2008 Parsons Visitors

Professor Michele Vellano, University of Valle d’Aosta
Mon 4 Feb – Fri 8 Feb ‘08
Room 1320 on Lvl. 13 / 10285, Michele.vellano@unito.it
Professor Michele Vellano, Turin University (J.D. 1993), Milan University (Ph.D, International Law, 1997) is a Full Professor of International Law at the University of Valle d'Aosta. He also teaches European Union Law at Turin University. He has been member of a Group of the Italian Ministry of Trade and Industry on WTO Law (2000). He is author of two monographs and over thirty publications on International Public and Private Law and E.C. Law. He is active both in advising clients and litigation in the fields of commercial law, competitive and state aid law, E.C. funding law and international private law, domestic and international sport law. He has specialised in the area of privacy law and regulation. He is a member of the Italian Society for International Law (SIDI) and of the Société Française pour le Droit International (SFDI); he is Secretary of the Piedmont Section of the Italian Society for International Organiszation (SIOI) Foreign languages: English, French. He is chartered at the Turin Bar.

Professor Judy Fudge, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Tue 13 Feb – Fri 16 Feb ‘08
Room 1243, on Lvl. 12 / 10250, jafudge@uvic.ca
Professor Judy Fudge holds the Landsdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria, BC Canada. Professor Fudge is the leading Canadian feminist labour law historian, having co-authored three books, co-edited three collections on feminism and labour law, and written innumerable articles and chapters covering labour law, labour history, pay equity and human rights at work. Professor Fudge is currently undertaking an international comparative research project entitled 'Governing the employment relationship in the new economy: law, regulation, and labour market institutions'.

Professor Cindy Schipani, University of Michigan
Fri 15 Feb – Mon 30 Jun ‘08
Room 1119, on Lvl. 11 / 10241, Schipani@bus.umich.edu
Cindy Schipani is Chair of Law, History and Communication, Professor Business Law at the University of Michigan Business School and Co-Area Director of Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility at The William Davidson Institute.

Professor Iain Ramsay, Kent School of Law, University of Kent
Tue 26 Feb – Sun 2 Mar ‘08
Room 1320, on Lvl. 13 / 10245, I.D.C.Ramsay@kent.ac.uk
Professor Iain Ramsay's research interests are primarily in regulation of consumer markets at the national, regional and international level with a particular interest in issues of credit and insolvency. He is also interested in commercial credit and commercial law, focusing on the role of credit law in development. My approach is interdisciplinary drawing on economic and socio-legal perspectives. He is currently conducting a study of overindebtedness and the policy responses in the UK, and is a co-ordinator of an international network of scholars on overindebtedness and recently completed a new edition of a text on Consumer Law and Policy.

Professor Heping Dong, Northwest university of Politics and Law, Xi’an, Peoples Republic of China
Wed 5 Mar – Sun 30 Mar ‘08
Room 1135, on Lvl 11 / 10393, hepingd@hotmail.com
Professor Dong is a full professor of Constitutional Law at Northwest University of Politics and Law, where he did his undergraduate work. He completed his postgraduate work at Jilin University. He is also Chief Instructor of Constitutional Law Postgraduate Student Program of NUPL, Vice-president of China Constitutional Law Society and Council Member of International Association of Constitutional Law of China Law Society. He has extensive publications on law enforcement and Chinese constitutional law.

Dr Jesse Elvin, City University, London
Mon 17 Mar – Mon 31 Mar ‘08
Room 1320, on Lvl 13 / 10285, jesse.elvin.1@city.ac.uk
Dr. Jesse Elvin is a lecturer in law at City University, London. He graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1994 with a BA in Law and Anthropology. He obtained an LLM from the LSE in 1995, and a PhD from the same institution in 2005. Before joining City University, he taught at the LSE and University College London. He has published in a number of leading journals, including the Cambridge Law Journal, the Law Quarterly Review, and the Modern Law Review. His research interests include criminal legal theory, feminist legal theory, popular perceptions of the law, criminal law, tort law and contract law.

A/Prof Susan Franck, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Wed 19 Mar – Fri 21 Mar ‘08
Room 1135, on Lvl 11 / 10373, sfranck2@uni.edu
Susan Franck is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Law College. In July, she will join the Washington & Lee University School of Law as an Associate Professor where her teaching and scholarship will focus on the resolution of international economic law disputes. Professor Franck has law degrees from the University of London (LLM), where she was a US-UK Fulbright Scholar, and the University of Minnesota (JD).

Professor Katherine Stone, UCLA School of Law
Sun 4 May – Thu 15 May ‘08
Room 1243, on Lvl 12 / 10250, stone@law.ucla.edu
Professor Katherine Stone is one of America’s leading labour lawyers and she also has interests in alternative dispute resolution law. She is currently exploring the legal changes brought about by the changing nature of work in market economy countries. Her major books are: Rethinking Comparative Labor Law: Bridging the Past and the Future (edited volume, with Benjamin Aaron) (Van de Plas Publishers, 2007); From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Chaning Workplace (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Arbitration law (Foundation press, 2002), Private Justice: The Law of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution New York, NY: Foundation Press, 2000)

Assistant Professor Kirsten Anker, McGill University
Mon 12 May – Fri 16 May ‘08
Room 1320, on Lvl 13 / 10245, kirsten.anker@mcgill.ca
Assistant Professor and former Boulton Fellow at McGill University Faculty of Law, Kirsten has previously taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Sydney and UTS. She completed her PhD on Native Title and Legal Pluralism at the University of Sydney Faculty of Law in 2007.

A/Prof Benjamin Richardson, York University, Toronto
Mon 26 May – Wed 28 May ’08,
Room 1320 / 10286, brichardson@osgoode.yorku.ca
Professor Benjamin Richardson has been a member of Osgoode Hall Law School since 2003, and previously lectured at the law faculties of the Universities of Manchester and Auckland. An environmental law specialist, Richardson also worked for the National Parks Service in Australia and the IUCN (World Conservation Union) in Kenya and Nepal. Recently he has extended his scholarly interests to Aboriginal law, and he is co-director of Osgoode Hall’s clinical program in Aboriginal Law, which recently won an award from the Canadian Bureau of International Education. Richardson’s most recent scholarship includes the book Socially Responsible Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Environmental Law for Sustainability (Hart Publishing, 2006).

Dr Paul Johnson, University of Surrey, UK
Mon 26 May – Fri 6 Jun ’08,
Room 1320 / 10245, p.johnson@surrey.ac.uk
Dr Paul Johnson’s research interests focus on the interrelationship between identity and social control which he has explored through a number of substantive areas, including: policing, identification and crime control; technology and surveillance; securitization and biometrics; gender and sexuality; and social class. His latest book is ‘Genetic Policing: The uses of DNA in police investigations’ and he is currently engaged in research on the relationship between law and sexuality.

Associate Professor Patricia Peppin, Queen’s University, Canada
Sun 8 Jun – Mon 19 June, ‘08,
peppinp@queenscu.ca
Professor Patricia Peppin is Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Canada where she teaches health law, torts and mental health law. Her research focuses on advertising of prescription medicines and innovation in the pharmaceutical field and its impact on women’s health

Victoria Donaldson, University of Adelaide
Thur 12 Jun – Fri 13 Jun ’08,
Room 1135, Lvl 11 / 10393, victoria.donaldson@adelaide.edu.au
Victoria Donaldson is the current Visiting WTO Fellow at the Institute for International Trade of the University of Adelaide. She is on a temporary leave of absence from her position as a Counsellor at the WTO’s Appellate Body Secretariat, where she has worked since 1999. From 1996-1999 she practiced law with the Brussels office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, and from 1995-1996 with Russell & DuMoulin in Vancouver. She served as a law clerk to Mr. Justice Peter de Carteret Cory at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1993-94. Ms. Donaldson has contributed to books on WTO dispute settlement, writing in particular on dispute settlement procedures in international trade.

Professor Han Somsen, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
Thur 12 Jun – Fri 20 Jun ’08,
Room 629, Lvl 6 / 10215, han.somsen@uvt.nl
Prof Han Somsen researches and teaches at the University of Amsterdam, where he holds the chair in biotechnology and law, and is associate fellow at the School of Law of Warwick University. He has many years of academic experience, which he gained at the University of Hull (UK), the European University Insitute (Italy), Warwick University (UK) and Nijmegen University (NL). He is a prolific researcher, and currently directs a research group focusing on the regulation of biotechnology. Professor Somsen specialises in issues of international, European and domestic biotechnology law, as well as EC law, with a particular interest in EC environmental law. He is a member of the International Law Association Committee on International Law and Biotechnology. He is also an innovative teacher, with a devotion to education and teaching. Finally, he is an experienced editor for Oxford University Press, and author of numerous articles in books and international journals.

Professor Michael Bonell, University of Rome
Mon 23 Jun – Fri 27 Jun ’08,
Room 1243, Lvl 12 / 10250, mg.bonell@unidroit.org
Professor Dr Michael Bonell is one of the world’s most prominent and highly regarded international contract law specialists. He was one of the primary architects of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, first published in 1994 and increasingly used by firms and arbitrators to regulate cross-border transactions. He has been Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Rome I “La Sapienza” since 1986, a Visiting Professor at many universities in Europe and the US, and a prolific author.

Professor Allan Hutchinson, York University, Toronto
Mon 7 Jul – 14 Jul ’08
Room 1135, Lvl 11 / 10393, hutch@yorku.ca
Allan Hutchinson is Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School York, University, Toronto in Canada. He has been a visiting professor at many law schools around the world, including in Australia, and most recently at Harvard Law School. He is the author of ten books, the most recent of which is The Province of Jurisprudence Democratised (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008). He has also been the editor/co-editor of six edited collections, and has authored numerous book chapters and journal articles. He was the editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal and is currently on the editorial board of the International Journal of Law in Context and the Hong Kong University Law Review. He is a regular contributor to the media and has written for The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, The Australian, The London Times, The Guardian, among others. He teaches, among other subjects, Torts; Civil Procedure; Jurisprudence; Constitutional Law.

Professor Philip Schrag, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Room 1320, Lvl 13 / 10286, schrag@law.georgetown.edu
Mon 28 Jul - Wed 30 Jul ‘08
Professor Phil Schrag was a member of the founding generation of clinical teachers in the United States (He has been teaching clinics since 1971). He helped to create clinics at Columbia University, Georgetown University, and West Virginia University. At Georgetown, he has been a clinic director since 1981, when he joined the faculty. For 15 years, the clinic worked on disability and consumer protection cases, and since 1995 it has specialized in asylum litigation in immigration court.

Professor Philippe Sands, University College London
Sat 16 Aug – Mon 18 Aug ‘08
Room 1135, Lvl 11 / 10386, p.sands@ucl.ac.uk
Philippe Sands is Professor of Law at University College London (UCL) and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals in that Faculty. His teaching areas include public international law, the settlement of international disputes (including arbitration), and environmental and natural resources law. Professor Sands is a regular commentator on the BBC and CNN and writes frequently for leading newspapers. He is frequently invited to lecture around the world, and in recent years has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto (2005), the University of Melbourne (2005) and the Universite de Paris I (Sorbonne) (2006, 2007). He has previously held academic positions at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, Kings College London and , University of Cambridge and was a Global Professor of Law at New York University from 1995-2003. He was co-founder of FIELD (Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development), and established the programmes on Climate Change and Sustainable Development. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the European Journal of International Law and Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (Blackwell Press). In 2007 he served as a judge for the Guardian First Book Prize award. As a practicing barrister he has extensive experience litigating cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, and the European Court of Justice. He frequently advises governments, international organisations, NGOs and the private sector on aspects of international law. In 2003 he was appointed a Queen's Counsel. He has been appointed to lists of arbitrators maintained by ICSID and the PCA. As a practicing barrister he has extensive experience litigating cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, and the European Court of Justice. He frequently advises governments, international organisations, NGOs and the private sector on aspects of international law. In 2003 he was appointed a Queen's Counsel. He has been appointed to lists of arbitrators maintained by ICSID and the PCA.

Ms Eloise Scotford, University of Oxford
Mon 18 Aug – Fri 26 Sep ’08
Room 1135, Lvl 11 / 10393, eloise.scotford@law.ox.ac.uk
Ms Eloise Scotford, BSc LLB (Hons) (USyd) BCL MPhil (Oxon), is a former university medallist from this law school (2001) and also a former staff member from 2003 when she taught Equity with us. Eloise is now a Fellow in Environmental Law at Corpus Christi College at Oxford, where she resides at Magdelen College. She is researching comparative environmental law principles In Europe and Australia.

Professor Stanley Yeo, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Mon 18 Aug – Mon 1 Sep ’08
Room 1135, Lvl 11 / 10373, lawyeos@nus.edu.sg
During his academic career spanning 27 years, Professor Yeo has taught in Australia, Canada, Japan and Singapore and published extensively in the fields of criminal law and criminal justice. In 2003, Professor Yeo was awarded a Doctor of Laws by Sydney University for his substantial contribution to legal scholarship in the area of criminal defences in the common law world. After being co-General Editor of the Criminal Law Journal for many years, Professor Yeo has been appointed Chief Editor of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies from January 2008.

Professor Horst Dippel, University of Kassel
Tue 2 Sep – Thur 4 Sep ’08
Room 1329, Lvl 13 / 10245, h.dippel@uni-kassel.de
Professor Horst Dippel received his Ph. D in 1970 from the University of Cologne. From 1970-1992 he held various academic positions at different German universities and research institutes and since 1992 has been Professor of British and U.S.-American history at the University of Kassel. From 2000-02 he has been Dean and since 2000 Director of the research project “The Rise of Modern Constitutionalism, 1776-1849”.

Dr Grant Lamond, Balliol College, University of Oxford
Mon 8 Sep – Tue 16 Sep ’08
Room 10320, Lvl 13 / 10245, grant.lamond@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Grant Lamond is Fellow in Law at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He was educated at Sydney University and Oxford and has taught at the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, London and Oxford. His research interests lie in the philosophy of law, particularly legal reasoning, and in the philosophy of criminal law. He has published papers in Legal Theory, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Professor Peter Kindler, Universität Augsburg
Sat 13 Oct ‘08 – Sun 4 Jan ‘09
Room 1320, Lvl 13 / 10245, peter.kindler@jura.uni-augsburg.de
Professor Kindler holds a Chair in Civil and Commercial Law, Private International Law, Comparative Law, at the Augsburg Law Faculty (www.peter-kindler.de). He is author of more than 120 books and articles. His publications (since 1986) focus on Private International Law and Commercial Law, particularly with respect to International and European aspects of company law including corporate insolvency.

Professor Carl Stychin, University of Reading
Mon 24 Nov ‘08 – Fri 28 Nov ‘08
Room 1135, Lvl 11 / 10386, c.f.stychin@reading.ac.uk
Professor Stychin has been Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Reading since 1998. In recent years, he has served as Head of School, Dean of the Faculty and Pro-Vice-Chancellor. His area of research is law, gender and sexuality, and he is the author of three monographs: Law's Desire (1995); A Nation by Rights (1998); and Governing Sexuality (2003). He ahas also co-edited three collections of essays. Current researrch interests include freedom of religion claims of sexual orientation non-discrimination; and law, sexuality and popular culture, with specific reference to the Eurovision Song Contest.