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VISITING FACULTY
Miriam Bitton Dr. Miriam Bitton is a law professor at Bar-Ilan University School of Law in Ramat-Gan, Israel. A former Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law, she was also the Microsoft Research Fellow at U.C. Berkeley School of Law and a Visiting Fellow at George Washington University Law School. Dr. Bitton writes and teaches in the fields of intellectual property law, law and technology, and property. She is the winner of the prestigious Alon Fellowship for the years 2009-2011 (granted by the Council of Higher Education in Israel to promising junior faculty members in Israel) and the 100,000 EUROs Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant (granted by the European Union Commission).
Kenneth Kettering Kenneth Kettering is visiting the Law School from New York Law School (NYLS), where he teaches courses in bankruptcy law, commercial transactions, and corporations. Before joining the faculty at NYLS, Professor Kettering practiced law for nearly 20 years with Reed Smith in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was a partner in the firm’s business and finance group. Professor Kettering’s research focuses on commercial and financial law, particularly the continual dialectic between the legal systems built by law-crafters and the machinations of the marketplace to deal outside of those systems.
Fred McChesney Fred S. McChesney is a leader in applying economics (including statistical analysis) to the study of law. His primary teaching and scholarly interests are in the fields of antitrust (both American and international) and corporations (including corporate finance). He has published widely in leading journals, and is the author or co-author of several books. Prior to commencing his academic career, he practiced law and served as Associate Director for Policy and Evaluation at the Federal Trade Commission. Before assuming his chair at Northwestern Law, he was a member of the faculty at Cornell and Emory Universities.
Madeleine Mercedes Plasencia Madeleine M. Plasencia earned tenure in 2003, at the University of Tulsa College of Law where she taught Corporations, Class Actions and Complex Litigation, Communications Law, and Internet Law. Professor Plasencia first taught Torts in 1997, while visiting at Syracuse, and her research interests in the field include two major works in progress dealing with the intersections of tort and contract law and tort and securities law, focusing on the common law concept of deceit as it informs the evolution of legal doctrine across these different substantive fields. Her published works include Privacy and the Constitution, as well as numerous law review articles. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of LISALEINE PRODUCTIONS, a multimedia production company dedicated to the production, distribution and exhibition of media projects that advance human rights.
Nicolò Trocker Professor Trocker teaches Comparative Law, Civil Procedure, and Conflict of Laws at the University of Florence in Italy. He has published various books and numerous articles on these subjects. He received his legal education at the Universities of Munich (Germany) and Florence (Italy), where he earned his law degree (summa cum laude) and at the European University Institute where he received a Jean Monnet fellowship.
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