Introduction
This section allows you to browse mini biographies of visiting faculty members and the specialty courses they will be teaching for the 2010-2011 school year. These specialty courses will most likely be offered this year only so take advantage of these interesting courses taught by fascinating professors!
Visiting Professors and Specialty Courses
Angela Davis, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law Criminal Defense: Theory and Practice
Professor Davis is an expert in criminal law and procedure with a specific focus on prosecutorial power and racism in the criminal justice system. Davis previously served as director of the D.C. Public Defender Service, where she began as a staff attorney representing indigent juveniles and adults. She also served as executive director of the National Rainbow Coalition and is a former law clerk of the Honorable Theodore R. Newman, the former Chief Judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals.
Carter Bishop, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School Limited Liability Corporations: Business and Tax Law
Professor Bishop has served as a National Law Reporter for three Uniform Law Projects including the Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (1995), the Limited Liability Partnership Amendments to the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (1997), and the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (2006). On these topics, he is the co-author of a leading two-volume scholarly treatise Limited Liability Companies: Tax & Business Law.
Cornelis van Raad, Professor of Law, University of Leiden, The Netherlands EU Tax Law Tax Treaties: Advanced Topics and Strategic Planning
Professor Raad is a member of the Global Law Faculty of New York University Law School, visiting professor at Peking University School of Law, and the chairman of the European Association of Tax Law Professors. He serves as a deputy judge in the tax chamber of a Court of Appeal in the Netherlands and has been of counsel to the law firm of Loyens & Loeff since 1986.
Morton Bergsmo, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo International Crime of Genocide
Professor Bergsmo has held several international consultancies in international criminal justice. Since 2005, he has worked extensively with national capacity building, knowledge-transfer and legal empowerment in the area of core international crimes, including in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, Indonesia, Iraq, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Norway and Serbia. He has founded and directs the capacity building platform Case Matrix Network (www.casematrixnetwork.org) and the Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law (www.fichl.org).
Dennis Davis, Judge of the High Court of Cape Town, South Africa International Antitrust Law Comparative Bill of Rights Seminar
Judge Davis has a B.Com LLB cum laude from University of Cape Town and a M.Phil from the University of Cambridge. Before his appointment to the Bench, Judge Davis held professorial appointments at the law schools of both University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand, where, between 1991 and1997, he was also the director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies. During the negotiations for South Africa’s new constitution, Judge Davis acted as a technical legal advisor on electoral law to the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) and on federalism at the Constitutional Assembly. He has published over one hundred articles in academic journals on a number of legal subjects including constitutional law, jurisprudence, tax, insurance law and criminology, and has co-written eight books.
Thomas Pfeiffer, Dr. iur. (J.S.D.), University of Frankfurt International Dispute Resolution from a European Perspective
Professor Pfeiffer is visiting from the University of Heidelberg, where he is the Vice-President for International Affairs and Professor Ordinarius. He has been involved in numerous arbitration cases and written more than 300 publications in civil law, private international law, civil procedure, and comparative law.
Karen Knop, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Peoples and Minorities in International Law Seminar
Professor Knop writes on public and private international law, with a focus on issues of interpretation, identity and participation. She is also rapporteur for the International Law Association's Committee on Feminism and International Law, Professor Knop was responsible for the ILA's report on gender and nationality (2000). She sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council on International Law and has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law.
Victoria Nourse, Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School Twentieth Century Constitution Seminar
Professor Nourse was Senior Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee under the Chairmanship of then-Senator, now Vice-President, Joseph Biden where she was charged with drafting Senator Biden’s Violence Against Women Act. Professor Nourse came to the Judiciary Committee from appellate practice in the Justice Department, where she argued cases in the D.C. Circuit and other courts of appeal. Prior to that, she served as Special Counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra committee.
Cheryl Saunders, Personal Chair in Law, Melbourne Law School Comparative Constitutional Law Constitutional Building Seminar
Professor Saunders has specialist interests in constitutional law and comparative public law, including federalism and intergovernmental relations and constitutional design and change, on all of which she has written widely. She is also President of the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies and a member of the Program Committee of the Forum of Federations. She is an editor of the Public Law Review, a member of the Advisory Board of I.CON and a member of the editorial boards of a range of Australian and international journals, including Publius, Jus Politicum and the Constitutional Court Review, South Africa.
Kenneth Mack, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Constitutional History of Equality
From 2002 to 2006, Professor Mack was Co-Director of the Harvard Law School Legal History Colloquium. In 2008-09 he was the Co-Director of the Annual Workshop, entitled “Race-Making and Law-Making in the Long Civil Rights Movement,” at the Charles Warren Center for American History at Harvard University. His teaching fields are Property, American Legal History, and the History of the Legal Profession. His scholarly work focuses on the relationship between racial-professional identity and civil rights lawyering in the early twentieth century United States. His work has been published in the Journal of American History, Yale Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, Law and Social Inquiry and the Los Angeles Times, and has been reprinted in several anthologies of interdisciplinary legal scholarship.
Ani Satz, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Law Genetics and the Law
In addition to her law school appointment, Professor Satz holds faculty appointments at the Rollins School of Public Health and the Center for Ethics. Professor Satz has teaching and research interests in health, disability, tort, and animal law, as well as law and philosophy. Her scholarship focuses on the legal response to vulnerability and governmental obligations to those who are vulnerable.
Roger Magnusson, Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney Chronic Disease and Lifestyle Risk Factors
Professor Mangusson's research interests are in health law, policy and bioethics, public health law and governance, and health development. During the mid 1990s, he held a Commonwealth-funded AIDS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and wrote extensively on legal and policy issues associated with HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases. Within the medical law field he has written in the areas of privacy, confidentiality, medical research, human tissue, and human genetics. Within the media law field he has written in the areas of defamation, privacy and breach of confidence, and freedom of speech. In 2002 he published Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground which reported on the practice of "underground" physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia among health professionals working in HIV/AIDS health care in Australian cities and in San Francisco.
David Super, Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law Local Government Law Seminar
Professor Super graduated from Princeton University magna cum laude and from the Harvard Law School with honors. After working for four years as an attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, he served as a staff attorney at the National Health Law Program and as staff attorney and legal director for the Food Research Action Center. As general counsel to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, he focused on food assistance and income security programs for low-income people, including those serving immigrants and persons with disabilities.
Nan Goodman, Associate Professor of English, Colorado University Rhetoric of Law Seminar
Professor Goodman works and publishes in the area of law and humanities and is the author of Shifting the Blame: The Literature and Law of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, 1998) and the forthcoming Banished: The Language and Law of Exclusion in Seventeenth- Century New England. She has also written numerous articles on law and language and teaches classes for the English Department and the University of Colorado Law School.
Danaya Wright, Clarence J. TeSelle Professor of Law, Levin College of Law History of Women in the Law
Professor Wright’s scholarship focuses on two distinct areas of law: the property rights of railroads and the legal implications of rails-to-trails conversions and the history of English family law. For the former, she has written numerous articles on railroad property rights and the federal regulatory and takings implications of the conversion of abandoned railroad corridors to recreational trails. She has also given testimony before the Surface Transportation Board and Congressional subcommittees on the rail-banking statutes. She has written the only treatise on the subject – a chapter on Rail-Trail Conversions in Powell on Real Property (ed. Michael Wolf) and has served as an expert witness in numerous state and federal cases involving current railroad property matters. For the latter, she has written numerous articles on the legal history of child custody law and divorce reform in 17th -19th century English law. She has had two legal history articles chosen for the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum and one of those won the Sutherland Prize for the most significant article in English Legal History from the American Society for Legal History. She is currently working on a book on the history of English child custody law reform and is recognized as a leading scholar in the area of the history of English family law.
Kenneth Mack, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Role of the African American Lawyer Seminar
From 2002 to 2006, Professor Mack was Co-Director of the Harvard Law School Legal History Colloquium. In 2008-09 he was the Co-Director of the Annual Workshop, entitled “Race-Making and Law-Making in the Long Civil Rights Movement,” at the Charles Warren Center for American History at Harvard University. His teaching fields are Property, American Legal History, and the History of the Legal Profession. His scholarly work focuses on the relationship between racial-professional identity and civil rights lawyering in the early twentieth century United States. His work has been published in the Journal of American History, Yale Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, Law and Social Inquiry and the Los Angeles Times, and has been reprinted in several anthologies of interdisciplinary legal scholarship.
Adrienne Stone, Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School Judicial Review in a Comparative Perspective
Professor Stone researches in the areas of constitutional law and constitutional theory. She has published extensively on freedom of expression, the legal and institutional questions surrounding bills of rights and on judicial method in constitutional cases. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law, the Council of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law and is a Vice President of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy.
Adam Thurschwell, Civilian Attorney, Military Commissions Defense Office, Department of Defense Law and Literature
Professor Thurschwell served as a member of the court-appointed defense team for Terry Nichols in the federal Oklahoma City bombing case, and has represented clients and consulted for the defense in many other federal and state capital cases. Before entering law teaching, he was a civil rights litigator with the Philadelphia firm of Kairys & Rudovsky and a criminal defense attorney with the New York firm of Goldman & Hafetz. His scholarship is primarily in the areas of Continental philosophy and capital punishment.
Mortimer Sellers, University System of Maryland Regents Professor Foundations of Law and Justice
Dr. Sellers is the director of the School of Law's Center for International and Comparative Law. Dr. Sellers has written numerous books and articles on international law, constitutional law, legal history, and jurisprudence. He is the co-editor of the Cambridge University Press book series ASL Studies in International Legal Theory and editor of the Springer Verlag book series Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice. Prior to joining the faculty in 1989, Mortimer Sellers practiced law in Philadelphia, served as clerk to the honorable James Hunter III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and studied as a Rhodes Scholar and Frank Knox Fellow at University College, Oxford.
