Parsons Visitors

Previous Parsons Visitors to the Faculty

Current and future Parsons Visitors

Dr Sabine Selchow, London School of Economics
Room 536, ext 10368, email: s.u.selchow@lse.ac.uk
16 August to 15 OCtober 2011
Dr Sabine Selchow is a Fellow in the International Development Department and in LSE Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). From June 2011, she is part of the international research team of the 5-year-project entitled ‘Security in Transition: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Security Gap’. The project sets out to develop an innovative and interdisciplinary framework to grasp global insecurities. It is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) (grant holder: Professor Mary Kaldor). Dr Selchow is in charge of the work package that focuses on discourses of insecurity.

Previous Parsons Visitors

Associate Professor Christopher Bruner, Washington and Lee University
Email: brunerc@wlu.edu
Christopher Bruner, Associate Professor and Ethan Allen Faculty Fellow at Washington and Lee University School of Law, specializes in corporate law and securities regulation. His comparative study of U.S. and U.K. corporate governance won the 2010 Association of American Law Schools Scholarly Papers prize, one of the most prestigious in U.S. legal academia. He has presented his scholarship in Denmark, Mexico, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and has consulted on corporate law reform in the Russian Federation.

Professor Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic, Belgrade University
Email: vnikolic@EUnet.rs
Feb - March 2011
Professor Nikolic-Ristanovic has undertaken significant research in criminology, victimology and transitional justice over a number of years. She has published largely on violence against women, particularly in war, on domestic violence, trafficking in persons, women’s crime, war and crime, as well as on transitional justice and reconciliation. She has an international reputation and is currently involved in several international research projects as consultant and researcher. She has experience also in feminist and reconciliation action research and advocacy. In her work, Professor Nikolic-Ristanovic combines research with advocacy and, thus, has made a significant contribution to legal changes and the education of professionals in Serbia in relation to violence against women and victims of crime.

Professor Russell Weaver, University of Louisville
27 February - 4 March 2011
email: russ.weaver@louisville.edu
Professor Russell L. Weaver graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1978. He was a member of the Missouri Law Review, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and won the Judge Roy Harper Prize. After law school, Professor Weaver was associated with Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas in Kansas City, Missouri, and worked for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C.

Dr Stewart Motha, Kent Law School
17 January to 31 March 2010
Stewart Motha is a Senio Lecturer in Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent, Director of Kent Law School's forthcoming LLM in Public Law and Governance and a Research Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa. He has previously taught law at Lancaster University and the University of Adelaide and worked as a legal officer and case manager with the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement in South Australia. His work has been published widely and he is editor of two books: Reading Modern Law (with Sundhya Pahuja and Ruth Buchanan, Routledge 2010) and Democracy's Empire: Sovereignty, Law and Violence (Blackwell 2007).

Dr Federico Ortino, Kings College London
15 November - 10 December 2010
email: federico.ortino@kcl.ac.uk
Dr Federico Ortino is Reader in International Economic Law in the School of Law at King’s College London. He joined King’s in 2007. He is a member of the ILA Committee on International Trade Law and co-rapporteur to the ILA Committee on the Law of Foreign Investment; founding Committee Member of the Society of International Economic Law; consultative member of the Investment Treaty Forum; editorial board member of the Journal of International Economic Law; Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy, InvestmentClaims.com, Transnational Dispute Management. Previously, Director, Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London (2005-2007); Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Florence and Trento (2002-2007); Emile Noël Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at the NYU Jean Monnet Center in New York (2004); Legal Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Division on Investment and Enterprises (2003). He is a qualified attorney in Italy and in the state of New York. He holds: LLB, University of Florence; LLM, Georgetown University Law Center; PhD, European University Institute.

Professor Ed Stein, Cardozo Law School, New York
23 to 31 October 2010
Dr Federico Ortino is Reader in International Economic Law in the School of Law at King’s College London. He joined King’s in 2007. He is a member of the ILA Committee on International Trade Law and co-rapporteur to the ILA Committee on the Law of Foreign Investment; founding Committee Member of the Society of International Economic Law; consultative member of the Investment Treaty Forum; editorial board member of the Journal of International Economic Law; Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy, InvestmentClaims.com, Transnational Dispute Management. Previously, Director, Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London (2005-2007); Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Florence and Trento (2002-2007); Emile Noël Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at the NYU Jean Monnet Center in New York (2004); Legal Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Division on Investment and Enterprises (2003). He is a qualified attorney in Italy and in the state of New York. He holds: LLB, University of Florence; LLM, Georgetown University Law Center; PhD, European University Institute.

Professor Mark Drumbl, Washington and Lee University
14 to 24 October 2010
Mark Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington & Lee University, School of Law, where he also serves as Director of the University's Transnational Law Institute. He has held visiting appointments on the law faculties of Oxford University (University College), Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), Vanderbilt University, University of Ottawa, Trinity College-Dublin, University of Western Ontario, and University of Illinois College of Law. Professor Drumbl's research and teaching interests include public international law, global environmental governance, international criminal law,postconflict justice, transnational legal process, and contracts.

Professoe Zen Umar Purba, University of Indonesia
5 October to 7 October 2010
Dr. Bea Verschraegen, LL.M., M.E.M., Professor at the University of Vienna; Professor at the Uninova Private University of Bratislava; Présidente honoraire de la Commission Internationale de l’État Civil (CIEC); Head of the Austrian National Committee & Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL); President of the International Society of Family Law (ISFL);

Professor Breen Creighton, RMIT University
30 August to 3 September 2010
Breen Creighton has been a Professor of Law at RMIT University since January 2009. His principal research interests are in the fields of employment law, industrial law, occupational health and safety, equal opportunity law and international labour law. He has published extensively in all of these areas. Immediately before joining RMIT Breen was a partner in the Workplace Relations Group at Corrs Chambers Westgarth from 1999-2008. He has also held academic posts at Edinburgh University, the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University. He was Legal Officer at the ACTU from 1986-88, Principal Legal Officer at the ILO 1988-91 and in 1991-92 headed a Taskforce on Ratification of ILO conventions for the Commonwealth Government. He has been a member of various public bodies, and has acted as consultant to governments, businesses and unions in Australia and overseas.

Professor Jonathan Verschuuren, Tilburg University
23 - 28 August 2010
Professor Verschuuren is Professor of International and European Environmental Law at the Tilburg Law School where he also holds the position of Vice Dean for Research. He holds a PhD cum laude from Tilburg University and has taught, researched and published extensively both nationally and internationally across almost all areas of environmental law and policy. His current research focuses predominantly on the question of how environmental laws operating at different levels amalgamate to deal with complex environmental issues, particularly in the area of natural resources law.

Professor Paul Mitchell, Kings College London
16 to 18 August 2010
Dr Paul Mitchell is currently a Reader in Law at King’s College London, and has been appointed to a Chair in Laws at University College London from September 2010. His research interests span the areas of tort, contract and unjust enrichment, which he often investigates from a historical perspective, as in his monograph on defamation: The Making of the Modern Law of Defamation (2005).

Professor Robert Thompson, Georgetown Law School
23 to 28 August 2010
Professor Verschuuren is Professor of International and European Environmental Law at the Tilburg Law School where he also holds the position of Vice Dean for Research. He holds a PhD cum laude from Tilburg University and has taught, researched and published extensively both nationally and internationally across almost all areas of environmental law and policy. His current research focuses predominantly on the question of how environmental laws operating at different levels amalgamate to deal with complex environmental issues, particularly in the area of natural resources law.

Professor Geroge Smith, Catholic University of America
2 to 21 August 2010
A prolific author and leader in law reform, Professor Smith’s bibliography includes 13 books and more than 157 law review articles, monographs, book chapters and essays. His contributions to the legal profession were recognized by Indiana University in 1998 when he was awarded an LL.D. degree, Honoris Causa. He is listed in Who's Who in the World and Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century. He is a life member of the American Law Institute.

Professor Kent Roach, University of Toronto
30 July to 9 August 2010
Kent Roach is Prichard-Wilson Chair of Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, with cross-appointments in criminology and political science, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and of Yale, and a former law clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada

Professor Alison Conner, University of Hawaii
21 - 29 June 2010
Professor Alison Conner is Professor of Law and Director of International Programs at the University of Hawaii Law School. She is a specialist in Chinese law and legal history and has published widely in that area. She is also Secretary of the American Society of Comparative Law. Prior to becoming a legal academic, she practised on Wall Street for 5 years. She has a JD from Harvard Law School and a PhD from Cornell University in Asian Studies, and is fluent in spoken and written Chinese.

Associate Professor Max du Plessis, University of Kwa Zulu-Natal
7 April - 10 April 2010
Max du Plessis is an associate professor of law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban and a senior research associate at the International Crimes in Africa Programme at the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria. In addition to his academic and research work, Max is an associate member of the KwaZulu-Natal Bar with a practice in international and constitutional law. He has written widely in the field of international and international criminal law and spent a month in the International Criminal Court in 2007 as a visiting expert.

Associate Professor Jean D'Aspremont, University of Amsterdam
1 April 2010
Jean D’Aspremont has been Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Amsterdam since 2009. After obtaining his doctorate in law from the University of Louvain in Belgium in 2005, he was a Global Research Fellow in the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University in 2005-2006 and then an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the University of Leiden in 2006-2008. In 2009, he was counsel in proceedings before the International Court of Justice (Kosovo Advisory Opinion). He has been on the editorial board of the Leiden Journal of International Law since 2006 and was an editor of the New York University Journal of International Law & Politics in 2005-2006.

Dr Jessie Hohmann, University of Cambridge
1 March to 16 March 2010
Dr. Hohmann is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law and Junior Research Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge. She previously completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge on ‘The Right to Housing: Theoretical and Practical Possibilities’ and is now working on a three year research project on ‘Human Rights and the Normative Limits of International Law.’

Mr Luke Peterson, Investment Arbitration Reporter
17 February to 22 February 2010
Luke Peterson is a New York based Canadian commentator on the international legal and policy regime protecting foreign direct investment flows. A former Rhodes Scholar to Oxford University, Luke is Editor & Publisher of the Investment Arbitration Reporter, a popular and well-regarded electronic news service (cited in numerous academic contexts, The Financial Times and The Economist – where he also contributes directly). He has been a Consultant to many (inter- and non-)governmental organisations, as well as contributing to many academic publications.

Professor Davina Cooper, University of Kent
February - 16 April 2010
Davina Cooper is a Professor of Law & Political Theory at the University of Kent, and between 2004-09 was Director of the AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender & Sexuality. She is an inter-disciplinary socio-legal scholar, whose books include: Challenging diversity: Rethinking equality and the value of difference (CUP, 2008), Governing out of order: Space, law and the politics of belonging (1998 Rivers Oram), and Power in struggle: Feminism, sexuality and the state (1995, Open University/ NYU).

Ms Kim Weatherall, University of Queensland
30 November 2009 - 3 December 2009
Kimberlee Weatherall is a Senior Lecturer in the TC Beirne School of Law at The University of Queensland, and an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture. She holds degrees in law from the University of Sydney, Oxford University and Yale University. Prior to joining UQ in 2007, Kimberlee was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and Associate Director (Law) of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia. In that capacity she contributed to a range of academic and commissioned research, both as a team member and project leader for various government-commissioned pieces of work.

Professor Nisuke Ando, Kyoto University
27 November 2009 - 1 December 2009
email: shjinken@kyoto.email.ne.jp
Professor Nisuke Ando is the Director of Kyoto Human Rights Research Institute and Emeritus Professor of Kyoto University, Japan. He has served as a Member of the UN Human Rights Committee (1987 – 2006), including two years as Chairperson (1993 – 1994). He is a member of the Institut de Droit International (1999 – present), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (2001 – present), and the Administrative Tribunal of the International Monetary Fund (1994 – present). He is a Life Member of the American Society of International Law, and was lead counsel for Japan in the Southern Bluefin Tuna cases before the ITLOS (provisional measures) and the UNCLOS Annex VII arbitral tribunal (jurisdiction and admissibility) (1999 – 2000).

Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Australian National University
28 October 2009
email: Hilary.Charlesworth@anu.edu.au
Professor Hilary Charlesworth is one of the nation’s leading international lawyers. She is currently Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice, Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the ANU College of Law, and an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow. She has held international appointments as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, New York University, the University of Oregon, and the Université de Paris (Paris I), as a co-Editor of the Australian Yearbook of International Law and the American Journal of International Law, and as the inaugural President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. She has received international recognition for her work as the co-recipient of the Goler T. Butcher Medal from the American Society of International Law. She has standing as a respected public intellectual in Australia, most recently demonstrated by her leadership in the Australian Charter for Rights debate.

Professor Leigh Anenson, University of Maryland
19 October - 23 October 2009
Room 603, ext 10482, email: lanenson@rhsmith.umd.edu
Prof. T. Leigh Anenson is an Associate Professor of Business Law at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and a specialist in equity. She has more than a dozen articles published or accepted for publication in law reviews produced at such law schools as Virginia, Stanford, Notre Dame, Boston University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Two articles have been published as the lead in the prestigious American Business Law Journal, which is the premier peer-reviewed journal in business law.

Professor Eric Talley, University of California Berkeley
18 September - 26 September 2009
Room 414, ext 10462, email: e.talley@law.berkeley.edu
Eric Talley is a leading authority on corporate law, and law and economics. In addition to teaching corporate law, he serves as faculty co-director of Boalt's Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. He joined the faculty in 2006. Professor Talley will be teaching the Postgraduate unit LAWS6923 - Corporate Finance & Law.

Michael Kerr, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law
7 September 2009
email: mkerr@naturaladvantage.ca
Michael Kerr, BA (Monash), LL.B (Bond), LL.M (Sydney) is a Lead Counsel with the CISDL focusing on research in the areas of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and trade law. He is also the senior consultant and founder of Natural Advantage, a Montreal –based consultancy firm specialising in CSR and sustainable development. Prior to moving to Montreal, he served as legal advisor to the Australian Conservation Foundation for four years leading the foundation’s work in the areas of environmental law and CSR. He commenced his career as a corporate lawyer with the Melbourne based legal firm, Abbott Stillman and Wilson. Michael is a co-author of the book, Corporate Social Responsibility: A Legal Analysis (LexisNexis 2009). Michael will be presenting a lunchtime seminar titled "Corporate Social Responsibility: International Legal Developments and the Global Recession"

Ms Karen Wheelwright, Monash University
7 September - 17 September 2009
Room 504, ext 10229, email: Karen.Wheelwright@law.monash.edu.au
Karen has taught labour law and corporations law at Deakin and Monash Universities since 1997. Her research interests include security of employment, enforcement of workplace laws and individual liability for corporate fault, in particular under occupational health and safety laws. Karen is currently completing her PhD at Monash University on individual liability under Australian OHS laws.

Professor Leslie Moran, University of London
24 August 2009 - 7 Sep 2009
Room 516, ext 10242, email: l.moran@bbk.ac.uk
Dr Leslie Moran is Professor of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London. He has researched and published extensively and has an international reputation for his interdisciplinary and theoretically informed scholarship in sexuality and law, hate crime, judicial diversity and law and visual culture.

Professor Howard Bennett, University of Nottingham
22 August 2009 - 28 August 2009
Room email: howard.bennett@nottingham.ac.au
Howard Bennett read English and French law at King’s College, London and the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). After reading for the Bar, he pursued postgraduate studies, again at King’s College, before joining the School of Law at the University of Nottingham in 1989. He was elected to the Hind Chair of Commercial Law in 2001. He is the author of The Law of Marine Insurance (2nd edition 2006) and co-editor of and contributing author to Vulnerable Transactions in Corporate Insolvency (2003). In 2008, he joined the authorial team of Benjamin’s Sale of Goods with responsibility for the chapters relating to international trade finance.

David Collins, City University Law School, London
11 August 2009 - 21 August 2009
Room 603, ext 10482
David Collins is an Assistant Professor at City University, London. He has published widely on WTO law, international arbitration, and the English legal system. His current research interests lie in examining the treatment of environmental issues under bilateral investment treaties, free trade agreements, and the rules of evidence under the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, UNCITRAL, and the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.

Professor Andrew Stoler, University of Adelaide
12 August 2009 - 14 August 2009
Andrew Stoler is a former Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization and is the Director of the Institute for International Trade and adjunct Professor of International Trade at the University of Adelaide. He held senior roles in the office of the United State Trade Representative. He holds a BSFS in International Economic Affairs from Georgetown University and an MBA from George Washington University.

Dr Janice Richardson, University of Exeter
27 July 2009 - 30 July 2009
Room 504, ext 10229, email: Janice.Richardson@ex.ac.uk
Dr Janice Richardson is a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate admissions in the Faculty of Law at the University of Exeter, UK. Prior to joining that faculty in 2006, she was at the University of Leicester. Dr Richardson teaches a wide range of courses, including torts, Legal Study and Critique, Feminist Legal Theory and Law and Political Theory. She is the author of numerous scholarly works on law, legal theory and philosophy.

Dr Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh
21 Jun 2009 - 27 Jun 2009
Ivan.Crozier@ed.ac.uk
Ivan Crozier is a Lecturer in the Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh. He is also Reviews Editor (Human Sciences), for Metascience (2004 - ) and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2007 - ). He was previously a lecturer at the Sydney University Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science (1999 – 2000), and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL (2000 – 2003). He has held fellowships at the Medical Humanities Institute, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (2001), and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin (2002), and has held visiting research positions at the History Department of Umeå University (2006) and at the Polish Academy of Sciences Historical Institute in Warsaw (2005).

Professor Joel Eigen, Franklin and Marshall College, USA
21 Jun 2009 - 27 Jun 2009
Professor Eigen is a leading scholar in his field and his innovative and interdisciplinary research is at the forefront of contemporary scholarship on criminal responsibility. Professor Eigen’s research interests include mental derangement and criminal responsibility, juvenile justice and discretion and capital punishment and race. He has researched and taught across these areas. For further information please click here.

Associate Professor Peer Zumbansen, York University, Toronto
4 Jun 2009 - 10 Jun 2009
email: PZumbansen@osgoode.yorku.ca
Prof Zumbansen holds the Canada Research Chair in the Transnational and Comparative Law of Corporate Governance, and is Associate Dean at Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) in Toronto. He is Director of the Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society (Programs: CLPE Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy / CURL Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory, www.criticalresearchlab.org) and founding Co-editor of the German Law Journal and the Annual of German and European Law. He writes and lectures prolifically in comparative and transnational corporate governance, contracts, arbitration and legal theory.

Professor Randall S. Thomas, Vanderbilt University
25 May 2009 - 7 June 2009
email: randall.thomas@vanderbilt.edu
Professor Randall S Thomas is the John S. Beasley II Professor of Law and Business at Vanderbilt University. He has earned a reputation of being one of the most productive and thoughtful corporate and securities law scholars in the United States. His recent work addresses issues such as hedge fund shareholder activism, executive compensation, corporate voting, corporate litigation and the structure of firms. He joined the Vanderbilt law faculty in 2000 to develop and direct the Law & Business Program, having served previously in on the law faculties of the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, Duke University, Boston University, and the University of Washington. Prior to teaching law, Professor Thomas was in private practice for four years, and clerked for U.S. District Judge Charles Joiner of the Eastern District of Michigan. An acclaimed teacher, Professor Thomas teaches courses in the area of corporate law, including corporations and securities regulation and directs the Vanderbilt Law School's LL.M. program and its Summer in Venice academic program. Whilst here he will be giving a seminar for the Parsons Centre, for details click here

Professor Dana Muir, University of Michigan
25 May 2009 - 4 June 2009
email: dmuir@umich.edu
Professor Dana M. Muir is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Business Law at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Professor Muir’s research interests are in employment law and securities law, particularly as they relate to employee benefits. Professor Muir's employee benefits research has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the annual Supplement to Employee Benefits Law. She also is a member of the Board of The Aerospace Corporation where she chairs the Compensation and Personnel Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee. She was a delegate to the first and second White House/Congressional National Summit on Retirement Savings and has served as a Congressional Fellow. Her book, A Manager's Guide to Employment Law: Protecting Your Company and Yourself, was published by Jossey-Bass in April 2003 as part of the Business School's Pressing Problems series. Whilst here she will be giving a seminar for the Parsons Centre, for details click here

Professor Jorn Kammerer, Bucerius Law School
20 Mar 2009 - 27 Apr 2009
axel.kaemmerer@law-school.de
Jörn Axel Kämmerer, born 1965 in Braunschweig, holds the Chair of Public Law, International and European Law. Supported by the German National Merit Foundation, he studied law in Tübingen and at Aix-en-Provence, France, gaining the title of Maîtrise en droit (specialising in International Law) while also qualifying as a German lawyer. In 1992 he served as parliamentary aid in constitutional legal matters at the State Assembly of Saxony, and was research fellow until 1995 under Prof. Dr. Dr. H.c. Graf Vitzthum in the Public Law Department at the University of Tübingen, where he completed his doctorate in law in 1993 (thesis: "The Antarctic and the Territorial and Environmental Protection Order of International Law"). After the second state examination in law he continued from 1995-2000 as research fellow at Tübingen University, completing his post-doctorate in July 2000 (thesis: "Privatization. Typology, Determinants, Legal Practice, Impacts"). His special areas of interest are Public Law, European Law and Public International Law.

Professor John Tiley, Queens College, University of Cambridge
20 Mar 2009 - 28 Mar 2009
jt10008@cam.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of the Law of Taxation, Director for the Centre of Tax Law, and a Fellow of Queens' College since 1967, University of Cambridge, John Tiley has taught tax law at the University for more than 40 years. He has held faculty posts from assistant lecturer to Faculty Chairman and College positions from Director of Studies to Acting President and was appointed to his chair in 1991. He was made an LLD in 1995 and was awarded the CBE for services to tax law in January 2003. In June 2008 he became only the second tax law academic to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2009 has just been made an Honorary QC. He currently holds an Emeritus Fellowship from the Leverhulme Foundation; while here he will give a seminar on part of that work (taxation of capital gains)
John Tiley first came to the Sydney law as a visiting lecturer on the LLM Course when it was run by Ross Parsons. He has visited many other countries and was a founder member of the European Association of Tax law Professors. He has written widely. His principal work is Revenue Law 6th edition published by Hart Publishing, Oxford. He has also published many articles in the UK usually in the British Tax Review. He has helped to develop the study of the history of tax law. However his most celebrated work has been on avoidance; he has been a leading commentator on and participant in the case law still emerging from the UK courts.

Professor Peter Strauss, Columbia Law School
9 Mar 2009 - 30 Apr 2009
email: strauss@law.columbia.edu
Peter L. Strauss is Betts Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, teaching courses in Administrative Law, Legal Methods, and Legislation. He joined the faculty in 1971. After graduating Harvard College (1961) and Yale Law School (1964), he had spent two years clerking for federal judges in Washington, D.C., two years lecturing on criminal law in the national university of Ethiopia, and three years as an attorney in the Office of the Solicitor General, briefing and arguing cases before the United States Supreme Court. During 1975-77, Professor Strauss was on leave from Columbia as the first General Counsel of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. His published works include Administrative Justice in the United States (1989 and 2002); Gellhorn's & Byse's Administrative Law: Cases and Comments (most recently, 2003, with Rakoff and Farina); Legal Methods: Understanding and Using Cases and Statutes (2005); Legislation, Understanding and Using Statutes (2006), and numerous law review articles, generally focusing on issues of rulemaking, separation of powers, and statutory interpretation. In 1987 the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice of the American Bar Association presented to Professor Strauss its third annual award for distinguished scholarship in administrative law. In 1992-93, he served as Chair of the Section. He has been reporter for rulemaking on its APA and European Union Administrative Law projects, and is a member of its E-Rulemaking task force. He has twice been Vice Dean at Columbia. Professor Strauss has visited at the European University Institute, Harvard and NYU, and lectured widely on American administrative law abroad, including programs in Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Mexico, Turkey and Venezuela.

JJ de Vries Robbé, Senior Counsel, Dutch Development Bank FMO, Netherlands
15 Mar - 21 Mar 2009
email: J.de.Vries.Robbe@fmo.nl
JJ de Vries Robbé has been active in structured finance in private practice and as in-house counsel, both in Europe and in Australia. His practice comprises debt capital markets, derivatives and structured finance generally, with a particular interest in credit derivatives and microfinance. He has published various books on securitisation and derivatives, and contributed to domestic and international legal journals. He enjoys lecturing at the universities of Amsterdam, Melbourne and Sydney. His most recent book is Securitization Law and Practice in the Face of the Credit Crunch (International Banking & Finance Law Series), Kluwer Law International, 2008.

Professor Geoffrey P. Miller, New York University
26 Feb 2009 - 11 Mar 2009
geoffrey.miller@nyu.edu
Geoffrey P. Miller is the Stuyvesant Comfort Professor of Law at New York University and Director of the law school’s Center for the Study of Central Banks and Financial Institutions. He graduated from Princeton University and Columbia Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. After clerking for two federal judges, including Justice Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court, Professor Miller practiced law in the government and a private firm before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as Associate Dean and Editor of the Journal of Legal Studies. He came to NYU in 1995. The author or editor of five books and nearly 200 scholarly articles, Miller is a co-founder and board member of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. His fields of specialization include class action law, financial institutions, and law and economics. Professor Miller is teaching the postgraduate unit International Banking Law and will be speaking at the Investor Class Actions conference being run by the Federal Court of Australia and The Parsons Centre. For further information please click here.

Associate Professor Hock Lai HO, National University of Singapore
2 Mar 2009 - 9 Mar 2009
email: lawhohl@nus.edu.sg
Hock Lai Ho is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and the National University of Singapore. His main area of specialty is the law of evidence. He recently published a book on it called A Philosophy of Evidence Law - Justice in the Search for Truth (Oxford: OUP, 2008). His approach to the subject is theoretical and comparative. He is interested in analysing the ethical values expressed in, and epistemic underpinnings of, evidential rules and
doctrines. Mr Ho's related research program is the exploration of connections between those rules and doctrines and a theory of the criminal trial. This is guided by the hypothesis that our understanding of many aspects of the law of evidence (why they exist) is influenced by our understanding of the trial (what it is and why we have it). He is drawn in particular to a conception of the trial as a communicative process of justification, drawing
inspiration from the works of writers like Antony Duff. He explores how rules and doctrines of evidence are capable of acquiring fresh meanings within this paradigm. His other research interests lie in related areas of criminal procedure, including the right of silence and the privilege against self-incrimination. He recently obtained a research grant to conduct a comparative study of criminal evidence and procedure.

Joan Loughrey, University of Leeds
2 Feb 2009 - 13 Feb 2009
j.m.loughrey@leeds.ac.uk
Joan Loughrey is Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Leeds and Deputy Director, Centre for Business Law and Practice. Her research interests include corporate governance, legal professional privilege and confidentiality and privacy and legal ethics.

Professor Peter Kindler, Universität Augsburg
Sat 13 Oct 2008 – Sun 4 Jan 2009
peter.kindler@jura.uni-augsburg.de
Professor Kindler holds a Chair in Civil and Commercial Law, Private International Law, Comparative Law, at the Augsburg Law Faculty (www.peter-kindler.de). He is author of more than 120 books and articles. His publications (since 1986) focus on Private International Law and Commercial Law, particularly with respect to International and European aspects of company law including corporate insolvency.

Professor Carl Stychin, University of Reading
Mon 24 Nov ‘08 – Fri 28 Nov ‘08
c.f.stychin@reading.ac.uk
Professor Stychin has been Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Reading since 1998. In recent years, he has served as Head of School, Dean of the Faculty and Pro-Vice-Chancellor. His area of research is law, gender and sexuality, and he is the author of three monographs: Law's Desire (1995); A Nation by Rights (1998); and Governing Sexuality (2003). He has also co-edited three collections of essays. Current research interests include freedom of religion claims of sexual orientation non-discrimination; and law, sexuality and popular culture, with specific reference to the Eurovision Song Contest.

Dr Grant Lamond, Balliol College, University of Oxford
Mon 8 Sep – Tue 16 Sep ’08
grant.lamond@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Grant Lamond is Fellow in Law at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He was educated at Sydney University and Oxford and has taught at the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, London and Oxford. His research interests lie in the philosophy of law, particularly legal reasoning, and in the philosophy of criminal law. He has published papers in Legal Theory, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Professor Horst Dippel, University of Kassel
Tue 2 Sep – Thur 4 Sep ’08
h.dippel@uni-kassel.de
Professor Horst Dippel received his Ph. D in 1970 from the University of Cologne. From 1970-1992 he held various academic positions at different German universities and research institutes and since 1992 has been Professor of British and U.S.-American history at the University of Kassel. From 2000-02 he has been Dean and since 2000 Director of the research project “The Rise of Modern Constitutionalism, 1776-1849”.

Professor Stanley Yeo, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Mon 18 Aug – Mon 1 Sep ’08
lawyeos@nus.edu.sg
During his academic career spanning 27 years, Professor Yeo has taught in Australia, Canada, Japan and Singapore and published extensively in the fields of criminal law and criminal justice. In 2003, Professor Yeo was awarded a Doctor of Laws by Sydney University for his substantial contribution to legal scholarship in the area of criminal defences in the common law world. After being co-General Editor of the Criminal Law Journal for many years, Professor Yeo has been appointed Chief Editor of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies from January 2008.

Ms Eloise Scotford, University of Oxford
Mon 18 Aug – Fri 26 Sep ’08
eloise.scotford@law.ox.ac.uk
Ms Eloise Scotford, BSc LLB (Hons) (USyd) BCL MPhil (Oxon), is a former university medallist from this law school (2001) and also a former staff member from 2003 when she taught Equity with us. Eloise is now a Fellow in Environmental Law at Corpus Christi College at Oxford, where she resides at Magdelen College. She is researching comparative environmental law principles In Europe and Australia.

Professor Philippe Sands, University College London
Sat 16 Aug – Mon 18 Aug ‘08
p.sands@ucl.ac.uk
Philippe Sands is Professor of Law at University College London (UCL) and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals in that Faculty. His teaching areas include public international law, the settlement of international disputes (including arbitration), and environmental and natural resources law. Professor Sands is a regular commentator on the BBC and CNN and writes frequently for leading newspapers. He is frequently invited to lecture around the world, and in recent years has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto (2005), the University of Melbourne (2005) and the Universite de Paris I (Sorbonne) (2006, 2007). He has previously held academic positions at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, Kings College London and , University of Cambridge and was a Global Professor of Law at New York University from 1995-2003.

Professor Philip Schrag, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Mon 28 Jul - Wed 30 Jul ‘08
schrag@law.georgetown.edu
Professor Phil Schrag was a member of the founding generation of clinical teachers in the United States (He has been teaching clinics since 1971). He helped to create clinics at Columbia University, Georgetown University, and West Virginia University. At Georgetown, he has been a clinic director since 1981, when he joined the faculty. For 15 years, the clinic worked on disability and consumer protection cases, and since 1995 it has specialized in asylum litigation in immigration court.

Professor Allan Hutchinson, York University, Toronto
Mon 7 Jul – 14 Jul ’08
hutch@yorku.ca
Allan Hutchinson is Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School York, University, Toronto in Canada. He has been a visiting professor at many law schools around the world, including in Australia, and most recently at Harvard Law School. He is the author of ten books, the most recent of which is The Province of Jurisprudence Democratised (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008). He has also been the editor/co-editor of six edited collections, and has authored numerous book chapters and journal articles. He was the editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal and is currently on the editorial board of the International Journal of Law in Context and the Hong Kong University Law Review. He is a regular contributor to the media and has written for The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, The Australian, The London Times, The Guardian, among others. He teaches, among other subjects, Torts; Civil Procedure; Jurisprudence; Constitutional Law.

Professor Michael Bonell, University of Rome
Mon 23 Jun – Fri 27 Jun ’08,
mg.bonell@unidroit.org
Professor Dr Michael Bonell is one of the world’s most prominent and highly regarded international contract law specialists. He was one of the primary architects of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, first published in 1994 and increasingly used by firms and arbitrators to regulate cross-border transactions. He has been Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Rome I “La Sapienza” since 1986, a Visiting Professor at many universities in Europe and the US, and a prolific author.

Professor Han Somsen, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
Thur 12 Jun – Fri 20 Jun ’08,
han.somsen@uvt.nl
Prof Han Somsen researches and teaches at the University of Amsterdam, where he holds the chair in biotechnology and law, and is associate fellow at the School of Law of Warwick University. He has many years of academic experience, which he gained at the University of Hull (UK), the European University Insitute (Italy), Warwick University (UK) and Nijmegen University (NL). He is a prolific researcher, and currently directs a research group focusing on the regulation of biotechnology. Professor Somsen specialises in issues of international, European and domestic biotechnology law, as well as EC law, with a particular interest in EC environmental law. He is a member of the International Law Association Committee on International Law and Biotechnology. He is also an innovative teacher, with a devotion to education and teaching. Finally, he is an experienced editor for Oxford University Press, and author of numerous articles in books and international journals.

Victoria Donaldson, University of Adelaide
Thur 12 Jun – Fri 13 Jun ’08,
victoria.donaldson@adelaide.edu.au
Victoria Donaldson is the current Visiting WTO Fellow at the Institute for International Trade of the University of Adelaide. She is on a temporary leave of absence from her position as a Counsellor at the WTO’s Appellate Body Secretariat, where she has worked since 1999. From 1996-1999 she practiced law with the Brussels office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, and from 1995-1996 with Russell & DuMoulin in Vancouver. She served as a law clerk to Mr. Justice Peter de Carteret Cory at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1993-94. Ms. Donaldson has contributed to books on WTO dispute settlement, writing in particular on dispute settlement procedures in international trade.

Associate Professor Patricia Peppin, Queen’s University, Canada
Sun 8 Jun – Mon 19 June, ‘08,
peppinp@queenscu.ca
Professor Patricia Peppin is Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Canada where she teaches health law, torts and mental health law. Her research focuses on advertising of prescription medicines and innovation in the pharmaceutical field and its impact on women’s health.

Dr Paul Johnson, University of Surrey, UK
Mon 26 May – Fri 6 Jun ’08,
p.johnson@surrey.ac.uk
Dr Paul Johnson’s research interests focus on the interrelationship between identity and social control which he has explored through a number of substantive areas, including: policing, identification and crime control; technology and surveillance; securitization and biometrics; gender and sexuality; and social class. His latest book is ‘Genetic Policing: The uses of DNA in police investigations’ and he is currently engaged in research on the relationship between law and sexuality.

A/Prof Benjamin Richardson, York University, Toronto
Mon 26 May – Wed 28 May ’08,
brichardson@osgoode.yorku.ca
Professor Benjamin Richardson has been a member of Osgoode Hall Law School since 2003, and previously lectured at the law faculties of the Universities of Manchester and Auckland. An environmental law specialist, Richardson also worked for the National Parks Service in Australia and the IUCN (World Conservation Union) in Kenya and Nepal. Recently he has extended his scholarly interests to Aboriginal law, and he is co-director of Osgoode Hall’s clinical program in Aboriginal Law, which recently won an award from the Canadian Bureau of International Education. Richardson’s most recent scholarship includes the book Socially Responsible Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Environmental Law for Sustainability (Hart Publishing, 2006).

Assistant Professor Kirsten Anker, McGill University
Mon 12 May – Fri 16 May ‘08
kirsten.anker@mcgill.ca
Assistant Professor and former Boulton Fellow at McGill University Faculty of Law, Kirsten has previously taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Sydney and UTS. She completed her PhD on Native Title and Legal Pluralism at the University of Sydney Faculty of Law in 2007.

Professor Katherine Stone, UCLA School of Law
Sun 4 May – Thu 15 May ‘08
stone@law.ucla.edu
Professor Katherine Stone is one of America’s leading labour lawyers and she also has interests in alternative dispute resolution law. She is currently exploring the legal changes brought about by the changing nature of work in market economy countries. Her major books are: Rethinking Comparative Labor Law: Bridging the Past and the Future (edited volume, with Benjamin Aaron) (Van de Plas Publishers, 2007); From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Chaning Workplace (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Arbitration law (Foundation press, 2002), Private Justice: The Law of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution New York, NY: Foundation Press, 2000)

A/Prof Susan Franck, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Wed 19 Mar – Fri 21 Mar ‘08
sfranck2@uni.edu
Susan Franck is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Law College. In July, she will join the Washington & Lee University School of Law as an Associate Professor where her teaching and scholarship will focus on the resolution of international economic law disputes. Professor Franck has law degrees from the University of London (LLM), where she was a US-UK Fulbright Scholar, and the University of Minnesota (JD).

Dr Jesse Elvin, City University, London
Mon 17 Mar – Mon 31 Mar ‘08
jesse.elvin.1@city.ac.uk
Dr. Jesse Elvin is a lecturer in law at City University, London. He graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1994 with a BA in Law and Anthropology. He obtained an LLM from the LSE in 1995, and a PhD from the same institution in 2005. Before joining City University, he taught at the LSE and University College London. He has published in a number of leading journals, including the Cambridge Law Journal, the Law Quarterly Review, and the Modern Law Review. His research interests include criminal legal theory, feminist legal theory, popular perceptions of the law, criminal law, tort law and contract law.

Professor Heping Dong, Northwest university of Politics and Law, Xi’an, Peoples Republic of China
Wed 5 Mar – Sun 30 Mar ‘08
hepingd@hotmail.com
Professor Dong is a full professor of Constitutional Law at Northwest University of Politics and Law, where he did his undergraduate work. He completed his postgraduate work at Jilin University. He is also Chief Instructor of Constitutional Law Postgraduate Student Program of NUPL, Vice-president of China Constitutional Law Society and Council Member of International Association of Constitutional Law of China Law Society. He has extensive publications on law enforcement and Chinese constitutional law.

Professor Iain Ramsay, Kent School of Law, University of Kent
Tue 26 Feb – Sun 2 Mar ‘08
I.D.C.Ramsay@kent.ac.uk
Professor Iain Ramsay's research interests are primarily in regulation of consumer markets at the national, regional and international level with a particular interest in issues of credit and insolvency. He is also interested in commercial credit and commercial law, focusing on the role of credit law in development. My approach is interdisciplinary drawing on economic and socio-legal perspectives. He is currently conducting a study of overindebtedness and the policy responses in the UK, and is a co-ordinator of an international network of scholars on overindebtedness and recently completed a new edition of a text on Consumer Law and Policy.

Professor Cindy Schipani, University of Michigan
Fri 15 Feb – Mon 30 Jun ‘08
Schipani@bus.umich.edu
Cindy Schipani is Chair of Law, History and Communication, Professor Business Law at the University of Michigan Business School and Co-Area Director of Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility at The William Davidson Institute.

Professor Judy Fudge, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Tue 13 Feb – Fri 16 Feb ‘08
jafudge@uvic.ca
Professor Judy Fudge holds the Landsdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria, BC Canada. Professor Fudge is the leading Canadian feminist labour law historian, having co-authored three books, co-edited three collections on feminism and labour law, and written innumerable articles and chapters covering labour law, labour history, pay equity and human rights at work. Professor Fudge is currently undertaking an international comparative research project entitled 'Governing the employment relationship in the new economy: law, regulation, and labour market institutions'.

Professor Michele Vellano, University of Valle d’Aosta
Mon 4 Feb – Fri 8 Feb ‘08
Michele.vellano@unito.it
Professor Michele Vellano, Turin University (J.D. 1993), Milan University (Ph.D, International Law, 1997) is a Full Professor of International Law at the University of Valle d'Aosta. He also teaches European Union Law at Turin University. He has been member of a Group of the Italian Ministry of Trade and Industry on WTO Law (2000). He is author of two monographs and over thirty publications on International Public and Private Law and E.C. Law. He is active both in advising clients and litigation in the fields of commercial law, competitive and state aid law, E.C. funding law and international private law, domestic and international sport law. He has specialised in the area of privacy law and regulation. He is a member of the Italian Society for International Law (SIDI) and of the Société Française pour le Droit International (SFDI); he is Secretary of the Piedmont Section of the Italian Society for International Organiszation (SIOI) Foreign languages: English, French. He is chartered at the Turin Bar.