Twenty visiting professors will teach at the Law School for the fall term, including visitors from Hungary, Italy, and the Netherlands. The visiting faculty have expertise in areas as diverse as venture capital, Latin American law, cyberlaw, and food and drug safety. Read more about the lineup below.
(Detailed profiles of the Fall 2010 visitors and others spending time at NYU Law in 2010-11 can be found in the 2010 issue of The Law School, which will soon be available online.)
Visiting Faculty
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Kenneth Ayotte |
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Jonathan Barnett Associate Professor of Law, University of Southern California Law School When: Fall 2010 Courses: Contracts Research: Intellectual property, with a focus on technology, organization, and political economy Representative publications: Co-author, “The Fashion Lottery: Cooperative Innovation in Stochastic Markets,” Journal of Legal Studies (2010); “Property as Process: How Innovation Markets Select Innovation Regimes,” Yale Law Journal (2009); “Is Intellectual Property Trivial?” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2009) Education: J.D., Yale Law School |
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Michal Barzuza |
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Victor Fleischer |
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James Forman Jr. Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center When: Fall 2010 Courses: Juvenile Defender Clinic; Juvenile Defender Clinic Seminar Research: Civil rights and criminal justice Representative publications: “Why Care About Mass Incarceration?” Michigan Law Review (2010); “The Rise and Fall of School Vouchers: A Story of Religion, Race and Politics,” UCLA Law Review (2007); “Community Policing and Youth Assets,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (2004) Education: J.D., Yale Law School Clerkships: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court; Judge William Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Related experience: Co-founder, Maya Angelou Public Charter School, Washington D.C.; Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia |
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Maximo Langer Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law When: 2010-11 Courses: Criminal Law; Global Perspective on Criminal Procedure; International Criminal Law Research: Criminal law and procedure; comparative and international criminal law; Latin American law; globalization of law Representative publications: “Revolution in Latin American Criminal Procedure: Diffusion of Legal Ideas from the Periphery,” American Journal of Comparative Law (2007); “The Rise of Managerial Judging in International Criminal Law,” American Journal of Comparative Law (2005); “From Legal Transplants to Legal Translations: The Globalization of Plea Bargaining and the Americanization Thesis in Criminal Procedure,” Harvard International Law Journal (2004) Education: LL.B., University of Buenos Aires Law School; S.J.D., Harvard Law School Clerkships: Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C.; Federal District Court No. 2, Buenos Aires |
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Dotan Oliar |
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Adam Samaha Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School When: Fall 2010 Courses: Second Amendment; Religion and the Constitution Research: Constitutional law; constitutional theory; courts and society Representative publications: “On Law’s Tiebreakers,” University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming, 2010); “Dead Hand Arguments and Constitutional Interpretation,” Columbia Law Review (2008); “Undue Process,” Stanford Law Review (2006) Education: J.D., Harvard Law School Clerkships: Justice John Paul Stevens of the U. S. Supreme Court; Chief Justice Alexander M. Keith of the Minnesota Supreme Court |
Senior Fellows
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Senior Golieb Fellow |
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Senior Fellow |
Multi-Year Returning Faculty
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Charles Cameron Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University When: Spring 2011 Course: Political Environment of the Law Seminar Research: Political institutions and policy making Representative publications: Co-author, “Strategic Defiance and Compliance in the U.S. Court of Appeals,” American Journal of Political Science (2010); “Changing Supreme Court Policy Through Appointments: The Impact of a New Justice,” Minnesota Law Review (2009); co-author, “Bargaining and Opinion Assignment on the U.S. Supreme Court,” Journal of Law, Economics & Organization (2007) Education: Ph.D. in public affairs, Princeton University |
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Daniel Rubinfeld Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law and Economics, University of California, Berkeley When: Fall 2010 Courses: Antitrust Law and Economics; Quantitative Methods Research: Antitrust; economics of litigation; federalism Representative publications: “Econometric Issues in Antitrust Analysis,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (2010); co-author, “Empirical Study of the Civil Justice System,” Handbook of Law and Economics (Volume 1, 2007); co-author, Econometric Models and Forecasts (2002) Education: Ph.D. in economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Related experience: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice |
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Geoffrey Stone Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School When: Fall 2010 Courses: Constitutional Decision-Making Seminar; First Amendment Rights of Expression and Association Research: Constitutional law Representative publications: War and Liberty: An American Dilemma: 1790 to the Present (2007); Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (2007); Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004) Awards: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004) Education: J.D., University of Chicago Law School Clerkships: Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court; Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit |
Global Visiting Faculty
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Eyal Benvenisti Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights, Tel Aviv University When: Fall 2010 Courses: Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflicts; Law and Global Governance Research: Constitutional law; international law; human rights and administrative law Representative publications: The International Law of Occupation (second edition, forthcoming, 2010); “Reclaiming Democracy: The Strategic Uses of Foreign and International Law by National Courts,” American Journal of International Law (2008); co-author, “The Empire’s New Clothes: Political Economy and the Fragmentation of International Law,” Stanford Law Review (2007) Education: LL.B., Hebrew University of Jerusalem; LL.M. and J.S.D., Yale Law School Clerkship: Justice M. Ben-Porat of the Supreme Court of Israel |
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Sabino Cassese Justice of the Italian Constitutional Court When: Fall 2010 Course: Law and Global Governance Representative publications: “Private Participation in Public Decisions: Essay in Comparative Law,” Quarterly Journal of Public Law (2007); Beyond the State (2006); “The Globalization of Law,” Journal of International Law and Politics (2005) Education: J.D., University of Pisa |
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János Kis |
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Martti Koskenniemi Academy Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland; Director, Erik Castrén Institute of International Laws and Human Rights When: Fall 2010 Course: Intellectual History of International Law Research: History of international legal thought Representative publications: La Politique de Droit International (2007); From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument (2005); The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (2001) Education: LL.M., LL.B., and Doctor of Laws, University of Turku, Finland; Diploma in Law, University of Oxford Related experience: U.N. International Law Commission; Counsellor and Attaché to the First Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland; Justice, Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank |
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Ariel Porat Former Dean and Alain Poher Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University When: Fall 2010 Course: Tort Theory Research: Torts; contracts; remedies; economic analysis of law Representative publications: “Private Production of Public Goods: Liability for Unrequested Benefit,” Michigan Law Review (2009); co-author, “Total Liability for Excessive Harm,” Journal of Legal Studies (2007); co-author, Tort Liability under Uncertainty (2001) Education: LL.B., LL.M., and J.S.D., Tel Aviv University |
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Janine Ubink Senior Lecturer, Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development, Leida Law School, Netherlands When: Fall 2010 Course: Law and Governance in Africa Research: Legal anthropology; land law; customary law; traditional authorities; gender; legal empowerment; rule of law, with a focus on Africa Representative publications: “Negotiated or Negated? The Rhetoric and Reality of Customary Tenure in an Ashanti Village in Ghana,” Africa (2008); co-author, “How to Combine Tradition and Modernity? Regulating Customary Land Management in Ghana,” Land Use Policy (2008); “Customary Tenure Security: Wishful Policy Thinking or Reality? A Case from Peri-Urban Ghana,” Journal of African Law (2007) Education: Ph.D. in international law, Leiden University, Netherlands Related experience: Executive Secretary, Commission on Legal Pluralism; Advisor, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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Benjamin Van Rooij Professor of Chinese Law and Regulation, Amsterdam Law School; Director, Netherlands China Law Center When: Fall 2010 Courses: Enforcing Regulation for Emerging Markets Seminar; Law & Society in China: Access to Justice Research: Compliance; law and development; land management and zoning; pollution regulation; occupational health; food and drug safety Representative publications: “Pollution Law Enforcement in Emerging Markets (Journal Special Edition),” Law & Policy (2010); co-author, Lawmaking for Development, Explorations into the Theory and Practice of International Legislative Projects (2008); Regulating Land and Pollution in China, Lawmaking, Compliance, and Enforcement; Theory and Cases (2006) Education: Ph.D., Leiden University, Netherlands |
Posted on August 12, 2010