S. James Anaya is the James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law (USA).  He teaches and writes in the areas of international law, constitutional law, and issues concerning indigenous peoples.  Among his numerous publications is his book, Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Oxford Univ. Press, 1996, 2d. ed. 2004).  Professor Anaya received his B.A. from the University of New Mexico (1980) and his J.D. from Harvard (1983).  He was on the law faculty at the University of Iowa from 1988 to 1999, and he has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Toronto, and the University of Tulsa.  Prior to becoming a full time law professor, he practiced law in Albuquerque, New Mexico, representing Native American peoples and other minority groups. Professor Anaya has lectured in many countries in all continents of the globe.  He has been a consultant for numerous organizations and government agencies in several countries on matters of human rights and indigenous peoples, and he has represented indigenous groups from many parts of North and Central America before courts and international organizations.  He was the lead counsel for the indigenous parties in the landmark case of Awas Tingni v. Nicaragua, in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights upheld indigenous land rights as a matter of international law.

Course(s) Taught
Intensive Course: International & Comparative Law on Indigenous Peoples

 

Aharon Barak, born in Lithuania in 1936, is married and the father of four. He studied law, economics and international relations at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Barak received an MA in law in 1958, and a doctorate in 1963.  He was appointed Associate Professor of Law at the Hebrew University in 1968 and became Dean of that Faculty in 1974. From 1975-8, he occupied the position of Attorney General of Israel, an appointed and independent position in the Ministry of Justice overseeing the justice system.  He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel in 1978 and became its President in 1995. His retirement from the Court takes place in September 2006 when he reaches the age of mandatory retirement. He has received number prizes and honours, including the Kaplan Prize for excellence in science and research and the Israel Prize in legal sciences as well as numerous honorary degrees. He is the author of a number of books in Hebrew and in English as well as numerous articles on a wide variety of legal topics. His publications in English include Judicial Discretion,  Purposive Interpretation in Law and The Judge in a Democracy, from Princeton University Press.
Course(s) Taught
Constitutional Courts and Constitutional Rights
Intensive Course: Purposive Interpretation in Law
Prof. Daphne Barak-ErezDaphne Barak-Erez LL.B. (Tel-Aviv) (summa cum laude) 1988, LL. M. (Tel-Aviv) (summa cum laude) 1991, and J. S. D (Tel-Aviv) 1993, is a professor at the Faculty of Law of Tel-Aviv University and specializes in administrative and constitutional law. She was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School (1993-1994), a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Public Law, Heidelberg (2000), an Honorary Research Fellow at University College, London (2002). She also served as the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights (2000-2001) and as the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law (2000-2002), a Visiting Researcher at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (2004) and a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Federalism (Fribourg, Switzerland) (2005), the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto (2005) and the University of Siena (2006).She was awarded several prizes, including the Rector's Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the Zeltner Prize, the Woman of the City Award (by the City of Tel-Aviv) and the Women in Law Award (by the Israeli Bar). She is the author and editor of several books, including Contractual Liability of Public Authorities (1990), Constitutional Torts (1993) and Milestone Judgments of the Israel Supreme Court (2003) (in Hebrew) and Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion and Culture in Israel (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, forthcoming). Her articles have appeared in journals published in the United States, Canada, England, and Israel. Among her articles in English: "From an Unwritten to a Written Constitution: The Israeli Challenge in American Perspective" 26 Column. Hum. Rts. L. Rev (1995) 309-355; "The Delusion of Symmetric Rights" 19 Oxford J. of Legal Stud. (1999) 297-311 (with Prof. Ron Shapira); "Collective Memory and Judicial Legitimacy: The Historical Narrative of the Israeli Supreme Court" 16 Canadian Journal of Law and Society/Revue Canadienne Droit et Sociéte (2001) 93-112; "Judicial Review of Politics: The Israeli Case" 29 Journal of Law and Society (2002) 611-631; "The International Law of Human Rights and Constitutional Law: A Case Study of an Expanding Dialogue" 2 I*CON - International Journal of Constitutional Law (2004) 611-632.
Course(s) Taught
Intensive Course: Law and Terrorism
Martin L. Friedland, C.C., Q.C., B.Comm. (Toronto) 1955, LL.B. (Toronto) 1958, LL.D (hon.) (Toronto) 2001, LL.D (hon.) (York) 2003, Ph.D. (Cambridge) 1967, LL.D. (Cambridge) 1997, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1960 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1975, is University Professor and James M. Tory Professor of Law Emeritus. Professor Friedland taught at Osgoode Hall Law School until 1965 when he joined the University of Toronto as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to Professor in 1968 and served as Dean from 1972-1979. He also served as a full time member of the Law Reform Commission of Canada in Ottawa from 1971 to 1972 and has been associated with many other government commissions and committees. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983, and in 1985 was awarded the Canadian Association of Law Teachers/Law Reform Commission of Canada Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Legal Research and Law Reform. In 1987 he was awarded the University of Toronto Alumni Faculty Award. In 1990 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 2003 was promoted to a Companion of the Order. In 1994 he received the Canadian Bar Association's Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award and the Criminal Lawyers Association's G. Arthur Martin Award, in 1995 was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and in 2003 received the Royal Society of Canada’s Sir John William Dawson Medal. He is currently a Fellow of Massey College and is cross-appointed to the Centre of Criminology. Professor Friedland specializes in Criminal Law and is author or editor of seventeen books, including: Detention Before Trial, Double Jeopardy, Access to the Law, The Trials of Israel Lipski, The Case of Valentine Shortis, A Place Apart, and The University of Toronto: A History, as well as many law review articles and reports. He is currently working on a manuscript that examines legal issues with which he has been involved over the past fifity years..
Course(s) Taught
Intensive Course: Issues in Criminal Justice
Andrew Goldsmith LLB (Adelaide) 1977, LLM (London, LSE) 1980, MA Criminology (Toronto) 1982; SJD (Toronto) 1987, MA Social Theory (Monash) 1994, LLD (London, LSE) 2002 is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He has had a longstanding research interest in police governance and security issues, most recently in relation to weak and post-conflict states. He has acted as a consultant or provided advice in these areas to many overseas and international agencies, in particular: the governments of Colombia and Turkey, Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights, University of Ottawa Centre for Human Rights, Home Office for England and Wales, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Open Society Justice Initiative, and the United Nations Development Programme. He is currently Chief Investigator in an Australian Research Council-funded project examining Australia’s role in police peace-keeping and capacity-building in the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste.


Course(s) Taught
Intensive Course: Law, Security and International Development
Former Justice Dieter GrimmFormer Justice Dieter Grimm studied Law and Political Science at the universities of Frankfurt, Freiberg, Berlin, Paris and Harvard. Law degree Frankfurt 1962; LL.M. (Harvard) 1965; Dr. iur. (Frankfurt) 1970. From 1967 to 1979 he was Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt. In 1979 he became Professor of Law at the University of Bielefeld and was for several years Director of its Center for Interdisciplinary Research. In 1987 he was appointed Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. After completion of the 12 year term he became Professor of Law at Humboldt University Berlin. In addition he is the Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study). He also teaches Constitutional Law at New York University Law School and Yale Law School. He is co-editor of several law reviews, among them I-CON International Journal of Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press). He is a member of the Academia Europaea and an Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Course(s) Taught
Constitutional Courts and Constitutional Rights
Jacob S. Hacker, A.B. (Harvard) 1994, Ph.D. (Yale) 2000, is Peter Strauss Family Associate Professor of Political Science and resident fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. A former Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, he is also a Fellow at the New America Foundation and a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Currently, he is heading a Social Science Research Council project on the “Privatization of Risk.” Besides numerous scholarly and popular articles, he is the author of four books: The Great Risk Shift: Why American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement Aren’t Secure—And How to Rebuild the Safety Net (to be published in August 2006); Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (2005; with Paul Pierson); The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States (2002); and The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security (1997).
Course(s) Taught
Intensive Course: Social Welfare Politics, Policy and Law
Oona A. HathawayOona A. Hathaway is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School.  She earned her B.A. summa cum laude at Harvard University in 1994 and her J.D. at Yale Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal, in 1997.  Before joining the faculty at Yale, she served as a Law Clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and for D.C. Circuit Judge Patricia Wald, held fellowships at Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Center for the Ethics and the Professions, and served as an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law.    Her current research—for which she was awarded the Carnegie Scholars Award in 2004—focuses on the promise and limits of international law.  Her recent articles include Between Power and Principle: An Integrated Theory of International Law (Chicago Law Review), The Cost of Compliance (Stanford Law Review), Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference? (Yale Law Journal), and Revisionism and Rationalism in International Law (Harvard Law Review).   Professor Hathaway also serves as a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Advisor at the United States Department of State.  She is currently working on a book entitled, Strong States, Strong World: Why International Law Succeeds and Fails and What We Should Do About It. 
Course(s) Taught
Intensive Course: International Law and International Relations
Betty Mayfoon Ho, BA (Immaculate Heart College, LA) 1971, MA (University of California at Berkeley) 1972, JD (University of Toronto) 1977, LLM (University of Cambridge) 1988, is Professor of Law at Tsinghua University Law School, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. She began her legal career as a private practitioner and has practised in Toronto (Baker & McKenzie) and Hong Kong (leading local firm), specializing in international transactions and finance. She turned to the academy in 1986 and has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong before joining Tsinghua in 2002. While affiliated with the academy, she has remained active in professional activities and has served on various committees on corporate and securities law and practice. She is currently an arbitrator at the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission.
Course(s) Taught
Intensive Course: Introduction to Chinese Law
Alan HydeAlan Hyde, AB (Stanford) 1972, JD (Yale) 1975, is Professor and Sidney Reitman Scholar at the School of Law, Rutgers. The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, USA. He is the author of Working in Silicon Valley: Economic and Legal Analysis of a High-Velocity Labor Market (2003), Bodies of Law (1997); the coauthor of Legal Rights and Interests in the Workplace: Cases and Materials on Labor and Employment Law (forthcoming 2006, with C.W. Summers and K.G. Dau-Schmidt) and Cases and Materials on Labor Law (2d ed., 1982, with C.W. Summers and H.H. Wellington); and has been a visiting professor at Yale, Cornell, Columbia, New York University, Cardozo, and the University of Michigan law schools. His current research projects include the game-theoretic analysis of transnational labor standards; design of a North American Free Labor Market; work relations in labor markets with extremely short tenures and rapid turnover, such as Silicon Valley, California; new bargaining structures for low-wage service workers; and new global labor markets characterized by extensive transnational outsourcing of production and labor migration. His earlier articles deal with new modes of employee representation (such as caucuses and nonmajority unions); employee stock ownership; and political models of labor legislation, among other topics. He lectures frequently on new employment relations, recently as the keynote speaker at the XII Interamerican Conference of Ministers of Labor, Montréal, October 2002.  He is a director of the Association for Union Democracy, Inc., and has represented them in litigation. He has also represented the American Civil Liberties Union and its projects in litigation concerning worker privacy and constitutional aspects of worker action.  Professor Hyde maintains a personal web page at http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hyde/.
Course(s) Taught
Intensive Course: Global Labour Law
Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci, B.Com. (UBC) 1961; LL.B. (UBC) 1962; LL.M. (Cambridge) 1964; Dip. Int'l L. (Cambridge) 1966. He was called to the Bar of Ontario, 1970 and was awarded a Q.C. by the Federal government in 1986. In 1987, he was awarded the Law Society Medal of the Law Society of Upper Canada. He has been awarded honorary degrees from the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, the University of Ottawa and the Law Society of Upper Canada. In 1993, the Italian Government conferred upon him the honour of Commendatore dell'Ordine Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. In 1999 he was made an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge University, and of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has also received special awards from Italo-Canadian and multicultural communities in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto, and has been made an honorary citizen of Mangone, Cosenza, Italy. He joined Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood of New York, New York in 1964 and specialized in corporate law and related fields until 1967. In 1967, he became Associate Professor of Law of the University of Toronto, and was a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto from 1971 to 1985. The Honourable Mr. Justice Iacobucci was appointed Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto in 1973, Vice-President, Internal Affairs in 1975, Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1979, and was Vice President and Provost of the University of Toronto from November 1983 to September 1985, at which time he was appointed Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General for Canada. In September 1988 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Federal Court for Canada. He was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada on January 7, 1991. He retired from this position in 2004, and later that year was appointed Interim President of the University of Toronto, and re-joined the University of Toronto as Professor of Law. Mr. Justice Iacobucci acted in various consulting capacities for federal and provincial departments and offices and served as a special adviser. From 1982 to 1985, he served as a member of the Ontario Securities Commission. He has also written articles and texts on a number of subjects.
Course(s) Taught
Constitutional Courts and Constitutional Rights

Christian JoergesChristian Joerges is Professor of Economic Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He has studied in Frankfurt am Main and Montpellier from 1962-66 and thereafter at the Institute for International and Foreign Trade Law in Washington, D.C. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1970 in Frankfurt. He joined the Frankfurt bar in 1972. In 1973 he became a Lecturer at the University of Frankfurt and in 1974 Professor at the University of Bremen. From 1982 to 1987 and 1994-1998 he was a Co-director of the Centre for European Law and Politics there. From 1985-86 he was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and from 1992-93 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. His recent publications deal with the Europeanization of Economic and Private Law , transnational risk regulation,  at European and international level, compliance and legitimacy problems of transnational governance arrangement and anti-liberal traditions of legal thought in Europe.

Course(s) Taught
Intensive Course: Free World Trade & Social Regulation
Will KymlickaWill Kymlicka, B.A. (Queen's) 1984, D.Phil. (Oxford) 1987, holds the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University, and is a visiting professor in the Nationalism Studies program at the Central European University in Budapest. He is the author of five books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism, Community, and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy (1990; second edition 2002), Multicultural Citizenship (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association, Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), and Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, Citizenship (2001). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. From 2004-6, he is the President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. His works have been translated into 30 languages.
Course(s) Taught
Intensive Course: International Norms of Minority Rights: Causes, Categories, Consequences
Shai Lavi is a member of the Tel-Aviv Law Faculty. He received his Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, University of California Berkeley. He is the author of The Modern Art of Dying: The History of Euthanasia in the United States (Princeton University Press, 2005). His current research is dedicated to the history and jurisprudence of animal rights. He received the Zeltner prize for young scholars and is currently a member of the young scholar group at the Israeli Academy for Science
Course(s) Taught
Intensive Course: Animal Rights: History, Philosophy & Jurisprudence
Michel Rosenfeld, BA (Columbia) 1969, JD (Northwestern) 1974, PhD (Philosophy) (Columbia) 1991, is the Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City where he is also Director, Program on Security, Democracy and the Rule of Law. He has lectured throughout the world and has been a recurring visiting professor at the University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), The Central European University in Budapest, and Carlos III University in Madrid, among others. He specializes in US constitutional law, comparative constitutionalism, and legal philosophy. He was president of the International Association of Constitutional Law (1999-2004) and is editor-in chief of the InternationalJournal of Constitutional Law (I.CON) published by Oxford University Press. His published books include: "Comparative Constitutionalism: Cases and Materials" (2003) (with Baer, Dorsen and Sajo);"Just Interpretations: Law Between Ethics and Politics" (1998); "Habermas on Law and Democracy: Critical Exchanges" (1998) (co-edited with Arato); and Affirmative Action and Justice: A Philosophical and Constitutional Inquiry"(1991) (designated 'outstanding book on human rights in the US', 1992). Several of his works have been translated into many foreign languages. In 2004, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor.
Course(s) Taught
Intensive Course: Comparative Constitutional Equality, Minority & Group Rights
Bernhard Schlink

Bernhard Schlink is professor of public law and legal philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin; from 1988 until 2006 he was also Justice of the Constitutional Law Court of the State of Northrhine-Westfalia in Muenster. He has taught in Freiburg, Bonn, and Frankfurt and teaches regularly at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. Among his publications are Grundrechte (Fundamental Rights), 1985, 22nd ed. 2006; Polizei- und Ordnungsrecht (Police Law), 2002 4th ed. 2006; Vergangenheitsschuld und gegenwärtiges Recht (Guilt from the Past and Contemporary Law), 2002; Weimar: A Jurisprudence of Crisis, 2nd. ed. 2002. He also writes fiction.

Course(s) Taught
Intensive Course: Introduction to German Constitutional Law