International Activities

Richard Alderman

Lecturer at law schools in England, Portugal, Serbia, and New Zealand.

Visiting Faculty Member at The University of Tokyo.

Guest Speaker at conferences in New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and England.

International Publications include journals published in law journals in Serbia and Nigeria.

Hosted International Conference for consumer law professors that in 2006 attracted participants from seven different countries covering five continents.

Hosted visiting scholars from England, Japan, and India through an ongoing program sponsored by the Center for Consumer Law. 

Leslie Griffin

Panelist speaking on “Appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court,” at the  Congreso Internacional Sobre Justicia Constitucional, sponsored by Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, held at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, November 28, 2005.  

Lonny Sheinkopf Hoffman

Faculty lecturer, “The Allocation of Jurisdiction in the American Federal System,” American Law Institute-American Bar Association, Program on the American Judicial System at Renmin University, Beijing, China (June 7-9, 2006)

Published paper (in connection with China conference), The Allocation of Jurisdiction in the American Federal Judicial System and Treatment of Interjurisdictional Conflicts  in Developing American Law and Its Impact on China (ALI-ABA 2006) [prepared for American Law Institute/American Bar Association conference at Renmin University, Beijing, China (June 7-9, 2006)], full text available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=901473

Named as Fulbright Senior Specialist Candidate on the Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster, selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State, and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars for a five-year period beginning April 2002.

Faculty Lecturer, “Current Developments in Class Actions, Federal Subject Matter Jurisdiction, Supplemental Jurisdiction, Removal, Personal Jurisdiction, and Venue” and “Interrelationship of State and Federal Litigation,” American Law Institute-American Bar Association, Civil Practice and Litigation Techniques in Federal and State Courts (St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, March 2007).

Faculty Lecturer, “Interrelationship of State and Federal Litigation” and “Sanctions Under Federal Law”, American Law Institute-American Bar Association, Civil Practice and Litigation Techniques in Federal and State Courts (San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 2005).

Peter T. Hoffman

Faculty Lecturer, International Negotiations Course, University of San Diego Summer Program, Florence, Italy, May 26- June 20, 2008.

Fulbright Senior Specialist, developing Advocacy Course for Barristers-in-Training, Chinese University, Hong Kong, September 23-October 7, 2006 & June 10-June 30, 2007.

Consultant, University of Kragujevac Law School, Kragujevac, Serbia, as part of the American Bar Association Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI) Clinical Legal Education Project, December 6-10, 2004.

Consultant on design of an Appellate Advocacy Course, Scottish Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 14-16, 2004.

Sole Presenter, The American Adversary System (for international associates), Jones Day Litigation Academy, Palm Beach, Florida, May 19-21, 2004.

Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong, Two-Week Intensive Advocacy Course, Hong Kong, Spring Semester, 2004.

Faculty Member, NITA – United Kingdom.

Thomas Oldham

Visiting Scholar in Residence, Australian National University, May 2009

Conference Participant in Cambridge, England, addressing different approaches toward premarital and postnuptial agreements in a number of developed countries, June 2009.

Michael A. Olivas

Organized a study group of 10 international scholars who regularly exchange papers  and research on EU college residency/benefits issues.  The group includes legal and economics scholars in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, and a 2008 conference is currently being planned. 

Lectured and consulted widely on immigration- and education- related subjects, and litigated and served as an expert witness on cases arising from immigration and citizenship topics, including Day v. Bond, where the client (the State of Kansas) won in the Tenth Circuit.  New developments and papers on these issues are posted to a website maintained by the Institute for Higher Education Law & Governance at www.law.uh.edu/ihelg.

Hosted a postdoctoral scholar from Spain at the Law Center during 2006-07 academic year: Prof. Dr. Jose L. Garcia Garrido of the Facultad de Educacion, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid  at the Law Center during the 2006-07.  The Institute for Higher Education Law & Governance has sponsored 22 postdoctoral fellow visits since its inception in 1982.

Robert Palmer

Completing a large research project that is making the O’Quinn Law Library at the Law Center a unique on-line provider of English legal records covering a period of approximately five centuries.  The Anglo-American Legal Tradition project includes a statistical analysis of the relationship between law and society ca. 1200-1607.  The project requires significant time in the UK National Archives in London, England, and it will eventually provide web access to the main series of legal records between 1218 and 1650.  By May 2008, approximately 2 million frames will be accessible, covering a time period of 1218 to 1360.

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Jordan Paust

Jordan Paust, who holds the Mike and Teresa Baker professorship, has been recognized as one of the “Top 10” international law professors in the United States, based on overall citations of authors’ work in legal periodicals such as law reviews, faculty-edited journals and interdisciplinary publications.

Panelist on U.S. Perspectives on the Need for Taiwan’s Admission to the United Nations, Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 14, 2007

International publications include: 

Beyond the Law: The Bush Administration’s Unlawful Responses in the “War” on Terror (Cambridge University Press 2007)

Terrorism as an International Crime, in International Cooperation in Counter-Terrorism 25-31, 252-256, 270-71 (Giuseppe Nesi ed., Ashgate Pub., U.K. 2006)

Commentary on Non-State Actors: Their Role and Impact on the Fragmentation of International Law, in Unity and Diversity in International Law 335-338 (Duncker & Humblot Pub., Berlin 2006)

Essay, Self-Defense, Laws of War, and Human Rights, 81(2) Die Friedens-Warte 81-85 (Journal for International Peace and Organization) (Germany 2006)

Jacqueline Lang Weaver

Visiting Professor responsible for a two-credit course on international energy contracts at the University of Houston’s Bauer School of Business Executive MBA Program in Beijing, January 2007.  Students included executives working with Sinopec and CNPC.

Visiting Professor responsible for a five-week course on international petroleum transactions coordinated through  Seton Hall University Law School Summer Program Abroad, Cairo, Egypt, Summer 2007.

Antonio Gidi

Hosted four visiting scholars representing schools in Spain, Mexico, and Italy.

Academic Appointments have included teaching assignments in Angola, Brazil, France, Austria, Argentina and Italy.  Served as Associate Reporter with the American Law Institute on Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure.

International Publications:

Books:

Class Actions in Comparative Perspective (ed.) (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming, 2008) [U.S.A.]

La Class Action como Instrumento de Tutela Colectiva de los Derechos.  Las Acciones Colectivas en una Perspectiva Comparada (Editorial Rubinzal, forthcoming, 2008) [Argentina]

A Class Action como Instrumento de Tutela Coletiva dos Direitos.  As Ações Coletivas em uma Perspectiva Comparada (Revista dos Tribunais, 2007) [Brazil]

Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure (Cambridge University Press 2006) (ALI/UNIDROIT Associate Reporter and Secretary) [England]

Class Actions in Brazil – A Model for Civil Law Countries (translations in French, German, and Chinese) (forthcoming)

Código de Proceso Civil Colectivo. Un Modelo Para Países de Derecho Escrito, Rev. Der. Proc. (2005) [Argentina]

Teaching Comparative Civil Procedure (translations into French, German, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese) (forthcoming)

Others:

Five articles,  11 scholarly contributions, 37 scholarly presentations, peer reviews and other activities and multiple international memberships. To see the full resume, click here.

Patricia Gray

Guest Lecturer  on “Responding to Public Health Emergencies” at Hunan Normal University in Changsha, Hunan Province, China, December, 2005.