Teaching, Research, and Service to the World
Permanent Faculty Engaged in International or Comparative Work
Gregory S. Alexander
A. Robert Noll Professor of Law
B.A., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1970); J.D., Northwestern (1973)
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Professor Alexander is a leading authority in the areas of property, legal history, and trusts and estates. Much of his work is comparative in nature. His book, The Global Debate Over Constitutional Property, will be published by The University of Chicago Press in 2006. His previous comparative publications include Property as a Fundamental Constitutional Right? The German Example, in the Cornell Law Review (2003) and Comparing the Two Legal Realisms: American and Scandinavian, in the American Journal of Comparative Law (2002). He has published a compilation of comparative essays, A Fourth Way? Privatization, Property, and the Emergence of New Market Economies (with Graznya Skapska, 1993), as well as journal articles and book chapters in Scotland, England, Poland, Germany, and the Netherlands. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, in Stanford, California; at the Stellenbosch Instutute for Advanced Study, in Stellenbosch, South Africa; at the Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg). He was a visiting fellow at Worchester College, University of Oxford. In 1995 Professor Alexander was invited to give the Butterworth Lecture at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. He has lectured in New Zealand at an international conference attended by members of New Zealand’s High Court, and before the Scottish Law Revision Commission. In June 2002 he gave a lecture, “Restitution of Property and Socio-Political Transformation in East-Central Europe,” in Krakow, Poland, at a conference co-sponsored by the Jagiellonian University of Krakow and Humboldt University of Berlin, and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Professor Alexander’s book, Commodity and Propriety: The Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, published by The University of Chicago Press, received the American Publishers Association Best Book of the Year award in the law category for 1997, and has gained a wide international readership.
John J. Barceló III
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of International and Comparative Law and Elizabeth and Arthur Reich Director, Berger International Legal Studies Program
B.A., Tulane (1962); J.D., Tulane (1966); S.J.D., Harvard (1977)
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Professor Barceló is central to Cornell’s international legal studies program, having been chiefly responsible for its growth and expansion from the mid-1970s to the present. He teaches primarily in the fields of international business law, World Trade Organization (WTO) law, international commercial arbitration, and European Union law (formerly, also admiralty law and torts). Professor Barceló is a co-author of International Commercial Arbitration: A Transnational View (3d ed. 2006), and co-editor of Lawyers’ Practice and Ideals: A Comparative View (1999). He has also published widely in U.S. and European legal journals, especially in the field of international trade law, including WTO and European Union law. His research and publications focus primarily on the legal aspects of global and regional economic integration. He was a Fulbright scholar in 1966–67 at the University of Bonn, Germany, and has taught and lectured in China, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Thailand, the U.K. and Spain. Professor Barceló was a consultant on international trade law to the U.S. Department of Commerce from 1981 to 1983. In 1987, he was a visiting senior research fellow at St. John’s College, University of Oxford, and a visiting research scholar at the University of Siena, Italy. In 1994 he was the founding director of the annual Cornell-Paris I Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law held each July in Paris and has been its director or co-director from 1994 to the present. He was a visiting professor of Law at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in 1996 and 1998; at the Central European University, in Budapest, Hungary, from 1995 to the present; at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, in 2002; at the Bucerius law faculty in Hamburg, Germany in 2004; and at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre in 2004 and 2005 (affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Law in Munich, Germany) from 2004 to the present; and at the Centre for Law, Economics, and Institutions at the University of Torino, Italy, in 2006. He is an experienced international arbitrator and was on the board of directors of the American Society of Comparative Law from 1978 to 2005.
Kevin M. Clermont
James and Mark Flanagan Professor of Law
A.B., Princeton (1967); J.D., Harvard (1971)
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Prior to law school Professor Clermont was a Fulbright Scholar in France. Following law school and a federal clerkship, he practiced international finance law at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York. Since joining the Cornell Law School faculty in 1974, he has established himself as one of America’s most important scholars and educators in the fields of civil procedure and litigation. He teaches International Litigation, both at the Paris Institute and Cornell Law School, and he gave a series of talks in Japan in 2003. He is actively engaged with issues of international and comparative law. Along with Professor John Barceló, he is the co-editor of and a contributor to A Global Law of Jurisdiction and Judgments: Lessons from The Hague (2002) and has written extensively on negotiations held in The Hague aimed at an international treaty on jurisdiction and enforcement of civil and commercial judgments. Professor Clermont's recent comparative scholarship has focused both on standards of proof and on territorial jurisdiction, especially in France and Japan.
Theodore Eisenberg
Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law
B.A., Swarthmore (1969); J.D., Pennsylvania (1972)
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Professor Eisenberg clerked with former Chief Justice Earl Warren, U.S. Supreme Court, and the District of Columbia Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals. He is a leader in the field of empirical legal research, civil rights, bankruptcy, and the death penalty. He is the editor-in-chief of Debtor-Creditor Law, a ten-volume treatise published by Matthew Bender, and is the author of casebooks on civil-rights legislation as well as bankruptcy. Recently he has concentrated on collaborative empirical studies involving a wide range of subjects, including civil- rights cases, punitive- damage awards, and a nationwide assessment of death-penalty litigation. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Professor Eisenberg has published a number of comparative empirical studies involving the American, Japanese, Finnish, and Swedish legal systems. His book on Swedish bankruptcy law has been published in Swedish and English, and his work on Japanese bankruptcy law has been translated into Japanese. He has served as an advisor to the Swedish government and has ongoing collaborative relationships with scholars from Swedish and Finnish universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in Britain.
Claire M. Germain
Edward Cornell Law Librarian and Professor of Law
Director, Dual Degree Programs, Paris & Berlin
Licence-ès-Lettres (M.A.), Paris (1971); LL.B., Paris (1974); M.C.L., Louisiana State (1975); M.L.L., Denver (1977)
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Professor Germain was born and raised in France, and received the Licence-ès-Lettres (M.A.) and Licence en Droit (LL.B.) from the Université de Paris before coming to the United States. She was a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht (Hamburg) in 1980. After spending many years at Duke University as a law librarian and lecturer, she joined the Cornell Law School faculty in 1993, where, she serves as director of the law library, and a law faculty member. She is also the Director of the Dual Degree Programs with the University of Paris I and Humbolt University, in Berlin, Germany. It is a program which is almost unique in the United States, whereby a highly selected group of U.S., French, and German students can get a U.S. J.D. and a French law degree or a German law degree. Her teaching and scholarly interests include French law, foreign and international law and legal research. She teaches a seminar in French law at Cornell. in Ithaca, and during the Cornell Paris Summer Institute, and she has taught many legal research courses to first-years and upper-class students. She is actively involved in all aspects of legal information, from rare books to cyberspace, particularly the long term access to born digital legal information. She is active in the American Association of Law Libraries, and serving as President for 2005-06. In 2005-06, she is the Chair of the AALS (American Association of Law Schools) Section on Law Libraries. She frequently speaks on comparative law and legal research topics in the United States, Europe, and Canada. She is the author of two books, Germain's Transnational Law Research (Transnational, looseleaf, 1991- , winner of AALL’s 1992 Joseph L. Andrews Award) and Guide to Foreign Legal Materials: French (with Charles Szladits, Oceana, 2d ed., 1985), and numerous articles. Thanks to the award of two Cornell Faculty Innovation in Teaching grants, she has also produced two multimedia websites, French Law in Action, http://legal1.cit.cornell.edu/frenchlaw/ and Comparative Courtroom Practices: French and U.S. Criminal trial, http://legal1.cit.cornell.edu/court_trials/index.htm Username: frenchtrials Password: greffier
She has been instrumental in establishing Cornell Law School as the official Internet mirror site for both the International Court of Justice and the International Labour Organization. She has also been responsible for significant enhancement of the rare books collection of the Cornell Law Library.
Robert A. Green
Professor of Law
B.A., Chicago (1971); M.S., California Institute of Technology (1973); J.D., Georgetown (1983)
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Professor Green clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards, District of Columbia Circuit, and Justice Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the Cornell faculty, he practiced with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., specializing in corporate tax and U.S. taxation of international transactions. Professor Green teaches Federal Income Taxation, International Tax, and other tax-related courses, as well as international trade law. His recent scholarship focuses on the interaction of tax and non-tax treaties (to be published as a chapter in a forthcoming publication of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation and the Canadian Tax Foundation), and the implications of international economic integration for tax reform. He regularly presents papers at professional symposia, including the 2001 Seminar on Tax Treaties in the 21st Century, jointly sponsored by the Harvard International Tax Program and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, in Amsterdam. In the spring of 2002 he taught U.S. international tax law at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He was a visiting associate professor at Yale Law School in 1999–2000.
George A. Hay
Edward Cornell Professor of Law and Professor of Economics
B.S., LeMoyne (1963); M.A., Northwestern (1967); Ph.D., Northwestern (1969)
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Professor Hay concentrates his scholarly efforts in the area of antitrust and competition law, including its comparative aspects. He teaches both in the Law School and in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences. He came to Cornell in 1979 after serving as director of economics in the antitrust division of the United States Department of Justice. He has been a visiting fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford (2001) (where he gave the Smithies Lectures), a visiting professor at the University of Sydney Law School (1992 and 1996) and the University of New South Wales Law School (1995), and a Fulbright scholar at Oxford University (1984–85). In recent years Professor Hay has served as a consultant and lectured on antitrust issues in New Zealand, Australia, England, Taiwan, China, and Canada. He has testified in several Australian cases dealing with competition law and is frequently cited on that subject by Australian courts and legal scholars. He has taught competition law and economics to the staffs of both the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the New Zealand Commerce Commission. In April 2001 he was the keynote speaker at a workshop on competition law for Australian federal court judges.
James A. Henderson, Jr.
Frank B. Ingersoll Professor of Law
A.B., Princeton (1959); LL.B., Harvard (1962); LL.M., Harvard (1964)
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Professor Henderson is an eminent authority on products liability law and a leading commentator in the field of torts generally. He was a reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement, Third, of Torts: Products Liability, from 1992–1998. He is the co-author of two casebooks in torts and one in products liability. Professor Henderson has a worldwide reputation in his field of expertise—an area of U.S. law that is watched closely by professionals in other legal systems. He regularly consults with lawyers and academics from other nations regarding U.S. products-liability law and has spoken many times at professional and academic conferences in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Robert A. Hillman
Edwin H. Woodruff Professor of Law
B.A., Rochester (1969); J.D., Cornell (1972)
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Professor Hillman clerked for two judges in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, practiced with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York, and taught at the University of Iowa College of Law before joining Cornell’s law faculty in 1982. He teaches contracts, international sales law, and The Nature, Functions, and Limits of Law, and his scholarly interests include contracts, contract theory, and the Uniform Commercial Code. In addition to his books, casebook, and articles on domestic U.S. law, he is the co-editor of Modern American Contract Law, a book of edited readings on American contract law published in Japan and translated into Japanese. His monograph, The Richness of Contract Law: An Analysis and Critique of Contemporary Theories of Contract Law, was published internationally by Kluwer, and he has authored other book chapters and articles published abroad. Professor Hillman has written a number of articles on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. In 1999, he chaired the American Association of Law Schools’ workshop on international business transactions. He has been a visiting professor at Université Paris I, served as an expert witness in international litigation and arbitrations, and taught several times in Cornell’s Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law in Paris.
Robert C. Hockett
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., J.D., Kansas; M.A., Oxford; LL.M., J.S.D., Yale
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Professor Hockett joined the Cornell faculty in 2004 upon completing his doctoral work at Yale. Prior to that he worked for the International Monetary Fund and clerked for Deanell Reece Tacha, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. He did masters work in mathematical logic & set theory, as well as in philosophy and economics, as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and continues to write in these fields. Professor Hockett teaches Business Organizations, Financial Institutions and International Finance. The first two courses include significant comparative components and the third is fully transnational in orientation. Most of Professor Hockett's scholarly work is concerned, as was his doctoral work, with the intersections of law, finance and distributive justice both as theoretic and as practical concerns, and much of it is transnational in scope. He has accordingly published in such journals as the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, and the George Washington International Law Review, in addition to the Southern California Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Cardozo Law Review, the peer-reviewed journal Metaphilosophy, and a forthcoming Blackwell volume, titled Global Institutions and Responsibilities, edited by the distinguished global justice theorists Christian Barry and Thomas Pogge of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Columbia University. He also is a submissions reviewer for Ethics & International Affairs, as well as for the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Theoretical Politics and PoLAR. Professor Hockett is currently working on a paper to be presented at a forthcoming conference on the ethics of international debt relief sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment, two articles on a distributively just “global ownership society,” a Financial Institutions casebook and two other book projects concerned with justice and enterprise-organizational law. He also serves on the dissertation committees of Cornell Ph.D. students in other departments writing on global justice, and is organizing in the 2005-06 academic year a symposium on global justice sponsored by the Cornell Journal of International Law.
Robert B. Kent
Professor of Law Emeritus
A.B., Harvard (1943); LL.B., Boston University (1949); LL.D. (honoris causa), Roger Williams University (2001)
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Professor Kent came to Cornell in 1980 after teaching at Boston University for many years. From 1982 to 1986 he was the associate dean for academic affairs at Cornell Law School; he took emeritus status in 1992, but has continued to advise Cornell regarding aspects of its international programs, especially in Africa. For several years in the 1970s he was professor of law and dean of the University of Zambia School of Law, where he later also taught as a Fulbright lecturer. Both in Zambia and at the National University of Lesotho, he served as an external examiner in law. Professor Kent has been a Ford Fellow in Law Teaching and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. He has also been a visiting fellow at Trinity College, University of Oxford, and has lectured at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. He is a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Kent initiated Cornell Law School’s successful pilot project with the Peace Corps to provide recent Cornell graduates with the opportunity to teach law at the University of Zambia Law School.
Douglas A. Kysar
Professor of Law
B.A., Indiana (1995); J.D., Harvard (1998)
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Professor Kysar graduated magna cum laude in 1998 from Harvard Law School, where he received the Sears Prize and was a member of the Board of Student Advisors. Following law school, Professor Kysar clerked for the Hon. William G. Young, Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, and practiced corporate law with Foley, Hoag, & Eliot in Boston before joining the faculty at Cornell in 2001. Professor Kysar’s articles, which provide interdisciplinary approaches to problems in sustainable development, risk regulation, and products liability law, have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, Ecology Law Quarterly, and the Boston College Law Review. Two of Professor Kysar’s articles have been selected for presentation in the environmental law category of the Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum. He has been a visiting associate professor at Harvard Law School and a visiting scholar at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. In the fall of 2005, he will be a visiting professor at Yale Law School. Professor Kysar teaches courses in torts, international environmental law, and risk regulation.
Mitchel de S.-O.-l’E. Lasser
Professor of Law
B.A., Yale (1986); J.D., Harvard (1989); M.A.(1990), Ph.D. (1995), Yale
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Professor Lasser is the Law School’s Director of Graduate Studies. He teaches and lectures regularly in Europe, maintaining close intellectual and institutional contacts that are essential to his research and teaching projects. Professor Lasser has ongoing visiting relationships with the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Sciences Po (the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris); was a Visiting Professor at the University of Lausanne and the University of Geneva in 2003 and 2004; and held the Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Chair at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in 2003. His current research brings together the fields of European law, comparative law and judicial theory. This work begins by describing – and distinguishing between – the interpretive practices and judicial theories that characterize the legal cultures of France, the United States, and the European Union. It then analyzes the ongoing, multifaceted, often thorny, and increasingly transformative negotiation between these systems’ divergent understandings of proper judicial practice. Professor Lasser’s monograph book, JUDICIAL DELIBERATIONS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF JUDICIAL TRANSPARENCY AND LEGITIMACY, was published in 2004 by Oxford University Press.
Peter W. Martin
Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law, Co-director, Legal Information Institute
B.A., Cornell (1961); J.D., Harvard (1964)
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Professor Martin was dean of Cornell Law School from 1980–88. He teaches copyright law and social security law, and his scholarly interests include digital technology and the law, as well as government benefits. Professor Martin is a co-founder of Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (L.I.I.), the largest noncommercial legal Web site in the world. He is a pioneer in legal informatics and in law school distance-learning techniques. He was instrumental in creating the Zambia Legal Information Institute and establishing the L.I.I. Internet mirror site in England. In recent years he has participated in conferences and symposia in Italy, Jamaica, England, Australia, and Japan. As befits the leading distance-learning practitioner in legal academia, two of his appearances (a keynote address at the Bileta Conference at the University of Warwick, England, and participation in the Commonwealth Legal Education Association in Adelaide, Australia) were via video conference. He consults widely with diverse electronic publishers of legal information, working with colleagues in Canada, South Africa, and Indonesia. Most of his publishing now is done electronically, including an award-winning electronic treatise, Martin on Social Security. Professor Martin’s work is routinely posted on Internet sites and is therefore transnational by its very nature.
Muna Ndulo
Director, Institute for African Development, and Visiting Professor of Law
LL.B., University of Zambia (1970); LL.M., Harvard (1971); D.Phil., Oxford (1977)
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Professor Ndulo began his career on the law faculty at the University of Zambia in 1971, where he served as dean, director of the Law Practice Institute, and chair of the Law Development Commission of Zambia from 1977–82. In 1984–85 he first came to Cornell as a visiting professor. From 1986–96 he was a legal officer in the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations’ International Trade Branch, where he handled issues relating to the Vienna Sales Convention and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods and Services. From 1992 to 1994 he also served as a United Nations senior political advisor in South Africa, first to the chief of the U.N.’s observer mission, then to the special representative of the secretary-general, a position that placed him in charge of the policy direction of the mission. He rejoined the Cornell Law School faculty in 1996. In 1999 he was appointed the legal advisor to the United Nations mission in East Timor, where he drafted the legal framework for the U.N.-sponsored referendum. In 2000 he again was appointed a U.N. and International Foundation for Elections Systems legal advisor, in Kosovo. Professor Ndulo is a member of the Human Rights Watch (Africa) advisory council, a board member of Gender Links (a major South African gender-rights organization) and a member of the advisory council for the Inter-African Network for Human Rights and Development (AFRONET). He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, the U.N. Division of the Advancement of Women, and the Economic Commission for Africa, among other organizations. He has been an external examiner in universities in many African nations and has been a visiting lecturer at universities and institutes in Austria, Italy, Germany, and the United States. Professor Ndulo teaches Legal Aspects of Foreign Investments, International Organizations and International Human Rights Institutions, and The Common Law and African Legal Systems. His scholarly interests include human rights, legal aspects of foreign investments in developing countries, constitution-making, governance, elections, and development. His published works include a number of books on human rights and other legal issues in Zambia, as well as many articles on these topics. In addition to his faculty position at Cornell Law School, he serves as the director of Cornell University’s Institute for African Development.
Annelise Riles
Professor of Law
A.B., Princeton (1988); M.Sc., London School of Economics (1990); J.D., Harvard (1993); Ph.D., Cambridge (1996)
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Professor Riles, who also holds an appointment in Cornell’s Department of Anthropology, specializes in comparative and international law, and East Asia-Pacific region legal studies. She is a native French speaker, is fluent in Chinese, and is proficient in Japanese, Spanish, and Fijian. Her research addresses the character of information and technology in transnational and institutional settings, as well as the cultural foundations of legality and the use of law to manage cultural differences. Recent work has included the study of information sources and strategies used by regulators and participants in the Tokyo derivatives markets, as well as consumer movements in Japan. She also has conducted fieldwork in Fiji and among delegates to United Nations global conferences. A prolific author, Professor Riles has published numerous articles and book chapters and is the author of The New Formalism (forthcoming) and The Network Inside Out (2000), as well as the editor of Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge (2002) and Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law (2001). Professor Riles formerly was a member of the law faculty at Northwestern University School of Law, where she held a joint appointment as a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation. She was a visiting professor at Yale Law School in 2001–02.
Faust F. Rossi
Samuel S. Leibowitz Professor of Trial Techniques
A.B., University of Toronto (1953); J.D., Cornell (1960)
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Professor Rossi is an acclaimed lecturer and national authority in the fields of evidence, procedure, and trial advocacy. He has lectured on these subjects to judges, lawyers, and students throughout the United States and Europe. He has been a visiting fellow at Wadham College of the University of Oxford, an academic visitor at the University of Siena, Italy, and since 1993 a recurring visiting professor in the Legal Studies Department of Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. In 1992 he was the national winner of the Jacobson Award for Teaching Excellence. Professor Rossi edited and contributed to Expert Witnesses (American Bar Association 1991) and has written numerous monographs and articles on evidence. He is a member of the American Jurisprudence Editorial Advisory Board and the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He served as a consultant on the Federal Rules of Evidence for the American College of Trial Lawyers, for the New York State Law Revision Commission, and for other federal and state associations. Professor Rossi teaches Introduction to the American Legal System to non-U.S. lawyers and law students in Cornell Law School’s annual Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law in Paris and at the Central European University.
Stewart J. Schwab
Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law
B.A., Swarthmore (1975); M.A., Michigan (1978); J.D., Michigan (1980); Ph.D., Michigan (1981)
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Before joining Cornell’s faculty, Professor Schwab clerked for Judge J. Dickson Phillips, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. In his teaching and research, Professor Schwab combines a specialty in labor and employment law with expertise in law and economics. In addition to his many law review articles, he is the co-author of both a casebook and a treatise on employment law and is one of four reporters selected to draft the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Employment Law. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies and serves as a board member, advisor, or referee for a number of other professional journals, foundations, and organizations. In the field of comparative law, he has taught Comparative Corporate Law and Governance, Comparative Labor Law, Comparative Product Liability, and Contracts in a Global Society. He has been a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Law and Economics of the Australian National University, the Chapman Tripp Visiting Lecturer at Victoria University in New Zealand, and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford University. Professor Schwab has served as a consultant to the World Bank on reform of labor and employment laws in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Pakistan, and Russia. In recent years he also has consulted, given lectures, or participated in conferences in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, and Scotland.
Steven H. Shiffrin
Professor of Law
B.A., Loyola (Los Angeles) (1963); M.A., San Fernando Valley State (1964); J.D., Loyola (Los Angeles) (1975)
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Professor Shiffrin is a leading authority in First Amendment jurisprudence. Much of his scholarly work to date has been on free speech and dissent. He is the author of two books and numerous articles in the field and has co-authored two major casebooks: SHIFFRIN AND CHOPER: THE FIRST AMENDMENT (3d ed. 2001), and LOCKHART, KAMISAR, CHOPER, SHIFFRIN, & FALLON: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (9th ed. 2001). Professor Shiffrin teaches comparative free speech in the Cornell Paris Summer Institute and is a participant in the annual Conference on Philosophy and the Social Sciences, an international gathering of scholars held in Prague. He currently is writing a book about religion, politics, and law, which will include comparative aspects. As part of his research he has worked with German and Italian colleagues in Prague and with scholars in Northern Ireland and Canada under the auspices of the Gender, Sexuality, and Family Project.
Robert S. Summers
William G. McRoberts Research Professor in Administration of the Law
B.S., Oregon (1955); LL.B., Harvard (1959); LL.D. (honoris causa), Helsinki (1991); LL.D. (honoris causa), Göttingen (1994)
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Professor Summers is one of the United States’ leading legal scholars and the author or co-author of landmark books on contracts, commercial law, comparative law, jurisprudence, and legal theory. His treatise, The Uniform Commercial Code, co-authored with Professor James J. White, is the most widely cited work in the subject. The Uniform Commercial Code is the largest body of private law ever adopted by the United States legislatures. Professor Summers’ biography of Lon Fuller (1984) treats one of the most important figures in post–World War II American jurisprudence. His earlier work, Instrumentalism and American Legal Theory (1982), places the development of American legal realism within the American pragmatist tradition. In 1987 he and Professor Patrick Atiyah of Oxford University published a comparative treatise, Form and Substance in Anglo-American Law: A Comparative Study of Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory, and Legal Institutions. In 1991 Professor Summers co-authored and edited Interpreting Statutes: A Comparative Study, as part of the Bielefelder Kreis project, a private research group of eighteen scholars from ten countries. In 1997 he co-authored and edited the project’s companion book on precedent in ten countries, Interpreting Precedents: A Comparative Study, and was elected honorary president of the Bielefelder Kreis. He is also the author of two well-known collections of essays: Essays on the Nature of Law and Legal Reasoning (1992) and Essays in Legal Theory (2000). His works have been published in Dutch, German, Spanish, Japanese, Hungarian, Italian, and Russian. He has been a visiting scholar or professor at Oxford University, Cambridge University, the University of Münster, the University of Vienna, the University of Edinburgh, Australian National University, the University of Sydney, and the University of Warwick. Professor Summers is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, headquartered in Paris, and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 1998–99 he was an official advisor to the drafting commission for the Egyptian Civil Code, and from 1993 to 1997 he served as an official advisor to the drafting commission for the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Over the course of his career, Professor Summers has lectured at over sixty universities outside the United States, including fourteen in Germany and thirteen in Great Britain. He lectures annually on jurisprudence and legal theory in Britain, Scandinavia, and other locations in Europe. He is currently at work on several books and articles. His most recent book-length work is to be published in the fall of 2005 by Cambridge University Press and is entitled: Form and Function in a Legal System-A General Study.
W. Bradley Wendel
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., Rice (1991); J.D., Duke (1994); LL.M. (1998), J.S.D. (2002), Columbia
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Professor Wendel clerked for Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, practiced as a products liability defense lawyer at a large firm in Seattle, and did graduate work in legal philosophy at Columbia Law School before beginning his teaching career at Washington and Lee Law School, in Virginia. He joined the Cornell faculty in 2004. His primary area of research and teaching interests is the legal profession and the theory of legal ethics. He has considerable contacts with legal profession scholars in Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, as the book reviews editor of LEGAL ETHICS, a peer-reviewed international journal published in the United Kingdom. He also served as a visiting member of the Law Society Ethics Forum, studying the reform of legal ethics and education in the United Kingdom. Professor Wendel has taught classes, attended conferences, and presented papers on legal ethics in Belgium, France, New Zealand, South Korea, and the U.K. He is currently serving as the Cornell Law School representative to the international Ph.D. program in Institutions, Economics, and the Law, which is administered jointly by Università di Torino (Turin, Italy), École Polytechnique (Paris, France), Universiteit van Gent (Ghent, Belgium), and Cornell Law School.
David Wippman
Vice Provost for International Relations and Professor of Law
B.A., Princeton (1976); M.A., Princeton (1978); J.D., Yale (1982)
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Professor Wippman was the editor-in-chief of the YALE LAW JOURNAL and clerked for Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty, Professor Wippman practiced law for nine years in Washington, D.C. As a partner at Reichler, Appelbaum, and Wippman, he specialized in the representation of developing countries in litigation, international arbitration, and political consulting on public and private international-law issues. Professor Wippman's clients included the governments of Nicaragua, Guatemala, and the Philippines, as well as the interim government of Liberia. He was a member of the legal team that represented Nicaragua in its successful lawsuit against the United States in the International Court of Justice. He teaches public international law, international human rights, ethnic conflict, and international criminal law. He has written extensively on international criminal courts, the use of force, ethnic conflict, and minority-rights issues. In addition to writing more than twenty scholarly articles in the field, Professor Wippman is the co-author of a forthcoming casebook, INTERNATIONAL LAW: UNDERSTANDING PROCESS THROUGH PROBLEMS, the editor of and a contributor to INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ETHNIC CONFLICT (1998), and a contributor to THE POLITICS OF LAW IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (2002), PROTECTION AGAINST GENOCIDE (2000), and DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW (2000). He is a member of the editorial review board of the online journal HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMAN WELFARE: AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF BOOKS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS. During 1998-99 Professor Wippman served as the director of the Office of Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council, where he assisted in the formulation of U.S. policy on war crimes, the international criminal court, U.N. political issues, and international economic sanctions. He frequently lectures and speaks at academic conferences around the world, including in the U.S., Ireland, Northern Ireland, Australia, Zimbabwe, Austria, France, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, the Philippines, and Nigeria. He has been a visiting professor at Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a visiting scholar at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. He has served on the executive committee of the executive council of the American Society of International Law, and is a member of the Public International Law and Policy Group, the advisory board of Cornell's Institute for European Studies, Cornell's Peace Studies Program steering committee, and Cornell's Near Eastern Studies Program advisory board. He also is a co-director of Cornell Law School's Summer Institute of International and Cooperative Law in Paris.
