Alberto Alemanno
Refrendaire,European Court of Justice
JD, University of Torino, Italy
LLM, Harvard Law School
LLM, College of Europe, Bruges
Alberto Alemanno is a refrendaire (legal assistant) at the European Court of Justice, where he clerks for the Finnish Judge Allan Rosas. He read law at the Universities of Turin, Italy and Lausanne, Switzerland. He holds a certificate in International Trade Law from the International Labour Organization (ILO). While pursuing his LLM at the College of Europe he worked as a Teaching Assistant before embarking on a PhD in International Economic Law at Bocconi University. He has taught European Law at the University of the Piedmonte Orientale since 2001 and at EDHEC Business School in Nice since 2004.
Courses: Advanced Topics in European Union Law
Jeffery
Atik
Professor of Law and Sayre Macneil Fellow, Loyola Law School
AB with Distinction, University of California Berkeley
JD, Yale Law School
PhD cum laude por unanimidad, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Jeffery Atik writes on international finance, international trade, international intellectual property and regulatory competition issues involving NAFTA, the European Union and the WTO. Atik has also taught at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), Boston College, Indiana-Bloomington, Lund (Sweden), Suffolk, and UCLA law schools, and at Washington-St. Louis and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Atik is a member of the United States’ NAFTA Chapter 19 roster and has served on three NAFTA binational panels, including the review in Softwood Lumber from Canada. He practiced law with Shearman & Sterling (New York), Testa Hurwitz (Boston), and Brown & Dobson (Milan). He is a member of the New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Missouri bars.
Courses: International Finance, International Trade, International Intellectual Property/TRIPS
Stefano Azzali
Secretary General, Chamber of National and International Arbitration
of Milan
JD, University of Genoa
Stefano Azzali is the secretary general of the most important arbitral organization in Italy. Admitted to the Genoa Bar, he practices as an arbitrator. He is also the reporter of the InternationalADR.com, Center for American and International Law. Azzali is president of the Disciplinary Commission of the Italian Football Federation. From 1998- 2001 he was an adjunct professor at the University of Pavia. He also lectures on international arbitration in many postgraduate courses and at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Arbitration CD-ROM: Resources on International Commercial Arbitration. Azzali is the author of articles and speaker in domestic and international conferences and seminars on ADR and arbitration.
Courses: International Commercial Arbitration and Mediation
Domenico Borghesi
Professor of Law, University of Modena
JD, University of Bologna
Domenicio Borghesi has been the chaired professor of civil procedural law at the University of Modena since 1990. Before that he taught general principles of procedural law at the University of Bologna. He is a member of the Bologna Bar, senior partner in the law firm of Macchi di Cellere Gangemi and regularly serves as an arbitrator in national and international disputes. He is a member of the Italian Arbitration Association (AIA); Italian-American Law Association; Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA); and the Editorial Board of Rivista trimestrale di diritto e procedura civile. He has authored many articles and books in the field of arbitration and labor disputes.
Courses: International Commercial Arbitration
Robert
W. Benson
Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
AD, Columbia College
JD, University of California, Berkeley
Robert Benson studied at the University of Madrid in 1965 and was a Boalt Hall/Ford Foundation International Legal Studies Fellow in Brazil (1969), studying the delivery of legal aid to slum dwellers. Before joining the Loyola faculty in 1973, he worked in the Connecticut Department of Community Affairs and was an associate attorney with Cox, Langford & Brown in Washington DC. Benson is pro bono counsel to various environmental and human rights organizations.
Courses: International Environmental Law; International Human Rights
Patrick Del Duca
BA, magna cum laude, Harvard College
DEA, en Economie des Transports et de l'Amenagement du Territoire,
Université de Lyon
JD, Harvard Law School
laurea in giurisprudenza, Università di Bologna
PhD, European University Institute
Patrick Del Duca is a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, and has taught as an adjunct professor at UCLA law school and in the UC Davis Masters in International Commercial Law program, of which he serves as a member of the oversight graduate group. He has written on commercial, comparative, environmental, European, and international law topics, most recently on: (1) constitutional rule of law in Italy and its association with regionalization and supranationalism; (2) cross-border restructuring and insolvency in emerging markets; and, (3) development of Mexican expropriation law in the face of globalizing investment capital markets. Early in his career, Professor Del Duca clerked for Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then Justice Antonio La Pergola at Italy's Corte Costituzionale.
Courses: European Union Law
Domenico Di Pietro
Attorney at Law
JD, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
LLM, University of London (Queen Mary College)
QLTT, College of Law, London
Domenico Di Pietro is an associate with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, LLP in London. His academic appointments include: visiting examiner on international arbitration and international trade law at the University of London andlecturer on international and commercial law at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" School of Economics. Di Pietro has published numerous articles in the areas of international arbitration both in English and in Italian.
Courses : International Arbitration; International Trade
F.
Jay Dougherty
Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
BA, magna cum laude, Yale College
JD, Columbia University Law School
During law school Jay Dougherty was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, a member of the Columbia Law Review and editor of the Columbia Journal of Arts & the Law. His legal career began in the Entertainment Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York, where his work included representation of Broadway composers and authors. His interest in the motion picture area led to positions at the Motion Picture/Television/Music Departments of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, the legal departments at United Artists Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and the Business Affairs Department of Morgan Creek Productions. Dougherty moved to the Legal Department of Twentieth Century Fox, where he became senior vice president of Production/Worldwide Acquisition Legal Affairs. Before joining the Loyola faculty, Dougherty served as assistant general counsel for Turner Broadcasting System, responsible for Turner Pictures. He also taught as an adjunct professor at University of Southern California Law Center for ten years.
Courses: International Entertainment Law, International Copyright Law
Luca Enriques
Professor of Law, University of Bologna
JD, summa cum laude, University of Bologna
LLM, Harvard Law School, Fulbright Scholar
PhD, Luigi Bocconi University
Luca Enriques is a pofessor of law at the University of Bologna and a research associate to the European Corporate Governance Institute. Enriques is a member of the Bologna Bar and consultant to the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton in Rome. Since 2000, he has been an adviser to the Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance. In 2001, Enriques was adviser to the Presidency of the Republic, Italy, General Secretariat and an attorney in the Legislation Division, Bank of Italy. He is the author of three books and many law review articles in Italian, English and German.
Courses : Corporate Governance, Financial Markets Law
Silvia Fabiana Faerman
Visiting Professor of Law and Director of the Summer Law
Program in Argentina, Southwestern University School Law
JD, University of Buenos Aires
Silvia Faerman began her affiliation with Southwestern University
School of Law as a visiting scholar in 1996. Before she joined
Southwestern as a full-time faculty member in 2001, Faerman spent
17 years in the field of intellectual property as practitioner with
leading IP law firms in Argentina, litigating major intellectual property
cases, and a scholar, presenting frequent specialized conferences
in Latin America and the US. Faerman obtained a scholarship from the
Fundación Universitaria del Rio de la Plata (FURP) the brought
her to the US for the first time. That experience was much enriching
and incited her to play a leading role in the exchange programs organized
by the FURP to help other young Argentine university students and
graduates to benefit from the same experience.
Courses: Comparative Law, International and Comparative Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property, Latin American Laws and Institutions.
Franco Ferrari
Professor of Law, University of Verona
JD, University of Bologna
Franco Ferrari is a chaired professor of law at the University of Verona. Previously, he was a chaired professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and Bologna University in Italy. After serving as a member of the Italian Delegation to various sessions of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), he served as legal officer at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, International Trade Law Branch, with responsibility for numerous projects, including the preparation of the UNCITRAL Digest on Application of the United Nations Sales Convention. Ferrari has authored many books and law review articles in Italian, English, German, French and Spanish. He is a member of the editorial board of various peer reviewed European law journals and he also acts as an international arbitrator.
Courses: International Contracts
Roger
W. Findley
Professor of Law and Fritz B. Burns Chair of Real Property,
Loyola Law School
AB, DePauw University, Phi Beta Kappa
JD, University of Michigan, Order of the Coif
While attending the University of Michigan, Roger Findley was a Weymouth Kirkland scholar and project editor of the Michigan Law Review. Findley practiced with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco for several years, and later was in private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan. From 1966 to 1991, he was a member of the faculty of the University of Illinois College of Law, where he served as director of environmental and planning studies; associate dean for academic affairs; acting dean; and Albert E. Jenner, Jr. professor. He also has been a visiting law professor at the University of Michigan; the University of California Davis; Hastings College of Law; Fordham University; the University of Paris in France; and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He joined the Loyola faculty in 1991. An expert on international environmental issues, Findley has a special interest in the protection of tropical rainforests and has worked with public officials in Brazil and Colombia concerning the improvement of environmental and natural resources laws in those countries.
Courses: Advanced American Property Law, International Environmental Law
Judy
Fonda
Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
BA, magna cum laude, University of California Los Angeles,
Phi Beta Kappa
JD, University of California Los Angeles, Order of the Coif
Following graduation from law school, Judy Fonda went to work for the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office. After that she worked briefly in the field of entertainment law and then joined the faculty of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law teaching Legal Research and Writing to first year students, and Trial Advocacy and Immigration Law to second and third year students in the Clinical Program. She left UCLA and joined the faculty at Southwestern University School of Law. There, she taught substantive courses including Torts, Crimes, Civil Practice, Family Law and Juvenile Law that were integrated with the skills courses of Trial Advocacy, and Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation. She took time off to stay home with her children, and later returned to teaching, joining the Loyola faculty in the fall of 1996.
Courses: Introduction to American Law; Legal Writing and Research
Edith
Z. Friedler
Professor of Law Emeritus,
Loyola Law School
JD, summa cum laude, University of Chile
JD, Loyola Law School
Following her graduation from the University of Chile, Edith Friedler studied at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) from 1964-65, where she was the recipient of a French Government Scholarship. She was a professor of roman Law at the University of Chile from 1966-69. Before joining the Loyola Law School faculty in 1983, she practiced immigration law in Southern California. Friedler was a Fulbright Scholar in Santiago, Chile in 1990. Friedler is an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and has won a teaching award in Immigration Law.
Courses: Introduction to the Civil Law Legal Systems; Comparative Law; Conflict of Laws; Latin American Law, Immigration Law.
Justin O. Frosini
Lecturer of Public Law, Luigi Bocconi University, Milan JD
University of Bologna PhD, University of Bologna
Justin Frosini is a lecturer of public law at the Bocconi University , Milan and adjunct professor of comparative public law at Bologna University . Frosini also directs the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development, a research center co-founded by the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Bologna . Frosini is a member of the editorial committee of several journals including Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo, Quaderni Costituzionali and Transition Studies Review. His main field of interest is comparative constitutional law.
Courses: Comparative Constitutional Law
John W. Garman
Adjunct Professor, Loyola Law School
JD, University of La Verne
Diploma, Executive Program of Management, UCLA
LLM, McGeorge School of Law
John Garman is an accomplished attorney offering experience in transnational matters, international law, litigation, arbitration, mediation and management. He is managing partner at Garman Law, with offices in Los Angeles and Vienna, Austria.
Courses: International Arbitration and Mediation; Sales: Domestic and International
Victor
J. Gold
Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law
School
BA, cum laude, University of California Los Angeles
JD, University of California Los Angeles, Order of the Coif
While in law school, Victor Gold was comment editor of the UCLA Law Review. He was a commercial and environmental litigator with Nossaman, Krueger & Marsh in Los Angeles where he was offered a partnership. Gold was a member of the faculty of Arizona State University College of Law before joining the faculty of Loyola Law School in 1984. Gold has written several articles on law and psychology, and is the author of four books on the Federal Rules of Evidence.
Courses: Contracts; American Trial Process
Leonardo Graffi
Assistant Professor of Comparative Law, Verona University
JD, summa cum laude
LLM, Harvard Law School
Courses: International Finance Law
Allan
P. Ides
Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law
School
BA, University of California Los Angeles
MA, Loyola Marymount University
JD, summa cum laude, Loyola Law School
Allan Ides served as a law clerk to the Honorable Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1979-80, and then clerked for the Honorable Byron R. White, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1980-81. Ides was an associate with Hufstedler, Miller, Carlson & Beardsley from 1981-82. He joined the Loyola Law School faculty shortly thereafter. He served as associate dean for academic affairs from 1984-87. From 1989-1997, Ides was a member of the law school faculty at Washington & Lee . He returned to Los Angeles and to Loyola in fall 1997.
Courses: Civil Procedure; Constitutional Law
Marco Lamandini
Professor of Law, University of Bologna
Marco Lamandini is a professor of Company Law, Securities Law and Antitrust Law at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Bologna . He is also a visiting professor of European Securities Law at the Catholic University of Milan, and of Company Law at the University of Paris X. He teaches Securities Law and Economics at the Erasmus Master in Law & Economics, International and European Company Law at the CIRDCE Center of the University of Bologna; Multinationals and Law at the Master of International Relations at the Center of the University of Bologna in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Lamandini has been a Visiting Fellow at many prestigious schools including the University of California, Berkeley, the Max Plank Institut fur auslandisches und internationales Wettbewerbsrecht in Munich, the University of Cambridge, LSE, and the University of Oxford. He is the author or co-author of several law books and treatises in the field of Corporate and Securities law and of a wide number of articles on Corporate Law, Securities Law, Antitrust Law and Banking Law. Lamandini has acted as Expert for the European Parliament on several issues of Securities and Company Law since 2002, and he has been appointed permanent Expert in Financial Services to the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament from 2006 to 2009. He has also served as counsel for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Economy of Argentina.
Courses: Comparative Corporate Governance
Lary Lawrence
Professor of Law and Harriet L. Bradley Chair of Contract
Law, Loyola Law School
BA, University of California Los Angeles
JD, University of California Berkeley, Order of the Coif
While at Boalt Hall, Lary Lawrence was associate editor of the California Law Review. After a year as a Bigelow Teaching fellow and instructor at the University of Chicago School of Law, he practiced with the law firms of Nossaman, Waters, Krueger, Marsh & Riordan and Troy, Malin & Loveland (1974-77). He was an associate professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law (1977-79). From 1979-84, he was a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Law. Lawrence has also taught as a visiting professor at Hofstra, the University of San Diego, the University of Hawaii, the University of Business and Economics in Beijing and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Widely published in commercial law, Lawrence joined the Loyola faculty in 1984.
Courses: Sales: Contracts, Domestic and International
Karl
Manheim
Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
SB, magna cum laude, Bradley University , 1971
JD, Northeastern University, 1974
LLM, Harvard Law School , 1978
Karl Manheim is the Loyola director of the Program for Law & Technology at the California Institute of Technology and Loyola Law School. He began teaching at Loyola in 1975; served in the Santa Monica City Attorney's Office from 1980-84; and returned to Loyola in 1984. He has also taught at the University of Southern California Law School (1996) and at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China (1992). He also taught at the University of Bologna (Brooklyn/Loyola Summer Program) in 2005.
Manheim is a volunteer attorney with the ACLU of Southern California, and serves on the Boards of Directors of two technology companies. He has litigated cases at every level of American state and federal courts. Manheim was admitted to the US patent bar in 1980.
Courses: Comparative Telecommunications Law, International Intellectual Property Law
John
T. McDermott
Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
AB, Middlebury College
JD, University of Denver
John McDermott served as staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 1966-68. He then served as executive attorney for the Judicial Panel in Multidistrict Litigation in Washington, DC, from 1968-71. McDermott was a member of the faculty of the University of Montana School of Law, where he held the position of assistant professor and director of the Indian Law Program. He subsequently spent one year as visiting professor at Vermont Law School. McDermott joined the Loyola faculty in 1975. He served as visiting professor with the Faculty of Law at Dokkyo University, Tokyo, Japan in 1990-91. He has lectured extensively throughout Asia on international dispute resolution and intellectual property.
Courses: Conflict of Laws, Patent Law
Victor D. Nieblas
Adjunct Professor, Loyola Law School
JD, Loyola Law School
BA, University of California, San Diego
A Loyola Law School graduate from the class of 1995, Victor Nieblas has his own law firm, where his area of practice includes deportation defense, Federal Court litigation, consular abroad processing, immigrant and non-immigrant visas, waivers and appellate work. He currently serves as a director on the Board of Governors for the American Immigration Lawyers Association and hosts his own immigration radio show on KTNQ.
Courses: Immigration Law
Chiara Giovannucci Orlandi
Professor of Law, University of Bologna
JD, summa cum laude, University of Bologna
Chiara Orlandi is professor of civil procedure at the Faculty of Economics, University of Bologna. She is also lecturer on arbitration and mediation, in the LLM program at the Universities of Padua, Milan and Sienna and a visiting professor at Paris X University, Nanterre. Orlandi is the representative of the Socrates/Erasmus Program at the University of Bologna Faculty of Law. She is a member of the Bologna Bar and of the Editorial Board of the Italian law review Rivista Trimestrale di Diritto e Procedura Civile. She is also a member of the Italian Chambers of Commerce Conciliation Committee. Orlandi has authored a number of articles in the field of arbitration and conciliation, both in Italian and in foreign law reviews.
Courses: International Arbitration and Mediation; Comparative Dispute Resolution
Cesare
P.R. Romano
Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
MA (Laurea) in Political Science, University of Milano (1992)
D.E.S. (Diplôme des Études Superieures), Graduate Institute
of International Studies, University of Geneva (1995)
LL.M., New York University Law School (1997)
PhD (Doctorat), Graduate Institute of International Studies, University
of Geneva (1999)
Cesare P.R. Romano holds degrees in three different disciplines (political science, international relations and law) from three countries (Italy, Switzerland and the United States), and is a polyglot. His scholarship and teaching reflect the variety of his background.
His expertise is in public international law, and in particular dispute settlement, international environmental law, international human rights and international criminal and humanitarian law. However, it is probably the field international courts and tribunals where he has made to date the greatest contribution, publishing numerous articles and four books. Between 1997 and 2006, he created, developed and managed the Project on International Courts and Tribunals (www.pict-pcti.org), a joint undertaking of the Center on International Cooperation, New York University, and the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals at University College London, becoming a world-renowned authority in the field.
Before joining Loyola Law School, Professor Romano taught as a visiting or adjunct professor in a number of institutions in the U.S. and Europe: Duke Law School, University of Georgia Law School, Fordham University (both Law and Political Science), University of Amsterdam (Law), Università degli Studi di Milano (Political Science).
Courses: International Protection of Human Rights, International Law, International Environmental Law
Charles B. Rosenberg
Adjunct Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
BA, Antioch College
Université de Montpellier (for credit at Antioch)
JD, Harvard University
A Harvard Law Review case editor during law school, Chuck Rosenberg has practiced in Los Angeles for more than thirty years. He spent the early years of his career as a partner in downtown Los Angeles law firms, focusing oncomplex business litigation for Fortune 500 and other large companies. His cases ranged from breach of contract and securities fraud to copyright infringement, mass torts, and federal white collar criminal defense. He also served as a neutral arbitrator. Several years ago, he departed downtown to establish his own three-lawyer firm located in Santa Monica, California where he focuses on IP and entertainment law. Bringing his practice experience to the classroom, he has taught as an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, UCLA Law School, Pepperdine University School of Law and the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Courses taught include procedural courses (Advanced Civil Discovery and Criminal Procedure) substantive courses (Copyright, Internet Law, Remedies and Contract Law for Managers) as well as Entertainment Law and Law and Popular Culture. Chuck has been the credited legal consultant to four hit TV shows: Paper Chase, L.A. Law, The Practice and, currently, Boston Legal. He also covered the Simpson criminal and civil trials as an on-air legal analyst for E! Television and CBS Radio and wrote a nationally distributed “trial watchers” guide to the criminal trial.
Courses: Contracts; American Trial Process
Jaume Saura
Professor of Law, University of Barcelona
JD, University of Barcelona
PhD, cum laude and extraordinary prize, University of Barcelona
Jaume Saura is professor of public international law at the University of Barcelona. From 1991-1993, Saura was granted a Research Scholarship by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. He is the president of the Human Rights Institute of Catalonia. Saura has served as an accredited international observer in South Africa (1994), Palestine (1995-96 and 2005), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996 and 1997), Togo (1998) and Peru (2001). He has worked extensively and has written books and articles in areas such as the law of the sea, human rights and humanitarian law, self-determination of peoples, use of force in international relations and climate change, among others.
Courses: European Union Law; Law of Armed Conflict; International Law; Human Rights Law
Theodore
P. Seto
Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
BA, magna cum laude, Harvard University, Phi Beta Kappa
JD, magna cum laude, Harvard University
While in law school, Theodore Seto served as executive editor of the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation, he clerked for Judge Walter Mansfield on the Second Circuit. He then practiced for 14 years as a civil litigator and tax attorney with the firms of Foley, Hoag & Eliot in Boston and Drinker Biddle & Reath in Philadelphia before joining the Loyola faculty in 1991. His current research interests include tax theory and jurisprudence.
Courses: International Taxation
Arnold
I. Siegel
Clinical Professor, Director of Legal Research and Writing,
Coordinator of Ethical Lawyering, Loyola Law School
AB, Cornell University
JD, Stanford University
Before joining the Loyola faculty in 1977, Arnold Siegel spent two years as a legal services attorney and two years in private practice. He began his career at Loyola as a supervising attorney for the Loyola Law Clinics. In 1979, he became the director of Clinical Programs and was acting associate dean for the summer of 1981. From 1982-84, he was assistant dean for student affairs. In 1991, he left Loyola and joined the firm of Gronemeier & Barker. His practice involved business litigation with an emphasis on employment matters. Siegel returned to Loyola in 1995 to head the Legal Research and Writing Program. In 1999, he became the coordinator of Ethical Lawyering.
Courses: Introduction to American Law; Legal Writing and Research
Marcy
Strauss
Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
BS, with highest distinction, Northwestern University
JD, Georgetown University
While in law school, Marcy Strauss was a member of the Georgetown Law Journal. After graduation, she served as law clerk to the Honorable James B. Moran of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 1981-83. Strauss joined the Loyola faculty in 1984. She writes on the freedom of speech and other constitutional issues.
Courses: International Criminal Law; Comparative Constitutional Law
Peter
M. Tiersma
Professor of Law and Joseph Scott Fellow, Loyola Law School
BA, with distinction, Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa
JD, University of California Berkeley, Order of the Coif
PhD, University of California San Diego
Prior to attending law school, Peter Tiersma was named a Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands and taught linguistics at both the University of California, San Diego and Miami University of Ohio. While in law school, he was associate editor of the California Law Review. Tiersma served as law clerk to Justice Stanley Mosk of the California Supreme Court. He has held positions at the law firms of Pettit & Martin in San Francisco and Price, Postel & Parma in Santa Barbara. Tiersma joined the Loyola Law School faculty in 1990.
Courses: American Trust and Wills; American Legal Language
Marco Torsello
Assistant Professor of Comparative Law, University of Bologna
JD, summa cum laude, University of Bologna
LLM, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Marco Torsello is a member of the Bologna Bar and has worked as a corporate and commercial lawyer. He has served as an Italian delegate at the annual meeting of the Working Group on International Contract Practices for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). Torsello has taught as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Verona and the University of Padua. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School in 2003 and a visiting professor at Columbia in 2004. His fields of interest include comparative private law, European private law and international commercial transactions and he has published numerous articles in Italian and English and one book in these areas.
Courses: International Contracts; European Private Law; E-commerc
Nicolo Trocker
Professor of Law, University of Florence
JD, summa cum laude, University of Florence
LLM, University of Munich
European University Institute, Jean Monet Fellowship
Nicolo Trocker, is Professor of Law of the University of Florence ( Italy ) where he teaches civil procedure and conflict of laws. He has published various books and numerous articles on these subjects. He received his legal education at the University of Munich ( Germany ) and Florence ( Italy ), where he earned his J.D. ( summa cum laude ) and a Jean Monet fellowship at the European University Institute. He is a member of the International Association of Procedural Law and the Académie Internationale de droit comparé. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Munich, at the Chuo University of Tokyo, at the University of California at Berkeley, at the University College, London, at the University of Nagoya, and on numerous occasions at the University of Miami, where he teaches transnational litigation.
Courses: Transnational Litigation
A. Marco Turk
Professor of Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding (NCRP) and Director of NCRP Programs at California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH)
BA, University of Washington
JD, cum laude, Southwestern University School of Law
Prior to his arrival at CSUDH in the fall of 2002, Professor Turk taught in the Global Peace and Conflict Studies Program and in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, where he began his full-time academic career in 1995. He writes on international conflict and is a member of the Conflict Resolution Quarterly editorial board. He has a long history in California ADR, is a certified community and trial court-qualified mediator, and serves on a panel of appellate mediators. Professor Turk is recognized internationally for his work as a peacebuilder, educator and trainer dealing with ethnic conflict. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Conflict Resolution on the Eastern Mediterranean Island of Cyprus (1997-1999), has made funded return trips in 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2005 to continue his peacebuilding work on the island, and has conducted programs for Cypriots in the USA through the U.S. State Department and the Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace at San Diego State University. In October 2003, Professor Turk participated as one of only two Americans invited to attend the Oxford University international workshop on "Getting to Yes" regarding efforts to reunify Cyprus.
Courses: International Conflict Resolution (Negotiating Peacebuilding Opportunities)
Georgene
M. Vairo
Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law
School
.A, Sweet Briar College, Phi Beta Kappa
MEd, with distinction, University of Virginia
JD, cum laude, Fordham University
Georgene Vairo served as the first law clerk to the Honorable Joseph M. McLaughlin, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She was an associate specializing in antitrust law at the New York law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. From 1982-1995, she was a member of the faculty of Fordham Law School. During her tenure, she served as an associate dean (1987-1995) and was appointed to the Leonard F. Manning Distinguished chair (1994). Vairo joined Loyola's faculty in 1995.
Courses: International Litigation
Vincenzo Vigoriti
Professor of Law, University of Florence
JD, University of Florence
Vincenzo Vigoriti is a chaired professor of comparative law at the University of Florence. He has been a visiting professor and lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, Temple University and in numerous other foreign law schools. Vigoriti is a member of the Florence Bar and practices in the areas of domestic and international litigation. He also acts as arbitrator and counsel in many arbitration proceedings worldwide, in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations. He is a member of the Italian Arbitration Association, the American Bar Foundation, International Chamber of Commerce, Italian Federation of Soccer and chair of the Arbitration Panel Lega Professionisti Serie C. Vigoriti has published numerous articles and books in Italy and abroad.
Courses: Comparative Law, Sports and Entertainment Law in Europe