People

The core New York University School of Law faculty is complemented each year by up to 20 Hauser Global Law Faculty from all over the world. While remaining affiliated with their national universities, Hauser Global Law Faculty are in residence at NYU Law for seven weeks or a full semester, to teach courses, engage in research, and to enrich the Law School with their expertise in such areas as African constitutional law, criminal law and feminist legal thought, among many others. A few among the large group of Hauser Global Faculty specializing in international law are described here.

For more information on these and other Hauser Global Law faculty at NYU Law, click here.

Fall Semester

Josef Drexl
Professor Drexl holds the Chair for Private Law and European and International Economic Law at the University of Munich and is the Co-Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law. In addition to serving as a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute, Professor Drexl is a member of the Administrative Council of the Association of International Economic Rights (AIDE) and Chair of the Academy Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA).  Professor Drexl has a Ph.D. in law from the University of Munich, a LL.M. from the University of California at Berkeley and completed his German Habilitation in private law, commercial and business law, intellectual property law, European law, comparative law in Munich. In 2005 he served as a Visiting Professor at the Liberà International University of Social Sciences (LUISS) in Rome, Italy.
Courses:
Intellectual Property and Competition Law
European Union: Economic Law

 

Michal Gal
Dr. Gal is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Law and M.B.A. Program at the University of Haifa School of Law. Her research focuses on competition law and policy. She is the editor of Competition Policy for Small Market Economies (Harvard University Press, 2003), and has also written and spoken extensively about competition law in developing economies, the intersection between antitrust and intellectual property, and the political economy of antitrust. Dr. Gal served as an advisor to the OECD and the UN on competition-related issues and is a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network (ICN) since its inception. She won the Zeltner Prize for Young Researcher in 2004.

Course: 
Competition Law and Policy in Emerging Markets

 

Mario Giovanoli
Professor Giovanoli is Professor of Banking Law at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.  In addition to his appointment at Lausanne, Professor Giovanoli is General Counsel of the Bank of International Settlements, and Chair of the Committee on International Monetary Law of the International Law Association. He graduated from the University of Lausanne with degrees of Doctor of Laws and Master of Political Science. Professor Giovanoli is a prolific writer with at least 40 publications to his credit, on topics such as international financial standards, legal aspects of money, international bank insolvencies, and the use of electronic communications in international transactions.  From 1999 to 2002, he also served on the Experts Committee appointed by the Swiss government to prepare a revision of the Swiss Constitutional provisions with respect to currency, the monetary legislation, and law on the Swiss National Bank.

Courses:
International Monetary Law
Selected Issues of International Payments and Financial Law

 

Pasquale Pasquino
Born in Naples, Italy (1948), Pasquale Pasquino is currently a Global Distinguished Professor of Politics at NYU. Dr. Pasquino is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Centre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit, Paris (CNRS). He obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Classics from the University of Naples and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Paris I-Sorbonne. Dr. Pasquino has been working in different research and teaching institutions, notably the Collège de France; Ecole Normale Supérieure; Université de Paris I, Sorbonne; Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris; Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen; Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; King's College, Cambridge; The University of Chicago; Universities of Turin, Milan and Rome I, Italy. Since 1995, he has been a Visiting Professor at NYU in the Politics Department and in the Global Law School Program. Dr. Pasquino published 3 books, including Sieyes et l'invention du constitutionalisme en France (Editions Odile Jacob, Paris, 1998), and eighty articles on constitutional and political theory and history of European countries. He is currently writing a book entitled The Divided Power on the role of courts in the Athenian democracy and in contemporary constitutional systems. Dr. Pasquino's fields of interest and expertise are the constitutional theories of Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, German Staatslehre in the 17th and 18th centuries, political and constitutional theory of the French Revolution, the Weimar Republic, and contemporary constitutional adjudication in comparative perspective.

Course:
Constitutional Democracies Colloquium

 

Spring Semester

Franco Ferrari
Professor Franco Ferrari is a chaired professor at Verona University School of Law. Previously, he was chaired professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and Bologna University in Italy. After serving as 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 Applications of the UN Sales Convention. Professor Ferrari has published more than 120 law review articles in various languages and 9 books in the areas of comparative law, private international law and international commercial law. He is a member of the editorial board of various peer reviewed European law journals (Internationales Handelsrecht, European Review of Private Law, Contratto e impresa, Revue de droit des affaires internationales); Professor Ferrari also acts as an international arbitrator.

Courses:
International Commercial Sales
Comparative Law of Torts and Contracts 

 

Catherine Kessedjian
Professor Catherine Kessedjian is Professor of Law at the University of Paris II (Pantheon-Assas), France. Previously, she taught at the University of Bourgogne. From 1996 to 2000, she served as Deputy Secretary-General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in The Hague, Netherlands with responsibility for numerous projects, including a proposed worldwide convention on jurisdiction and judgments and background reports for a study on international internet and e-commerce regulation. She has published extensively--over 90 books and articles--on all aspects of international private law and dispute resolution. She was a practicing lawyer in Paris for many years and has been active in the International Bar Association. She is a member of the American Law Institute and is an advisor on several ALI projects.

Courses:
International Commercial Transactions
Rule Making in a Global World

 

Yoshihiro Masui
Professor Yoshihiro Masui is Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo, where he has taught taxation since 1990. Having served as an Expert Member for the Tax Commission of the Japanese government, he is currently a member of the steering committee of the Japanese Society for Tax Law and a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association. His monograph Taxation of Corporate Groups (University of Tokyo Press, 2002, in Japanese) won the Institute of Tax Research and Literature Award.

Course:
Tax Treaties

 

Andras Sajo
Professor Andras Sajo is Professor of Law and Chair of the Constitutional Law Institute at the Central European University in Budapest. He was the founding dean of Legal Studies at that University. In addition to his stature as a prominent constitutionalist, he also is distinguished in market economy fields, including media regulation that post-communist regimes must confront. Fluent in six languages, Sajo has been deeply involved in the drafting of constitutions throughout Eastern Europe. His honors include the Hungarian Academy Book Prize in 1986 and serving as the Blackstone Lecturer at Oxford University. He has served as Counsel to the President of the Republic of Hungary, as chair of the Media Codification Committee of the Hungarian Government, and as Deputy Chair of the National Deregulation Board of Hungary. He also was the principal draftsman of the Environment Code for the Hungarian Parliament, as well as the founder and speaker of the Hungarian League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.

Courses:
Comparative Constitutional Law
Media Law in the Global Perspective

 

Chenguang Wang
Dean Wang is a prominent academic and Law Professor from Tsinghua University in China where he teaches Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy while simultaneously serving as Dean of the School of Law. In addition, he is an arbiter of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), as well as serving as Vice-President of the China Association on Legal Theory. Dean Wang is the author of numerous publications on Chinese law and his most recent publications include a book entitled Trends in Comparative Law and an article entitled "Law-making functions of the Chinese Courts: Judicial Activism in a Country of Rapid Social Change." Dean Wang holds advanced degrees from Beijing University (LL.M.), Harvard (LL.M.) and Peking University (Ph.D.). 

Course:
Chinese Law and Society: Advanced Topics