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New Faculty in International and Comparative Law
We are pleased to announce that Eleanor Brown and David Freestone have recently joined the faculty.
Eleanor Brown, previously the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School, is a new associate professor of law at GW Law. Her focus is on the intersection of U.S. immigration and global development policies. Her publications have appeared in the Yale Law Journal and New York University Law Review. Before joining the academy, she was a Senior Executive at the Caribbean Investment Fund, L.P., a pan-Caribbean private equity fund, and was Chairman of Jamaica's Trade Board. Brown, a Rhodes Scholar who clerked on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, is a graduate of Brown University, Oxford University and Yale Law School.
David Freestone is GW Law's Lobingier Visiting Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence. He was previously deputy general counsel of The World Bank. Before joining the Bank, he held a faculty chair in international law at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom, where he is still an honorary professor. He has written widely on international environmental law and law of the sea and is the founding editor of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law and a member of the editorial boards of the British Yearbook of International Law, International Yearbook of Environmental Law, and European Yearbook of Environmental Law. He is General Editor of a new monograph series, Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development. He is the 2007 winner of the Elizabeth Haub Gold Medal for Environmental Law.
Professors Brown and Freestone join other GW Law International and Comparative Law faculty members:
Public International Law: Michael J. Matheson, Sean D. Murphy, Dinah Shelton, Ralph Steinhardt, and Edward T. Swaine; Hon. Thomas Buergenthal of the International Court of Justice serves as the Lobingier Professor Emeritus of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence.
International Trade and Business Law: Karen Brown, Steve Charnovitz, Susan L. Karamanian, Thomas J. Schoenbaum, and John A. Spanogle, Jr.
Comparative Law and Foreign Law: Francesca Bignami, Donald C. Clarke, Robert Cottrol, David Fontana, and Renée Lettow Lerner
International Law Clinics: Alberto Benìtez and Arturo Carrillo
National Security Law: Orin Kerr, Gregg Maggs, Peter Raven-Hansen, Jeffrey Rosen, and Stephen Saltzburg
Honors
Professor Dinah Shelton, GW Law's Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law, was elected the US-nominated member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Professor Shelton was also recently elected Vice-President of the American Society of International Law.
Luke Wilson, GW Law's First Gruber Foundation International Law Fellow, with Professor Ralph Steinhardt, ICJ President Hisashi Owada, and ICJ Judge Thomas Buergenthal
GW Law is pleased to announce that the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation has provided generous financial support to fund distinguished GW Law graduates who are selected by the International Court of Justice to participate in its trainee program. Luke Wilson (J.D.'09), who is serving as a trainee at the ICJ from fall 2009 to summer of 2010, was named GW Law's First Gruber Foundation International Law Fellow.
Recent Faculty Books
Steve Charnovitz, Global Warming and the World Trading System (Peterson Institute 2009) (with Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jisun Kim)
Donald C. Clarke (ed.), China's Legal System: New Developments, New Challenges (New York: Cambridge University Press 2008)
David Freestone (ed.), Legal Aspects of Carbon Trading: Kyoto, Copenhagen and Beyond (Oxford University Press 2009) (with Charlotte Streck)
Sean D. Murphy, International Law: Cases and Materials (Thompson West 5th ed. 2009) (with Lori Damrosch, Louis Henkin & Hans Smit)
Renée Lettow Lerner, History of the Common Law: The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions (Aspen 2009) (with John H. Langbein and Bruce P. Smith)
Thomas Schoenbaum, Peace in Northeast Asia: Resolving Japan's Territorial and Maritime Disputes with China, Korea and the Russian Federation (Edward Elgar 2008)
John A. Spanogle, International Business Transactions: A Problem Oriented Casebook (10th ed. Thompson West 2009) (with Ralph H. Folsom, Michael Wallace Gordon, and Peter L. Fitzgerald)
Ralph G. Steinhardt, International Human Rights Lawyering: Cases and Materials (Thompson West 2009) (with Paul L. Hoffman and Christopher G. Camponovo)
Just Some of Our Upcoming Events
October 13, 4 pm: A Conversation with Ambassador Clovis Maksoud, former Ambassador of League of Arab States to the United States
October 15-16: Conference, "Judicial Review: Historical Debate, Modern Perspectives, and Comparative Approaches" featuring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, 4 pm, Oct. 15
October 19-20: GW Law hosts the US State Department Advisory Committee on Private International Law. Luncheon speaker on October 19 is Ms. Anne-Marie Leroy, Senior Vice President and Group General Counsel, Legal Vice Presidency, The World Bank
October 21, 4 pm: US Secretary of Homeland Security Hon. Janet Napolitano
November 2, noon: International and Comparative Law Colloquium. Professor Claire Wright, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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