Bios
Panel 1:
Curtis Bradley
Curtis Bradley is the William Van Alstyne Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke Law School. He joined the Duke law faculty in 2005, after teaching at the University of Virginia and University of Colorado law schools. In 2004, he served as counselor on international law in the Legal Adviser’s Office of the U.S. State Department, and he has for a number of years been a member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law. He is also a Vice-President of the American Society of International Law; a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law; a Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law; and a member of the International Law Association’s Study Group on the Principles on the Application of International Law by Domestic Courts. Professor Bradley has written numerous articles concerning international law, U.S. foreign relations law, and constitutional law, including articles published in the Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Duke, and Georgetown law journals, and he is the co-author of a leading casebook on U.S. foreign relations law. His most recent book, International Law in the U.S. Legal System, was published by Oxford University Press in early 2013.
J. Patrick Kelly
J. Patrick Kelly is the Vice-Dean and Professor of Law at Widener University School of Law. Professor Kelly received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Delaware. He has served as Counsel to the House Banking Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and Assistant to the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission. He received a Fulbright Professorship to teach at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He founded and has directed the Nairobi International Law Institute since 1988 and founded the Sydney International Law Institute. His academic writings are primarily in international legal theory, international trade, and government regulation. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the United States Supreme Court as well as an associate member of the Delaware Bar Association where he has served as Chair of the International Law Section. His articles have appeared in many international law journals including those of Yale, Virginia, Duke, Cornell, Northwestern and Michigan law schools.
Stephen C. Neff
Stephen C. Neff was an undergraduate at Harvard College (A.B. 1972) and studied law at the University of Virginia (J.D. 1976; LL.M. 1977; S.J.D. 1988). He is a member of the bar of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Tennessee, as well as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales. In 1981-83, he was UNITAR Fellow of Public International Law in Christ’s College, Cambridge. Since 1983, he has taught international law at the University of Edinburgh. His principal interest is the history of international law. Major works include The Rights and Duties of Neutrals: A General History (Manchester University Press, 2000) and War and the Law of Nations: A General History (Cambridge University Press, 2005). His latest work, Justice Among Nations: A History of International Law (Harvard University Press) is forthcoming in 2013.
Marie Jacobsson
Dr. Marie Jacobsson is the Principal Legal Adviser on International Law and Ambassador with special responsibility for international law at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA). She is also a member of the UN International Law Commission (ILC) and Associate Professor of International Law at Lund University, Sweden.
Panel 2:
Jörg Kammerhofer
Jörg Kammerhofer is a Senior Research Fellow of the Hans Kelsen Research Group, University of Freiburg, Germany and a Lecturer at the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria. He has written widely on international law, inter alia on customary international law, the law on the use of force and the International Court of Justice. His main academic interests are international law’s general, theoretical and procedural aspects as well as legal theory. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Co-ordinating Committee of ESIL’s Interest Group on International Legal Theory. His recent book deals with the intersection between theory and practice: Uncertainty in International Law. A Kelsenian Perspective (Routledge 2010); he is also director, together with Jean d’Aspremont, of the DFG-funded research project International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World.
Brian Lepard
Brian D. Lepard is Law Alumni Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law, where he teaches courses on international law, international human rights law, and comparative law, among other subjects. He has written a number of books and articles relating to customary international law, including the book Customary International Law: A New Theory with Practical Applications, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. He is currently serving as Co-Chair of the Committee on the Formation of Customary International Law of the American Branch of the International Law Association, and is editing a book volume entitled Reexamining Customary International Law. Additional information about him can be found at http://law.unl.edu/facstaff/faculty/resident/blepard.shtml.
Maurice Mendelson
Maurice Mendelson is a barrister (Queen's Counsel) at Blackstone Chambers, London, specializing in public international law. He has been in practice at the English and international Bar since 1971; from 1968 to 2001 he also held academic posts at the Universities of Oxford and London, most recently the Chair of International Law at University College, London University, of which he is now Emeritus Professor of International Law. He has represented and advised numerous governments, inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations, multinational and other corporations, and individuals, covering most branches of international law. His special interests include customary international law: he was the Chairman of the ILA International Committee that produced the 2000 London Principles on the formation of Customary (General) International Law, and also gave a course of lectures at the Hague Academy on the subject, published as "The Formation of Customary International Law", 272 Collected Courses (1998), 155-410.
Michael Wood
Sir Michael Wood is a member of the International Law Commission, and a Senior Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. He is a barrister at 20 Essex Street, London, where he practices in the field of public international law, including before international courts and tribunals. He was Legal Adviser to the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office between 1999 and 2006, having joined as an Assistant Legal Adviser in 1970.
Panel 3:
Olufemi Elias
Olufemi Elias serves as Executive Secretary of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. He was previously Senior Legal Officer at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, The Netherlands. Prior to that he served as a Legal Adviser and as Special Assistant to the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva. Mr. Elias holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, a Master of Law in international law from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate in international law from the University of London. He is a member of the Nigerian Bar and a former lecturer and Visiting Professor in the University of London. He has written books and articles on various aspects of international law.
C.L. Lim
C.L. Lim is Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He was educated at Buckingham, University College Oxford, and Harvard. He began teaching in England; initially as a scholar and tutor at Nottingham where he received his doctorate, before lecturing at Aberystwyth and Queen Mary & Westfield College. He then worked as a UN officer at UNCC, Geneva before returning to law teaching in Singapore where he was also an international law advisor and counsel to Singapore, serving in the Attorney-General's Chambers. He is a Middle Temple barrister, door tenant at a leading London set, and member of the Singapore Bar; and he sits as a member of the Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, a tri-partite committee tasked to advise the HKSAR Government. His books. include The Paradox of Consensualism in International Law (Kluwer, 1998), with O.A. Elias; and The Trans-Pacific Partnership (Cambridge, 2012), co-edited with Deborah Elms and Patrick Low.
Laurence R. Helfer
Laurence R. Helfer, BA (Yale) 1987, JD (NYU Law) 1992, MPA (Princeton) 1992, is Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law and co-director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at Duke University School of Law. His research interests include international human rights, and international intellectual property law, treaty design, international adjudication, interdisciplinary analysis of international law and institutions. He is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and the Journal of World Intellectual Property. Professor Helfer has authored more than sixty publications on his diverse research interests. He is the coauthor of two books: Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface (Cambridge University Press 2011), and Human Rights (2d ed., Foundation Press, 2009). Other recent publications include: International Law and the U.S. Common Law of Foreign Official Immunity, 2010 Sup. Ct. Rev. 213 (2011) (with Curtis A. Bradley); Emergency and Escape: Explaining Derogations from Human Rights Treaties, 65 Int’l Org. 673 (2011) (with Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and Christopher Farris); Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community, 103 Am. J. Int’l L. 1 (2009) (with Karen Alter and Florencia Guerzovich); Redesigning the European Court of Human Rights: Embeddedness as a Deep Structural Principle of the European Human Rights Regime, 19 Eur. J. Int’l L. 125 (2008).
Timothy Meyer
Timothy Meyer joined the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law in 2010.
His research interests focus on the processes, institutions, and actors that shape how international law is made. Meyer’s current research examines the design of international legislative institutions; the fragmentation of international energy governance and the relationship between international energy institutions and climate institutions; why states choose to codify customary international law; and why states create non-binding "soft law" obligations, rather than binding treaty obligations. Meyer's work has appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Journal of Legal Analysis, and the Harvard Journal of International Law, among other journals. Before coming to Georgia, he practiced law for several years at the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Neil M. Gorsuch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. Meyer earned his J.D. and Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ingrid Wuerth
Ingrid Wuerth is Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Studies at Vanderbilt University Law School. Her areas of expertise include U.S. foreign relations law, public international law, and international law in domestic courts. Wuerth was recently elected to membership in the American Law Institute and appointed as Reporter for the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. Her work as Reporter will focus on state immunity. She is also a member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Public International Law and she has held a number of leadership positions in the American Society of International Law. Wuerth has served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, a German Academic Exchange Council Fellow, and a Chancellor’s Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Association. As undergraduate, she was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina, and was she elected to Order of Coif at the University of Chicago Law School where she earned her J.D.
Sean D. Murphy
Sean D. Murphy is a Member of the U.N. International Law Commission and Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. After earning law degrees from Columbia University and Cambridge University, Professor Murphy served for eight years in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State, specializing in international environmental law, the law of war, and international claims. From 1995 to 1998, he was the Legal Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, where he represented the United States before the International Court of Justice, the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. After entering academia in 1998, Professor Murphy has represented numerous governments and private parties before international courts and tribunals, including Ethiopia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Suriname, and the United States. He has served on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and is a Member of the American Law Institute. His most recent book is Litigating War: Mass Civil Injury and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission (Oxford: 2013) (with Kidane & Snider).
Panel 4:
Joost Pauwelyn
Joost Pauwelyn is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland and Co-Director of the Institute’s Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI). In Fall 2012 he was Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School and in Spring 2013 Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He is Senior Advisor with the law firm of King & Spalding LLC, practising both WTO law and investor-state arbitration. Before joining the Graduate Institute in 2007, Pauwelyn was a tenured professor at Duke Law School. He also served as legal officer at the World Trade Organization from 1996 to 2002 and practiced law at a major Brussels law firm. Joost received degrees from the Universities of Namur and Leuven, Belgium as well as Oxford University and holds a doctorate from the University of Neuchâtel. He was appointed on the roster of WTO panellists and as arbitrator under Free Trade Agreements.
Monica Hakimi
Monica Hakimi is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She teaches and writes on public international law and U.S. foreign relations law. Her research focuses on the informal processes by which international law is made and enforced, especially in the contexts of human rights and war. Professor Hakimi earned her J.D. in 2001 from Yale Law School, and her B.A., summa cum laude, from Duke University. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Kimba Wood on the Southern District of New York and later served as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. At the State Department, she counseled policymakers on non-proliferation, the reconstruction of Iraq, international investment disputes, and civil aviation. She also worked on cases before the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and U.S. federal courts and agencies. Professor Hakimi's publications have appeared or will appear in the Michigan Law Review, the Yale Journal of International Law, the Harvard International Law Journal, and the European Journal of International Law.
Richard Schmalbeck
Richard Schmalbeck is Professor of Law at Duke University. He has also served as dean of the University of Illinois College of Law, and as a visiting professor on the University of Michigan and Northwestern University law faculties. His recent scholarly work has focused on issues involving non-profit organizations, and the federal estate and gift taxes. He has also served as an advisor to the Russian Federation in connection with its tax reform efforts. The third edition of his federal income tax casebook, co-authored with Lawrence Zelenak, was released by Aspen Publishers in 2011. He graduated from the University of Chicago, and later from its Law School, where he served as associate editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. Prior to beginning his teaching career, he practiced tax law in Washington, D.C.
Georg Nolte
Georg Nolte is Professor of Public law, Public International Law and European law at Humboldt University Berlin (since 2008). He is a member of the International Law Commission (since 2007) and currently the Chairman of the German Society of International Law. From 2000-2007 he was a member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe (“Venice Commission”). His recent publications include “The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary”, Oxford 2012, (co.-ed. with Bruno Simma, Daniel-Erasmus Khan und Andreas Paulus) and “Persisting and Developing between Hope and Threat: International Law During the Past Two Decades and Beyond”, in: Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law, Oxford 2012.
Panel 5:
Andrew Guzman
Andrew Guzman is the Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International and Advanced Degree Programs at Berkeley Law School, University of California, Berkeley. Professor Guzman holds a J.D. and Ph.D. (economics) from Harvard University. He has written extensively on international trade, international regulatory matters, foreign direct investment and public international law. He is the author of Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change (Oxford), How International Law Works (Oxford) and International Trade Law (Wolters Kluwer). Professor Guzman served as editor for the Research Handbook in International Economic Law (Elgar) and Regulation and Competition in the Global Economy: Cooperation, Comity, and Competition Policy (Oxford). Professor Guzman is a member of the Board of Editors of several journals including the Journal of International Economic Law and the International Review of Law and Economics. He is also a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and has served as an international arbitrator.
Niels Petersen
Niels Petersen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. His main areas of research are international law, comparative constitutional law and constitutional theory. He holds a PhD. in law from the University of Frankfurt and an M.A. in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences from Columbia University. Niels was a Visiting Professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin in spring 2012 and an Emile Noel Fellow at the New York University School of Law during the academic year 2012/13.
John Tasioulas
John Tasioulas is Quain Professor of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He was previously Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford and has held visiting posts at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University. He received degrees in law and philosophy from the University of Melbourne and obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. His work on customary international law includes In Defence of Relative Normativity: Communitarian Values and the Nicaragua Case, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (1996), Customary International Law and the Quest for Global Justice, in A Perreau-Saussine and JB Murphy (eds), The Nature of Customary Law: Philosophyical, Historical, and Legal Perspectives (CUP, 2007) and Opinio Juris and the Genesis of Custom: A Solution to the "Paradox", Australian Year Book of International Law 26. His recent writings have focused on philosophical issues regarding punishment, human rights and international law. He is the co-editor (with Samantha Besson) of The Philosophy of International Law (OUP, 2010) and is currently completing a monograph on the philosophy of human rights.
Jan Wouters
Jan Wouters (LLM Yale) is full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance and Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Institute for International Law at the University of Leuven. He is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and at Sciences Po (Paris). He is Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts, has been référendaire at the European Court of Justice and practices law as Of Counsel at Linklaters, Brussels. He is Editor of International Encyclopedia of Intergovernmental Organizations and Deputy Director of Revue belge de droit international. He has published widely on international law and international organizations. He is President of Flemish Foreign Affairs Council and of the United Nations Association Flanders Belgium.
Panel 6:
Dr. Noora Arajärvi
Before joining the Law School of UCLan Cyprus, Dr. Noora Arajärvi worked as a lecturer at the University of West Indies in Trinidad & Tobago, and as a teaching and research assistant at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She gained her Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in 2011. In addition, she has studied in the UK, Belgium, and Finland, and conducted research as a visiting scholar at Fordham University in New York, USA. Dr. Arajärvi’s book 'The Changing Nature of Customary International Law: Methods of Interpreting the Concept of Custom in International Criminal Tribunals' will be published in early 2014 by Routledge. In her recent research, she has been concentrating on the applicability of positivist theories in international law, especially in relation to the sources theory. Currently she is working on case notes on human rights decisions for the Cyprus Human Rights Law Review and a chapter titled ‘Revised Theory of Sources in International Law: A Proposal for an Inclusive Positivist Model’ for a forthcoming edited volume by the Cambridge University Press.
Mitu Gulati
Mitu Gulati is a member of the law faculty at Duke University. His research interests are currently in the evolution of contract language and the history of international financial law.
Emmanuel Voyiakis
Emmanuel Voyiakis studied in the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece (LLB, 1999), the London School of Economics & Political Science (LLM, 2000) and University College London (PhD, 2005). He is a lecturer at the Department of Law, London School of Economics & Political Science, dividing his research time between work on the theory and the sources of public international law and work on the theory of private law. His interest in customary international law focuses on the role of normative considerations in the determination of the content of customary rules and on the context-dependence of the requirements for the emergence of such rules.
Catherine Kessedjian
Catherine Kessedjian is the Deputy Director of the European College of Paris, Professor at the University Panthéon-Assas Paris II and Hauser Global Visiting Professor at New York University School of Law. She teaches Private International Law, European Business Law and International Dispute Resolution. She acts as arbitrator in a selected number of international commercial and Investment Disputes. She is a Member of numerous professional organisations, notably the American Law Institute. She presently acts as a member of the Consultative Group for the Restatement on Arbitration. Prior to joining Paris II she was Deputy Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law.
