S. James Anaya
Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law at the University of Arizona
S. James Anaya is the Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, where he teaches and conducts research in the areas of international law and organizations, constitutional law, and issues concerning indigenous peoples. He received his B.A. from the University of New Mexico (1980) and his J.D. from Harvard (1983). Among his numerous publications is his book, Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Oxford University Press, 1996). Professor Anaya was on the law faculty at the University of Iowa from 1988 to 1999, and he has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Toronto, and the University of Tulsa. Prior to becoming a full time law professor, he practiced law in Albuquerque, New Mexico, representing Native American peoples and other minority groups in regard to land, voting rights, and civil rights issues. In 1988, Barrister magazine, a national publication of the American Bar Association, recognized him as "one of 20 young lawyers who make a difference." Professor Anaya has lectured in many countries in all continents of the globe. He has been a consultant for numerous organizations and government agencies in several countries on matters of human rights and indigenous peoples, and he has represented indigenous groups from many parts of North and Central America before courts and international organizations. He serves as special counsel to the Indian Law Resource Center, a U.S.-based nongovernmental organization with consultative status at the United Nations, and in that capacity he successfully litigated the landmark indigenous land rights case of Awas Tingni v. Nicaragua before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Aharon Barak
President, The Supreme Court of Israel
Justice Aharon Barak, President, The Supreme Court of Israel.
Tony Clement
Former Cabinet Minister, Government of Ontario
Tony Clement, is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (86). He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in 1995 and first appointed to Cabinet in 1997. He served as Minister for the Environment, Minister for Municipal Affairs and Housing and Minister for Health and Long-Term Care in the Harris/Eves Government. His experience within the policy-making process and as a Cabinet Minister and former president of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party will bridge the gap between the study and practice of public policy.
Radhika Coomaraswamy
Director of The International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka
Radhika Coomaraswamy is the Director of The International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka. She was formerly the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, 1994-2003. and has travelled extensively around the world looking at issues relating to violence against women. She is also a member of the global faculty of The New York University School of Law. She received her BA from Yale University, her JD from Columbia University and her LLM from Harvard University. She has written extensively in the areas of constitutional law, women's rights, human rights and ethnic studies.
John Dawson
Associate Professor of Law at the University of Otago in New Zealand
John Dawson, B.A. (Hons) (Otago) 1977, LL.B.(Hons) (Otago), 1980, LL.M. (Harvard), 1981, is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He has also lived in Britain, Australia, Canada and the United States. He is a specialist on law governing compulsory psychiatric treatment. During 2003 he is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra and will visit Europe and North America, to study law governing compulsory outpatient care, on a NZ Law Foundation Fellowship. He has written extensively on relations between law and psychiatry in leading international journals, including the Medical Law Review, McGill Law Journal, Journal of Law and Medicine and the British Journal of Psychiatry. His research is in two streams. In one, he studies mental health law in common law jurisdictions, using traditional methods of legal scholarship. In the other, he adopts socio-legal research methods, including the use of field work, to study the practical functioning of civil commitment regimes. This work is conducted in collaboration with psychiatrists. He has been involved with legislative drafting, law reform, litigation and the continuing education of lawyers and mental health professionals. In 1996 he spent a year at McGill and taught a course on Canadian administrative law.
Rebecca S. Eisenberg
Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law, Michigan Law School
Rebecca S. Eisenberg is a graduate of Stanford University and Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was articles editor of the California Law Review. Following law school she served as law clerk for Chief Judge Robert F. Peckham on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and then practiced law as a litigator in San Francisco. She joined the University of Michigan Law School faculty in 1984. Professor Eisenberg regularly teaches courses in patent law, trademark law, and torts and has taught courses on legal regulation of science and legal issues in the Human Genome Project. She has written and lectured extensively about patent law as applied to biotechnology and the role of intellectual property at the public-private divide in research science, publishing in scientific journals as well as law reviews. She spent the 1999-2000 academic year as a visiting professor of law, science and technology at Stanford Law School. She has received grants from the program on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research for her work on private appropriation and public dissemination of DNA sequence information. Professor Eisenberg has played an active role in public policy debates concerning the role of intellectual property in biomedical research. She is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health, the Panel on Science, Technology and Law of the National Academies, and the Board of Directors of the Stem Cell Genomics and Therapeutics Network in Canada. Professor Eisenberg is the Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law.
Yash Ghai
Sir YK Pao Professor of Public Law at the University of Hong Kong
Yash Ghai, BA, (Oxford) 1961, LLM (Harvard) 1963, and DCL (Oxford) 1991, is the Sir YK Pao Professor of Public Law at the University of Hong Kong. He has taught at universities in the US, Canada, Britain, Tanzania, Australia, Singapore, Fiji, and Puerto Rico. His principal areas of research include sociology of law, constitutions, human rights, and ethnic relations. Among his publications are Public Law and Political Change in Kenya, The Political Economy of Law: A Third World Reader, Autonomy and Ethnicity: Negotiating Competing Claims in Multi-Ethnic States, Law, Politics and Administration in the South Pacific, and Hong Kongs New Constitutional Order: The resumption of Chinese Sovereignty and the Basic Law. He has also advised several governments and political parties on constitutional issues and assisted in the drafting of constitutions of several countries. Currently he is the chair of the Kenya Constitution Review Commission and senior constitutional consultant in Afghanistan.
Dieter Grimm
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.
Frank Iacobucci
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. 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.
Randall Morck
Stephen A. Jarislowsky Distinguished Professor of Finance at the University of Alberta Business School
Randall Morck is the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Distinguished Professor of Finance at the University of Alberta Business School in Edmonton, and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. He graduated from Yale University in 1979 with a summa cum laude B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Economics and with an MA in Economics. In 1986, he graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in Economics, specializing in Finance. He has written numerous papers on corporate governance, financial markets, and comparative financial institutions in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Economics. In 1999/2000 he taught corporate finance at Harvard, where he served as a Visiting Professor of Economics. Prof. Morck is the most highly cited finance professor in Canada, and is a frequent guest speaker at leading research universities, including Harvard, MIT, Yale, New York University, UCLA, the University of Toronto, and the University of Michigan.
Beatriz Nofal
Beatriz Nofal Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (1983) with specialization in development economics and planning, postgraduate diplomas in development planning from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, University of Paris, France (1977) and the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands (1976). Formerly an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and at Johns Hopkins University, as well as a consultant for the World Bank. Dr. Nofal, was Undersecretary of Industry and Trade in the Ministry of Economy of Argentina during 1986-1988. She had a main role in the creation and negotiation of the Economic Integration Program between Brazil and Argentina, that constituted the founding pillar of MERCOSUR. Since 1991, Dr. Nofal has been an external consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, and has taught at the University Of Bologna in Buenos Aires. From May 1999 up to December 2000, she was Managing Director of Arthur D. Little in Argentina. From December 1999 until February 2002, Dr. Nofal served as a Member of the House of Representatives in Argentina. Dr. Nofal has authored several publications (including books) in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States. Among the international honors awarded, Dr. Nofal received in 1989, from the Republic of Brazil a Decoration of the Order of Rio Branco with the rank of "Knight Commander" (Presidential Decree, April 14/89). These honors were granted by Brazil "in recognition of her excellent performance in the Argentine-Brazilian Integration Program". In 1999 she was also granted the Annual Award of Brazil's Investors Group for her academic and institutional contribution to the consolidation of MERCOSUR. In April 2003 she received from the Republic of Chile a Decoration of the Great Order of Merit in recognition for her contribution to the bilateral relations. Dr. Nofal is also a member of the Inter-American Dialogue and a counselor of the Centro Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (CARI).
Margaret Jane Radin
William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law at Stanford University
Margaret Jane Radin is the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law at Stanford University, and Director of Stanford Law School's Program in Law, Science and Technology. She received her A.B. from Stanford, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. from the University of Southern California, where she was elected to Order of the Coif. She also holds an honorary LL.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent School of Law, as well as an M.F.A. in music history from Brandeis University. A noted property theorist, Professor Radin is the author of Reinterpreting Property (1993) and Contested Commodities (1996). She is also the co-author of Internet Commerce: The Emerging Legal Framework (2002), the first traditional-format casebook on e-commerce. Professor Radins current research involves intellectual property, information technology, electronic commerce and the jurisprudence of cyberspace. Most recently, she has investigated the role of contract in the online world, as well as the expansion of propertization through the expedient of treating information as if it were a tangible object.. As a teacher, she has pioneered courses in Legal Issues in Cyberspace, Electronic Commerce, and Intellectual Property in Cyberspace. In 2002 she founded Stanfords Center for E-Commerce. She also directs Stanfords innovative LLM program in Law, Science and Technology. Professor Radin is a member of the State Bar of California.
Brad Sherman
Professor of Law, Griffith University, Australia
Brad Sherman BEco (Queensland) 1984, LLB (Hons) (Queensland), LLM (London) 1986, PhD (Griffith) 1996, is Professor of Law at Griffith University. He is also Director of the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (which is based at Griffith University and the Australian National University). Previously Professor Sherman worked at the London School of Economics and at Cambridge University (where he was Herchel Smith Research Fellow in the Law of Intellectual Property). Brad is currently a consultant working on the review of recent amendments to Digital Copyright law in Australia. He is also member of Advisory Committee to the Australian Law Reform Commission, working on genetics, IP rights and human health. Sherman is currently working on a history of intellectual property and biological property. He has carried out a number of numerous national/international consultancies, and is the recipient of a number of research grants and awards.
Stephen J. Toope
Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University
Stephen J. Toope is on leave from the Faculty of Law at McGill University, of which he is a former Dean. He currently serves as President of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. 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 has regularly acted 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 "Powerful but Unpersuasive?" The Role of the USA in the "Evolution of Customary International Law" in Michael Byers & Georg Nolte, eds, The United States and International Law (Oxford: O.U.P., 2003) (forthcoming) pp. 42.
Jonathan Yovel
Lecturer in law and philosophy, University of Haifa, Israel
Jonathan Yovel BA, LLB (magna cum laude) (Tel-Aviv) 1992, LLM (Hons) (Northwestern) 1995, SJD (Northwestern) 1997, is a lecturer in law and philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel. Prior to joining the faculty of law at the University of Haifa, Israel, Jonathan Yovel studied law, philosophy, and linguistics at Tel-Aviv, Oxford, Chicago and Northwestern. His diverse areas of research and teaching fall into two general categories: law and language; and the theory and practice of contract law and international commercial law. He has also written and taught in the areas of ethics, political theory, analytic jurisprudence, law and literature, and law and social sciences. He held visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Public International Law at Heidelberg, Germany, as well as at Brooklyn Law School and the Center for Law, Language, and Cognition, and at Fordham University School of Law. He is the recipient of an Israel Science Foundation grant for a research project exploring the relations between courtroom rhetoric, social power relations, and the construction of civic and community identities in ethnically diverse contexts. He has published in various venues, including (other than Israeli publications) the Emory Law Journal, Northwestern Law Review, Cardozo Law Journal, Stanford Agora, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Mountbatten Journal of Legal Studies, and has co-authored chapters in publications such as the Handbook of Pragmatics and the Blackwell Companion to Law and Society (forthcoming). He occasionally enjoys presenting and discussing law-related films at the Haifa Cinemateque, and infrequently contributes op-eds and literary reviews to the Israeli daily press. His first prose book, a collection of short stories, Trojan Horse (in Hebrew), is due this year. Further info is available at http://law.haifa.ac.il/faculty/eng/yovel.htm.
