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IAPL 2009 - Speakers |
Welcome and Introduction |
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Federico Carpi, President, IAPL. Carpi is a full professor of Civil Procedural Law at Bologna, where he studied law. After graduation, he practised in Italy, and was a member of the faculties at Macerata, Cagliari and Ferrara, joining Bologna in 1979.He is the Director, High School for Advanced Legal Studies; and a member of the Bar of Bologna, the Academy of Sciences of Bologna, the Board of the Italian Association of Scholars of Civil Procedure, the Italian Association of Comparative Law, and the International Association of Family Law, among other learned societies. He is General Editor, Quarterly Review of Italian Civil Law and Civil Procedure, and he has written well known books and some 150 publications on procedure, including a widely used Commentary to the Code of Civil Procedure with Taruffo.
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Rethinking the Common Law/Civil Law Divide |
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Mirjan Damaška, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law,Yale Law School. Professor Damaška teaches and writes in the fields of comparative and foreign law, procedural law, evidence, international criminal law, and continental legal history. He has written six books, including The Faces of Justice and Evidence Law Adrift. Professor Damaška studied law at the University of Zagreb in his native Croatia and the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). He has been a member of the law faculty of the University of Zagreb, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale. Since 1995, he has periodically advised the Croatian government in its relations with the ICTY, and the ICC in The Hague.
www.law.yale.edu/faculty/mirjandamaska.htm |
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Oscar G Chase, Russell D. Niles Professor of Law, NYU School of Law;
Co-Faculty Director, Institute of Judicial Administration; Vice-President, IAPL. A graduate of NYU and Yale Law School, Chase has written on comparative procedure, law and culture, and American civil procedure, recently authoring or co-authoring Law, Culture, and Ritual: Disputing Processes in Cross-Cultural Context; Civil Litigation in Comparative Context; and Civil Litigation in New York, 5th Ed. He serves on the Civil Advisory Committee of the Federal District Court, E.D.N.Y. and the Civil Practice Law and Rules Committee of the New York State Bar Association, and is a member of the American Law Institute.
http://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/profile.cfm?personID=19828 |
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Keith Uff joined the Birmingham Law School in 1972 and now teaches civil procedure, evidence, agency, and the domestic sale of goods. He has served as Executive Secretary General of the International Association of Procedural Law. His publications include: Common law arbitration: An overview; Remedies of the defrauded principal after Attorney General for Hong Kong v. Reid; Corporate and Commercial Law: Modern Developments; "Access to Justice”: Lord Woolf's Final Report - Procedure and Evidence; and Security for costs against European Community plaintiffs.
www.law.bham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/uff.shtml
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Linda S Mullenix, Morris & Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy, University of Texas School of Law. Professor Mullenix holds a Ph.D. in political science (Columbia) and a J.D. (Georgetown University). She has published ten books and dozens of articles on complex litigation and civil procedure, including Mass Tort Litigation (2d ed. 2008) and Federal Courts in the 21st Century (3d ed. 2007). In 2007 she held the Fulbright Senior Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento, Italy. In 2002, she was a scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center in Bellagio, Italy. She has been teaching since 1974.
www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/profile.php?id=lsmull52 |
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Andres de la Oliva Santos, holds the Chair in Procedural Law at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and he is a qualified lawyer. He is the author of 40 books and over 100 other publications in various countries. He has contributed to the training of teachers in many universities throughout Spain and Latin America. He participated extensively in the development of the Procedural Law of 2000. He has received the "Gran Cruz de san Rainmundo de Peñafort", the highest distinction in Spain in the field of law. Professor de la Oliva is a member of the Academic Council of the Institut International pour le Pouvoir Judiciare of the Unión Internacional de Magistrados.
www.ucm.es/info/procesal |
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Samuel P Baumgartner, Associate Professor, University of Akron School of Law. LL.B., Dr. iur., University of Bern, Switzerland; M.L.I, LL.M., University of Wisconsin. Previously, Baumgartner taught at the University of Bern and at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland. He has been Director of Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law and Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School. From 2001-2004, he was deputy head of the Section of Private International Law at the Swiss Department of Justice. His scholarship on matters of international law, transnational litigation, comparative law, and comparative procedure has appeared in both the U.S. and Europe.
http://www.uakron.edu/law/lawfaculty/baumgartner.php |
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Linda J Silberman is the Martin Lipton Professor of Law at New York University, where she teaches Civil Procedure, Comparative Procedure, Conflict of Laws, International Litigation, and International Arbitration. Prior to coming to NYU in 1971, she spent several years in private practice in Chicago. She has also been Professor in Residence at the U.S. Justice Department, Civil Division, Appellate Staff. Professor Silberman is co-author of a Civil Procedure casebook and Civil Litigation in Comparative Context (2007). She was Co-Reporter for the ALI Project on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments. Her recent scholarship includes her Hague Lectures covering the various Hague Children’s Conventions and articles on the role of choice of law in class actions.
http://tstcfm.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/profile.cfm?section=pubs&personID=20292 |
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Neil H Andrews, MA, BCL (Oxon), is Director of Studies in Law, and Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, and is also a qualified barrister. He specializes in English Civil Procedure, Transnational Civil Procedure, Obligations, Equity and Roman Law. He has written widely on the subject of procedure, including authoring or co-authoring English Civil Procedure: Fundamentals of the New Civil Justice, The Future of Transnational Litigation, and Commercial Arbitration (3 ed).
www.law.cam.ac.uk/staff/view_staff.php?profile=nha1000 |
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Yasuhei Taniguchi, Professor of Law, Tokyo University (retired). Professor Taniguchi was born in 1934, LL.B. Kyoto Univ. 1957, LTRI 1959, LL.M. UC Berkeley 1963, J.S.D. Cornell 1964; Prof. of Law at Kyoto Univ. 1959-1998, at Teikyo Univ., Tokyo, 1998-2000, at Tokyo Keizai Univ. 2000-06, Senshu Univ. Law School, Tokyo, 2006-09; Research Associate at Harvard L.S. 1970-71, Humboldt Fellow at Univ. of Cologne 1977-78, Visiting Prof. of Law between 1976 and 1999 at Univ. of Michigan, UC Berkeley, Duke, Stanford, Georgetown, Harvard, NYU, Richmond, Hong Kong, Murdoch, Melbourne, Paris XII; Of Counsel at Matsuo & Kosugi, Tokyo, since 1998; Member of Appellate Body of the WTO, 2000-07 (Chairman 2004-05); Council member of ICCA; President of Japan Ass’n of Arbitrators. former President of J. Ass’n of Civil Proc.; former Vice-president of IAPL
www.martindale.com/Yasuhei-Taniguchi/1233487-lawyer.htm |
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Murat R Özsunay, of the Istanbul and Frankfurt/M bars, is also a European & Turkish Patent & TM Attorney (epi, TPE), and ICC arbitrator based in Istanbul. He has an international practice and teaches contracts, civil procedure, arbitration, and ECHR litigation at Goethe and Bahcesehir Universities, Istanbul Bar Apprentice Training Center, Georgia State U. A graduate of Istanbul U. Law (1985), Academy of American & Int’l Law (Dallas) and U.T. Austin (M.C.J.), he worked at the Registry of the ECHR in Strasbourg. He publishes in English and Turkish on arbitration, civil procedure and IP. He is a member of the IBA, AIPPI, ICC, IACL, D-TR JurV, and Austrian Arbitration Association.
www.ozsunay.com, www.ozsunay.av.tr |
Special Video Presentation |
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Lord Woolf was called to the Bar in 1955. He represented Inland Revenue and Treasury in leading cases from 1973-79, when he was appointed to the Queen’s Bench. He was appointed Lord Justice of Appeal (1986), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1992), Master of the Rolls (1996), and Lord Chief Justice (2000). He now serves as Privy Counsellor, part time judge of the Appellate Committee of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong. In 2006, Qatar asked him to establish and be the first President of the Qatar Financial Centre’s Civil and Commercial and Appeal Court. Lord Woolf is a member of Blackstone Chambers, an accredited mediator, and a Chartered Arbitrator (CIArb). His report, Access to Justice, 1996 transformed English Civil Procedure and was a catalyst for the development of ADR. He chaired the network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the EU Working Group on mediation. His recent books include De Smith’s Judicial Review of Administration (6ed) and Pursuit of Justice. He holds honorary degrees from twelve universities and is an Hon Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences, UCL and the US College of Trial Lawyers and Hon Member of the American Law Institute. |
Changing Roles: Witnesses and Counsel - Getting Straight to the Facts |
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Garry D Watson, Osgoode Hall Law School (LLB, Melbourne; LLM Yale). Professor Watson has been a visiting professor at Southern California, Toronto, Duke, Haifa, Sydney, Melbourne, and Monash (Prato, Italy, campus). He was in private practice for two years in the mid 80s and was Director, Professional Development at Blake, Cassels & Graydon from 1991-93. He continues in that position part-time. He has co-authored Watson & McGowan, Ontario Civil Practice, Holmested & Watson, Ontario Civil Procedure (6 volumes) and The Civil Litigation Process: Cases and Materials. He was Counsel to the Ontario Civil Procedure Revision Committee, 1976-80 and has served on the Ontario Civil Rules Committee since 1983.
www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty/Watson_Garry_D.html |
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David Bamford, Dean, Flinders University School of Law. Professor Bamford joined the Law School in 1994 after nine years as a practising lawyer in the areas of general civil litigation, workers compensation and industrial law. He remains interested in history and politics, the areas of his first degree. David has combined practice with academic work. He teaches Resolving Civil Disputes, Lawyering, Community Legal Practice and Regulating Politics. His research interests include the workings of the civil justice system, and the interaction between law and politics. Commissioned research includes government consultancies that evaluate different aspects of the justice system.
http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/law |
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Emmanuel Jeuland is a professeur agrégé at the Université de Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2005. Prior to that he was a professor at l'Université de Reims (1998-2000) and at l'Université de Paris Sud (2000-05). Professor Jeuland studied law at Rennes I, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and King’s College London. He has authored a number of works, solely or collaboratively, including, most recently: Droit processuel (2007), Droit judiciaire privé (5 éd., 2006), Médiation et arbitrage, ouvrage collectif (2005), Le droit des consommateurs et les procédures spécifiques en Europe (2005) and many articles.
http://panjuris.univ-paris1.fr/pages/cvjeulan.html |
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The Hon W Ian C Binnie, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. Justice Binnie, B.A., LL.B., LL.M., LL.D., was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on January 8, 1998. Prior to his appointment, he was a senior partner of McCarthy Tétrault from 1986 to 1998, an Associate Deputy Minister of Justice for Canada from 1982 to 1986 and practised litigation in Toronto from 1967 to 1982.
www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/binnie/index-eng.asp |
Changing Roles: Judges and Parties - Getting Results |
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Trevor CW Farrow, Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor Farrow joined the Osgoode faculty in 2006 from the University of Alberta. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, at Osgoode, and at Niigata University, Faculty of Law in Japan and a litigator at the Torys law firm in Toronto, the Ames Fellow at Harvard Law School and a teaching fellow at Harvard College (for which he was awarded two Harvard University certificates of distinction in teaching). Professor Farrow’s research and teaching focus on the administration of civil justice, including legal process, dispute resolution, professional ethics, advocacy, globalization and post-conflict development.
www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty/Farrow_Trevor_C_W.html |
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Judith Resnik
is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her writings include: Courts: In and Out of Sight, Site, and Cite (2008); Law as Affiliation, (I-CON, 2008); Representing Justice: From Renaissance Iconography to Twenty-First Century Courthouses, (with Dennis E. Curtis) (2007); Adjudication and Its Alternatives (with Owen Fiss) (2003); Civil Processes, in Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies (2003); and Managerial Judges (1982), as Migrations and Mobilities: Gender, Borders, and Citizenship (co-edited with Seyla Benhabib, 2009). Professor Resnik has chaired the AALS Sections on Procedure, on Federal Courts, and on Women in Legal Education. She received the 2008 Outstanding Scholar of the Year Award from the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.
www.law.yale.edu/faculty/JResnik.htm |
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Eduardo Oteiza, Universidad de la Plata, received his law degree from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in 1978, where he has been a law professor since 1989. He conducted research work as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (1987-1988). He was a visiting professor at the University of Bologna in 1997. He was also a visiting scholar at Yale Law School (1998), and guest professor at the University of Catania (2000). He currently serves as director of the Postgraduate Course in Advanced Procedural Law at the Universidad Notarial Argentina.
www.jursoc.unlp.edu.ar |
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Soraya Amrani-Mekki, (Docteur d'Etat en droit, 2000), (Agrégé des facultés de droit, 2003), is a Professor at the University of Paris X - Nanterre. She is a fellow member of the Centre de recherche sur la justice et le procès and of the Société de législation comparée. She is also a member of the scientific committee of the Mission Droit et Justice. Professor Amrani Mekki is the co-author of two governmental reports on the speed and quality of Justice and author of a range of works on procedure.
http://panjuris.univ-paris1.fr/pages/cvamrani.html |
Lessons from International Tribunals: A - International Commercial Arbitration |
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Barry Leon practises commercial arbitration and dispute resolution at Torys LLP, Toronto. He writes and speaks extensively on int'l arbitration, and has served as the Conference Co-chair for IAPL2009 Toronto, IBA Litigation 2008 and ILA 72nd Biennial. He is currently ILA (Arbitration Committee; Cdn Branch VP/Director), ICC (Arbitration Commission; Executive—Cdn National Committee), ICDR (Arbitrators Panel; Cdn Advisory Committee), CPR Diversity Task Force, CEDR Commission—Settlement in Int'l Arbitration. He is recognized in: International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration 2009—Leading Lawyer, Canada; Best Lawyers in Canada 2008/2009—int'l arbitration, alternative dispute resolution, class actions, corporate-commercial litigation; Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2008—Most frequently recommended practitioner —int'l commercial arbitration; Guide to World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration 2008—Leading Lawyer, Canada; Guide to Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 2007-08- Leading int'l commercial arbitration practitioner.
www.torys.com/OurTeam/Pages/LeonBarry.aspx |
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Dr Pierre A Karrer practises as a full-time arbitrator from his “boutique” premises. He has been chairman and arbitrator in well over 250 international commercial arbitrations all over the world. He is Honorary President of the Swiss Arbitration Association, Court Member of ICC, Vice President of the Stockholm Institute, former Vice President of the LCIA, FCIArb, and listed arbitrator everywhere. After studies in Zurich, Göttingen, Padova, and The Hague, he obtained a Dr. iur from the University of Zurich, and an LL.M. from Yale. He speaks fluent English, French, German, and Italian.
www.pierrekarrer.com |
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Louise Ellen Teitz, is a Professor of Law at Rogers Williams University, specializing in civil and comparative procedure, international litigation, dispute resolution, and conflicts of law. A graduate of Yale College and SMU School of Law, she clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; taught at University of Illinois; Washington & Lee University; and Rutgers University School of Law-Camden; overseas at University of Konstanz; University of Bern; Catholica, Lisbon; and as Visiting Scholar at UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT. She has published two books and numerous articles. Professor Teitz has served on the Council of the ABA Section of International Law; the Task Force on Electronic Commerce and ADR; the US Delegation to the Hague Conference on Private International Law. She is Co-Reporter on the Uniform Law Commission Drafting Committee on the Hague Convention and a member of the ALI, the IACL, and a U.S. representative on the ILA’s International Commercial Arbitration Committee.
http://law.rwu.edu/directory/faculty/Teitz_LE.aspx |
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Henri Alvarez, is the Co-Chair of Fasken Martineau LLP's International Law Practice Group.
Henri has over 20 years of experience in the field of international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution. Since 1985, Henri has taught a course in this field at the Faculty of Law at The University of British Columbia. He has acted as both an arbitrator and as counsel in international and domestic commercial arbitrations involving investments, trade, franchising, licensing, distributorship, construction, forestry, oil and gas, energy, banking, corporate and general commercial disputes. He has served as a sole arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator and Chairman in a number of international matters and conducted arbitrations in English, Spanish and French.
www.fasken.com/halvarez |
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Khawar Qureshi, QC, specialises in Commercial Litigation, International Arbitration and Public International Law. Khawar has taught Commercial and International Law at Cambridge University, King's College London and the LSE. He is currently a Visiting Professor in Commercial Law at London University.
Khawar has appeared as an advocate in hundreds of matters, before the English Courts, the ICJ and International Arbitration Tribunals. Before taking Silk in 2006, Khawar was one of around 20 Barristers appointed to the panel that advises and represents the UK Government in civil matters. He has acted for or against more than 50 States in Complex Commercial and International Law matters. Khawar is Vice-Chairman of the International Committee of the Bar Council of England & Wales.
www.mcnairchambers.com/en/members/khawar-qureshi-qc/full-cv |
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Edoardo F Ricci, was born in Genoa in 1936 and licensed in the University of Milan in February 1959, Sr Ricci has been professor at the Universities of Modena, Turin, Pavia, Milan (lecturing in Civil Procedure, Arbitration, Bankruptcy Law) and chairman of the Arbitration Counsel of the Arbitral Chamber of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan. He is general editor of «Rivista di Diritto Processuale», member of the Board of Directors of the review «Giurisprudenza Commerciale», member of the Scientific Committee of the Brazilian «Revista de Processo», senior partner of the Law Firm Edoardo Ricci & Associati (Milan). He has written four books and more than 150 articles and notes. |
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Raëd Fathallah, is counsel at Bredin Prat, specializing in international arbitration, particularly disputes involving States and State-owned entities (including ICSID) and disputes involving Arab States. He serves as arbitrator in ad-hoc and institutional arbitrations. Mr. Fathallah has practised international litigation and arbitration in New York, Montréal and Lebanon. He holds degrees from Ottawa (L.L.L, 1994), NYU (M.C.J., 1996) and Oxford (D.Phil) where he researched investment treaty and ICSID arbitration and taught public international law and international dispute settlement. He is a Solicitor of England & Wales, an avocat in France, and Québec. He is fluent in Arabic, French and English.
www.bredinprat.fr/1-10264-COUNSEL.php?origin=counsel&id=112 |
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Kaj Hobér is a partner in Mannheimer Swartling, Advokatbyrå, Stockholm and Professor of East European Law at Uppsala University, where he also teaches international arbitration and international investment and trade law. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator (including chairmanships) in more than 300 international arbitrations, including representation of the claimant in the first ECT award, as well as involvement in many other investment arbitrations. He is Chair of the IBA sub-committee on Investment Treaty Arbitration. He is the author and editor of several books on arbitration and has published numerous articles on international arbitration, Russian, Soviet and East European law and international investment and trade law.
www.mannheimerswartling.se/en/Contact-database/Kaj-Hober/ |
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Jennifer Smith, a partner in the Houston, Texas office of Baker Botts, concentrates her practice primarily in international arbitration and dispute resolution and corporate investigations. She is qualified to practice law in both the United States and in England and Wales and has represented clients before a number of administrative agencies. Ms. Smith has handled a variety of contested matters in both state and federal courts in the United States. She has also done an extensive amount of work involving corporate investigations and advising companies in investigations initiated by government authorities.
www.bakerbotts.com/64/lawyers/detail.aspx?id=5fde1907-e40a-4d96-93a6-3f141a8ff031 |
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Audley William Sheppard, is Global Head of the International Arbitration Group at Clifford Chance LLP. He is based in London. Audley has over twenty years specialising in the resolution of disputes arising out of complex infrastructure projects and other international contracts and investments. He also regularly sits as an arbitrator. Audley is a visiting professor at the School of Arbitration, Queen Mary, London. He is a member of the ICC Court of Arbitration. Audley has been Co-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee (2006-07) and Rapporteur of the International Law Association Arbitration Committee (1996-2006). He is on various editorial boards and writes and speaks regularly on arbitration topics.
www.cliffordchance.com/directory/lawyers/details.aspx?LangID=UK&&contentitemid=4106 |
Lessons from International Tribunals: B - International Criminal Tribunals |
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Valerie Oosterveld, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law. Before joining Western Law, Valerie served in Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, where she provided legal advice on international criminal accountability for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, especially with respect to the ICC, the ICTY and Rwanda, the Sierra Leone Special Court, and other transitional justice mechanisms such as truth and reconciliation commissions. She was a member of Canada’s delegation to the ICC negotiations and the Assembly of States Parties. She teaches International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law and Public International Law. Her research and writing focus on gender issues within international criminal justice.
www.law.uwo.ca/lawsys/pages/contents.asp?contentName=Instructors&contentFileName=vooster |
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His Excellency Judge Fausto Pocar is Professor of International Law at Milan and formerly Dean of Political Science and Vice-Rector. He has been a Judge of the ICTY since 2000, first in a Trial Chamber and later in the Appeals Chamber for the ICTY (as President from 2005-08) and for the ICTR. As a member of the UNHCR (1984-2000) and its Chairman (1991-92) and Rapporteur (1989-90), he was appointed Special Representative for visits to Chechnya and the Russian Federation in 1995-96. He chaired the informal working group that drafted the Declaration on the Rights of People belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious or Linguistic Minorities, adopted by the UNGA in 1992. Judge Pocar has published widely on human rights and humanitarian law, private international law and European law, and lectured at The Hague Academy. He is a member and treasurer of the “Institut de Droit International” and several other international law associations.
http://www.un.org/icty/glance-e/index.htm |
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William A Schabas is director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, where he is professor of human rights law. He holds appointments at University of Warwick School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. He is ‘door tenant’ at 9 Bedford Row, London. Professor Schabas was a member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and sits on the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Assistance in Human Rights. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
www.nuigalway.ie/human_rights/Staff/william_schabas.html |
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Caitlin Reiger is Deputy Director of the Prosecutions Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice and heads the ICTJ’s work in Cambodia. She has provided technical advice and policy analysis to post-conflict justice initiatives and hybrid tribunals in many countries. From 2003 to 2005 she was the chambers senior legal adviser to the judges of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and in 2001 she co-founded the Judicial System Monitoring Program in East Timor. She is also an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and the co-editor of Prosecuting Heads of State (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
www.ictj.org/en/about/staff/215.html |
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Sharon A. Williams is a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School where she teaches Public International Law and International Criminal Law. She has written widely on international criminal law, international and national cultural property law, and international environmental law, and prepared government reports on the extra-territorial aspects of Canadian criminal law, the denaturalization and deportation of war criminals in Canada, and crimes against humanity. Professor Williams served as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, a consultant to the Canadian Department of Justice, a Special Advisor to the Canadian Delegation to the UN General Assembly, and a Judge ad litem of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She is a David Mundell Medal recipient and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty/Williams_Sharon_A.html |
Convergence in Other Contexts |
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Sean Rehaag is an Assistant Professor at Osgoode teaching Refugee Law and Legal Process. He has been a visiting scholar at Montreal’s Chaire de recherche du Canada en droit international des migrations, a visiting scholar with the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at UC Hastings, a visiting researcher at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, and an instructor at Victoria and Sherbrooke. His doctoral dissertation, which received the Alan Marks Medal for best graduate thesis in 2008 at the Toronto', used a legal pluralist approach to assess the competing legal claims that arise when faith-based communities offer sanctuary to unsuccessful refugee claimants to prevent their deportation.
www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty/Rehaag_Sean.html |
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Chaim Saiman is an Assistant Professor at Villanova Law School. His recent articles include Restitution and the Production of Legal Doctrine, Public Law, Private Law and Legal Science, Restitution in America: Why the US Refuses to Join the Global Restitution Party? and Jesus’ Legal Theory—A Rabbinic Reading. His current research is on the relationship between law, philosophy and theology in Jewish and Christian thought. Chaim has served as an Olin Fellow at Harvard Law School, a Golieb Fellow in legal history at NYU Law School, and as a law clerk to Judge Michael McConnell on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
www.law.vill.edu/academics/faculty/biographies/faculty/saiman |
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James Maxeiner began his career as a trial attorney in the Honors Program of the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice. As a Max Rheinstein Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, he did a doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität. After practising law in New York City in the areas of intellectual property and international commercial litigation, he becamse Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Dun & Bradstreet. Professor Maxeiner now teaches and writes in the areas of commercial law, electronic commerce and intellectual property law, and international and comparative law.
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Baosheng Zhang, Vice-President, China University of Political Science and Law, received BA, MA and Ph.D degrees in Philosophy from Renmin University. He studied law at Kent and Northwestern as a visiting scholar and was Director, Scientific Research Division, Ministry of Education Deparment of Society and Politics before his transfer to CUPL in 2004. He is Executive Director, China Law Education Research Assocation and member of the Academic Committee of Cooperative Higher Education with the EU. He is responsible for the Scientific Research Department, Institutes, Publishing Department, Library, Modern Technology Education Center, Department of Science and Technology, Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science and Zhong Guancun Science and Technology Park of CUPL.
www.cupl.edu.cn/en/101739/101846/101856/ |
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Burt Neuborne, Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties, has taught at NYU Law School since 1972. He is one of the nation’s leading scholars in the areas of Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Procedure and Evidence. As Legal Director of the Brennan Center for Justice, he is at the center of emerging legal issues affecting democracy, poverty and the criminal justice system. Professor Neuborne is also one of the nation's most active constitutional lawyers. He has served as court-appointed Lead Settlement Counsel in the Holocaust litigation against Swiss banks for 10 years, arguing the legal issues and participating in the negotiations leading to the final $1.25 billion settlement.
http://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/profile.cfm?section=bio&personID=20165 |
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Erik Knutsen, (LL.B., Osgoode, LL.M., Harvard) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University. His areas of academic interest include tort, insurance, and the civil litigation system. He is a member of the Law Commission of Ontario’s Research Advisory Board and co-author of upcoming casebooks on Canadian civil litigation, and Canadian and American insurance law. Professor Knutsen earned the faculty teaching award in 2008. He was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida State University College of Law, where he also earned a teaching award. He has practiced tort and insurance litigation in Toronto, Thunder Bay, and New York
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Richard Marcus holds the Horace O. Coil Chair in Litigation at U. California's Hastings College of the Law. Previously, he was a litigation partner in a San Francisco firm and then taught at the U. Illinois. He is co-author of leading American casebooks on Complex Litigation and Civil Procedure, and author of the discovery volumes of the leading U.S treatise Federal Practice and Procedure. Since 1996, he has served as Associate Reporter of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules of the U.S. Judicial Conference, and he was a primary drafter of the rules for electronic discovery adopted for U.S. federal courts in 2006, and revisions of the U.S. federal court class action rule in 2003
www.uchastings.edu/faculty-administration/faculty/marcus/index.html
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Peter Murray is the Braucher Visiting Professor of Harvard Law School, where he has taught Evidence, Trial Advocacy, Comparative Civil Procedure, Introduction to American Law, and Legal Reasoning and Argument for 18 years. He is also Professor of Law at Husson University Law School, Bangor, Maine. He is co-author with Rolf Stürner of German Civil Justice, and with Arthur von Mehren of Law in the United States, Maine Evidence, 6th Ed., and Basic Trial Advocacy, and of numerous articles on evidence and comparative civil procedure. Since 1998 he has regularly taught as a Visiting Professor at the University of Freiburg. He is currently working on a book on the civil law notariat.
www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=155 |
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Edward F Sherman,W.E. Irby Chair and Moise Steeg Professor of Law at Tulane, served as Dean (1996-2001), and taught at U. Texas (1977-96). He is co-author of widely-used casebooks on Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He has served as consultant or expert witness in class actions and complex cases, as mediator and arbitrator, and as chair of American Bar Association Tasks Forces on Offers of Judgment, Class Actions, Disaster Insurance, and Preemption of State Tort Law. He received the 2006 ABA award for the professor who contributed most to tort, insurance, and trial practice. He helped write a new Civil Procedure Code for Viet Nam in 2004-5.
www.law.tulane.edu/tlsfaculty/profiles.aspx?id=466 |
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Déirdre Dwyer is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, a Junior Research Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, and a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn. She is author of The Judicial Assessment of Expert Evidence (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and editor of The Civil Procedure Rules Ten Years On (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Her current research is on the principles of civil evidence, and the origins of modern English civil procedure. She is book reviews editor for the International Commentary on Evidence, a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Evidence and Proof, and a regular contributor to the Civil Justice Quarterly.
http://denning.law.ox.ac.uk/members/profile.php?lecturer_code=dwyerd |
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Marcel Storme graduated from Gent in 1952, receiving a licence in Economy in 1955 and an Honorary Doctorate from Curie in Lublin (1994). He has been a Barrister since 1952 and he was a Professor at Antwerp (1958-91); Gent (1961-95, Dean 1982-84), and Queen Mary College (1985-86), Vlaamse Leergangen, Leuven (1986-87), Chair, Leverhulme, London (1991-92). He has been a visitor at Beijing (1988), Tokyo (2001), Kyoto (2004), UCL (2005), and editor Procedural Reporter (1983-2005), Tydshcrift Prvaatrecht (1964-), European Private LR (1992-), and has published widely in the field of procedural law. He was IAPL Secretary General 1983-95 and President 1995-2007.
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Antonio Gidi
teaches Civil Procedure, Class Actions, and Comparative Law at the University of Houston. He holds LLM and PhD degrees from PUC University in Sao Paulo Brazil and an SJD degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Gidi was the Associate Reporter to the ALI / UNIDROIT project on Transnational Civil Procedure, a project geared to producing uniform rules of civil procedure for international litigation and arbitration. He also authored a Model Class Action Code for Civil Law countries.
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Eva Storskrubb is an associate with Dittmar & Indrenius, Helsinki. After graduating from the University of Helsinki in 2000 she worked for solicitors in London dealing with commercial dispute resolution. She returned to Finland in 2006 after a period of pursuing post graduate research at the European University Institute in Florence. Her research interest lies in comparative civil procedure as well as in Europeanization of civil procedure. Her doctoral thesis has recently been published Civil Procedure and EU Law - A Policy Area Uncovered (OUP, 2008). She is also the author of various articles in the field of dispute resolution.
www.dittmar.fi/our_people/eva_storskrubb.shtml |
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Rolf Stürner, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg. Professor Dr. Stürner was born 1943, and has been a member of the full-time faculty of Freiburg University since 1992, having previously served as a Professor and Dean of the Law Faculty at Konstanz University. He currently serves as Director of the Institute for German and Comparative Civil Procedural Law. He has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Geneva and Nagoya. He served as Co-reporter for the first joint project of the American Law Institute and UNIDROIT “Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure.” He is a member of the ALI consultative group of its project “Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation”.
http://www2.jura.uni-freiburg.de/institute/izpr1/index.htm
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Country Studies Beyond the Divide: Mixed Jurisdictions: South Africa, Canada, Israel |
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Thomas O Main is an expert in the field of domestic and international
civil procedure with numerous publications including Transnational
Litigation in Comparative Perspective (Oxford 2009), Global Issues in
Civil Procedure (West 2006), Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and
Context (3rd ed. Aspen 2008) and a number of law review articles.
Professor Main is a Professor and Associate Dean at the University of
the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. He has also visited at a number of
American and foreign law schools. Professor Main is a member of the
American Law Institute and of the International Association of
Procedural Law.
www.mcgeorge.edu/x517.xml |
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PJ Schwikkard is Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Cape Town. Her primary research areas are the law of evidence and criminal procedure. She is the author or editor of a number of books including the Presumption of Innocence (1999), Possibilities of Convergence (2008) and Principles of Evidence (2002 2ed). Professor Schwikkard has written numerous articles in the fields of criminal procedure and evidence, serves on a number of editorial boards and is a member of the South African Law Reform Commission.
www.publiclaw.uct.ac.za/staff/pjschwikkard |
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The Hon Allan Lutfy was appointed to the Federal Court (Canada)in 1996 and became its Chief Justice in 2003. Prior to his appointment, he specialised in civil litigation and administrative law in Québec and Ontario. He acted as counsel before commissions of inquiry concerning national security, competition in the petroleum industry and the use of drugs in sports. He was also counsel to the Security Intelligence Review Committee and to the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery. Between 1973 and 1979, he was a political advisor with the federal government. He was born in Montréal where he studied at Loyola College and graduated in civil law from McGill University.
http://cas-ncr-nter03.cas-satj.gc.ca/fct-cf/index.html |
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Celia Wasserstein Fassberg is the Judge Harry M. Fisher Professor of Private International and Inter-Religious Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she was also Director of the Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law. She was Vice-President of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists and is currently its Secretary-General. She teaches primarily Conflict of Laws and Comparative Law, focusing on differences in structure and procedure that shape legal systems.
http://law.huji.ac.il/eng/segel.asp?staff_id=29&cat=441 |
Country Studies Beyond the Divide: Jurisdictions in Transition - Russia, China, Croatia |
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Ada Pellegrini Grinover is Professor of Procedural Criminal Law, U. São Paulo; Doctor Honoris Causa, U. Milan; retired State Attorney; Chair, Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law; and Vice-Chair, IAPL and Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law. She is an Academic, Brazilian Academy of Legal Culture and the Paulista Law Academy; an Honorary Academic, Real Jurisprudence and Legislation, Madrid, a member of the Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé, the Association International de Droit Pénal, and the Associazione Italiana fra gli studiosi del processo civile (ad honorem). She has collaborated with many Italian Universities and participated and organized several Congresses, and published widely in Brazil, Europe and Latin America, including 25 books. She has participated in revising the Criminal and Civil Proceedure Codes and the Small Claim’s Courts Bill, and proposals for Constitutional Review. She was awarded the Labor Judicial Merit Order and the award in 1998 for the best yearly monograph on Consumer’s Rights. |
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Dmitry Maleshin is Vice-Dean and Associate Professor of Civil Procedural Law at Moscow State Lomonosov University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Yale (2004) and Harvard (2008) law schools. He is a member of the Council of IAPL and ILA Civil Litigation Committee. He has written on Russian civil procedure, comparative civil procedure, law and culture.
www.law.msu.ru/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=79 |
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Margaret Woo
teaches civil procedure, administrative law and comparative law at Northeastern University where she was Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, 1997. She was a fellow of the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College and is an associate in research at the East Asian Legal Studies Center of Harvard Law School and the Fairbank Center of Harvard College. Professor Woo has published and spoken widely on procedure and China's legal reforms. She is the co-author of American Civil Litigation (2006) and co-editor of East Asian Law-Universal Norms and Local Cultures. She is currently editing Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in China, a collection of interdisciplinary papers from her 2007 conference at the Fairbank Center. http://www.slaw.neu.edu/faculty/f_woo.htm |
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Alan Uzelac is Professor of Law at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. His main areas of interest include comparative civil procedure, evidence and alternative dispute resolution. He has been engaged as the member of the Council of the International Association of Procedural Law; founding member of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) in Strasbourg and delegate in the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration. In addition to a large number of published or edited publications, Professor Uzelac also participated in the drafting of a number of legislative acts. He was educated at Universities at Zagreb, Mainz and Harvard.
http://alanuzelac.from.hr
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Cultural, Social and Political Dimensions of Harmonization |
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Peter Gottwald studied law in Munich and Berlin obtaining a Dr.jur. 1973, a Dr.jur. habil. (Erlangen, 1977) and a Dr.jur. h.c (Thessaloniki, 2005). He was chair of civil law and civil procedure, Bayreuth University from 1977-83 and since then, he has been chair of civil law, procedural law and conflict of laws at Regensburg University, with calls to Berlin, Erlangen, Tübingen and Zurich. He was associate judge, Regional Courts of Appeal, Bamberg and Munich (1981-89) and is now Secretary General, IAPL (since 1995 and President, (German) Association of International Procedural Law (since 1997).
www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/Jura/gottwald |
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H Patrick Glenn is the Peter M. Laing Professor of Law at McGill University. He teaches principally in the fields of private international law, civil procedure and comparative law. A Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he has also been a Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Research and a Killam Research Fellow. In 2006 he received the Prix Leon-Gérin from the Government of Quebec for his contribution to the social sciences. He has published Legal Traditions of the World (3rd ed.,Oxford Univ. Press, 2007).
http://people.mcgill.ca/h.glenn/ |
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Michele Taruffo
has been a professor of Law (Civil Procedure) at the University of Pavia (Italy) since 1976, specializing in civil procedure, comparative law, evidence and proof, legal theory, legal history, philosophy and epistemology. He is a Secretary General of the IAPL and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, American Law Institute, Bielefelder Kreis, and other associations in the areas of civil procedure, comparative law and legal theory. Taruffo has published nine books, translated into various languages, and several dozens of essays in Italian and foreign legal journals. He has delivered lectures and conferences in a number of Italian and foreign universities.
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Looking Ahead: The Future of Categories - Categories of the Future |
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Janet Walker, Professor and former Associate Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School (DPhil (Oxon), Ontario Bar). Professor Walker teaches Conflict of Laws and International Arbitration at Osgoode, and she has taught at Monash, Haifa, Toronto, NYU, NUS, and for seven years in Tunis. Her publications include Castel and Walker: Canadian Conflict of Laws, Halsbury’s Laws of Canada: Conflict of Laws, The Civil Litigation Process (as General Editor) and others available at http://research.osgoode.yorku.ca/walker She serves as an ICC arbitrator, an advisor to the Federal Courts Rules Committee, and on task forces on multijurisdiction class actions for the ULCC, ILA, IBA and ABA.
www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty/Walker_Janet.html |
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Geoffrey C Hazard, Jr, Distinguished Professor of Law, Hastings College of the Law, University of California, and Trustee Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Hazard is Director (executive director) Emeritus, American Law Institute, and Sterling Professor of Law Emeritus, Yale University. He was Chief Reporter for the ALI/UNIDROIT Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure, Co-Reporter for the ALI Restatement Second of Judgments, and Reporter for the American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
http://www.uchastings.edu/faculty-administration/faculty/hazard/index.html |
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Loïc Cadiet, (Docteur d’Etat en droit, 1983), (Agrégé des facultés de droit,1984) is a Professor at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I, where he is the Director of the Centre de Recherche sur la Justice et le Procès and the Masters courses in Théorie et pratique du procès et Sciences sociales de la justice. He is the Executive Secretary General of the IAPL. Professor Cadiet is the author or co-author of a range of works on procedure and on alternative dispute resolution and he is the founder and director of Dictionnaire de la justice.
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