articles in such journals as the Law & Society Review, the Michigan Law Review and the Stanford Law Review. At Berkeley, Kagan has taught numerous courses, including Responses to Injustice: Legal Claims and Regulation; Environmental Politics, Policy and Law; and Law, Society and Politics. Kagan, who began his career as a private practitioner, served as assistant to the chairman of the Federal Price Commission in Washington, D.C., in 1971. More recently, he Robert A. Kagan has been a visitor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Ohio State University and Oxford University. Mitchel Lasser “It is impossible to come to NYU as a comparatist and not be excited about working with the remarkable scholars here,” says Mitchel Lasser, a professor at Cornell Law School specializing in European Union law, comparative constitutional law and judicial process. “The strength and depth of the community is truly unique.” Lasser, who serves at Cornell Law School as the director of graduate studies and as codirector of the Cornell Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law in Paris, will visit NYU in Fall 2006. He is currently at work on Comparative Law in Flux: The Judiciary at the Intersection of Legal Systems, a monograph. His previous monograph, Judicial Deliberations: A Comparative Analysis of Judicial Transparency and Legitimacy, was published by Oxford University Press in 2004. He has also published articles in the American Journal of Comparative Law, Archives de philosophie du droit, the Cornell Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, Revue trimestrielle de droit civil and the Yale Law Journal. After earning a B.A. in French literature from Yale University, Lasser went on to receive a J.D. from Harvard Law School, Mitchel Lasser an M.A. from Yale’s Department of French Literature and a Ph.D. from Yale’s Department of Comparative Literature. As a Fulbright Scholar in France in 1993-94, Lasser researched the French civil judicial system. He was the Fulbright AUTUMN 2006
Distinguished Visiting Chair at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in 2003 and has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, the University of Geneva and the University of Lausanne. Christopher Leslie A specialist in antitrust and business law, Christopher Leslie, a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law, will visit NYU in Spring 2007. He will teach a class on antitrust law and a seminar on antitrust law and intellectual property rights while working on antitrust research involving “the intersection of antitrust law and intellectual property rights, including how antitrust law should address invalid patents.” Leslie, who has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and the University of Texas School of Law, earned a B.A. in economics and political science from the University of California, Los Angeles; an M.P.P. in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where his concentration was in science and technology public policy; and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He clerked for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and worked as a litigation associate at Christopher Leslie Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and Heller Ehrman, both San Francisco firms. The coauthor of Gilbert Law Summaries: Antitrust (West Group, 2004), Leslie has also published articles in numerous publications, including the Harvard Civil RightsCivil Liberties Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Texas Law Review, the UCLA Law Review and the Wisconsin Law Review. He currently serves on the executive committee of the Section on Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation of the Association of American Law Schools. R. Anthony Reese Intellectual property specialist R. Anthony Reese will visit NYU in the 2006-07 academic year; he is the Thomas W. Gregory Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin, and focuses on copyright, trademark and Internet aspects of intellectual property law, as well as Russian legal history. At the University of Texas School of Law, Reese teaches Copyright, Trademark, Introduc-
tion to Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property in Cyberspace, Digital Copyright and Intellectual Property Theory. In addition to teaching at UT, Reese has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and, through the Joint International IP Law Summer Program, at the University of Victoria and Oxford University. Reese is the coauthor of Internet Commerce: The Emerging Legal Framework (FoundaR. Anthony Reese tion Press, 2006) and is currently collaborating on the forthcoming Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Related State Doctrines. He has published articles in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Boston College Law Review and the Stanford Law Review, among other publications. Reese received his B.A. in Russian language and literature from Yale University in 1986. From 1986 to 1988, he taught English for the Yale-China Assocation in Tianjin and Hunan. Reese earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1995, and subsequently clerked for Judge Betty B. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He worked as an associate at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco from 1996 to 1998 and, since 1999, has served as special counsel for the firm. Catherine Sharkey Catherine Sharkey is an associate professor at Columbia Law School specializing in torts, punitive damages, class actions, remedies, product liability and empirical legal studies. She has taught courses such as Torts, Modern Remedies, Products Liability, and Tort Reform and the American Tort System. Sharkey will make her first visit to the NYU School of Law in Fall 2006. Sharkey earned a B.A. in economics from Yale University, an M.Sc. in economics for development from Oxford UniverCatherine Sharkey sity and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as executive editor of the Yale Law Journal. She was a Rhodes Scholar from 1992 to 1994 and a Temple Bar Scholar in 1999. She clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. She later worked as a Supreme Court and appellate litigation assoTHE LAW SCHOOL
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