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Faculty Involved in Law-Linked,
Americas-Related Activities
- Prof. Charles Abernathy offers
an annual program in Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Law
at Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In the fall of 2003, he offered a similar program
in Ecuador at the Universidad Católica de Santiago
de Guayaquil.
- Associate Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff
has worked with a binational group on U.S.-Mexican
immigration policy.
- Prof. Jeffrey D. Bauman has taught
corporate and securities law in an Executive Certificate
Training Program co-sponsored by LawCasa (CAROLA's
predecessor) and the Iberoamericana University in
Mexico City.
- Prof. M. Gregg Bloche has
studied the involvement of physicians with Uruguayan
torturers. More recently, he has been working on an
ethical code-drafting project that draws on the South
American experience of physician complicity in human
rights violations.
- Prof. William W. Bratton has co-authored
an article entitled Deadweight Costs and Intrinsic
Wrongs of Nativism: Economics, Freedom, and Legal
Suppression of Spanish in 84 Corn. L. Rev .
595 (1999).
- Prof. Barry E. Carter has taught
international business and trade law and international
law in Executive Certificate Training Programs co-sponsored
by LawCasa (CAROLA's predecessor) and the Iberoamericana
University in Mexico City, the Autonomous University
of Guadalajara, Mexico, and the Central American Institute
for Business Administration (INCAE) in Managua, Nicaragua.
From 1997 to 2000 he served as a panelist on two binational
arbitration panels that reviewed antidumping and countervailing
duty matters under Chapter 19 of NAFTA. He also worked
on NAFTA issues in 1992 during the Clinton campaign
and transition.
- Prof. Sherman L. Cohn has lectured
on what Colombian lawyers should know about American
law and on legal education at the Universidad de los
Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, on Watergate at
the Bar Association in Quito, Ecuador, and on legal
ethics to judges and lawyers in Asunción, Paraguay.
- Prof. Michael Diamond was a visiting
professor at the University of Puerto Rico in the
spring of 1985, and taught in the Washington College
of Law's 1995 summer program in Santiago, Chile. He
served as a consultant on the development of affordable
housing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1998 and 1999,
and on economic development in Port au Prince, Haiti,
in 2001. In June of 2003 he participated in a rule-of-law
reform conference in Quito, Ecuador, sponsored by
Hacia la Seguridad, a non-governmental organization.
- Prof. Richard D. Diamond has taught
trade law at Executive Certificate Training Rrograms
co-sponsored by LawCasa and INCAE in Managua, Nicaragua,
and by Iberoamericana University in Mexico City.
- Prof. Robert F. Drinan, S.J. has
been concerned with human rights issues in Latin America
for over 25 years. In 1976, he was a member
of a team sent by Amnesty International to investigate
human rights violations by the military government
of Argentina. He published various "op-ed" articles
about human rights violations by the military government
in Chile and the attempted extradition of General
Augusto Pinochet. He also served on a mission
sent to Chile by the International League for Human
Rights. Father Drinan has traveled to El Salvador
as a member of the human rights group of the Washington
Office of Latin America. Furthermore, he has been
active in studying the human rights situations in
Nicaragua, Guatemala and Costa Rica.
- Associate Dean James V. Feinerman has
taught corporate law at Executive Certificate Training
Programs co-sponored by LawCasa and INCAE, Iberoamericana
University in Mexico City and the Autonomous University
of Guadalajara. He was also a lecturer at a program
of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the OAS
in Rio de Janeiro.
- Prof. James Forman, Jr. spent
seven months in Salvador, Brazil, while a student
at Brown University, and wrote his senior thesis on
race relations in Brazil.
- Prof. Lawrence Gostin has been
working with the Pan American Health Organization
(PAHO) on public health law and ethics, including
books, articles, and conferences.
- Prof. Mitu Gulati does research
on debt restructurings and his work has played a part
in the recent restructuring and litigation involving
Ecuador, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru.
- Prof. Charles H. Gustafson has
taught international taxation and international arbitration
at Executive Certificate Training Pprograms co-sponsored
by LawCasa and INCAE in Managua, Nicaragua, Iberoamericana
University in Mexico City and the Autonomous University
of Guadalajara, and in Asunción, Paraguay.
He was a graduation speaker at Javeriana University
Law School in Bogotá, and gave a series of
lectures on international tax policy for the law and
economics faculties at the University of Rosario in
Argentina. He lectured on international tax isssues
in Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima and at a meeting of
the Inter-American Bar Association in Washington.
He was a panelist on law and development in
Latin America jointly sponsored by the Law Center
and the Organization of American States, and twice
taught a course on U.S. tax law and policy in Mexico
City. He is currently working on a book chapter dealing
with tax treaties between the U.S. and Latin American
countries.
- Prof. Lisa Heinzerling has taught
environment law in an Executive Certificate Training
Program co-sponsored by LawCasa and Iberoamericana
University in Mexico City.
- Prof. Richard Lazarus has participated
in a conference in Brazil on the subject of environmental
law.
- Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow has
taught various courses on mediation and alternative
dispute resolution at different Latin American institutions,
including INCAE (Nicaragua), the Center for
the Study of Law, Politics and Economics (CEDEP) (Paraguay),
and the Torcuato di Tella University in Buenos Aires
(Argentina). In November 2003 she consulted with the
Centro de Investigaciones de Docencia Económica
in Mexico City on their program of legal education.
- Prof. Joseph A. Page represented
the U.S. Department of State at a Conference on "Justice
in the Revolution," sponsored by the Supreme Court
of Nicaragua, in Managua, in May of 1981. He
testified as an expert witness on behalf of the U.S.
State Department in a bail hearing held as part of
an extradition proceeding brought by the Argentine
government against José López Rega,
former Minister of Social Welfare in Argentina. In
1986 and 1987 he lectured on product-liability law
in Brazil, under the auspices of the U.S. Information
Agency. He is currently the Director of the Center
for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas
(CAROLA) at Georgetown Law.
- Prof. Robert Pitofsky , while Chairman
of the Federal Trade Commission, attended conferences
in Panama and Argentina to improve cooperation in
the enforcement of antitrust laws and prevention of
consumer fraud.
- Prof. Richard L. Roe , as Director
of the D.C. Street Law Project ,
has met with visiting judges, legal educators, school
teachers and law students from various Latin American
countries to discuss the teaching of "street law"
and the methodology of democratic civic education.
He spent a year in Bogotá, Colombia, while
an undergraduate at Yale, and subsequently lived for
six months in Pátzcuaro, Mexico.
- Prof. Susan Deller Ross has taught
a course on International and Comparative Law on the
Rights of Women that emphasizes the Inter-American
human rights system. The Georgetown International
Women's Human Rights Clinic, of which she
serves as Director, has submitted a report to the
Special Rapporteur for Violence Against Women concerning
so-called "defense-of-honor" murders of women in various
Latin American countries.
- Prof. Roy A. Schotland has lectured
at various conferences in Mexico on U.S. election
and campaign finance law, and served as an observer
during the Mexican presidential election of 1994.
- Prof. Warren F. Schwartz was a
consultant with the Liberty and Democracy Institute
in Lima. The President of the Institute, Hernán
de Soto, in the preface of his path-breaking book
El Otro Sendero ( The Other Path )
acknowledges Prof. Schwartz' contribution in instructing
the author in the discipline of law and economics.
- Prof. Robert K. Stumberg , as Clinical
Director of the Harrison Institute for Public
Law , has written a legal analysis of investment
and trade in services within the Free Trade Area of
the Americas. The paper identified provisions in the
treaty that could affect the governing authority of
legislatures at the national or subnational level,
and paid special heed to the delivery of essential
services (water, electricity, health and education),
limits on ownership of land and gaming enterprises
and the regulation of extractive industries. He prepared
the paper as a result of a request by the Conference
of Parliamentarians of the Americas.
- Prof. John R. Thomas has taught
intellectual property law at an Executive Certificate
Training Program co-sponsored by CAROLA and INCAE
in Managua, Nicaragua.
- Prof. Carlos M. Vázquez
was the U.S. member of the Inter-American Juridical
Committee of the Organization of American States from
2000 to 2003, and Vice-Chairman of the Committee from
2002 to 2003. He lectured on "International Trade
and Human Rights in a course of international law
sponsored by the Committee in Rio De Janeiro in 2001,
and on American law at the University of Los Andes
in Bogotá. He served on a fact-finding mission
sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Group
to observe election campaigns in El Salvador and Chile,
and co-authored a "Report on the Chilean Electoral
Process" in 1987. He participated in pro bono
litigation challenging the U.S. policy of returning
Cuban and Haitian refugees to their native lands.
Recently he published an article entitled Regionalism
vs. Globalism: A View From the Americas in Acts
of UNIDROIT, 75 th Anniversary Congress.
- Prof. William T. Vukowich has taught
bankruptcy and commercial law courses at Executive
Certificate Training Programs co-sponsored by LawCasa
and Iberoamericana University in Mexico City.
- Prof. David C. Vladeck has s erved
as a consultant on American law for the Law and Democracy
Institute in Lima. He also delivered a talk in Nov.
2003 on "Transparency in Doing Justice" at the Law
Faculty of the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
in Mexico City and spoke at a faculty seminar at UNAM
on public access to judicial records.
- Prof. Edith Brown Weiss is serving
as Chairperson of the Inspection Panel of the World
Bank, which looks into complaints from communities
and non-governmental organizations that they are suffering
harm because the Bank has followed its own procedures.
A number of these complaints have originated in Latin
America.
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