Faculty Associates

A group of Faculty Associates is involved on a regular basis in the Institute’s activities by participating in research projects, joining public events, giving presentations etc. If you wish to contact any of the individuals below, please send an email to iiel@law.georgetown.edu. A list of publications of the IIEL Faculty Associates can be accessed by clicking here.

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean and Professor of Law

Dean Aleinikoff has been Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center since July 2004.  He joined the law faculty after having served as the Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice's Immigration and Naturalization Service and as General Counsel in the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Previously he was on the faculty at the University of Michigan Law School. After receiving his law degree, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Edward Weinfeld, U.S. District Judge. He has published numerous articles in the areas of immigration, race, statutory interpretation, and constitutional law, and his most recent scholarship includes Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship, Citizenship Policies for An Age of Migration (with Douglas Klusmeyer), Immigration: Process and Policy (with David Martin and Hiroshi Motomura), and Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader (with John Garvey).

Maxwell Gregg Bloche, Professor of Law

Professor Bloche is a Professor at Georgetown Law, Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University and Co-Director of the Joint Degree Program in Law and Public Health. Professor Bloche's main areas of interest are health law and policy, regulatory and contractual responses to risk, and the links between health and respect for international human rights, in which he has published extensively. Professor Bloche received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research to support his research on governance of managed care organizations. He has been a consultant to the Institute of Medicine, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (on human rights in the health sector), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Institute of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), and other private and public bodies.

William Wilson Bratton, Professor of Law

Professor Bratton teaches Corporations, Corporate Finance, and Accounting for Lawyers. Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 2003, Professor Bratton was the Samuel Tyler Research Professor at the George Washington University Law School, where he joined the faculty in 1999. Prior to 1999, Professor Bratton was the Kaiser Professor of Law and Director of the Heyman Center on Corporate Governance at Cardozo Law School, and Professor of Law and Governor Woodrow Wilson Scholar at Rutgers Law School, Newark. He also has been the Unilever Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Leiden and a visiting professor at the Duke and Stanford law schools. Before becoming a teacher, Professor Bratton served as law clerk to Judge William H. Timbers of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and practiced corporate law at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. Professor Bratton is the author of Corporate Finance: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press), and the co-editor of an Oxford Press collection of essays on regulatory competition. He also has published many law review articles and book chapters on topics in corporate law, law and economics, and legal history.

Barry E. Carter, Professor of Law

Professor Carter has an extensive background in international law, business and trade, and foreign policy. His recent publications include his widely-used casebook on International Law (4th ed., 2003, with co-authors), and the companion International Law: Selected Documents, 2003-2004 Edition (2003, with co-authors). He also authored the award-winning International Economic Sanctions (1988). He returned to Georgetown in 1996 after three years as the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration. He also served then as U.S. vice chair to Secretary of Defense William Perry on bilateral committees with Russia and other Soviet countries, and on committees with China. He had earlier been Executive Director of the American Society of International Law and a member of Dr. Henry Kissinger's National Security Council staff. He also has been a trial and appellate lawyer in private practice. He is now Director of Georgetown's Program in International Business and Economic Law.

Steve Charnovitz, George Washington University Law Faculty

Prior to joining the law faculty at George Washington University, Professor Charnovitz was an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law and he practiced law at the firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He served as the director of the GETS project at Yale University between 1995 and 1999. Before going to Yale in 1995, he served as policy director for the U.S. Competitiveness Policy Council, which issued four reports to the U.S. Congress and the President. He was a legislative assistant for trade and tax issues to House Speakers Jim Wright and Thomas Foley, and was an International Relations Officer at the U.S. Department of Labor. While there, his responsibilities included worker rights in trade negotiations and conducting an evaluation of a human resource development project in Saudi Arabia. Mr. Charnovitz has written extensively on trade, human rights, and environment in economic, legal, and environmental journals.

William Davey, University of Illinois Law Faculty

Professor Davey is the Edwin M. Adams Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law where he has taught courses in international trade law, European Community law and corporate/securities law. He formerly served as the Director of the Legal Affairs Division of the WTO (1995-1999). Previously, he also worked in Brussels and New York for the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Professor Davey is co-author of Legal Problems of International Economic Relations (1995, with Jackson & Sykes; 1986, with Jackson), European Community Law (1993, with Bermann, Goebel & Fox) and Handbook of WTO/GATT Dispute Settlement (1991-1998, with Pescatore & Lowenfeld).  He also has been a Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law.

Richard Diamond, Professor of Law

Professor Diamond has expertise and extensive experience in international business law and policy. He is currently a co-director of Georgetown's JD/MSFS joint degree program and he teaches courses in International Trade and Corporations. He was formerly a partner in the law firm of Steptoe and Johnson and served previously as a law clerk for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Viet D. Dinh, Professor of Law

Professor Dinh's areas of interest include constitutional law, corporate law, and Southeast Asian comparative law. He serves as the Deputy Director of the Asian Law and Policy Studies (ALPS) Program and as Co-Director of the Joint Degree Program in Business Administration and Law. He previously was Associate Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee for the Whitewater investigation and Special Counsel to U.S. Senator Pete V. Domenici for the impeachment trial of President Clinton. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1993, where he was a Class Marshal and an Olin Research Fellow in Law and Economics, Professor Dinh served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Daniel R. Ernst, Professor of Law

Professor Ernst joined the Georgetown faculty in the 1988-89 academic year. He is the author of Lawyers Against Labor (1995), for which he received the Littleton Griswold Award of the American Historical Association and co-editor of Total War and the Law (2003). In 1996, he was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the National Library of New Zealand, and in 1998 he was the Jack and Margaret Sweet Visiting Professor of History at Michigan State University. He is co-editor of "Studies in Legal History," a book series sponsored by the American Society for Legal History and the University of North Carolina Press. He teaches courses in American Legal History and Property.

James V. Feinerman,  James M. Morita Professor of Asian Legal Studies

Professor Feinerman is the James M. Morita Professor of Asian Legal Studies, the Director of the Asian Law and Policy Studies Program at Georgetown Law, and a specialist in Chinese law. He has been a Fulbright Lecturer on Law at Peking University and a Fulbright researcher in Japan. Professor Feinerman was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship to study international law in China, and he has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  He is a former Associate Dean of International and Graduate Programs at the Georgetown University Law Center

Lawrence O. Gostin, Associate Dean and Professor of Law

Professor Gostin is an internationally recognized scholar in law and public health. He is Professor of Law at Georgetown University; Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University; and the Director of the Center for Law & the Public's Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities (CDC Collaborating Center Promoting Public Health Through Law). He is also the Co-Director of the Georgetown/Johns Hopkins Program on Law and Public Health. Professor Gostin is Faculty Affiliate for the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the Steering and Executive Committees of the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy of Georgetown. Professor Gostin is an elected lifetime Member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences (IOM/NAS). For the IOM/NAS, he serves on the Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, the Institutional Review Board, and three expert study committees, including the Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century. He is also an elected lifetime Fellow of the Hastings Center. He is appointed by the Secretary for Health and Human Services to serve on the Advisory Council of the Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health. Professor Gostin also consults for the World Health Organization and the Council of International Organizations for Medical Sciences.

Charles Gustafson, Professor of Law

Professor Gustafson is a former Associate Dean of International and Graduate Programs at the Georgetown University Law Center. He has expertise in taxation and international law. He is the author of articles on taxation and international law issues, co-author of three casebooks on taxation, has been active in various committees on tax and international law of the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute, and he serves as an arbitrator in domestic and international contract disputes.

John H. Jackson, Director of IIEL and University Professor of Law

Professor Jackson joined the Georgetown faculty in 1998 after a distinguished career as the Hessel E.Yntema Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He is a preeminent figure in international trade law. Professor Jackson has published numerous books, articles, and chapters, and he has worked with governmental, international, and academic institutions throughout the world. In 1992 he received the Wolfgang Friedman Memorial Award for lifelong contribution to the field of international law.

Donald C. Langevoort, Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law

Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1999, Professor Langevoort was the Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 1981. The courses Professor Langevoort teaches are Contracts, Securities Regulation, various seminars on corporate and securities issues, and Corporations. Professor Langevoort has received the Paul J. Hartman Award for Excellence in Teaching at Vanderbilt. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Michigan Law School and a lecturer at the Washington College of Law, American University. After practicing for two years at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., he joined the staff of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission as Special Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel. Professor Langevoort is the co-author, with Professors James Cox and Robert Hillman, of Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (Aspen Law & Business), and the author of a treatise entitled Insider Trading: Regulation, Enforcement and Prevention (West Group). He has also written many law review articles, a number of which seek to incorporate insights from social psychology and behavioral economics into the study of corporate and securities law and legal ethics. Professor Langevoort has testified numerous times before Congressional committees on issues relating to insider trading and securities litigation reform.

James C. Oldham, St. Thomas More Professor of Law and Legal History

In addition to his teaching duties at the Law Center, Professor Oldham spends considerable time in London doing manuscript research in English legal history. His major work is The Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century, two volumes, published by the University of North Carolina Press for the American Society for Legal History. An updated one-volume abridgement of this work was published by the UNC Press in the summer of 2004. Professor Oldham collects books from and about early modern England and teaches Seminars at the Law Center on English Legal History and on the history of the jury. He also teaches Contracts, Labor Law, and Labor Arbitration. He specialized in labor law with the Denver firm of Sherman and Howard, and now serves as a Labor Arbitrator on several permanent panels. He is currently the Grievance Arbitrator for the National Hockey League and the NHL Players' Association, as well as the Permanent Umpire for Alcoa and the United Steelworkers of America. He is a Vice President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and has served as chair of the Foreign Service Grievance Board at the State Department. He serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Legal History and on the editorial board of Law and History Review. He is the author of a student text, Labor Law, and has published numerous articles on legal history and on labor and employment discrimination topics.

Joseph Page, Professor of Law

Professor Page's academic interests lie in the fields of torts, products liability, and food and drug regulation. His most recent scholarly projects include articles entitled "Automobile-Design Liability and Compliance with Federal Standards," co-authored with Ralph Nader and published in the George Washington University Law Review, "Liability for Unavoidably and Unreasonably Unsafe Products: Does Negligence Doctrine Have a Role to Play?," published in the Chicago-Kent Law Review, and "Federal Regulation of Tobacco Products and Products That Treat Tobacco Dependence: Are the Playing Fields Level?" in the Food and Drug Law Journal. He also writes about Latin America. His latest book The Brazilians explain what makes Brazilians Brazilian. He has also written a lengthy introduction to Eva Perón, In My Own Words. Professor Page is a Director of Public Citizen, Inc., and of the American Museum of Tort Law, a member of the Associated Faculty of the Latin American Studies Program at Georgetown University, and a member of the Biography Group of Washington

Robert Pitofsky, Sheehy Professor in Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law

Professor Pitofsky Dean Emeritus of the Georgetown University Law Center.  He also is a former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, where he also served as a Commissioner, and as the director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection. He also was a professor of law at New York University, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Professor Pitofsky is the co-author of Cases and Materials on Trade Regulation (with Milton and Handler) and the author of numerous articles on antitrust law. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he was the Chair of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Antitrust Aspects of Defense Industry Downsizing.

Marylin J. Raisch, International Law Librarian and Adjunct Professor of Law

Professor Raisch is the Librarian for International and Foreign Law at the Georgetown Law. She received her J.D. from Tulane University School of Law (1980) with work both in civil and common law courses as well as international law and Roman law. She holds degrees in English literature from Smith College (B.A. magna cum laude, 1973) and St. Hugh's College, Oxford (M.Litt., 1978). She received her M.L.S. degree from Columbia University School of Library Service in 1988 and has worked as a law librarian for fifteen years, the past ten of which were at Columbia University School of Law as International and Foreign Law Librarian. Marylin has edited (with Roberta I. Shaffer) the resulting volume of proceedings, Transnational Legal Transactions (Oceana, 1995) and is the author of several articles, reviews, and web guides on international and foreign legal research.

Roy A. Schotland, Professor of Law

After graduation from law school, Professor Schotland served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan and was an associate with the New York firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. He has also taught law as a professor at the University of Virginia, as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and came to Georgetown as Associate Dean. He is co-editor of Administrative Law, Cases and Comments (9th ed., 1995). His writings include Conflicts of Interest in the Securities Markets (ed.), Divergent Investing of Pension Assets, Campaign Financing of Elective Judges, and Proposals for Campaign Finance Reform. In addition, he has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Board, several Congressional committees and state pension systems, the Government of Bermuda, and recently the ABA on campaign finance. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Greg Sidak, Visiting Professor of Law

Professor Sidak’s teaching and research concerns antitrust law, the regulation of telecommunications and other network industries, and constitutional issues regarding economic regulation. He is the founding U.S. editor of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics, published by the Oxford University Press. He formerly held the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Chair in Law and Economics at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) and was a Senior Lecturer at the Yale School of Management.  Professor Sidak served as Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission (1987-89) and Senior Counsel and Economist to the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President (1986-87). After leaving government, he practiced law with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.

Jane E. Stromseth, Professor of Law

Professor Stromseth is highly active in the areas of international law, international institutions, and constitutional law. She served formerly as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council and as an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of the Legal Advisor at the U.S. Department of State. Professor Stromseth received her doctorate in International Relations at Oxford, where she was a Rhodes scholar. Professor Stromseth is the Co-Director of the Joint Degree Program in International Studies and Law.

Daniel K. Tarullo, Professor of Law

Professor Tarullo was recently a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he spent several months writing and lecturing on the Asian financial crisis, U.S.-European relations, and other international economic topics. He served in the Clinton Administration as Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy, where he was responsible for coordinating the Administration's international economic policy and for advising the President on these matters. He was a principal on both the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. Previously, Professor Tarullo was Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs and head of the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. He also has experience in private practice, where he concentrated on antitrust, securities, and international transactions.

John R. Thomas, Professor of Law

Professor Thomas was formerly Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University. He has previously joined the visiting faculties at Cornell Law School and the University of Tokyo, and also been the Congressional Research Service Visiting Scholar in Economic Growth and Entrepreneurship. Professor Thomas formerly served as law clerk to Chief Judge Helen W. Nies of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Comparative Patent, Copyright and Unfair Competition Law in Munich, Germany; and research scholar at the Institute of Intellectual Property in Tokyo, Japan. He was previously associated with the law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P., in Washington, D.C. Professor Thomas has published numerous articles on intellectual property law. He is also co-author of a patent law casebook and a one-volume treatise on intellectual property, both published by the West Publishing Company.

Carlos Manuel Vazquez, Professor of Law

Professor Vázquez is deeply concerned with issues of human rights in their international context, has done much in the law of immigration and devotes much of his scholarly work to constitutional law issues. Professor Vázquez has also taught courses on federal courts and the federal system, international law, conflict of laws, and two seminars: international litigation and an international human rights workshop. Professor Vázquez previously served as a clerk to the distinguished appellate court judge, Stephen Reinhardt in Los Angeles and practiced law with Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C.

Edith Brown Weiss, Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law

Professor Weiss is active in the areas of public international law, international environmental law, and water resources law. Her professional experience includes positions in government and academics. She has published numerous articles in international and environmental law, and is the author of many books, including In Fairness to Future Generations: International Law, Common Patrimony and Intergenerational Equity (1989). Professor Weiss is also the Co-Director of the Joint Degree Program in Political Science and Law.