IILJ - Key Persons

Aidan McGirr graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University, with a degree in Astrophysics and a minor in Global Health. He was a Flinn Scholar at ASU, where he also co- founded a refugee medical clinic in partnership with ASU and the Mayo Clinic. Aidan received

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• Alberico Gentili Senior Fellow

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• Professor at ITAM 's Law Department

A full time Professor at ITAM's Law Department, Alejandro Rodiles teaches public international law as well as law and global governance. He earned his law degree (LL.B.) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has completed his doctoral studies (summa cum laude) at Humboldt University, Berlin. In June 2016, his PhD thesis was awarded with the Faculty Price of the Faculty of Law of Humboldt University. In July 2016, he was elected a member of Mexico's National Research System (SNI, level 1). Alejandro Rodiles has been a lecturer at UNAM's Faculty of Law and a research fellow at Humboldt University. He is a member of the International Law Association (ILA, Mexican Branch), participating in ILA's Study Groups on UN sanctions, as well as on cities and international law. He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Mexican Yearbook of International Law (AMDI). Alejandro Rodiles was the legal adviser of the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations, in New York, during Mexico's past non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council (2009-2010). Previously, he served as director of international law at the Office of the Legal Adviser at the Mexican Foreign Ministry, and as junior adviser at the Policy Planning Staff of the Foreign Minister. His research interests lie in international treaty law, international security law, as well as the role of national courts in the development of international law. He is also interested in Mexican foreign policy and its relation with international law. His main research focus in recent years has been on the ways international law is changing today because of global governance, in particular on the interplay between formal (classical) international law and informal transnational normative regimes. His publications include:

Alissa Clarke graduated cum laude from Harvard in 2007, with a concentration in psychology and a certificate in global health and health policy. She most recently worked as a Human Rights Fellow for U.S. Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts in his district office, focusing on human rights and refugee policy. Alissa has worked in health law as Special Assistant to a former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General, in emergency medicine research and in direct patient care at a leading psychiatric hospital. Ultimately, her work with torture survivors applying for asylum in the U.S. inspired her to pursue the law.

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• Program Director / Adjunct Professor of Law

Angelina Fisher is Adjunct Professor of Law and Program Director at the Institute for International Law and Justice. She holds an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School and an LLM in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law. She is the founder and co-teacher of the International Organizations Clinic. Her research interests include global governance of education, international organizations, and technologies of governance (particular uses of data and quantitative information). Prior to joining the Institute for International Law and Justice, she was a Helton Fellow at Human Rights First, focusing on U.S. and international law related to counterterrorism operations and national security policy and practice. In 2004-2005, she was a Research Scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at New York University School of Law. She also worked as an associate at the New York law firm Shearman & Sterling, LLP.

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• Director
• Secretary
• Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice
• Professor
• Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School

Benedict Kingsbury is Vice Dean and Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He has served as Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice since its founding in 2002, and in 2018 was appointed as the faculty director of the Law School's newly-inaugurated Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies, creating the innovative Guarini Global Law & Tech initiative. His current work focuses on physical, digital, and informational infrastructure (Infrareg); global data/tech law (including digital sequence data, earth systems data issues, and generative AI); and a new project on planetary and space governance issues and rethinking approaches to law and law-making. In Nov-Dec 2022 he delivered the Lauterpacht Lectures at Cambridge University, on 'International Law Futures.' Projects he has co-directed at the IILJ include the Program in the History and Theory of International Law (with Professor Rob Howse and Global Professor Martti Koskenniemi); the Global Administrative Law Project (with Professor Richard B. Stewart); the research project on Governance by Indicators (with Professor Kevin Davis and the late Professor Sally Engle Merry); and a project on large scale global ordering such as TPP and the Belt & Road Initiative (Megareg). From 2013-18 he was joint Editor in Chief (with Jose Alvarez) of the American Journal of International Law, a premier journal in the field, and helped create the online AJIL Unbound. He is one of the editors (with Andrew Hurrell of Oxford University, and earlier with the late Dick Stewart) of the Oxford University Press Law and Global Governance book series. His research projects on global governance issues have been supported by the National Science Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford and Sloan Foundations. In 2019 he received the Law School's Podell Distinguished Teaching Award.Read more After completing his LL.B. with first class honors at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1981, Professor Kingsbury was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1984 he graduated at the top of his class in the M.Phil in International Relations at Oxford, supervised by the distinguished theorist Hedley Bull. He subsequently completed a D.Phil in Law at Oxford, supervised by Chichele Professor Ian Brownlie QC, and thereafter held a permanent teaching position in the Law Faculty at Oxford before moving to Duke University in 1993. Kingsbury has been on the permanent faculty at the Law School since 1998. He served two stints on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of International Law, and was awarded the Journal's Deak Prize for the best article by a younger scholar. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Centro Internazionale di Studi Gentiliani, and of the Council of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), and serves on the Advisory Boards of numerous book series and scholarly journals. Kingsbury's research and publications reflect a strong commitment to a broad, theoretically-grounded approach to international law, closely integrating work in legal theory, political theory (including international relations theory), and history. He initiated with NYU colleague the late Richard Stewart, and continues to direct, the IILJ's Global Administrative Law Research Project, a pioneering approach to issues of accountability and participation in global governance which includes several books and journal symposia and more than 250 scholarly papers by different authors. His article with Kevin Davis and Sally Merry on Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance (2012), and edited books on Governance by Indicators (OUP, 2012) and The Quiet Power of Indicators (2015), helped frame that field. He has sought to make an ethical case for sovereignty and for a critical positivism in international law. He is prominent among legal scholars who have argued for the importance and explanatory power of constructivist approaches to concepts such as "compliance" and "indigenous peoples." In works on the Grotian tradition in international law, and on such writers as Alberico Gentili (1552-1608) and Lassa Oppenheim, he has traced the role of particular theories of international society and international politics in the history of international law. Two of his co-edited books on Gentili's work were published by Oxford University Press, and he became an Honorary Citizen of San Ginesio, Gentili's birthplace, in 2010. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in law by Tilburg University in the Netherlands in 2016. Kingsbury has written on a range of specific contemporary international law topics, extending from investor-state arbitration and inter-state arbitration to trade-environment disputes and the proliferation of international tribunals. United Nations, Divided World, co-edited with Sir Adam Roberts, was published in a Chinese edition in 2010. He has had extensive academic and practical involvement with issues relating to indigenous peoples. Kingsbury has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Tokyo Law Faculty, the University of Padua, the University of Paris-I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), and the University of Utah. He was the inaugural Caldwell Lecturer at Trinity College, University of Melbourne, and the New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow.

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• Alberico Gentili Senior Fellow

Benjamin Straumann is ERC Professor of History at the University of Zurich and Research Professor of Classics at New York University. He is also Alberico Gentili Senior Fellow at New York University School of Law. A historian of ideas, he is chiefly interested in classical political and legal thought, the history of natural and international law, constitutionalism, and the reception of classical political thought and Roman law in early-modern Europe. Benjamin is the author of Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2016); Roman Law in the State of Nature: The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law (Cambridge University Press, 2015); and editor, with Benedict Kingsbury, of Alberico Gentili, The Wars of the Romans: A Critical Edition and Translation of De armis Romanis, (translated by David Lupher, Oxford University Press, 2011). He co-edits the book series History and Theory of International Law for Oxford University Press. He also co-edits the first volume on the classical world of the five-volume Cambridge History of Rights. Benjamin is currently working on a five-year project hosted by the University of Zurich on Cicero's theory of justice and its reception in the Western tradition. The project is supported by an ERC Consolidator Grant (864309) and will focus on one of the most innovative, and historically most influential, contributions to the Western debate about justice, a contribution that grew out of Cicero's philosophical works and Roman legal ideas. For publications and more information, go to: https://nyu.academia.edu/BenjaminStraumann

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• Jones Administrator

Bhavini Sai Kakani studied International Relations and Economics at New York University, graduating cum laude in 2018 and again in 2019 with a master's degree under the accelerated B.A.-M.A. track. Her undergraduate honors thesis, for which she received the Fiona McGillivray Prize for Best Thesis in International Political Economy, analyzed the impact of globalization on German labor markets and anti-globalization rhetoric in the rise of populism. Her master's thesis analyzed utopian themes in Cold War-era political projects-like the World Order Models Project-and novels-like Le Guin's the Dispossessed. While at NYU, Bhavini also interned at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations, where she helped NGOs working to alleviate the inequalities of globalization and climate change achieve consultative status. In 2019, Bhavini moved to Beijing to study Chinese literature and culture at the Yenching Academy of Peking University. Her master's thesis examined how Third World revolutionary movements and solidarity were expressed in transnational literary journals during the Cold War. Bhavini's prevailing research interests include the history of international relations and 20th century anticolonial movements. Returning to NYU as an IILJ scholar, Bhavini hopes to explore actionable ways of continuing the work of decolonization, focusing specifically on international institutions and climate justice.

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• Adjunct Professor of Law

Brian King focuses his practice on commercial and treaty arbitration and is recognized as a "global player" in the field. He has acted as counsel or arbitrator in over 100 institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, including two of the largest investment arbitrations to date.

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• JSD Student

Carlos Andrés is a JSD student from Colombia. His research interests include environmental law, human rights, multiculturalism, and governance. Carlos Andrés holds a LLM on International Legal Studies from NYU Law, where he was a Hauser Global Scholar. He also has a J.D. from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), where he graduated as cum laude, and a B.A. in Political Science from the same university. He worked as a researcher in the Global Justice and Human Rights Program at Universidad de los Andes on issues about race, access to law, and discrimination. After that, he was a researcher at the Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society-Dejusticia working with indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities, environmental issues, and anti-discrimination cases in different countries in Latin America. He also works as legal advisor at the Racial Discrimination Watch, dealing with issues about racial inequality and law. His interests on multiculturalism and human rights are reflected as well on the Centro de Información de la Consulta Previa, where he worked as coordinator collecting and organizing legal and political strategies to protect indigenous rights. More recently he worked on a joint project of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and the Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment about participation and extractivism in Latin America. Before joining NYU Law, he was Lecturer on Environmental Law at Universidad de los Andes.

Caroline Zielinski graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 with a degree in International Relations and a minor in Hispanic Studies. Interested in international security and organizations, her thesis focused on cooperation between the European Union and the United Nations on international security threats, as per the EU's commitment to effective multilateralism stipulated in the 2003 European Security Strategy. During her undergraduate career, she conducted research about the challenges facing European think tanks, interned for the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, and served as online editor for the Sigma Iota Rho Journal of International Relations.

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• Professor of Clinical Law / Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice

César Rodríguez-Garavito is a leading legal scholar and thinker in human rights, and has been a driving force in human rights litigation by young people in which courts in several countries have ordered speedier action to reduce future climate change risks. He is the founding director of the Climate Litigation Accelerator within the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law. Earlier, in his native Colombia, Rodríguez-Garavito was co-founder and executive director of Dejusticia, which remains Colombia's leading human rights law organization. Earning his law degree from the University of Los Andes Law School in Colombia, Rodríguez-Garavito holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. (Sociology) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an 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 been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Brown University, the University of Pretoria (South Africa), American University in Cairo, Central European University, and the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil). He is the author of numerous books and journal articles on law, globalization, human rights, and social movements. His recent books include The Global Expansion of the Rule of Law; Socio-Economic Rights: Justice, Politics and Economics in Latin America (coed.); Race, Racism and Human Rights in Colombia; Beyond Displacement: Human Rights, Public Policies and Forced Displacement in Colombia (ed.); and Law and Globalization from Below: Toward a Cosmopolitan Legalit y (coed.).

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• Professor

Professor David M. Golove specializes in the constitutional law of foreign affairs and has written extensively in the constitutional history pertaining to that field. He is best known for a book-length article published in the Michigan Law Review, "Treaty-Making and the Nation: The Historical Foundations of the Nationalist Conception of the Treaty Power." In this article, Golove comprehensively considers a question of constitutional law that has been controversial from the moment of the nation's birth in 1776 and remains so today. Can the United States government, through its power to make treaties, effectively regulate subjects that would otherwise be beyond the reach of Congress's enumerated legislative powers? For example, a treaty prohibiting the death penalty? He answers yes, and in doing so has produced both a major work of legal historical scholarship and an important legal and constitutional defense of federal power.

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• Senior Fellow

David Malone is UN Under-Secretary General, Rector of the United Nations University, and Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Law and Justice. A Canadian national, Dr. Malone holds a BAA from l'École des Hautes Études Commerciales (Montreal); an Arabic Language Diploma from the American University (Cairo); an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and a DPhil in International Relations from Oxford University. Prior to joining the United Nations University, Dr. Malone served (2008-2013) as President of Canada's International Development Research Centre, a funding agency that supports policy-relevant research in the developing world. Dr. Malone previously served as Canada's Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council and as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations (1990-1994); as Director General of the Policy, International Organizations and Global Issues Bureaus within Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT, 1994-1998); as President of the International Peace Academy (now International Peace Institute), a New York-based independent research and policy development institution (1998-2004); as DFAIT Assistant Deputy Minister for Global Issues (2004-2006); and as Canada's High Commissioner to India, and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal (2006-2008). Dr. Malone also has held research posts at the Economic Studies Program, Brookings Institution; Massey College, University of Toronto; and Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. He has been a Guest Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, an Adjunct Professor at the New York University School of Law, and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. Dr. Malone has published extensively. His recent books include Does the Elephant Dance?: Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy (2011, Oxford University Press); Nepal in Transition: From People's War to Fragile Peace (co-editor, 2012, Cambridge University Press); International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects (co-editor, 2014, Oxford University Press); The UN Security Council in the 21st Century (co-editor, 2015, Lynne Rienner Publishers); The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy (co-editor, 2015, Oxford University Press); and Law and Practice of the United Nations (co-authored graduate textbook, 2nd edition 2016, Oxford University Press).

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• Assistant Professor
• Assistant Professor of Clinical Law

Deborah Burand is currently assistant professor of clinical law. She directs the International Transactions Clinic. She writes and lectures on issues related to international finance, microfinance and microfranchise, impact investing, social finance innovations such as social impact bonds and crowdfunding for social enterprises, and developing sustainable businesses at the base of the economic pyramid. During 2010 - 2011 Prof. Burand served as general counsel to the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the development finance institution of the United States. She also has worked in the microfinance sector, most recently as executive vice president of strategic services at Grameen Foundation, a global microfinance network. Earlier in her career, she worked as a senior attorney in the international banking section of the Federal Reserve Board's legal division, and at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, first as the senior attorney/adviser for international monetary matters and later as the senior adviser for international financial matters. She also worked in private practice at Shearman & Sterling, where she advised bank advisory committees in the negotiation and implementation of Brady Bond deals that restructured the sovereign debt of Vietnam and Peru, and supported, on a pro bono basis, the development of the world's first debt-for-nature swap. Prof. Burand is a trustee on the board of Freedom from Hunger. She is an independent director on the board of MicroBuild (a proof-of-concept fund launched by Habitat for Humanity International that is aimed at growing the housing microfinance sector while expanding decent housing for the poor). She is an adviser to the Inter-American Development Bank and Linked Foundation regarding their microfranchise/micro-distribution network initiatives. Prof. Burand has been a consultant to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Omidyar Network, and Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), among others. She also was the co-topic leader on finance for the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative. In 1993-1994, she was an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations (during which she was seconded to the International Monetary Fund and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), and is currently a member of the Council. She also is a member of The Bretton Woods Committee. She is a member of the Bars of New York and the District of Columbia. She earned her BA, cum laude, from Depauw University and a joint graduate degree, JD/MSFS with honors, from Georgetown University.

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• Research Fellow at Edinburgh Law School

Dimitri Van Den Meerssche is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Edinburgh Law School, working on a UKRI Future Leaders project titled ‘Infra-Legalities - Global Security Infrastructures, Artificial Intelligence and International Law' (led by Gavin Sullivan). He is also an Associate Fellow at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, where he previously worked as postdoctoral researcher. Dimitri holds a PhD and an LLM in International Law from the European University Institute, an LLM degree from New York University School of Law as Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) Fellow and a Master of Laws degree from Ghent University (Summa Cum Laude). In the context of his doctorate, Dimitri worked at the World Bank Legal Vice-Presidency and the London School of Economics. Dimitri's current research focuses on how algorithmic decision-making tools are reshaping the law and practice of global governance - particularly in the domain of border control. As an international legal scholar, his work is also inspired by critical security studies, actor-network theory and science & technology studies. His prior doctoral research explored the institutional practices of legality in the World Bank. Dimitri's work appeared in the Human Rights Law Review, European Journal of International Law, Journal of the History of International Law, Leiden Journal of International Law, International Organisations Law Review, London Review of International Law, Transnational Legal Theory and Law and Development Review. His first monograph - The World Bank's Lawyers: The Life of International Law as Institutional Practice - is under contract with Oxford University Press. Dimitri taught courses on International Law, European Union law and Law & Development at the Free University of Amsterdam, the Brussels School of International Studies (Kent University), and the London School of Economics. He is a founding committee member of the ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology, a project team member of the workshop series on Artificial Intelligence and the International Rule of Law (at Edinburgh Law School) and the convenor of the Asser Lecture and Workshop Series on Method, Methodology and Critique in International Law. He serves as a rapporteur for the OXIO database and as Managing Editor of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law. Dimitri is able to work in English, Dutch and French.

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• Professor

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• Professor

Dr. Doreen Lustig received her JSD from NYU School of Law in 2012. She is now an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law. She is a graduate of Tel Aviv University (B.A. Sociology and Anthropology, LL.B. Law) and NYU Law School (LL.M., J.S.D.). In 2004-2005, she clerked for The Honorable Eliezer Rivlin, Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. She is a winner of the 2005 Hauser Research Scholar Fellowship, a former Institute of International Law and Justice Fellow, and a winner of the 2019 Zeltner Prize in the category of junior legal scholar. Lustig is the Chief Editor of the Tel Aviv U. Law Review and a Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of International Law. Lustig's primary research and teaching interests include the history and theory of international law, political economy and the law of democracy. Her other areas of interests are comparative constitutional history, regulation and global governance. Representative publications are: Veiled Power: The History of International Law and the Private Business Corporation, 1886 - 1980 (OUP, 2020); 'Judicial Review in the Contemporary World: Retrospective and Prospective' 16 ICON 315-372 (2018) (w/ J.H.H Weiler); and 'Monopolizing War: Codifying the Laws of War to Reassert Governmental Authority, 1856-1874' (forthcoming, with co-author Eyal Benvenisti).

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• Professor

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• Professor at the University of Bristol Law School
• Senior Global Research Fellow

Eirik Bjorge is a Professor at the University of Bristol Law School.

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• Professor

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• Fellow

Eytan Tepper is a post-doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice. His research project at NYU is part of his research agenda on space governance and it builds on his previous research conducted at McGill University's Institute of Air and Space Law. The institutions and treaties at the core of space governance are Cold War remnants in dire need of reconceptualization and modern theoretical underpinnings. Dr. Tepper's research at McGill analyzed the architecture of space governance using international relations and political economy theories. It demonstrated that space governance is on track to become polycentric, as multiple, issue-specific, governance centers led by stakeholders and experts emerge to fill the gap left by the gridlock at the main multilateral institutions. His research at NYU will take the next step and focus on one such emerging governance center. The research at NYU will study a case of an issue-areas in global affairs in which there is scarce multilateral regulation and instead effective rules are made by the combination of States' unilateral actions and private ordering, almost skipping multilateralism. The result, what Dr. Tepper calls ‘global governance without multilateralism', raises questions on the place of such a governance system within international law and the availability of standards for such a system. The case study for this research is the governance of space resources and the mining thereof. The regulation and governance of this issue-area is emerging as a combination of national laws that recognize the right to mine and private ordering of the operation of mining and further utilization of the resources. The research will explore whether global administrative law (GAL) and the ‘law of global governance' set standards for such governance systems and by that both constrain and legitimize them. Dr. Tepper's academic education is multidisciplinary. Prior to his doctoral studies at McGill University's Faculty of Law he earned a policy-oriented doctorate from China University of Political Science and Law focused on Chinese space policy, a master's degree in law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a double bachelor's degree in law and economics from Tel Aviv University. Prior to his return to academe, Dr. Tepper's career spanned the private and public sectors, notably working for the Bank of Israel and the Israeli Foreign Trade Administration resolving issues related to international trade and cooperation. He reported directly to the highest ranks of public administration, including the Minister of the Economy and Industry and the Parliament's Finance Committee. He led a formal inquiry delegation to China under the WTO rules and co-authored the feasibility study on a China-Israel Free Trade Area Agreement. Dr. Tepper also worked in the private sector, notably consulting international corporations on their legal affairs in Israel, including Fortune 500 companies (e.g. Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck, Eli Lilly). He is former Vice-Chairman of the Israeli Bar Association's Economic Forum. He brings his experience in senior level administration to his academic work seeking to identify and expand cutting-edge theory that withstands real-world constraints.

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• Global Research Fellow
• Loevy Visiting Scholar Fernando

Fernando Lusa Bordin's research focuses on topics of public international law, including international legal theory, law-making, the law of international organizations, international dispute settlement, the law on the use of force and international investment law. His monograph, The Analogy between States and International Organizations, was published by Cambridge University Press and received the 2020 Certificate of Merit in a Specialized Area of International Law from the American Society of International Law. He is currently an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Cambridge University. Prior to taking his post in Cambridge, Fernando received an LL.B. (with honours) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), an LL.M. from NYU School of Law (where he was a Grotius Scholar), the Diploma of Public International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law and a PhD from the University in Cambridge (for which he received the Yorke Prize). He served as Assistant to Professor Giorgio Gaja at the International Law Commission in the summers of 2009 and 2011, and as Judicial Fellow (law clerk) to Judge Cançado Trindade at the International Court of Justice between 2009 and 2010. He also worked as Research Associate to Professor James Crawford in 2014, and served as Junior Counsel for Mauritius in the Chagos Marine Protected Area Arbitration (Mauritius v UK).

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• Professor of Law

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• Fellow

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• Professor of Law / Director, Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law

Franco Ferrari, who joined the NYU School of Law full-time faculty in Fall 2010, was most recently a chaired professor of international law at Verona University in Italy (2002-2016). Previously, he was a chaired professor of comparative law at Tilburg University in the Netherlands (1995-1998) and the University of Bologna in Italy (1998-2002). After serving as a member of the Italian delegation to various sessions of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) from 1995 to 2000, he was Legal Officer at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, International Trade Law Branch, from 2000 to 2002, where he was responsible for numerous projects, including the preparation of the UNCITRAL digest on applications of the UN Sales Convention. Ferrari has published more than 320 law review articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries in various languages and 35 books in the areas of international commercial law, conflict of laws, comparative law, and international commercial arbitration. Ferrari, who is a recipient of the 2018 Certificate of Merit for High Technical Craftmanship and Utility to Practicing Lawyers and Scholars awarded by the American Society of International Law, is a member of the editorial boards of various peer-reviewed European law journals (Internationales Handelsrecht, European Review of Private Law, Arbitraje, Contratto e impresa/Europa, and Revue de droit des affaires internationales) and was the General Editor of the European International Arbitration Review (2016-2019). Ferrari also acts as an international arbitrator both in international commercial arbitrations and investment arbitrations.

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• Wilf Family Professor of Property Law

Frank Upham teaches first-year Property, law and development, and a variety of courses and seminars on comparative law and society with an emphasis on East Asia and the developing world. He was the faculty director of the Global Law School Program from 1997 to 2002 and is the founder and co-faculty director of the Global Public Service Law Project, which brings activist lawyers primarily from the developing world for an LLM in Public Service Law.Read more Upham has spent considerable time at various institutions in Asia, including as a Japan Foundation Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Doshisha University in 1977, as a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Sophia University in 1986, and as a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2003. He speaks Chinese and French, as well as Japanese. His scholarship has focused on Japan, and his book Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan received the Thomas J. Wilson Prize from Harvard University Press in 1987. The book is generally viewed as the standard reference for discussions of Japanese law and its social and political role in contemporary Japan. More recently, he has begun researching and writing about Chinese law and society and about the role of law in social and political development more generally.

Galia Popov graduated in 2019 from the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied International Relations and Asian Studies and was awarded departmental honors for her thesis on Chinese nationalism and science fiction. Prior to graduation, she spent two semesters studying and working abroad in Beijing, followed by an internship at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai. She also spent time in Germany and Bulgaria, visiting family and working on her primary hobby, Olympic-style weightlifting. After graduation, she moved to The Hague and obtained a MSc in International Organization from Leiden University, where her research focused on the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative in Bulgaria. At NYU, Galia hopes to pursue international law with a focus on immigration.

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• Professor

Guy Fiti Sinclair received his JSD from NYU School of Law in 2013. He is currently a professor of law at Victoria University of Wellington. Before undertaking his doctoral studies, Guy worked for over ten years as a corporate and commercial lawyer in a variety of private practice and in-house roles. In 2011, he completed an internship with the Legal Department of the World Bank in Washington, DC. Guy's principal area of teaching and research is public international law, with a focus on the law of international organisations, the history and theory of international law, and law and global governance. His book, To Reform the World: The Legal Powers of International Organizations and the Making of Modern States, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. In 2016, he was appointed Senior Fellow (Melbourne Law Masters) at Melbourne Law School, and in 2017 he was appointed External Scientific Fellow of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. He is an Associate Director of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law and the Associate Editor of the European Journal of International Law.

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• Professor of Law at New York University School of Law

Isabelle Glimcher was born and raised in New York City, and received her bachelor's degree in Social Studies from Harvard University in 2013. While there, she focused on issues of international law, human rights, and modern political philosophy, and worked for the Center for International Development at the Kennedy School. Her senior thesis explored the theoretical boundaries of the relationship between the state and the citizen. Building on previous work with the International Rescue Committee, Isabelle then attended Oxford University, where she earned a master's degree in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Her master's thesis explored the administration of law and order in a Ghanaian refugee camp. Since then, Isabelle has served as a paralegal in a trial division of the New York County District Attorney's Office. At NYU, she plans to explore international criminal law, humanitarian law, refugee law, and national security law.

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• Director
• Secretary

Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the UN, and Benedict Kingsbury, now Director of the IILJ, in 2004.

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• Malone Senior Fellow Sebastián

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• Professor

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• Founder

Rita Hauser '59, benefactor of the Hauser Global Law School program, and the late Thomas Franck, founder of the IILJ.

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• Fellow Gabriele

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• Professor of Trade Regulation

Eleanor M. Fox is the Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation Emerita at New York University School of Law. Before joining the faculty of NYU Law, Fox was a partner at the New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. She has served as a member of the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee to the Attorney General of the US Department of Justice (1997-2000) (President Clinton) and as a commissioner on President Carter's National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures (1978-79). She has advised numerous younger antitrust jurisdictions, including South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, Tanzania, The Gambia, Indonesia, Russia, Poland and Hungary, and the common market COMESA. Read more Fox received her law degree from New York University School of Law in 1961 and an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Paris-Dauphine in 2009. She was awarded an inaugural Lifetime Achievement award in 2011 by the Global Competition Review for "substantial, lasting and transformational impact on competition policy and practice." She received the inaugural award for outstanding contributions to the international competition law community in 2015 by ASCOLA, the Academic Society for Competition Law. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Antitrust & Economic Regulation Section of the Association of American Law Schools in 2017. Her books include Making Markets Work for Africa with Mor Bakhoum, Oxford 2019, Global Issues in Antitrust and Competition Law with Daniel Crane, 2d ed. West 2017, EU Competition Law casebook with Damien Gerard, Elgar 2d ed. 2023, The Design of Competition Law Institutions edited with Michael Trebilcock, Oxford 2013, and US Antitrust in Global Context casebook, with Daniel Crane, 4th ed. West 2020. Her chapters and articles include "Antitrust and the Rebound of Power: Reimagining Antitrust Cosmopolitanism" in Antitrust and the Bounds of Power - 25 Years On (Andriychuk ed. 2023), "Blind Spot: Trade and Competition Law-the Space Between the Silos," German L.J. (2023), "Integrating Africa by Competition and Market Policy," 60 Rev. Indust. Org. 305 (2022), "Antitrust and Inequality: The History of (In)Equality in Competition Law and Its Guide to the Future" with Philipp Baschenhoff, Conference Volume, Conference on Competition Law and Economic Inequality (July 2021), "Extraterritoriality and Input Cartels: Life in the Global Value Lane-The Collision Course with Empagran and How to Avert It," CPI Antitrust Chronicle (Jan. 2015-2), "When the State Harms Competition - The Role for Competition Law," with Deborah Healey, 79 Antitrust L.J. 769 (2014), "Monopolization and Abuse of Dominance: Why Europe Is Different," 59 Antitrust Bull. 129 (2014), and "The Efficiency Paradox" in How the Chicago School Overshot the Mark: The Effect of Conservative Economic Analysis on US Antitrust (Pitofsky ed. Oxford 2008).