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International & Comparative Law

Examples of Recent Faculty Scholarship & Professional Activities

Scholarship

Burbank, Stephen. “Jurisdictional Conflict and Jurisdictional Equilibration: Paths to a Via Media”, Hous. J. Int'l L. (2004).

Burbank, Stephen. “Jurisdictional Equilibration, the Proposed Hague Convention and Progress in National Law”, in A Global Law of Jurisdiction and Judgments: Lessons from The Hague 117-57 (J. Barcelo & K. Clermont, eds.) (2002).

Burbank, Stephen. "The Reluctant Partner: Making Procedural Law for International Civil Litigation," 57 L. & Contemp. Probs. 101 (1994).

Burbank, Stephen. "The World in Our Courts," 89 Mich. L. Rev. 1456 (1991).

Burbank, Stephen. “Civil Procedure Reform in Comparative Context: The United States of America,” 45 Amer.n J.  Comp. L. 673 (1997) (with L. Silberman).

Burke-White, William. “The Future of International Law is Domestic,” 47 Harv. Int’l L.J. (2006) (with Anne-Marie Slaughter).

Burke-White, William. “Complementarity in Practice: The International Criminal Court as Part of a System of Multi-Level Global Governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” 18 Leiden J. Int’l L. 557 (2005).

Burke-White, William. “International Legal Pluralism,” 25 Mich. J. Int’l L. 963 (2004).

Burke-White, William. “Human Rights and National Security: The Strategic Correlation,” 17 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 249 (2004).

Burke-White, William. “The International Criminal Court and the Future of Legal Accountability,” 10 ILSA J. Int’l L. 195 (2003).

Burke-White, William.”A Community of Courts: Toward a System of International Criminal Law Enforcement,” 24 Mich. J. Int’l L. 1 (2003).

Burke-White, William. “An International Constitutional Moment,”43 Harv. Int’l L.J. 1 (2002) (with Anne-Marie Slaughter).

Burke-White, William. “Reframing Impunity: Applying Liberal International Law Theory to an Analysis of Amnesty Legislation,” 42 Harv. Int’l L.J. 467 (2001).

Chang, Howard. “Cultural Communities in a Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions as Residential Segregation,” 2007 U. Chi. Legal F. (forthcoming 2007).

Chang, Howard. “The Economic Impact of International Labor Migration: Recent Estimates and Policy Implications,” 16 Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2007)

Chang, Howard. “Immigration and the Workplace: Immigration Restrictions as Employment Discrimination,” 78 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 291 (2003) (Kenneth M. Piper Lecture).

Chang, Howard. “The Immigration Paradox: Poverty, Distributive Justice, and Liberal Egalitarianism,” 52 DePaul L. Rev. 759 (2003).

Chang, Howard. “Liberal Ideals and Political Feasibility: Guest-Worker Programs as Second-Best Policies,” 27 N. C. J.  Int’l L. & Com. Reg. 465 (2002).

Chang, Howard. “Toward a Greener GATT: Environmental Trade Measures and the Shrimp-Turtle Case,” 74 S. Ca. L. Rev. 31 (2000).

Chang-Muy, Fernando. “Detention of Migrants,” Building Violence: How Americas Rush to Incarcerate Creates More Violence, Sage Publications, eds. John P. May and Khalid R. Pitts, California 1999.

Chang-Muy, Fernando. “A Consultation on Mexico,” Report of summary of conference prepared for the American Friends Service Committee, January 1998.

Chang-Muy, Fernando. “Regional Responses to Forced Migration in Central America and the Caribbean,” White Paper prepared for the Forced Migration Projects of the Open Society Institute for the Conference on Regional Responses to Forced Migration in Central America and the Caribbean, September 1997.

Chang-Muy, Fernando. “AIDS, Health and Human Rights: An Exploratory Manual,” contributing author, Harvard School of Public Health, Intl.. Committee for the Red Cross/Crescent, Geneva 1995.

deLisle, Jacques. “Foreign Policy and Constitutional Change in China,” ORBIS (2006) (with Cheng Li).

deLisle, Jacques. “Taiwan’s Constitutional Reform: Implications for Cross-Strait Relations and International Status,“ ORBIS (2006) (with Vincent Wang).

deLisle, Jacques.  “Legislating the Cross-Strait Status Quo?: China’s Anti-Secession Law, Taiwan’s Constitutional Reform, and the U.S.’s Taiwan Relations Act,”  inPower and Principle:  U.S, China and Taiwan Triangular Relations (Peter Chow ed. 2006).

deLisle, Jacques. “China and the WTO: The Law and Politics of Accession and Participation in the Post-Jiang Era,” inChina under the Fourth  Generation Leadership (with T.J. Cheng & Deborah Brown eds., 2006).

deLisle, Jacques. “Human Rights, Civil Wrongs and International Politics: A ‘Sinical’ Look at the Use of U.S. Litigation to Address Abuses Abroad,” 52 DePaul L. Rev. 473 (2003).

deLisle, Jacques. “A Chinese Solution?: Development without Democracy and the Turn to Law in the P.R.C.”, in Development And Democracy: New Perspectives on an Old Debate 252 (Sunder Ramaswamy & Jeffrey W. Cason eds., University Press of New England 2003).

deLisle, Jacques. “The China-Taiwan Relationship: Law’s Spectral Answers to the Cross-Strait Sovereignty Question,” ORBIS, vol. 46, no. 4, 733 (2002).

deLisle, Jacques. “The Roles of Law in the War on Terrorism”, ORBIS, vol. 46, no. 2, 301 (2002).

Ewald, William . The Style of American Law (forthcoming).

Ewald, William. “Cumberland and the Reform of Natural Law,” in Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik (2000).

Ewald, William. “Legal History and Comparative Law,” Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht, vol. 3, pp. 553-559 (1999).

Ewald, William. “The Jurisprudential Approach to Comparative Law: A Field Guide to ‘Rats,’” Am. J.   Comp. L., vol. 46, pp. 701-707 (1998).

Ewald, William. “Posner’s Economic Approach to Comparative Law,” Tex. Int’l L. J., vol. 33, pp. 381-386 (1997).

Feldman, Eric. “Legal Reform in Contemporary Japan,” in Emerging Rights in Japanese Law (Harry Scheiber and Laurent Mayali, eds), Berkeley: UC Press, forthcoming 2007).

Feldman, Eric“The Culture of Legal Change: A Case Study of Tobacco Control in 21st Century Japan,” 27 Mich. J. Int’l L. (2006).

Feldman, Eric“The Tuna Court: Law and Norms in the World’s Premier Fish Market,” 94 Cal. L. Rev. (2006).

Feldman, Eric“Kawashima’s Legacy: Four Decades of Research on Dispute Resolution in Japan,” inLaw In Japan: A Turning Point? (Daniel Foote ed., University of Washington Press, forthcoming 2006).

Feldman, Eric Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health (with Ronald Bayer ed., Harvard Univ. Press 2004).

Feldman, Eric. “The Limits of Tolerance: Cigarettes, Politics, and Society in Japan,” in Unfiltered: Conflicts Over Tobacco Policy and Public Health (with Ronald Bayer, ed., Harvard University Press 2004).

Feldman, Eric. “Manners and Mandates: Cigarettes, Politics, and Society in Japan,” in Unfiltered: Tobacco Policy, Politics, and Public Health Public Health, Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer editors, Cambridge: Harvard University Press (forthcoming 2004).

Feldman, Eric. “Blood Justice: Courts, Conflict, and Compensation in Japan, France, and the US,” 34 Law and Society Review 651-702 (2000).

Hazard, Geoffrey. ALI/UNIDROIT Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure (2005).

Hazard, Geoffrey. Legal Ethics: A Comparative Study. (with Angelo Dondi, Stanford University Press 2004).

Kübler, Friedrich. Gesellschaftsrecht (Grosses Lehrbuch, 6. neubearb. und erw. Auflage. C.F. Müller Verlag, Heidelberg, 2006) (with HANS-DIETER ASSMANN).

Kübler, Friedrich. “The Shifting Paradigm of European Company Law,” 56 Col. J. Eur. L. 219 (2005).

Kübler, Friedrich. “Die politische Ökonomie der Insolvenz,” 168 Zeitschrift für das Gesamte Handelsrecht und Wirtschaftrecht 216 (2004).

Kübler, Friedrich. “How Much Freedom for Racist Speech? Transnational Aspects of a Conflict of Human Rights,” 27 Hofstra L. Rev. 335 ff., (1998)

Kübler, Friedrich. “The Impact of Equity Markets on Business Organization: Some Comoparative Observations Regarding Differences in the Evolution of Corporate Structures,” 2 European Business Organization Law Review, 669 ff. (2001).

Kübler, Friedrich. "The Rules of Capital Under Pressure of the Securities Markets," Hopt/Wymeersch (eds.), Capital Markets and Company Law, 95 ff. (2003)

Kübler, Friedrich. "Leitungssstrukturen der Aktiengesellschaft und die Umsetzung des SE-Statuts," 167 Zeitschrift Für Das Gesamte Handelsrecht Und Wirtschaftsrecht 222 (2003).

Mooney, Charles. “Insolvency Law as Credit Enhancement: The Insolvency-Related Provisions of the Cape Town Convention and the Aircraft Protocol” 13 Int'l Insolvency Rev. 24 (2004).

Mooney, Charles. “Extraterritorial Impact of Choice-of-law Rules for Non-United States Debtors under Revised U.C.C. Article 9 and a New Proposal for International Harmonization,” Chapter 10 in M. BRIDGE & R STEVENS, Cross-Border Security and Insolvency (Oxford University Press, 2001).

Mooney, Charles. “Relationship Between the Prospective Unidroit International Registry, Revised Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 and National Civil Aviation Registries”, 4 Unif. L. Rev. 335 (1999).

Mooney, Charles. “Transfer, Pledge, Clearance and Settlement in the Japanese and United States Government Securities Markets,” 9 Monetary and Economic Studies 103 (published by The Bank of Japan) (1991).

Mooney, Charles. "Assignments Under the UNIDROIT and UNCITRAL Draft Conventions on Mobile Equipment and Receivables Financing," 20 U. Penn. J. Int'l Econ. L. 443 (1999).

Paoletti, Sarah. “Deriving Support from International Law for the Right to Counsel in Civil Cases,” 15.3 Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2007).

Paoletti, Sarah. “Making Visible the Invisible: Strategies for Responding to Globalization’s Impact on Immigrant Workers in the United States,” 13 Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 105 (Winter 2006). 

Paoletti, Sarah.“Inter-American Developments on Globalization’s Refugees: New Rights for Migrant Workers and Their Families,” European Yearbook of Minority Issues Vol. 3, 2003/4 ISBN 90 04 14820 0, 63-87 (co-author).

Paoletti, Sarah.  “Human Rights for All Workers: The Emergence of Protections for Unauthorized Workers in the Inter-American Human Rights System,” Human Rights Brief, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Fall 2004).

Reicher, Harry. Law and the Holocaust: Cases and Materials (Fifth Preliminary Edition, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2002)

Reicher, Harry. The Middle East Conflict in International Law: Cases and Materials (Sixth Preliminary Edition, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2001)

Reicher, Harry. International Human Rights: Freedom of Religion (Supplementary Teaching Materials, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1998)

Reicher, Harry. Editor, “Australian International Law: Cases and Materials” (Law Book Company, Sydney, 1995).

Reitz, Curtis. Cases and Materials on International Regulation of Trade and Investment (2006).

Reitz, Curtis. Sales Transactions: Domestic and International Law (Foundation Press 1992, 3d ed. 2006).

Reitz, Curtis. Cases and Materials on International Regulation of Trade and Investment (Temporary edition 2004).

Reitz, Curtis. Sales Transactions: Domestic and International Law, Foundation Press, 1992, 2nd ed. 2000.

Robinson, Paul H. “Codifying Shari'a:  International Norms, Legality & the Freedom to Invent New Forms,” J.  Comp. L. (British) (forthcoming 2007) (with 11 present and former students in my Criminal Law Research Group, regarding our work in drafting an Islamic Penal Code for the Maldives under U.N.D.P. sponsorship).

Robinson, Paul H. Report of U.S. and U.K. Delegation on the Criminal Theory of Anglo-American Law (with Michael Cahill & Andrew Simester) (forthcoming in Chinese 2006)

Rock, Edward. “Coming to America?: Venture Capital, Corporate Identity and U.S. Securities Law,” in Global Markets, Domestic Institutions 476 (Curtis Milhaupt, ed., Columbia University Press, 2003).

Rock, Edward. “Greenhorns, Yankees and Cosmopolitans: Venture Capital, IPOs, Foreign Firms & U.S. Markets,” 2 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 711 (2001).

Rock, Edward. “America's Fascination with German Corporate Governance,” 40 Die Aktiengesellschaft 7/1995, 291.

Skeel, David. ICARUS IN THE BOARDROOM: The Fundamental Flaws In Corporate America and Where They Came From (forthcoming Oxford Univ. Press 2004).

Skeel, David. “Corporate Ownership Structure and the Evolution of Bankruptcy Law: The UK and US,” Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming, 2002) (with John Armour & Brian Cheffins).

Professional Activities

Stephen Burbank

  • Paper presentation, Implementing the Hague Choice of Court Convention, to the AALS Conflict of Laws Section, January 2006.
  • Conference faculty member, Association of American Law Schools and European Law Faculties Association Professional Development conference on "Transatlantic Business Transactions: Choice of Law, Jurisdiction and Judgments," June 2003.
  • Selection Committee, Berlin Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin (2003- )
  • Visiting Professor of Law, University of Urbino, Italy (May 2002)
  • Visiting Professor of Law, University of Pavia, Italy (April - May, 2000)
  • Visiting Professor of Law, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany (October - December, 1997)
  • Adviser, American Law Institute International Jurisdiction and Judgments Project (2000-)
  • United States Advisor, ALI Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure (1997-)
  • Member, Study Group of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law (1996-)
  • Salzburg Seminar, Special Session on the Personal Responsibility of Judges (Chair of the Working Group (1999))
  • Member, International Association of Procedural Law
  • Consultant to the U.S. Trade Representative (1989-91)

William Burke-White

  • Testified in an International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) hearing as an expert witness for the government of Argentina in the case of Continental Casualty Co. v. Argentina. The case raised issues of the interpretation of the US-Argentina Bilateral Investment Treaty and the liability of Argentina for actions taken in the financial crisis of 2001/2/ (December 2006).
  • Presented a paper on Proactive Complementarity in the Rome System of Justice at Leiden University and the TMC Asser Institute in The Hague, Netherlands (December 2006).
  • Presented a paper on Positive Complementarity at the International Criminal Court at the Association of European Human Rights Institutes meeting in Vienna (September 2006).
  • Speaker, “The Political Effects of International Courts and Tribunals,” Solomon Asch Center for Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania, January 22, 2006.
  • Speaker, “Multilevel Global Governance in Action: The Case of the ICTY in Bosnia & Herzegovina,” University of Connecticut School of Law (Hartford, CT), January 27, 2006.
  • Speaker, testimony, on behalf of the government of Argentina in an international investment arbitration in Santiago, Chile arising out of the Argentine economic collapse in 2001/2002, February 2006.
  • Speaker, participant, disussion of international criminal prosecutors and government officials in Cape Town, South Africa on the implications of international accountability on peace negotiations in Congo, Sudan, and Uganda, Feb. 2006.
  • Speaker, participant, in a high-level meeting in Bellagio, Italy on the organizaiton of post-conflict territorial administration by the United Nations, February 2006.
  • Speaker, “Double-Edged Tribunals: The Political Effects of International Legal Institutions,” American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, April 3, 2005.
  • Speaker, “US Foreign Policy in the Second Bush Administration,” International Book Fair (Tehran), May 13, 2005.
  • Speaker, “The Nuclear Dilemma and US Foreign Policy,” Center for Middle East Studies (Tehran), May 16, 2005.

Howard Chang

  • Presenter, law and economics workshop, Tel Aviv University (Jan. 24, 2007), and at a law faculty workshop at Bar-Ilan University (Jan. 25, 2007), both in Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Discussant at the EALE meeting in Madrid (Sept. 15, 2006), and at the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists in Kyoto, Japan, (July 7, 2006).
  • Presenter, Cultural Communities in a Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions as Residential Segregation," Penn Law faculty retreat (Sept. 25, 2006), at a symposium on the ethics of immigration at Sacramento State University (Oct. 23, 2006), and at a symposium on immigration law and policy at the University of Chicago Law School (Oct. 27, 2006).
  • Presenter, "The Economic Impact of International Labor Migration: Recent Estimates and Policy Implications," symposium on immigration policy at the Temple University Beasley School of Law (Oct. 14, 2006).
  • Presenter, symposium on immigration policy at Cornell (Feb. 24, 2007), at a panel on international labor migration at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law (Mar. 30, 2007), and at a symposium on immigration reform at Southern Methodist University School of Law (Oct. 19, 2007).
  • Presenter, Columbia University (UN Secretary-General’s Global Colloquium on International Migration), January 2005.
  • Presenter, Chapman University School of Law (international law symposium), February 2005.
  • Presenter, CATIE, Costa Rica (International Food Policy Research Institute conference on globalization), April 2005.
  • Presenter, Tulane University (conference on globalization and fairness), April 2005.
  • Speaker on "Trade and the Environment," Association of American Law Schools (mid-year meeting), June 13-18, 2004.
  • Presenter, Renmen University, Beijing, China as part of the United Nations Development Programme, June 2004.
  • Participant, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China as part of the United Nationals Development Programme, July 2004.
  • Presented a paper at a conference on "Globablization, the State, and Society," on November 13-14, 2003, at Washington University.
  • Presenter, European Association of Law and Economics (annual meeting), September 2002.
  • Organizer, International Law panel, American Law and Economics Association annual meeting, May 2001
  • Organizer and Chair, International and Comparative Law panel, American Law and Economics Association annual meeting, May 1998
  • Executive Advisory Board, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, 1995-1996
  • Board of Directors, Asian Pacific American Alliance, 1994-1996
  • Referee, International Journal of the Economics of Business
  • Referee, International Review of Law and Economics
  • Referee, Journal of Environment and Development

Fernando Chang-Muy

  • Senior Legal Officer, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Washington, 1988-1992 (Human rights and refugee law)
  • Human Rights Legal Officer, UN World Health Organization, Geneva, Mar.-Nov., 1992 (International human rights and public health law)
  • American Friends Service Committee, Immigration Task Force Board Member
  • Asian Americans United, Philadelphia, Founding member of Board of Directors
  • AIDS Services in the Asian Community (ASIAC), Founding Board Member

Jacques deLisle

  • Director, Asia Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
  • Faculty, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  • Member, National Committee for U.S.-China Relations
  • Consultant/advisor to U.S. government and U.S.-based legal reform and legal education programs for China and Russia
  • Vice Chair, Pacific Rim Interest Group, American Society of International Law
  • Board of Directors, American Society of Comparative Law

Eric Feldman

  • “Smoking Bans: The Disappearing Cigarette in the US and EU,” 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Law Students Association, The Law Society, London (2006).
  • Chair, a seminar series for the Center for East Asian Studies, “Issues in Contemporary East Asia,” (2006 to 2008).
  • Speaker at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs on Tobacco, Law, and Policy in Japan, 2/24/04.
  • Speaker on U.S. tobacco litigation to senior judges of the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court), Federation Francaise des Societes d'Assurance insurers, lawyers, law professors & postgrad. students, at the Cour de Cassation, 3/4/04.
  • Executive Committee Member, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2003.
  • Speaker, "Fighting AIDS in Asia," Invited World AIDS Day Panelist, Asia Society Los Angeles, 12/1/03.
  • Speaker, "Aibo in Tokyo: Globalization, Americanization, and Japanese Civil Justice," The Clifford Symposium, DePaul University School of Law, Chicago, 4/19/02.
  • Elected to the Center for East Asian Studies Executive Committee, 2 year term, beginning fall 2003.
  • Faculty, Center for Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  • Associate Director, Institute for Law and Society, New York University,
  • 1996-2001.
  • Program Committee, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, 2003.
  • Development Committee, Law and Society Association, 2002-2005
  • Editorial Board, Law and Society Review, January 1998-January 2001.
  • Planning Committee, Substance Abuse Policy Research Program Annual Meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2000-2001.
  • Membership Committee, Law and Society Association, 1999-2000.
  • Organizing Committee, Law and Society Association, 1999 Graduate Student Workshop.

Geoffrey Hazard, Jr.

  • Presenter at Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia, concerning the "legalization" of the rules of professional ethics in emerging development throughout the world, February 2004.
  • Presenter to judges and lawyers in Sydney, Australia, concerning the ALI-Unidroit project for Principles of Transactional Civil Procedure, February 2004.
  • Member of the Board, Friends of the Library of the Supreme Court of Israel.
  • Member, Associazione Italiana fra gli Studiosi del Processo Civile, (1998-)

Friedrich Kübler

  • Presented a paper on "The Statute of the European Stock Corporation," Corporate Law Conference in Frankfurt, January 2003.
  • Lecturer on "Racist Hate Speech and Freedom of Expression: International Aspects of a Conflict of Human Rights," Conference on Racism and Antisemitism, by B`nai B`rith and Adenauer-Stiftung in Budapest, February 2003.
  • Discussant at the American Academy in Berlin on the "Regulation of Financial Markets," April 2003.
  • Co-organizer, the 2003 Multinational Banking Seminar held in Frankfurt from June 26-28.
  • Lecturer on "The Impact of Capital markets and Enterprise Organization on Bankruptcy Law," Frankfurt Conference of the German-Brazilian Lawyers Association, October 2002.
  • Member of the Advisory Board, Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt am Main, 1999
  • Since 1975 Member, International Faculty for Corporate and Capital Market Law
  • 1978-1998 Director, Institute for Banking Law, University of Frankfurt/Main
  • Since 1979 Member, Board of Advisory Editors, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL)
  • Since 1981 Founder and Co-Director, Institute for Domestic and Foreign Mass Media Law, University of Frankfurt/Main
  • 1995 Election to Membership, Frankfurt Academy of Sciences
  • Since 1994 Board of Advisers, Columbia Journal of European Law
  • 1998 Admission to bar Frankfurt; Of Counsel with Clifford Chance Pünder in Frankfurt
  • 1998 German member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee

Charles Mooney

  • Lectures at Stockholm University and the Swedish Centre for Commercial Law (May 2006).
  • Comparative research on the Japanese and United States securities markets as a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan in Tokyo (Fall 2006).
  • Workshop on Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol, Waseda University Law School, Tokyo (November 2006).
  • Featured speaker, the Strategic Research Institute’s F.A.A. Registry Forum, in Miami, on the Cape Town Convention covering security interests in commercial aircraft, February 2006.
  • Member, United States delegation (appointed by the Department of State) for the UNIDROIT draft convention on intermediated securities, representing the government at intergovernmental meetings, Rome, March 2006.
  • Member, United States delegation (appointed by the Department of State) for the UNIDROIT draft convention on intermediated securities, representing the government at intersessional meetings, Paris, January 2005.
  • Member, United States delegation (appointed by the Department of State) for the UNIDROIT draft convention on intermediated securities, representing the government at intergovernmental meetings, May 2005.
  • U.S. Delegate, International Institute for the Unification of Private International Law (UNIDROIT) Meetings of Governmental Experts on Convention on International Financial Leasing (appointed by U.S. Department of State): Rome, April 1986, and April 1987; Delegation Member and principal spokesperson, Diplomatic Conference for UNIDROIT Convention on International Financial Leasing, Ottawa, May 1988.
  • Presentations at the Oxford Law Colloquium on Cross-Border Security and Insolvency, Oxford, England (2000) and the Conference on International Developments in Secured Transactions Law, in New York City (2002).
  • U.S. Delegate and Position Coordinator (appointed by U.S. Department of State), International Institute for the Unification of Private International Law (UNIDROIT) Meeting of Study Group on Security Interests in International Mobile Equipment: Rome, March 1993; February 1994; December 1994; October 1995; March 1996; January 1997; November 1997; Meetings of Governmental Experts: Rome, February 1999; March 2000; Montreal, August 1999; Diplomatic Conference for Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Protocol on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment, Cape Town, South Africa, October-November 2001.
  • Corresponding Collaborator to UNIDROIT (elected 1989).
  • Visiting Scholar, Bank of Japan, Tokyo (September - December 1988) (research and writing concerning government securities markets).

Sarah Paoletti

  • International Labor Law Remedies, National Farmworker Conference, Charlotte, NC (Nov. 2006).
  • “A Critical Look at the Health and Human Rights of Economic Migrants,” Beyond Borders: Global Health of Migrating Populations, Global Health Education Consortium 16th Annual Conference, Santo Domingo, DR, (Feb. 17, 2007).
  • “Applying International Standards to U.S. Civil Rights and Justice,” Civil Rights in the 21st Century – New Millenium, New Supreme Court, Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
  • Invited Participant, Annual Meeting on Implementation of the Inter-American Program for the Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of Migrants, Including Migrant Workers and Their Families, Permanent Council of the Organization of American States, Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs, Washington, D.C., (Feb. 13, 2007).

Harry Reicher

  • Director of International Affairs and Representative to the United Nations of Agudath Israel World Organization
  • Barrister at Law, Australia

Curtis Reitz

  • Chair, International Legal Developments Committee (2000- )
  • Member, Study Group on Securities, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, Rome (2002- )
  • Trustee, International House of Philadelphia, PA (1971-80, 1981-90, 1991-1998)
  • Trustee (and Secretary), International House Center (1998- )

Paul Robinson

  • "Codifying Shari'a:  Why & How," Army Judge-Advocate General annual conference, JAG Center & School, Charlottesville, VA, (October 2006).
  • Work with the Irish government in promoting a codification of their criminal laws.  Their parliament has just enacted legislation setting up a codification commission for which he will serve as a consultant.
  • Lead a team of Penn Law students which developed a new penal code for the Maldivian government incorporating numerous cutting-edge innovations in drafting forms, code structure, and criminal law doctrine. It is also the first and only such code incorporating the major tenets and principles of Islamic law as currently practiced in the Maldives.
  • Speaker, "What Should the Next Generation of Penal Codes Look Like?" Hebrew University Law School, Jerusalem, March 2006.
  • Speaker, "Accommodating Shari'a and International Norms in Drafting an Islamic Penal Code," Hebrew University Law School, Jerusalem, March 2006.
  • Speaker, "Criminal Theory of Anglo-American Law," Second International Conference on Theories of Crime Systems, Shandong University, Jinan, China, November 2005
  • Speaker, "Current Controversies in American Criminal Justice," Shandong University Law School, Jinan, China, November 2005
  • Speaker, "How Psychology Is Changing Punishment Theory and Practice," University College London Current Legal Issues Colloquia 2005:  Law & Psychology, London, July 2005
  • Speaker, "Codification, Recodification, and the American Model Penal Code," Department of Justice (Ireland) Conference on Criminal Code Reform, Dublin, Ireland, November, 2003
  • Speaker, "Modern American Criminal Law Codification:  The Good and the Bad," Shandong University Law School, Jinan, China, November, 2003

Ed Rock

  • Speaker, "Coming to America," Cambridge University Roundtable on Venture Capital, March 8, 2002.
  • 1995-97: Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
  • June, 1994: Visiting Professor, International Banking and Capital Markets Law, Institut für Arbeits-,