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Featured International Law Faculty:
Adeno Addis
William Ray Forrester Professor of Public & Constitutional Law
Professor Addis was born in Ethiopia. He received his undergraduate education in Australia and did his graduate work in the United States. He has published extensively in the areas of constitutional law, communications law, jurisprudence and public international law. Recent publications include "Imagining the International Community: The Constitutive Dimension of Universal Jurisdiction," 31 Human Rights Quarterly 129 (2009); "Informal Suspension of Normal Processes: The 'War on Terror' as an Autoimmunity Crisis," 87 Boston University Law Review 323 (2007).
Professor Addis is a member of the American Society of International Law and has served as a member of its Executive Council, the highest governing body of the Society. He is also a member of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPL).
Claire Moore Dickerson
Senator John B. Breaux Professor of Business Law
Claire Moore Dickerson joined the Tulane faculty after a number of years at Rutgers-Newark Law School. She is also permanent visiting professor at the University of Buea in Cameroon.
Professor Dickerson's scholarship has applied socioeconomic principles to business-related areas of law, with a particular focus on standards of performance. Her research interests have taken her to Africa, principally Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Senegal, and she has presented her work both overseas and at home. Active in several professional legal organizations, including the Law & Society Association and the American Society of International Law, Professor Dickerson has served on the executive committee of the socioeconomic section of the Association of American Law Schools.
Jörg Fedtke
A.N. Yiannopoulos Professor in Comparative Law
Professor Fedtke's main interests are public law (both constitutional and administrative), tort law, and comparative methodology. He was eduated at schools in Zambia, the Philippines, and Germany, where he went on to study law and political science. Following research both at the Institute for International Affairs in Hamburg and the Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law at the University of South Africa (UNISA) in Pretoria, Professor Fedtke was awarded a PhD, summa cum laude, by the University of Hamburg for an extensive analysis of legal transplants in South Africa's Constitutions of 1993 and 1996.
Current research projects include the use of comparative methodology in international commercial practice; human rights protection in Germany, the United Kingdom, and on the European level; constitutionalism in post-conflict societies; data protection and access to information; and questions of law reform.
Günther Handl
Eberhard Deutsch Professor of Public International Law
An expert in international law, Professor Handl has taught at law schools in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan and has published extensively in US and European journals. He is the recipient of the 1997 Elisabeth Haub Prize for exceptional accomplishments in the field of international environmental law. Professor Handl is the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of International Environmental Law. He has served as consultant to various international organizations and governmental agencies and, in 1998, was a special adviser in the Legal Adviser's Office of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His teaching and research interests include public international law, comparative law, international environmental law, transnational litigation, law of the sea, and the intersection of law, science, and technology.
Featured International & Comparative Law Courses in 2009-10
International Human Rights
This course explores the place of human rights in United States and international law by examining and evaluating the entire human rights "regime" -- the norms, principles, rules, and decision-making institutions that occupy and organize this issue area within the broad sphere of international relations.
International Law & International Relations Seminar
This seminar is for students who have an interest in international law, international politics, foreign affairs, advocacy work, international organizations, and policy development and implementation. This course has both theoretical and practical components.
International Business Transactions
This course looks at the supranational and U.S.-domestic law that serves as backdrop to any international business transaction connected to this country. It focuses particularly on how to finance both sales and direct investment, how to structure direct investment of various tangible and intangible assets, and how to effect a sales transaction in the context of the World Trade Organization.
International Trade, Finance & Banking
This course analyzes competing trade and industrial policies, GATT-WTO, NAFTA, unfair trade practices, dumping and subsidy controversies, trade imbalance problems, foreign investment, safeguards, expropriation and remedies, international banking and lending, debt overloads, IMF policies, and adjustment mechanisms
International Commercial Arbitration
This course introduces students to the problems of dispute resolution in the international transactional context. The course will address the primary substantive law issues in the field, consider in detail comparative and transborder aspects of the subject area, and provide students with a simulation exercise in a contemporary practice problem.
International Sale of Goods
This course addresses the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (the "Vienna Convention"). The rules of the Convention, to which more than eighty States adhere (including the U.S.), govern a great number of export/import transactions involving American parties.
International Intellectual Property
This course explores international aspects of the law of intellectual property. Particular emphasis is placed upon questions of territoriality and jurisdiction, upon the emerging "universal" standards of protection, and upon the principal international conventions in this area (the TRIPS Agreement and the Paris and Berne Conventions).
Comparative Constitutional Law
This course provides a comparative survey of influential contemporary constitutions including those of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and South Africa.
Comparative Law: European Legal Systems
This course endeavors to provide a comparative perspective for students of American law. The focus will be on the French and German legal systems, which represent the two most influential legal systems outside the common law world.
Comparative Private Law
This course compares common and civil law approaches to the law of property, contracts, and torts. We will look at how England, the United States, France, and Germany deal with some concrete legal problems.
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