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: Nature or Nurture? Judicial Lawmaking in the European Court of Justice and the Andean Tribunal of Justice, 64 Int’l Org. 563 (2010) (with Karen Alter); 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), and Why States Create International Tribunals: A Response to Professors Posner and Yoo, 93 Calif. L. Rev. 899 (2005) (with Anne-Marie Slaughter).
