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Transnational Law Faculty ruler

The curriculum benefits from an exceptional faculty. The distinguished full-time faculty at Georgetown includes world-renowned international and transnational legal scholars as well as outstanding faculty in other areas of the law who have broadened the scope of their scholarship and teaching to encompass law in a global context. This combination provides Georgetown students with challenging and timely courses, and with direct access to outstanding examples of the expanding role of law and lawyers in today's world. The full time scholar-teachers who are engaged in instruction at Georgetown are joined by a wide array of Washington, D.C., practitioners-judges, general counsel, law firm partners, agency chiefs, and congressional staff members-who bring together the theory and the application of law as it is made and practiced in everyday life.

Full-time Faculty

Charles F. Abernathy
Professor of Law
A.B., J.D., LL. M., Harvard

Academic Interest : Introduction to U.S. Law for Civil-Law Lawyers and Students

Lama Abu-Odeh
Associate Professor of Law
LL.B., University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan; LL.M., University of Bristol, England; MA, University of York, York, England;   S.J.D., Harvard

Israel/Palestine Conflict: Legal Issues Seminar; Law and Development

T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Professor of Law

B.A., Swarthmore; J.D., Yale

Citizenship, Immigration, and Nationality Law

M. Gregg Bloche
Professor of Law
B.A., Columbia; M.D., J.D., Yale

Academic Interest:  International Human Rights

Rosa Brooks
Professor of Law
A.B., Harvard; M.St., Oxford; J.D., Yale

Ethics and Professional Identity Seminar:  The Representation of Atrocity; Failed States Seminar; International Law I

Chris Brummer

Professor of Law

A.B., Washington University in St. Louis; J.D., Columbia; Ph.D., University of Chicago

International Finance and Regulation; Globalization and Systemic Risk Seminar

Barry E. Carter
Professor of Law
B.A., Stanford; M.P.A., Princeton; J.D., Yale

International Law I: Introduction to International Law; International Law II: International Business and Trade Law; U.S. Foreign Relations and National Security Law

David D. Cole
Professor of Law
B.A., J.D., Yale

Current Issues in National Security and Civil Liberties Seminar

Richard D. Diamond
Professor of Law
A.B., Princeton; M.A., J.D., Yale

International Trade and the WTO; International Trade Seminar: The WTO and Subsidies

Viet D. Dinh

Professor of Law; Co-Director, Georgetown Law-Asia

A.B., J.D., Harvard

Academic Interest: Southeast Asian Comparative Law

Laura Donohue

Associate Professor of Law

A.B., Dartmouth; M.A., University of Ulster; J.D., Stanford; Ph.D., Cambridge

National Security Law: Investigations and Prosecution

James V. Feinerman
Associate Dean, International and Graduate Studies; James M. Morita Professor of Asian Legal Studies; Director, Asian Law and Policy Studies
B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale; J.D., Harvard

Chinese Law Seminar

Lawrence O. Gostin

Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law; Faculty Director, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

B.A., State University of New York, Brockport; J.D., Duke; LL.D. (Hon.), State University of New York

Academic Interests: Global Health Law, International Human Rights

AIDS Law and Ethics Seminar; National and Global Health Law; O'Neill Colloquium, Global Health Law:  An Intensive, Problem-Based Exploration; Global Health Law and Governance: Grand Challenges

 

Itai Grinberg

Associate Professor of Law

B.A., Amherst; J.D., Yale

International Tax: U.S. Taxation of Cross-Border Activities and Income

Charles H. Gustafson
Professor of Law
B.S., Buffalo; J.D., Chicago

U.S. Taxation of International Transactions

Craig Hoffman

Professor of U.S. Legal Discourse

B.A., William & Mary; Ph.D., University of Connecticut; J.D., University of Texas

Academic Interests: Law and Linguistics, Legal Writing

Nan D. Hunter
Professor of Law
B.A., Northwestern University; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

Bioterrorism, Health and the Law

John H. Jackson
University Professor; Director, Institute of International Economic Law
A.B., Princeton; J.D., University of Michigan; LL.D., Hamburg

International Trade; Law and Policy of International Economic Relations Seminar

Neal Katyal

Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law; Director, Center on National Security and the Law

A.B., Dartmouth; J.D., Yale

Law of Terrorism Seminar

David A. Koplow
Professor of Law; Director, Center for Applied Legal Studies
B.A., Harvard, Oxford; J.D., Yale

Center for Applied Legal Studies; Issues in Disarmament: Proliferation and Terrorism Seminar; International Law I: Introduction to International Law

David J. Luban
University Professor
B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale

Transnational Legal Theory Seminar; International Criminal Law

Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow

Professor of Law; A.B. Chettle, Jr., Chair in Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure

A.B. Barnard College, Columbia; J.D., University of Pennsylvania; LL.D., Quinnipiac College of Law

Multi-Party Dispute Resolution Seminar: Consensus Building and Other Negotiation Processes; Nationalism and Cultural Identity Seminar

Naomi Mezey

Professor of Law; A.B. Chettle, Jr. Chair in Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure

A.B., Barnard; J.D., University of Pennsylvania; LL.D., Quinnipiac College of Law

Multi-Party Dispute Resolution Seminar: Consensus Building and Other Negotiation Processes Nationalism and Cultural Identity Seminar

John Mikhail

Professor of Law

B.A., Amherst; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell; J.D., Stanford

Academic Interest:  Comparative Criminal Law and International Human Rights

 

Julie Rose O'Sullivan
Professor of Law
A.B., Stanford; J.D., Cornell

International Criminal Law

James C. Oldham

St. Thomas More Professor of Law and Legal History

B.S., Duke; LL.B., Stanford; M.S.B.A., University of Denver

English Legal History Seminar: Foundations of American Law

Joseph A. Page

Professor of Law; Director, Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas

B.A., LL.B., LL.M., Harvard

Academic Interest: Latin America

Elizabeth Hayes Patterson

Associate Professor of Law

A.B., Emmanuel; J.D., Catholic University

Conflict of Laws: Choice of Law

Nina Pillard

Professor of Law
B.A., Yale; J.D., Harvard

Transnational Legal Theory Seminar; International Law of Labor and Employment

Susan Deller Ross
Professor of Law; Director, International Women's Human Rights Center
B.A., Knox; J.D., New York University

International and Comparative Law of Women's Human Rights; International Women's Human Rights Clinic

Alvaro Santos

Associate Professor of Law
J.D. (High Honors), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; LL.M., Harvard; S.J.D. (Candidate), Harvard

International Trade, Law and Development Seminar; Workplace Regulation in the Global Economy Seminar; International Trade

Philip G. Schrag
Professor of Law; Director, Center for Applied Legal Studies
A.B., Harvard; LL.B., Yale

Center for Applied Legal Studies

Jane E. Stromseth
Professor of Law; Director, Human Rights Institute; Co-Director, Joint Degree in International Studies and Law
B.A., Swarthmore; D.Phil., Oxford; J.D., Yale

International Human Rights; International Law Seminar: Use of Force and Conflict Resolution

Robert K. Stumberg
Professor of Law; Clinical Director, Harrison Institute for Public Law
B.A., Macalester; J.D., LL.M., Georgetown

Harrison Institute for Public Law & Policy Clinic

Peter W. Tague

Professor of Law

A.B., Harvard; J.D., Michigan

Comparative Professional Responsibility

John R. Thomas
Professor of Law
B.S. Carnegie Mellon University; J.D., University of Michigan; LL.M., George Washington

Intellectual Property in World Trade

Philomila Tsoukala

Associate Professor of Law

B.A., Conservatory of Northern Greece; LL.B., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; M.A., University Pantheon Assas, Paris II; S.J.D., Harvard

European Union Law

Carlos Manuel Vázquez
Professor of Law
B.A., Yale; J.D., Columbia

International Law I: Introduction to International Law; Foreign Relations Law Colloquium

William T. Vukowich

Professor of Law

A.B., Indiana; J.D., University of California, Berkeley; J.S.D., Columbia

Academic Interest: Comparative Consumer Protection

Don Wallace, Jr.
Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor; Chairman, International Law Institute
B.A., Yale; LL.B., Harvard

Constitutional Aspects of Foreign Affairs Seminar; Investor-State Dispute Settlement

Edith Brown Weiss
Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law; Co-Director, Joint Degree in Law and Government
A.B., Stanford; J.D., Harvard; Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley; LL.D., Chicago-Kent

International Environmental Law; International Law I: Introduction to International Law; International Environment and Trade Seminar: Climate Change

Franz Werro
Professor of Law
Licence en droit, Docteur en droit, University of Fribourg; LL.M., University of California-Berkeley

EU Law: Selected Topics in ECJ Jurisprudence ; Comparative Privacy Law: EU and US; Comparative Law: Focus on EU and US

 

 

Visiting Faculty 2010 - 2011

Aharon Barak

Visiting Professor of Law

LL.M., LL.D. (Hon.), Hebrew University

Interpretation or Proportionality? How Constitutional Courts Around the World Review Challenges to Government Action

Morten Bergsmo

Visiting Professor of Law

International Crime of Genocide

Dennis Martin Davis

Visiting Professor of Law

LL.B., LL.D. (Hon.), University of Cape Town; M. Phil., University of Cambridge

International Antitrust Law; Comparative Bill of Rights Seminar

Mark Dybul

Visiting Professor; Co-Director, Global Health Law Center, O'Neill Institute

A.B., M.D., Georgetown

National and Global Health Law: O'Neill Colloquium

Pierre Legrand

Visiting Professor of Law

B.C.L., LL.B., McGill; M.Litt., Oxford; D.E.A., Sorbonne; Ph.D., Lancaster; Ph.D., Sorbonne

Comparative Law: Focus on EU and US

Karen Knop

Visiting Professor of Law

B.Sc., LL.B., Dalhousie; LL.M., Columbia; S.J.D., Toronto

International Law I: Introduction to International Law; Peoples and Minorities in International Law Seminar

Meredith Kolsky Lewis

Visiting Professor of Law

B.A., Northwestern; J.D., M.S.F.S., Georgetown

International Environment and Trade Seminar: Climate Change, Asia-Pacific Legal Issues, Free Trade Agreements and the WTO

Thomas Pfeiffer

Visiting Professor of Law

J.S.D., University Frankfurt am Main

International Dispute Resolution from a European Perspective

Roger S. Magnusson

Visiting Professor of Law; Professor of Health Law & Governance at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Australia

B.A., LL.B. (Hon.), Australian National University; Ph.D., University of Melbourne; Graduate Diploma in Managing Development, University of Melbourne

Law, Chronic Disease, & Lifestyle Risk Factors

Marcello Marinari

Visiting Professor of Law; President of the Court of Montepulciano

J.D., University of Pisa

Alternative Dispute Resolution in European Civil Systems

Giuseppe Musumeci

Visiting Professor of Law

J.D., University of Milan; LL.M., Harvard

Alternative Dispute Resolution in European Civil Systems

Shari Motro

Visiting Associate Professor of Law

B.A., Yale; J.D., New York University

Academic Interest: Israel-Palestinian Relations

Cheryl Saunders

Visiting Professor of Law

B.A., LL.B., Ph.D., Melbourne

Comparative Constitutional Law; Constitution Building Seminar

Andrew I. Schoenholtz
Visiting Professor of Law; Deputy Director, Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration
B.A., Hamilton College; J.D., Harvard; Ph.D., Brown

Refugee Law and Policy; Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies: Advanced Research Seminar; Immigration Law and Policy; Human Rights Advocacy Seminar

David P. Stewart
Visiting Professor of Law; Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law at the U. S. Department of State
B.A., Princeton; M.A., J.D., Yale; LL.M., New York University

International Criminal Law; International Law I; Global Law Scholars Seminar; Current Issues in Transnational (Private International) Law Seminar; Foreign Relations Law

Adrienne Stone

Visiting Professor of Law

J.D., University of New South Wales; J.S.D., Columbia

Comparative Perspectives on Freedom of Expression; Judicial Review in Comparative Perspective Law Seminar

Allyn Taylor

Visiting Professor of Law

B.A., J.D., University of California, Berkeley; LL.M., J.S.D., Columbia

Global Health Law, International Organizations & Global Health Lawmaking, Global Health Law: An Intensive, Problem-Based Exploration

Cornelis (Kees) Van Raad

Visiting Professor of Law; Professor of Law, The University of Leiden

LL.B., Leiden University; M.C.L., Georgetown; Ph.D., Leiden University

Tax Treaties: Advanced Topics and Strategic Planning; EU Tax Law

Ivan Verougstraete

Visiting Professor of Law; President of the Belgian Court of Cassation

J.D., University of Leuven; M.C.L., Columbia University

Alternative Dispute Resolution in European Civil Systems

Adjunct Faculty

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Revised October 25, 2010 (EB)