Italy Summer Program in Bologna
Co-directors and Faculty Members in Bologna, Italy
Domenico Borghesi received his J.D. at the University of Bologna. He taught Procedural Law at the University of Bologna and has been Professor of Civil Procedural Law at the University of Modena since 1990. He is an attorney in Bologna 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; and Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA). He is a member of the Editorial Board of “Rivista trimestrale di diritto e procedura civile” and his main publications include: “A new Statute for “arbitrato irrituale”, in Labour in public administration, 1998; he is the co-author of the recently published commentary to the Italian Arbritration Law: Arbitrato (edited by F. Carpi) Zanichelli, 2007; Jurisdiction and public employment, Padova, CEDAM, 2002. Professor Borghesi will co-teach International Arbitration with Professor Chiara Giovannucci Orlandi.
Marsha Garrison teaches family law at Brooklyn Law School. Her research and writing spans a broad range of topics, including marriage, cohabitation, parentage determination, the economics of divorce, and child welfare decision making. Much of her research is interdisciplinary, applying social science and economic data to legal policy issues. She is the coauthor (with Harry D. Krause, Linda D. Elrod & J. Thomas Oldham) of a widely used family law casebook (Family Law: Cases, Comments, and Questions (Thompson-West, 6th ed. 2007)) and (with Carl E. Schneider) an interdisciplinary textbook on bioethics and the law (Law and Bioethics: Individual Autonomy and Social Regulation (Thompson-West, 2003)). Her work has been published in a wide variety of edited books and journals, including the California Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and the International Survey of Family Law. Professor Garrison serves as the Secretary-General of the International Society of Family Law. She is a member of the international advisory board of the Child and Family Law Quarterly and the advisory board of the Journal of Law and Family Studies, an interdisciplinary journal. Professor Marsha Garrison will teach Comparative and International Family Law and co-direct the summer program in Week Three.
Jason Mazzone joined the faculty of Brooklyn Law School in 2003. He specializes in constitutional law and history. Much of Professor Mazzone's current work involves a close look at how constitutional provisions have operated in particular historical circumstances in order to generate lessons for today about constitutional interpretation and institutional design. He has a particular interest in issues of governmental powers in times of emergency. Professor Mazzone's recent publications include The Bill of Rights in the Early State Courts, in the MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW; Copyfraud, in the NYU LAW REVIEW; Unamendments, in the IOWA LAW REVIEW; and The Security Constitution in the UCLA LAW REVIEW. He is presently completing a book, based on his dissertation, on how societies create the cultural conditions necessary for the success of written constitutions. Professor Mazzone is a frequent speaker at public lectures, conferences, and government hearings, and he writes often in the popular press on constitutional law issues. Before entering academia, Professor Mazzone was a law clerk to Judge Robert Sack of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Judge John Koeltl of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Mazzone received his A.B. and J.D. from Harvard University, his A.M. from Stanford University, and his LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale University. Professor Jason Mazzone will teach Comparative Constitutional Law.
Chiara Giovannucci Orlandi, co-director from the University of Bologna, is an honors graduate of the University of Bologna Faculty of Law and Italian co-director of the Master of Laws "American Law and International Legal Practice" held in Bologna by the Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, in which she is Lecturer on International Arbitration. She is Professor of Civil Procedure at the Faculty of Economics, Bologna University, Lecturer on International Alternative Dispute Resolution , University of Siena, Master of ADR and Visiting Professor at Paris X University, Nanterre. She is admitted to the Bologna Bar. Professor Giovannucci Orlandi is a Member of the Editorial Board of the Rivista Trimestrale di Diritto e Procedura Civile. She is also a member of the Italian Chambers of Commerce Conciliation and Arbitration Committee. Prof. Orlandi has authored a number of articles in the field of arbitration and conciliation, both in Italian and in foreign law reviews, such as Ethics for International Arbitrators in UMKC Law Review, Fall 1998; Liability of arbitrators in Revue de droit des affaires internationales ,2002. She is the co-author of the recently published commentary to the Italian Arbritration Law: Arbitrato (edited by F. Carpi), Zanichelli 2007. Professor Giovannucci Orlandi will co-teach International Arbitration with Professor Domenico Borghesi.
Peter Tiersma is Co-Director and Professor of Law and Joseph Scott Fellow at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where he is also the Director of International Programs. Tiersma was born in the Netherlands and immigrated with his parents to the United States. Following graduation from Stanford University, he was a Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands and later received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, San Diego. Subsequently, he obtained a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California in Berkeley. He clerked for Justice Stanley Mosk of the California Supreme Court, worked in private practice for three years, and has been teaching at Loyola Law School since 1990. Tiersma is the author of the books Frisian Reference Grammar (Fryske Akademy, 1999), Legal Language (University of Chicago Press, 1999), and Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice (co-authored with Lawrence Solan, University of Chicago Press, 2005). He has written several articles on the relationship between language and law. Tiersma has also lectured widely on these topics, most recently in Germany and China. Further information about his work is available at www.LanguageAndLaw.org. Professor Peter Tiersma will teach World Legal Systems.
Co-directors in the United States
Arthur Pinto is Co-Director of the Bologna Summer Program and Professor of Law and Co-Director of Brooklyn Law School’s Center for the Study of International Business Law. He teaches Contracts; Corporate Finance; Corporations; Comparative Corporate Governance; and Securities Regulation. Professor Pinto has been a visiting Professor at George Washington and New York University Law Schools; lectures often at LUISS University in Rome; has served several times as a national reporter to the Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law; and has written articles on comparative corporate governance, and corporate and securities law. He is the co-editor of The Legal Basis of Corporate Governance in the Publicly Held Corporations--A Comparative Approach (1998) and co-author of Understanding Corporate Law (2nd ed. 2004).
Peter Tiersma is Professor of Law and Joseph Scott Fellow at Loyola Law School and Co-Director of the Bologna Summer Program. (See above.)