Justice Aharon Barak
President, The Supreme Court of Israel
Daphne Barak-Erez
Professor, Faculty of Law of Tel-Aviv University
Daphne Barak-Erez LL.B. (Tel-Aviv) (summa cum laude) 1988, LL. M. (Tel-Aviv) (summa cum laude) 1991, and J. S. D (Tel-Aviv) 1993, is a professor at the Faculty of Law of Tel-Aviv University and specializes in administrative and constitutional law. She was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School (1993-1994), a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Public Law, Heidelberg (2000), an Honorary Research Fellow at University College, London (2002). She also served as the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights (2000-2001) and as the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law (2000-2002), a Visiting Researcher at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (2004) and a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Federalism (Fribourg, Switzerland) (2005), the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto (2005) and the University of Siena (2006).She was awarded several prizes, including the Rector's Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the Zeltner Prize, the Woman of the City Award (by the City of Tel-Aviv) and the Women in Law Award (by the Israeli Bar). She is the author and editor of several books, including Contractual Liability of Public Authorities (1990), Constitutional Torts (1993) and Milestone Judgments of the Israel Supreme Court (2003) (in Hebrew) and Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion and Culture in Israel (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, forthcoming). Her articles have appeared in journals published in the United States, Canada, England, and Israel. Among her articles in English: "From an Unwritten to a Written Constitution: The Israeli Challenge in American Perspective" 26 Column. Hum. Rts. L. Rev (1995) 309-355; "The Delusion of Symmetric Rights" 19 Oxford J. of Legal Stud. (1999) 297-311 (with Prof. Ron Shapira); "Collective Memory and Judicial Legitimacy: The Historical Narrative of the Israeli Supreme Court" 16 Canadian Journal of Law and Society/Revue Canadienne Droit et Sociéte (2001) 93-112; "Judicial Review of Politics: The Israeli Case" 29 Journal of Law and Society (2002) 611-631; "The International Law of Human Rights and Constitutional Law: A Case Study of an Expanding Dialogue" 2 I*CON - International Journal of Constitutional Law (2004) 611-632.
Rambod Behboodi
Senior Legal Adviser at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the World Trade Organization
Rambod Behboodi, BA (Hons)(Toronto) 1988, JD (Toronto) 1991, LLM (Toronto) 1992, is Senior Legal Adviser at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the World Trade Organization. In this capacity he is Canada's chief representative to the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO and provides legal and strategic advice to the Government of Canada on a range of dispute settlement issues. Since his call to the Bar of the province of Ontario in 1994, he has served in various legal positions with Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade as of December 2003, the Department of International Trade including counsel at the Trade Law Division of DFAIT, legal adviser at the Canadian Mission to the European Union, and head of market access unit at the Trade Law Bureau from 2001 to 2003. As counsel, he has argued before panel and the Appellate Body of the WTO in numerous cases; most recently, he headed Canada's litigation teams in the Wheat Board, Byrd Amendment, and Softwood CVD cases at the WTO. He has also represented Canada in various multilateral trade and environmental negotiations. Mr. Behboodi is the author of a book on the regulation of subsidies in international trade law, as well as articles on litigation, rules of procedures and principles of interpretation under the WTO Agreement. He has taught international economic and trade law, and legal philosophy, at law faculties at the universities of Toronto, Ottawa, Copenhagen and Bern.
Adrienne Davis
Reef C. Ivey II Research Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law
Adrienne Davis is the Reef C. Ivey II Research Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law where she teaches Property, Contracts, Trusts & Estates, and a variety of upper level legal theory courses, including Sex Equality, Law & Literature, and Slavery. She was awarded the Frederick B. McCall Award for Teaching Excellence by the graduating class of 2004. Professor Davis has also taught at the University of San Francisco, American University, and University of Chicago Law Schools. Professor Daviss scholarship emphasizes the gendered and private law dimensions of American slavery. She also does work on theories of commodification, law and literature, and reparations. She is the recipient of two grants from the Ford Foundation, the most recent administered through Brandeis Universitys Feminist Sexual Ethics Project to research women, slavery, sexuality, and religion; she was also a Resident Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundations Bellagio Study and Conference Center. Professor Davis is a member of the boards of the Center of the Study for the American South and the Cultural Studies Program at the University of North Carolina, is on the publication committee of the Law & History Review, was a member of the Program Committee for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians and is currently a Distinguished Lecturer with that organization. She is a former editor of the Journal of Legal Education and Law and History Review and past chair of the Law & Humanities Section of the American Association of Law Schools.
Neil Duxbury
Professor of law at the University of Manchester
Neil Duxbury, LL.B. (Hull) 1984, Ph.D. (London) 1987, is a Professor of law at the University of Manchester. He specializes in legal philosophy and legal history and is the author of Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition (Oxford UP, 2004); Jurists and Judges: An Essay on Influence (Hart, 2001); Random Justice: On Lotteries and Legal Decision-Making (Oxford UP, 1999); and Patterns of American Jurisprudence (Oxford UP, 1995). He is also a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, and the Joint Articles Editor for the Modern Law Review.
Richard J Goldstone
Henry Shattuck Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Richard J Goldstone, 1959 BA 1962 LLB (Wits) practised as an Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar. In 1980 was made Judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court. In 1989 he was appointed Judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. From July 1994 to October 2003 he was a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Presently he is the Henry Shattuck Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 15 August 1994 to September 1996 he served as the Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. From August 1999 until December 2001he was the chairperson of the International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo. In December 2001 he was appointed as the co-chairperson of the International Task Force on Terrorism that was established by the International Bar Association. He is presently the co-chairperson of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association. From 1999 to 2003 he served as a member of the International Group of Advisers of the International Committee of the Red Cross. He is presently a member of the committee, chaired by Paul A Volcker, appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to investigate allegations regarding the Iraq Oil for Food Program. He is an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple, London, an Honorary Fellow of St Johns College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Member of the Association of the Bar of New York. He is a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves of the boards of Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights and the Institute for Justice in Transition. He is married (wife Noleen) and has two married daughters - Glenda and Nicole. He has four grandsons, Jason, Sean, Ben and Jordan.
Lawrence Gostin
Associate Dean (Research) and the John Carroll Research Professor at Georgetown University Law Center; Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University; and Director of the Center for Law & the Publics Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities
Lawrence Gostin, J.D., LL.D (Hon.) is Associate Dean (Research) and the John Carroll Research Professor (2005) at Georgetown University Law Center; Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University; and Director of the Center for Law & the Publics Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University. Professor Gostin is an elected lifetime Member of the Institute of Medicine and serves on the IOM Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Professor Gostin also consults for the World Health Organization and UNAIDS. Professor Gostin has lead major law reform initiatives for the U.S. government including the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) to combat bioterrorism and other emerging health threats. Professor Gostin received the Rosemary Delbridge Memorial Award from the National Consumer Council (U.K.) for the person "who has most influenced Parliament and government to act for the welfare of society. He also received the Key to Tohoko University (Japan) for distinguished contributions to human rights in mental health. Prof. Gostins latest books are: The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations (University of North Carolina Press, 2004); The Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Different But Equal (Oxford University Press, 2003); Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (University of California Press and Milbank Memorial Fund, 2002); Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (University of California Press and Milbank Memorial Fund, 2000).
Justice 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.
Betty Mayfoon Ho
Professor of Law at Tsinghua University Law School, Beijing
Betty Mayfoon Ho, BA (Immaculate Heart College, LA) 1971, MA (University of California at Berkeley) 1972, JD (University of Toronto) 1977, LLM (University of Cambridge) 1988, is Professor of Law at Tsinghua University Law School, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China. She began her legal career as a private practitioner and has practised in Toronto (Baker & McKenzie) and Hong Kong (leading local firm), specializing in international transactions and finance. She turned to the academy in 1986 and has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong before joining Tsinghua in 2002. While affiliated with the academy, she has remained active in professional activities and has served on various committees on corporate and securities law and practice. She is currently an arbitrator at the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission.
Pierre Legrand
Professor of Law and Director of Postgraduate Comparative Legal Studies at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
Pierre Legrand, BCL (McGill) 1982, LLB (McGill) 1982, DEA (Panthéon-Sorbonne) 1985, MLitt (Oxford) 1986, PhD (Lancaster) 1993, PhD (Panthéon-Sorbonne) 2000, is Professor of Law and Director of Postgraduate Comparative Legal Studies at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris. He also teaches as Visiting Professor at the University of San Diego Law School and as Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Prior to settling in France, Professor Legrand, a Canadian, taught for twelve years in Canada, England, and the Netherlands. In the course of his academic career, Professor Legrand has lectured in more than fifteen countries and held visiting appointments at a number of universities including Toronto, McGill, Uppsala, Paris, Cambridge, Montpellier, Lille, Trento, Regensburg, and Münster. He has also been a visiting fellow at the Max-Planck Institute in Hamburg. Professor Legrand publishes in English and French. His work has also appeared in other languages. Recent publications include a co-edited collection, "Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions" (2003) and authored books, "Fragments on Law-as-Culture" (1999) and "Le droit comparé" (1999). Professor Legrand teaches and writes in the field of comparative legal studies with specific reference to theoretical issues arising from comparative interventions. He has also been prominently involved in ongoing exchanges surrounding the Europeanization of law.
Jonathan R. Macey
Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Yale University
Jonathan R. Macey is Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Yale University. From 1991 2004, Professor Macey was J. DuPratt White Professor of Law, Director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at Cornell Law School, and Professor of Law and Business at the Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Business. Professor Macey earned his B.A. (cum laude) from Harvard in 1977, and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1982, where he was Article and Book Review editor of the Yale Law Journal. In 1996, Professor Macey received a Ph.D. honoris causa from the Stockholm School of Economics. Following law school, Professor Macey was law clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professor Macey is the author of several books including the two volume treatise, Macey on Corporation laws, published in 1998 (Aspen Law & Business), and co-author of two leading casebooks, Corporations: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies (2003 Thompsen/West), which is in its eighth edition, and Banking Law and Regulation, (2002 Aspen Law & Business), which is now in its third edition. He also is the author of over 100 scholarly articles. His recent articles have appeared in the Banking Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Cornell Law Review, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Brookings Wharton Papers on Financial Institutions. He has published numerous editorials in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Los Angeles Times and the National Law Journal. Professor Macey has taught at major universities throughout the world, including Bocconi University (Milan), the University of Tokyo; the University of Toronto; the University of Turin, the University of Amsterdam Department of Finance, and the Stockholm School of Economics, Department of Law. He also has been Professor of Law at the University of Chicago (1990) and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1999). Professor Macey is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) in Turin, Italy. Professor Macey also serves on the Academic Advisory Board (Comitato Scientifico) of the Associazione Disiano Preite for the study of corporate law (per lo studio del diritto dellimpresa).
In 1995, Professor Macey was awarded the Paul M. Bator prize for excellence in Teaching, Scholarship and Public Service by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy. In 1996, he received a Ph.D., honoris causa from the Stockholm School of Economics. And in 1998, he received the D.P. Jacobs prize for the most significant paper in volume 6 of the Journal of Financial Intermediation for his paper (co-authored with Maureen OHara), The Law & Economics of Best Execution. In 1999 Professor Macey was made an honorary Fellow of the Society For Advanced Legal Studies. In 2000, Professor Macey became a member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange. In 2001 Professor Macey was appointed a Bertil Daniellson Distinguished Visiting Professor in Banking and Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. In 2002 Professor Macey was appointed to the Economic Advisory Board of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). In 2004 Professor Macey was awarded a Teaching Award by the Yale Law Women in recognition of his commitment to excellence in teaching, mentoring and inspiring. In 2005 Professor Macey became a member of the Board of Editors of Thompson*West Publishing Company.
Paul G. Mahoney
Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law, and Albert C. BeVier Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law
Paul G. Mahoney, B.S. (MIT) 1981; J.D. (Yale) 1984, is 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, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1998, 2000, and 2001, and has taught intensive courses at Dalhousie University, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Münster. 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.
Charles Ngwena
Professor and Co-ordinator of the Masters Programme in Human Rights (Specialising in Reproductive and Sexual Health) at the Faculty of Law of the University of the Free State, South Africa
Charles Ngwena, LLB (Wales) 1985, LLM (Wales) 1990, Barrister-at-Law, is a Professor and Co-ordinator of the Masters Programme in Human Rights (Specialising in Reproductive and Sexual Health) at the Faculty of Law of the University of the Free State, South Africa. Prior to joining the University of the Free State in 2002, he taught law at Cardiff Law School (University of Wales), the University of Swaziland and Vista University (South Africa). He has published widely on issues at the intersection between human rights, ethics and health care, including HIV/AIDS and reproductive and sexual health. He was a co-editor and subsequently advisory editor of the Butterworths Medico-Legal Reports. He is on the editorial board of Medical Law International and is Section Editor of Developing World Bioethics and Chief Editor of the Journal for Juridical Science. He is a co-author and co-editor of Employment Equity Law published in 2001. Professor Ngwena serves on a number of national and international committees, including the Advisory Scientific Committee to the South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative, the South African National Research Foundation, and the Scientific and Ethical Review Group of the Programme on Human Reproduction of the World Health Organisation.
Bernhard Schlink
Professor of public law and legal philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin and Justice of the Constitutional Law Court of the State of Northrhine-Westfalia in Muenster
Bernhard Schlink is professor of public law and legal philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin and Justice of the Constitutional Law Court of the State of Northrhine-Westfalia in Muenster. He has taught in Freiburg, Bonn, and Frankfurt and teaches regularly at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. Among his publications are Grundrechte (Fundamental Rights), 1985, 20th ed. 2004; Polizei- und Ordnungsrecht (Police Law), 2002, 2nd ed. 2004; Vergangenheitsschuld und gegenwärtiges Recht (Guilt from the Past and Contemporary Law), 2002; Weimar: A Jurisprudence of Crisis, 2000, 2nd ed. 2002. He also writes fiction.
Horacio Spector
Dean and vice chancellor of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Dean and vice chancellor Spector of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella was awarded a doctor of the science of law (J.S.D.) degree in 1986 by the law school of the University of Buenos Aires and a masters in philosophy degree in 1981 by the Argentine Society of Philosophical Analysis. His professional honors include the 1994 Konex Prize in Legal Philosophy, being named a Guggenheim Fellow (Harvard) in 1992, and Germany's prestigious Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, (Heidelberg) in 1989 and (Mannheim and Oxford) 1986. He teaches jurisprudence and law and economics at the law school of the Torcuato Di Tella University, and in 1999 he created the first masters degree program in Law and Economics in Latin America. He was Tucker Lecturer at LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center in 2003 and Simon Tobias Lecturer at FSU College of Law in 2005. His publications include Autonomy and Rights (Oxford University Press, 1992) and Analytische und Postanalytische Ethik (Alber Verlag, Freiburg-München, 1993). He also published many articles and edited symposia in journals such as Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, European Intellectual Property Review, The Journal of Ethics, Chicago-Kent Journal of Law, Law and Philosophy, Louisiana Law Review, Mind, and Rechtstheorie.
George Triantis
Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law
George Triantis is the Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He joined the Virginia faculty in 2001 from the University of Chicago School of Law, where he was the Seymour Logan Professor of Law. He is the Director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at Virginia and a past recipient of the Traynor Award for Excellence in Legal Scholarship. From 1989-93, he was assistant professor of law and of management at the University of Toronto. He is a director of the American Law & Economics Association, a past co-editor of the Journal of Law and Economics, and he has been a visiting professor of law at Columbia, Harvard, NYU, and Yale. Professor Triantis scholarly and teaching interests fall in the areas of contracts, commercial law, debtor-creditor law, and corporate and securities law.
