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New Perspectives on Comparative Law Junior comparative law scholars from around the world came to GW in April to present their work at the inaugural New Perspectives on Comparative Law conference. The event, featuring concurrent panel discussions, was hosted by the American Society of Comparative Law Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC). During a plenary session, the Best Paper Award was presented to Harvard Law School Climenko Fellow and Professor Jill Goldenziel for her paper, “Veiled Political Questions: Islamic Dress, Constitutionalism, and the Ascendance of Courts.” GW Law Professors Francesca Bignami and Thomas Colby
provided comments on the paper. The conference was organized by YCC Chair and Boston College Law School Professor Richard Albert, YCC Program Chair and University of Miami Law School Markus Wagner, and GW Law Professor Claudia Haupt, LLM ‘09.
Nick Gingold
Conference organizers and panelists pose for a portrait after the event: From left to right: University of Miami Law School Professor Markus Wagner; Boston College Law School Professor Richard Albert; GW Law School Professor Claudia Haupt, LLM ’09; Harvard Law School Professor Jill Goldenziel; GW Law Professor Thomas Colby; and GW Law Professor Francesca Bignami.
Haupt Heads to New York For the past three years, GW Professorial Lecturer in Law Claudia E. Haupt, LLM ’09, has been teaching, among other courses, Legal Research and Writing for international LLM students. Professor Haupt will continue this focus in teaching when she heads to Columbia University Law School this fall where she has been named an associate-in-law. In scholarship news, Professor Haupt recently published a book, Religion–State Relations in the United States and Germany, a comparative analysis of the constitutional law of religion-state relations in the United States and Germany focusing on the principle of state neutrality. She also has an article forthcoming in the George Washington Law Review, “Transnational Nonestablishment.” “I am truly grateful for the opportunities GW Law has provided since I first arrived here as an LLM student in 2008,” says Professor Haupt. “I have been able to develop my research agenda, I have had the pleasure of teaching very talented and engaged JD and LLM students, and I have very much benefited from interacting with a highly distinguished yet easily approachable, genuinely interested, and eager to help set of teachers, colleagues, and friends. While I am very much looking forward to future adventures at Columbia Law School, I will miss the incredibly supportive environment at GW Law that I have been so fortunate to have been a part of for the past four years.”
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