faculty focus Education: LL.B., Tel Aviv University School of Law; LL.M., Harvard Law School; J.S.D., Stanford Law School
franco ferrari Position: Professor of International Law, University of Verona Faculty of Law When: Spring 2010 Courses: International Commercial Sales; Comparative Law of Contracts Research: International commercial law; conflict of laws; comparative law; international commercial arbitration Representative publications: Vendita internazionale di beni mobili: Formazione del contratto (2006); co-editor, Ein neues Internationales Vertragsrecht für Europa (2007); co-editor, The Draft UNCITRAL Digest and Beyond: Cases, Analysis and Unresolved Issues in the U.N. Sales Convention (2003) Education: J.D., University of Bologna; LL.M., University of Augsburg Related experience: Legal Officer, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, International Trade Law Branch
gérard hertig Position: Professor of Law and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich When: Spring 2010 Courses: Comparative Corporate Governance; Banking Regulation and Supervision Research: Law and economics, with a focus on corporate governance and banking Representative publications: Co-author, The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach (2004); co-editor, European Economic and Business Law: Legal and Economic Analyses on Integration and Harmonization (1996) Education: Lic.iur. and Dr.iur., University of Geneva Faculty of Law; M.C.J., University of Texas School of Law
ran hirschl Position: Professor of Political Science and Law, and Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy, and Development, University of Toronto When: Spring 2010 Course: Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics
Research: Comparative constitutional law and institutions; extrajudicial (political, economic) origins and consequences of the global expansion of constitutionalism and judicial review Representative publications: Comparative Matters: Legal Studies for the 21st Century (forthcoming, 2010); Sacred Judgments: The Challenge of Constitutional Theocracy (forthcoming, 2010); Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism (2004) Education: LL.B. and M.A. in political science, Tel Aviv University; Ph.D. in political science, Yale University
pratap bhanu mehta Position: President, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi When: Fall 2009 Course: Comparative Law and Religion Research: Political theory; constitutional law; society and politics in India; governance and political economy; international affairs Representative publications: “The Rise of Judicial Sovereignty,” Journal of Democracy (2007); co-editor, Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design (2005); The Burden of Democracy (2003) Education: B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics, University of Oxford; Ph.D. in politics, Princeton University Related experience: Member-Convenor, Prime Minister of India’s National Knowledge Commission
ALI/UNIDROIT Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure (2006); co-author, German Civil Justice (2004) Education: Dr. iur. and Dr. habil., University of Tübingen (Germany) Related experience: Judge, State Court of Appeal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
alan tan Position: Associate Professor and Vice Dean, National University of Singapore Law School When: Fall 2009 Course: Global Aviation Law and Policy Research: Aviation law; maritime law; environmental law Representative publication: VesselSource Marine Pollution: The Law and Politics of International Regulation (2006) Education: LL.B., National University of Singapore; LL.M. and J.S.D., Yale Law School Clerkship: Supreme Court of Singapore
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rolf stürner Position: Professor of Law and Director, Institute for German and Comparative Civil Procedure, University of Freiburg, Germany When: Spring 2010 Course: Comparative Civil Procedure Research: Comparative and national civil procedure; insolvency and real property law; law of financial products Representative publications: Co-reporter,
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