Panelist Biographies

Professor Dr. Stephane Beaulac (Cantab.) Professor of Law University of Montreal: Stephane Beaulac is an associate professor with tenure at the Faculty of Law, University of Montreal, Canada. He started his academic career at Dalhousie Law School in 1998. The courses he teaches include statutory interpretation and public international law. He has a Ph.D. in law from the University of Cambridge (Darwin College), in England, and was a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada with Madam Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dube. Dr. Beaulac was on sabbatical leave in 2006-2007 at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, as a Max Weber Fellow at the Law Department. He is the author of two monographs: The Power of Language in the Making of International Law (2004) and International Human Rights and Canadian Law (2007), with William A. Schabas. Dr. Beaulac has also published several law journal articles on issues of history and theory of international law, such as the historical origins of sovereignty and the international rule of law.
Anthony Tirado Chase
Assistant Professor of Diplomacy & World Affairs
Occidental College: Anthony Chase is Associate Professor of Diplomacy & World Affairs at Occidental College. His Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices (co-edited with Amr Hamzawy, University of Pennsylvania Press, June 2006) focuses on the Arab world's internal articulations of human rights and their intersections with, respectively, Islam, globalization, transnational advocacy, and the politics of key states such as Egypt, Morocco, and Yemen. He is author of a range of peer-reviewed articles dealing with human rights in Muslim societies in the context of free expression, economic development, and public health. His current project is entitled Transnational Debates on Human Rights in the Muslim World: Politics, Economics, and Society. Drawing on Professor Chase's training in international law, Islamic law, and international relations theory, it explores when, how, and why the international human rights regime has mattered to some of the Muslim world's most important debates—including those over free expression, economic development, and the treatment of minorities.
Harlan Grant Cohen
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Georgia School of Law: Cohen was a Furman Fellow at New York University School of Law where his research focused on national security law, international legal theory, and legal history. He has also worked as an associate at the New York law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and served as a judicial clerk for Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. Before entering law school, Cohen worked at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and at the journal Foreign Affairs.; He earned a dual degree in history and international studies from Yale University before receiving an M.A. in history. In 2003, he graduated magna cum laude from the New York University School of Law, where he was a Florence Allen Scholar and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Additionally, Cohen served as articles editor of the New York University Law Review and received the Washington Foreign Law Society's Justice Robert H. Jackson Prize for best published student writing on a topic of international/foreign law.; Cohen's scholarship includes: "Finding International Law: Rethinking the Doctrine of Sources," in the Iowa Law Review, "Supremacy and Diplomacy: The International Law of the U.S. Supreme Court" in the Berkeley Journal of International Law, "The American Challenge to International Law: A Tentative Framework for Debate" in the Yale Journal of International Law and "The (Un) Favorable Judgment of History: Deportation Hearings, the Palmer Raids, and the Meaning of History" in the New York University Law Review.
Kenneth S. Gallant
Professor of Law
William H. Bowen School of Law: Professor Gallant joined the law school faculty in 1999, coming from the University of Idaho, where he directed the clinic and taught on the faculty. Before entering teaching, he served first as a prosecutor and later as Attorney-in-charge for Special Litigation with the Office of the District Attorney of Philadelphia. He served as a law clerk to the late Judge Samuel J. Roberts of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and Judge Louis H. Pollak of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Professor Gallant teaches Lawyering Skills, Litigation Clinic, International Law, and Criminal Law. He has published extensively in the area of international law.
Mark Weston Janis
William F. Starr Professor of Law
University of Connecticut School of Law: Mark Weston Janis grew up in Illinois and Michigan. A graduate of Princeton (AB 1969), Oxford (BA 1972), and Harvard (JD 1977), he served as an officer in the Navy (1972-1975), practiced international financial law with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York & Paris (1977-1980), and taught on the faculties of Connecticut, Cornell, Oxford, and UCLA. He is presently William F. Starr Professor at the University of Connecticut and Visiting Fellow in Law at the University of Oxford. He is the author of three widely-used books -- International Law (4th ed 2003 Aspen), Cases & Commentary on International Law (with John Noyes, 3d ed 2006 West), and European Human Rights Law (with Richard Kay and Anthony Bradley, 3d edition 2008 Oxford) -- and the more scholarly The American Tradition of International Law: Great Expectations 1789-1914 (2004 Oxford), and Religion and International Law (with Carolyn Jones, 2004 Nijhoff), as well as more than fifty other books and articles. He teaches International Law, Human Rights Law, and Constitutional Law.
Donald J. Kochan
Assistant Professor of Law
Chapman University School of Law: Donald J. Kochan joined the Chapman faculty in 2004 and is currently an Associate Professor of Law. Immediately before coming to Chapman, Professor Kochan was an Olin Research Fellow and Instructor in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law for the 2003-2004 academic year. During 2002-2003, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law where he taught courses in Property and Environmental Law. Professor Kochan received his J.D. from Cornell Law School (1998), where he was a John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics and managing editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. He also served as editor and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy symposium issues in 1997 and 1998. He received his B.A. from Western Michigan University (1995), with majors in political science and philosophy. After graduating from law school, Professor Kochan was a law clerk to The Honorable Richard F. Suhrheinrich of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Following his clerkship, Professor Kochan was an associate with the firm of Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in Natural Resources & Environmental Law. Professor Kochan's international law scholarship has appeared in the Cornell International Law Journal, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, the Fordham International Law Journal, the George Washington International Law Review, the West Virginia Law Review, and the Chapman Law Review.
Errol Meidinger
Professor of Law
The State University of New York: Errol Meidinger is Professor and Vice Dean of Law for Research and Faculty Development at the State University of New York in Buffalo, and also an Honorary Professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His current research focuses on innovative institutional arrangements for promoting environmental conservation and social justice. These include supra-governmental regulatory initiatives such as forest certification and fair labor standards programs, reconstructed property rights systems incorporating customary relationships and indigenous rights, and public-interest oriented intellectual property rights. Much of his work can be found at http://www.law.buffalo.edu/eemeid.
Julie Mertus
Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs Program
American University: Julie Mertus is an Associate professor and Co-Director of the MA program in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs at American University. An authority on the Balkans, she has worked on gender and human rights issues for several governmental, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, including UNHCR, USAID, the Norwegian government, the Open Society Institute, Women for Inclusive Security and the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children. Her book Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy (2004), was named "human rights book of the year" by the American Political Science Association Human Rights Section (second edition of Bait and Switch released in February 2008). Her other books include: Human Rights and Conflict (2007);The United Nations and Human Rights (2005); Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War (1999) and Local Action/Global Change, a training manual on the human rights of women and girls (translated into a dozen languages; all new edition to appear spring 2008). A graduate of Yale Law School, her prior appointments include: Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace; Human Rights Fellow, Harvard Law School; Writing Fellow, MacArthur Foundation, Fulbright Fellow (Romania 1995; Denmark 2006), and Counsel, Human Rights Watch. She has received several awards for her teaching, including being named “Scholar/Teacher of the Year” for her faculty in 2005.
Christiana Ochoa Associate Professor Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington: B.A. 1993, University of Michigan; J.D. 1998, Harvard. Editor-in-Chief Harvard Human Rights Journal; Attorney, Clifford Chance, 1999-2001; Visiting Professor and Researcher, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 1998-99.; Before joining the faculty in 2003, Professor Ochoa was an associate in the Banking and Finance Group at the New York office of the global law firm, Clifford Chance, where she dedicated her efforts to cross-border capital markets and asset-backed finance transactions. Ochoa has also worked for a number of human rights and non-governmental organizations in Colombia, Brazil, and Nicaragua. She has lived for extended periods in Latin America and has significant academic and other work experience in that region.; Ochoa's scholarship focuses on global governance and human rights. Her work has been published in the Harvard International Law Journal, the Virginia Journal of International Law, the Indiana Law Journal (forthcoming 2008) and the Human Rights Quarterly, among others. Her research concentrates in two inter-connected areas: the role of individuals in law-formation and the inextricable links between global economic activity and human rights. The first of these concentrations explores the relationship between the evolving role of individuals in global governance and under international law and the doctrinal role of individuals in international law formation. Ochoa's more recent work in this area examines the individual's participation in law formation and in civil society as means to increasing the democratic legitimacy of international law and global governance mechanisms. Her work on global economic activity and human rights has included the development of what she terms the Odious Finance Doctrine as well as inquiries into the complex interconnections between the proliferation of finance tools and human rights.
Professor Jordan J. Paust
Mike and Teresa Baker Law Center Professor
University of Houston Law Center: Jordan J. Paust is the Mike and Teresa Baker Law Center Professor of International Law at the Law Center of the University of Houston. He received an A.B. and J.D. from UCLA, an LL.M. from the University of Virginia, and is a J.S.D. Candidate, Yale University (in residence, Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1973-75). Professor Paust has also been a Visiting Edward Ball Eminent Scholar University Chair in International Law at Florida State University (spring, 1997), a Fulbright Professor at the University of Salzburg, Austria (1978-1979), and a member of the faculty of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School, International Law Division (1969-1973, mob. des. 1973-1975). He has served on several committees on international law, human rights, laws of war, terrorism, and the use of force in the American Society of International Law, the American Branch of the International Law Association, and the American Bar Association and is currently Co-Chair of the American Society's International Criminal Law Interest Group. He was also the Chair of the Section on International Law of the Association of American Law Schools and was on the Executive Council and the President's Committee of the American Society of International Law. He is one of the most widely cited law professors in the United States. Among relevant books are: Paust, Van Dyke, Malone, International Law and Litigation in the U.S. (Thomson - West Group, American Casebook Series, 2 ed. 2005); Paust, International Law as Law of the United States (2 ed. 2003); Paust, Bassiouni, et al., International Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (3 ed. 2007); Paust, Bassiouni, et al., Human Rights Module (2 ed. 2006). Professor Paust has published over 150 articles, book chapters, papers and essays in law journals in Belgium, Canada, China, England, Germany, Greece, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and the U.S.: at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Michigan, Virginia, Cornell, Texas, Duke, the American Journal of International Law, and elsewhere -- many of which address treaties, customary international law, jurisdiction, human rights, international crimes, and the incorporation of international law into U.S. domestic law.
Amy Reynolds
Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Studies and Associate Professor
Indiana University School of Journalism: Amy Reynolds is an associate professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the School of Journalism at Indiana University. Reynolds' research focuses on First Amendment history, media sociology, and the multidisciplinary study of communication and law. She has published three books, several refereed journal articles, and more than a half-dozen book chapters. Her professional background includes work in both print and broadcast media. Professor Reynolds is a former reporter and producer (CBS affiliate in Erie, Pa.), and a former news director (PBS-affiliate, in Bloomington, Ind.). Her newspaper experience includes work as a reporter for the Erie Daily Times, the Orlando Sentinel and College Press Service, as well as serving as managing editor of the wire service Generation X Press.; Prior to joining IU, Reynolds taught at the University of Oklahoma, Miami University of Ohio, and the University of Texas at Austin (while a doctoral student). She received her B.A. in English from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, her M.A. in journalism from the Indiana University School of Journalism, and her Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Texas at Austin.
Cesar A. Rodriguez-Garavito
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law
University of The Andes: Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of The Andes (Bogota, Colombia) and Fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a founding member of the Latin American Center for Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia), and is currently Director of the Center for Socio-Legal Studies at The Andes. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. (Sociology) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and M.A. from NYU's Institute for Law and Society, an M.A. (Philosophy) from the National University of Colombia, and a J.D. from the University of The Andes. He has published books and scholarly articles on law and society, political sociology, labor, development, and globalization. His recent publications include Law and Globalization from Below (Cambridge Univ. Press, with B. Santos, coed), Globalization, Governance, and Labor Rights (Anthropos), and Hope Reborn: An Introduction to the New Latin American Left (Pluto Press, with P. Barrett and D. Chavez, coed.).
Website: www.cesarrodriguez.net
Galit A. Sarfaty
Visiting Fellow Human Rights Program
Harvard Law School and American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Galit A. Sarfaty is a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Program on the Legal Profession and its Human Rights Program, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She earned her A.B. from Harvard College and her J.D. from Yale Law School, and is currently completing her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on international law, human rights, international institutions, and the legal profession.
Yanis Varoufakis
Associate Professor of Economic Theory
University of Athens: Born in Athens in 1961, where he completed his secondary education prior to moving to England where he read mathematics and economics at the Universities of Essex and Birmingham. He taught economics at the Universities of Essex, East Anglia, Glasgow and Sydney. He is currently Professor of Economic Theory, and Director of Political Economy, at the University of Athens, Greece, where he is also directing UADPhilEcon, the University of Athens Doctoral Program in Economics. Additionally, he is Research Fellow in Economic and Social Ethics at the University Catholique de Louvain and in Industrial Relations at the University of Sydney. His books include Rational Conflict (Blackwell, 1991), Foundations of Economics (Routledge, 1998), Game Theory: A critical text (Routledge, 2004) whereas his published articles have appeared in journals such as The Economic Journal, Erkenntnis, Science and Society, the Journal of Economic Methodology.
Timothy W. Waters Associate Professor of Law Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington: B.A. UCLA; M.I.A. Columbia; J.D. Harvard. Visiting Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School, 2002-2005. Waters joined the IU faculty in Fall 2007. His scholarly interests include public international law, transitional justice and international criminal law, ethnic conflict, and human rights, especially in European contexts. His principal research involves rethinking self-determination to devise an effective right of peaceful secession. Waters has served as a consultant for the Open Society Institute, UNDP, the Latvian Ministry of Justice, and Human Rights Watch. He worked in Bosnia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, he helped draft the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Hungary.

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Panelist Biographies