Indiana University's Maurer School of Law is home to some of the nation's leading experts on international and comparative law. Indiana Law faculty members have been deeply engaged in recent global issues ranging from Iraqi democracy to the effects of the recent H1N1 influenza outbreak.

In addition to its outstanding permanent faculty, the IU Maurer School of Law regularly hosts several prominent visiting professors who bring their international expertise to the IU Bloomington campus. Professors Paul Craig, Elisabeth Zoller, and Feisal Amin Rasoul Istrabadi provide vital links to their native countries and enhance the School's international education offerings.

Paul Craig
Craig is a professor of English law at the University of Oxford, a professorial fellow at St. John's College, and one of the foremost experts on European Union law. Each fall semester, he offers courses in administrative law and European Union law to students at the IU Maurer School of Law. Craig's research spans the areas of comparative constitutional law, comparative public law, administrative law, and human rights law. His current work is on an interdisciplinary and contextual monograph on European public law. He is the author of EU Administrative Law (Oxford University Press, 2006); "Shared Administration, Disbursement of Community Funds and the Regulatory State," in Legal Challenges In EU Administrative Law: Towards An Integrated Administration (Edward Elgar, 2009); and his most recent work, "The Legal Effect of Directives: Policy, Rules and Exceptions," in the European Law Review.

Elisabeth Zoller
Zoller serves as a professor of public law at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) Law School, where she is also director of the Center for American Law and director of the Comparative Public Law Doctorate Program. Considered the leading European scholar on the U.S. Constitution, Zoller has twice represented the United States as an attorney before the International Court of Justice. Zoller teaches Comparative Constitutional Law and a Seminar in Comparative Law at the IU Maurer School of Law, where she has been a visiting professor since 1996. Zoller has authored several books on international law, constitutional law, and comparative public law, including 2008's Introduction to Public Law: A Comparative Study. She is also a senior fellow at Australia's University of Melbourne Law School.

Feisal Amin Rasoul Istrabadi
Ambassador Istrabadi is one of the most sought-after sources for information on issues related to Iraq and its government. An Indiana Law alumnus, Istrabadi was appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and deputy permanent representative of Iraq to the United Nations from 2004 to 2007. Istrabadi was the principal legal drafter of Iraq's interim constitution and the principal author of the country's Bill of Fundamental Rights. At the IU Maurer School of Law, Istrabadi focuses his research on the processes of building legal and political institutions in countries in transition from dictatorship to democracy, and teaches a course on transitional justice in Iraq.

Courses
IU Maurer School of Law faculty teach a wide range of international and comparative law courses, providing students with the opportunity to explore global legal issues across the curriculum. In the 2009-2010 academic year, Indiana Law will offer courses including:

International Law, International Business Transactions, International Trade, Democracy and State Building, International Intellectual Property, International Environmental Law, The Milosevic Trial, Comparative Constitutional Law, Comparative Legal Systems, International Securities Regulation, Human Rights, EU Law, International Criminal Law, Globalization, Law and Society of Japan, Law in Modern China, and Africa and International Law.