International and Comparative Law at the University of Illinois College of Law Course Offerings in Fall 2009

Global Anti-trust Law and Economics; European Union Law: Professor Nuno Garoupa

Professor Garoupa joined the Illinois faculty in 2007 after six years as Professor of Law and Economics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal and five years as Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. Professor Garoupa has a long established research interest in the economics of law and legal institutions and his research has been published in law and economic journals worldwide. Professor Garoupa's current research agenda includes the organization of the judiciary from a comparative perspective, the politicization of the Kelsenian-type constitutional courts, and the behavior of prosecutors. He is currently serving as a member of the board of directors of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, a member of the editorial board of the International Review of Law and Economics, and the co-editor of the Review of Law and Economics.

International Law: Professor Francis Boyle

Professor Boyle has written and lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on the relationship between international law and politics. His eleventh book, Breaking All the Rules: Palestine, Iraq, Iran and the Case for Impeachment, was recently published by Clarity Press. His Protesting Power: War, Resistance and Law (Rowman & Littlefield Inc. 2007) has been used successfully in anti-war protest trials. In the September 2000 issue of the prestigious The International History Review, Professor Boyle's Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations (1898-1922) was proclaimed as "a major contribution to this reinterrogation of the past" and "required reading for historians, political scientists, international relations specialists, and policy-makers."

Law and Economics: Professor Dhammika Dharmapala

Professor Dharmapala joins the Illinois faculty in the fall of 2009 from the University of Connecticut Department of Economics. Professor Dharmapala is an authority in tax policy, public economics, law and economics, and political economics. He recently co-authored the article, Taxing the Bandit Kings in the Yale Law Journal Pocket Part. Professor Dharmapala earned his M.Ec. from the University of Western Australia and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California-Berkeley. He served as an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation and a Visiting Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

Financial Market Regulations: Professor Cynthia A. Williams

Professor Williams writes in the areas of securities law and corporate law, with a particular emphasis on the corporate social relationship. Her Harvard Law Review article, "The Securities and Exchange Commission and Corporate Social Transparency", was the lead article reprinted in the Securities Law Review 2000, and was recognized by Corporate Practice Commentator as one of the 10 best corporate or securities articles published in 1999. Prof. Williams' work in comparative corporate governance with Prof. John Conley argues for a re-examination of the theory of the "Anglo-American corporate system," suggesting instead that the UK and the US have distinct corporate governance systems that are becoming increasingly different in light of the greater importance given to long-term social and environmental issues among institutional investors in the UK versus the US. See Williams & Conley, An Emerging Third Way? The Erosion of the Anglo-American Shareholder Value Construct, 38 Cornell Int'l L. J. 493 (2005).

Law and Society in China: Visiting Professor Frank He

Professor He is an Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong School of Law. Professor He rejoined the City University of Hong Kong faculty in 2006 after serving as the Hauser Research Scholar at the New York University School of Law. He has also been a Global Visiting Professor at NYU Law School, a lecturer at City University of Hong Kong School of Law, and a summer associate in the Hong Kong office of Baker & McKenzie. Professor He earned his LL.B. in 1995 and a Master of Legal Philosophy in 1999 from Peking University followed by his Master of the Science of the Law (JSM) in 2000 and Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD) in 2004 from Stanford University Law School.

International Intellectual Property Transfers: Visiting Professor Guillermo Cabanellas

Visiting Professor Cabanellas received M.C.L. and S.J.D. degrees from the University of Illinois College of Law, and has served as a visiting scholar, visiting professor, and associate teaching international business at the College of Law since 1978. He has worked for private law firms in Buenos Aires and Boston and has taught at several universities in Argentina, Chile, Perú and the U.S. He has been a researcher at the Max Planck Institute, Munich, and director of the Foreign Trade Commission of Argentina. He is currently Director of the Master of Business Law program at the Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina.

Doing Business in Japan: Adjunct Professor Glenn Newman

Adjunct Professor Newman is a principal of Newman Law Office. Professor Newman founded Newman Law Office in 2003, representing North American (primarily Silicon Valley) and East Asian (primarily Japanese) companies in a wide range of cross-border transactions and disputes. Newman Law Office frequently partners with counsel in Japan, China and other jurisdictions to offer clients all necessary local legal support. Mr. Newman is a 1990 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. Mr. Newman is admitted to practice law in California, Illinois and Oregon.

Other course fall 2009 course offerings:

EU-US Relations