Barak, Aharon Purposive Interpretation of Law & Constitutional / Judges 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. |
Bradley, Curtis International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts  Curtis Bradley, BA (Colorado) 1985, JD (Harvard) 1988, is the Richard and Marcy Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke University. He specializes in international law, U.S. foreign relations law, presidential power, and federal court jurisdiction. He has written numerous articles and essays in leading law reviews and is also the co-author of a casebook on U.S. foreign relations law. Before entering academia in 1995, he clerked for Judge David Ebel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and Justice Byron White of the U.S. Supreme Court, and then practiced law for several years at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. In 2004, he served as Counselor on International Law in the Legal Adviser’s Office of the U.S. State Department. He is now a member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law. He is also a member of the American Society of International Law’s Executive Council and is on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.
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Grimm, Dieter Constitutional Courts & Constitutional Rights with Barak, Iacobucci and L. Weinrib (Intensive)  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.
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Ngwena, Charles Intensive Course: Legal Aspects of AIDS from a Comparative Perspective: An African Study  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.
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Margoliath, Yoram Tax Policy  Yoram Margalioth. Law Professor, Tel Aviv University. Teaches: Income Taxation; Tax Policy; International Taxation; VAT; Tax, Welfare and Economic Growth; and is the academic supervisor of the Micro-business and Economic Justice Clinical Program. Outside Director of IDB Development Corp. Ltd., the investments arm of IDB Holding Corporation Ltd., one of the largest and most influential holding companies in Israel. LL.B. Hebrew University, LL.M. in Taxation and J.S.D. at NYU, Clerked for Justice Nethanyahu of the Supreme Court of Israel, served as deputy director of Harvard’s International Tax Program, visited Northwestern (Fall 2005) and NYU (Fall 2008-Spring 2009).
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Koskenniemi Martti International Law And Raison D'etat: An Alternative History  Martti Koskenniemi, LL.D (Turku, Finland) 1989, LL.D h.c. (Uppsala, Sweden) 2007, is Academy Professor at the University of Helsinki and Director of the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights. He worked as diplomat with the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs during 1978-1994 representing Finland in a number of international institutions and conferences, including the UN General Assembly and Security Council as well as being Finland’s Co-Agent in the International Court of Justice in the Great Belt case (1991). Since leaving the Foreign Ministry he has been Judge at the Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank and member of the UN International Law Commission. He has taught as Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University School of Law from 1997 onwards and in many other universities. In 2008-2009 he was Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science at the University of Cambridge. His main academic works include From Apology to Utopia. The Structure of International Legal Argument (1989/2005), The Gentle Civilizer of Nations. The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (2001) and La politique du droit international (2007).
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Gaudreault-Desbiens, Jean-Francois Values And Models Of Federalism In A Comparative Perspective Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens is Associate Dean, Research, and Canada Research Chair in North American and Comparative Juridical and Cultural Identities at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal. He has also taught at the faculties of law of the University of Toronto and of McGill University, in addition to having been visiting professor at different universities outside of Canada. His teaching and research interests are constitutional law (domestic and comparative), legal theory and epistemology, and the sociology of legal cultures. His most recent work focuses on the legal theory of federalism, on the legal treatment of religious claims, and on the relations between the civil law and common law traditions in a globalized economy. He has published several books and articles in French, English, Spanish and Catalan. A member of the Québec and Ontario Bars, he is the Canadian correspondent for the British journal Public Law. |
Rose, Mark Authorship and the Contours of Copyright with Abraham Drassinower  Mark Rose, AB (summa cum laude) (Princeton) 1961, BLitt (Oxford), 1963, PhD (Harvard), 1967, has been Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1977. In addition to holding various administrative posts at Santa Barbara, he has served as Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute located on the Irvine campus. He has also held positions at Yale and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rose has published books on subjects from Shakespeare to science fiction, including Heroic Love, Shakespearean Design, Spensers Art, and Alien Encounters. His Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright was a finalist for a U.S. Book Critics Circle award in 1994. He writes regularly on the history of copyright and frequently serves as a consultant and expert witness in matters involving allegations of copyright infringement.
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