philosophy, constitutional theory, and law and economics. He was Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Mannheim, Department of Social Theory (1986-1987). In 1987 we was Europe Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Balliol College (Oxford University). He published a number of articles in Spanish and English, the most recent of which is 'Self-Defeating Symbolism in Politics' (with Fernando R. Tesón), forthcoming in The Journal of Philosophy. He also co-edited Rights, Liberty, and Equality (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000)."
Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management & Systems as well as in the School of Law where she is a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes, especially for intellectual property law. In June of 1997 she was named a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Samuelson is also a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, a Public Policy Fellow and, a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a member of the American Law Institute. From 1990-2000 she was a Contributing Editor of the computing professionals' journal, Communications of the ACM, for which she wrote a regular "Legally Speaking" column. In May 2000 she received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Hawaii Law School. Samuelson is currently serving on the National Research Council's Study Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy and previously served on the Council's Study Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the National Information Infrastructure which produced a report entitled "The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property Rights in an Information Age." In June 2000, the National Law Journal named her as one of the hundred most influential lawyers in the U.S. A 1976 graduate of Yale Law School, she practiced law as an associate with the New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher before turning to more academic pursuits. From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools.
Gabriela Shalev, Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem LL.B. (Summa cum laude), Hebrew University, 1966; LL.M. (Summa cum laude), Hebrew University, 1969; Doctor Jur. (Summa cum laude), Hebrew University, 1973; Visiting Scholar (post-doctoral research), Harvard Law School, 1975-1976. Clerkship at the Supreme Court of Israel, 1964-1966; Clerkship at the legal department of the Jewish Agency, 1967; Admitted to the Israeli Bar, 1968. Chief Legal Editor of the Judgments of the Supreme Court of Israel, 1968-1980, 1998. Chief Legal Advisor for the reform in national health services, 1991. Legal advisor, arbitrator and expert, in Israel and abroad, on various litigations concerning national and international transactions. Teacher and member of the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, since 1964. Full Professor of Contract Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, since 1986. Visiting Professor at: Temple Law School, Philadelphia, 1975; Boston College School of Law, 1976 and 1981; Tulane Law School, 1988; Glasgow Law School, 1991; Toronto University, 1993; Leuven University, 1996 and 2001; Friburg University, 1998. Director of the Harry Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1981-1984. Member of the Standard Contracts Tribunal, since 1983. Member of the Codification in Civil Law Committee, since 1984. Legal editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia's new edition, since 1984. Advisor on the status of women at the Hebrew University, 1988-1990. Member of the Committee for Legal Terminology at the Israeli Academy of Hebrew Language, since 1990. Chairperson of the academic Nomination Committee of the Hebrew University, 1991-1994, Chairperson of the Fund for Promotion of Law at the Ministry of Justice since 1991. Prizes and Academic awards include: Sussman's Prize in Law (1989); The first incumbent of the Hebrew University's Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Contract Law (1990); Zeltner's Prize in Law (1991); member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (since 1999). Research Interests are: Comparative Contract Law; The Law of Contract; Government Contracts. Recent publications include: Law of Contract (2nd ed., 1995, in Hebrew), a comprehensive treatise on Israeli Contract Law; Contract Law, Israel, a monograph forming part of the International Encyclopaedia of Law (Kluwer, 1995) (update 2000); The Law of Government Procurement (1999, a book in Hebrew), Public Procurement Contracts in Israel (1997), Public Procurement Law Review 185.
Stephen J. Toope teaches in the Faculty of Law at McGill University, of which he is a former Dean. He currently serves as President of the Canadian Council on International Law. A graduate of Harvard (A.B.) and McGill (B.C.L./LL.B.), he also holds a doctoral degree in international law from Cambridge (Ph.D.). His scholarly interests include international dispute resolution, international human rights law, and international environmental law. His current work focuses upon the connections between international legal theory and international relations theory. Professor Toope was a law clerk to the Rt. Hon. Brian Dickson CJC, and now acts regularly as a consultant to the Canadian Departments of Justice and Foreign Affairs, and to the Canadian International Development Agency. He has also worked extensively in the developing world on questions of legal and judicial reform (Sri Lanka, Kenya, Jamaica, and Southeast Asia). Recent publications include "International Law and Constructivism: Elements of an Interactional Theory of International Law" (2000) 39 Col. J. Trans. L. 19 (co-author Prof. Jutta Brunnée); and "Emerging Patterns of Governance and International Law" in M.Byers, ed., International Law and International Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2000) 91
Stanley Yeo, LLB (Hons)(Sing); LLM (Well), LLM and PhD (Syd), is Professor of Law and Director of Teaching at the School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University, New South Wales, Australia. He has received a University award for teaching excellence, and co-edits the Criminal Law Journal which is the leading specialist journal on criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence in Australia and New Zealand. In 1996 and 1997, Professor Yeo was a consultant to the New South Wales Law Reform Commission examining the defences of provocation, diminished responsibility and infanticide. In 1995, he was among a team of experts who compiled the "Digest of the Criminal Law of Hong Kong" in preparation for the 1997 takeover. Professor Yeo lectured criminal law and procedure at the University of Sydney from 1986 to 1992 and at the National University of Singapore from 1980 to 1985. He has held visiting posts at the University of Delhi (1991), the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1995), the University of Victoria (1999) and Victoria University of Wellington (2000). His fields of teaching and research are criminal law, especially comparative criminal law, criminal justice administration, criminology and torts. His recent publications include "Fault in Homicide" (Federation Press, 1997); "Unrestrained Killings and the Law" (OUP, 1998); "Australian Criminal Justice" 2nd ed. (with M Findlay & S Odgers SC) (OUP, 1999); and "Criminal Law Sourcebook" (ed., with P Rush) (Butterworths, 2000).
J.H.H. Weiler is Jean Monnet Chair at NYU Law School, Director of the Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice and designate Chair of the Global Law School Program. He is a faculty member at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium and an Honorary Professor at University College, London University and at the University of Copenhagen. He served as a Member of the Committee of Jurists of the Institutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament co-drafting the European Parliament's Declaration of Human Rights and Freedoms and Parliament's input to the Maastricht Inter-Governmental Conference. He was a member of the Groupe des Sages advising the Commission of the European Union on the 1996/97 Amsterdam Treaty. He is a WTO Panel Member. He is author of articles and books in the fields of international, comparative and European law. The Constitution of Europe do the New Clothes have an Emperor? by Cambridge University Press is among his recent publications.
Glen Whyte holds the Conway Chair in Business Ethics and is a professor of organizational behaviour at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is also the Associate Dean, Curriculum, and the former Executive Director of the M.B.A.. Program at the Rotman School. Professor Whyte is a lawyer, an award winning teacher and researcher, and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto and M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. degrees in organizational behaviour from the School of Management, Yale University. Professor Whyte is an expert in negotiation, decision making, risk management, and dispute resolution and has extensive consulting experience in both private and public sector organizations.
Robert Wintemute is a Reader in the School of Law, King's College, University of London, where he teaches European Law, Human Rights Law and Anti-Discrimination Law, and is the Director of the LL.B. in English and French Law (a four-year double-degree programme with the Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne). Originally from Calgary, he did his B.A. in Economics at the University of Alberta (including the Faculté Saint-Jean) and Université Laval, followed by his LL.B. (Common Law) and B.C.L. (Civil Law) at McGill University. From 1982 to 1987, he practised bankruptcy law with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York. He then moved to Wolfson College, University of Oxford, where he earned his D.Phil. in Human Rights Law. He has been teaching at King's since 1991. He is the author of Sexual Orientation and Human Rights: The United States Constitution, the European Convention and the Canadian Charter (Oxford University Press, 1995 and 1997), and the principal editor of Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships: A Study of National, European and International Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, October 2001). He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia in 1996, and a Senior Research Associate at Yale Law School in 2001. He has also given lectures or seminars at the Universities of Alberta, Cambridge, Florence, Natal, Paris X, Passau, Pretoria and Victoria, and at the European University Institute (Florence), Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) and McGill University. Recent conferences have taken him to Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest, Nicosia, Pisa and Rome.
José Zalaquett teaches human rights at the University of Chile's Law School. He was a lawyer for political prisoners in Chile, following the 1973 coup d´état. Later he was elected Chairman of Amnesty International's International Executive Committee. In 1990, he was appointed to the Chilean Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, which produced a report about human rights abuses during the Pinochet regime. He has written extensively on the issue of justice and moral reconstruction in the wake of massive human rights violations
