VISITING SCHOLARS & RESEARCHERS: 2010-2011 SCHOLARS

Lene Bomann-Larsen (Norway)
Lene Bomann-Larsen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, where she earned her PhD. Her prior publications have covered a range of topics including: military ethics, just war theory, and corporate responsibility.  Bomann-Larsen's postdoctoral work relates to challenges to current conceptions of responsibility, and the implications for legal and political theory. Her latest research is focused on Oslo's Neurotechnology and the Law initiative. "Neurolaw” is an exploratory project aiming to identify challenges related to the introduction of neurotechnology to criminal justice. While at Penn Law she is conducting research in collaboration with Stephen Morse.

Paolo Cavaliere (Italy)
Paolo Cavaliere earned a PhD in International Law and Economics at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. As a Teaching Fellow, he has taught Public Law, Italian and European Constitutional Law, Media Law, Regional Law and Constitutional Justice. He also holds a law degree from the University of Pavia and an LLM in Public Law from University College, London. Cavaliere has authored articles and book chapters on a variety of topics including the judicial dialogue between national and supranational courts, energy and utilities regulation in European countries, competition in the mass media industry and E-democracy. While at Penn Law, he will be conducting research on a monograph on pluralism in the news market – his goal is to identify a regulative approach capable of providing the highest possible degree of pluralist information in the media sphere. His faculty sponsor will be Monroe Price.

Giulia Gobbo (Italy)
Giulia Gobbo is a PhD candidate in the program of Program in Economics, Markets, and Institutions at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT) in Lucca, Italy. Gobbo works in the Banking and Financial Supervision Area at the Bank of Italy, where her assignments are mainly related to the banking and investment firms' sector and investors' protection; they include the analysis of the legal framework and the comparison of different legal systems. She also aids in the drafting of rules applicable to intermediaries, and in the supervisory procedures on banks' by-laws. Gobbo holds a law degree from the University of Bologna and an LLM degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she specialized in Banking Law and Financial Regulation. Her current research continues to focus on corporate and financial markets law. At Penn Law, her research will focus on financial intermediaries' exploiting conflicts of interest via their retail clients (mis-selling, junkbonds, etc) and attempts at regulation. Her faculty sponsor will be David Skeel.

Arturo González de León Berini (Spain)
Arturo González de León is a PhD researcher in the Program of Law and Legal Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where he is also an Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, and was recently awarded a faculty development grant through the Spanish Ministry of Education. González de León holds a Masters degree in Legal Sciences, as well as an honors degree in Law and Journalism. While at Penn Law, he plans to gather research toward an analysis of the Germanic legal notion of Lebensführungschuld or assessing criminal liability on the basis of character traits and prior life choices. His faculty sponsor during this period is Paul Robinson.

Theresa Heinke (Germany)
Theresa Heinke is a PhD candidate at the University of Heidelberg, where she also acts as a researcher at the Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law. Heinke holds a first degree in law from the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg, with a focus on international private and procedural law. Heinke has a particular interest in the intersection of European procedural law and international shipping law. She previously worked as a junior researcher for Professor Thomas Pfeiffer, where she was responsible for the organization, research and drafting of a comparative study on consumer information rights in Germany, Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the USA. Following the completion of this study, she undertook her current position as a Researcher for Professor Burkhard Hess. Through research at Penn Law, Heinke hopes to identify a general jurisdiction rule for cases of limitation of liability in commercial shipping law. Her faculty sponsor will be Anita Allen.

Mikyung Kim (South Korea)
Mikyung Kim holds two Associate Professorships at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in the Graduate Schools of 'Innovation & Technology Management' and 'Medical Science & Engineering.' She has published extensively on topics including: pathology, bioethics, research conduct, and biotechnology. Kim has earned MD and PhD degrees from Seoul National University as well as a JD from University of Washington School of Law. She researched as a CLB fellow (Center for Law and the Biosciences) at Stanford Law School for two years. During her time at Penn Law, Kim will be drafting an IP course book for undergraduate students at KAIST. KAIST plans to offer a new IP minor program to its students beginning in Fall 2010, and this textbook will be used to address IP procurement, IP management as well as to introduce U.S. Intellectual Property laws. Polk Wagner is her faculty sponsor throughout this summer project.

Satoshi Kotake (Japan)
Satoshi Kotake is a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Takushoku University, Tokyo, and a lecturer in law at the School of Law, Waseda University, Tokyo. He received a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Master of Laws degree from Waseda University, and a Master of Comparative Law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. Following his graduate study at the Graduate School of Law, Waseda University, he became a Research Associate, and then, an Associate Professor of law at the Faculty of Education, Aichi University of Education, Aichi. He joined the Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Takushoku University, in April 2005. Kotake teaches mainly in the field of Constitutional Law. He has also taught a variety of other courses, ranging from 'Gender and the Law' to 'American Law and Politics', and 'American Society and Culture'. His research interests include the constitutional right of privacy and reproductive rights. Kotake's current research focuses on the constitutional analysis of abortion law as it relates to the right to privacy. His faculty sponsor at Penn Law will be Anita Allen.

Emmanuel Mastromanolis (Greece)
Emmanuel Mastromanolis teaches Competition Law, Corporate Law, and Law of Commercial Contracts at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens and concurrently practices law in the above areas. Emmanuel holds an LLB from the University of Athens, and earned both his LLM and SJD degrees from Penn Law, where his studies focused on Comparative Antitrust. He is a member of the editorial board of the Business and Company Law Review and regularly participates in Greek and international conferences focusing on Competition and Company Law. While at Penn this summer, he is conducting research on a monograph regarding the legal status, supervision and liabilities of rating agencies, which are receiving increased attention in the EU.

Alexandra Mikroulea (Greece)
Alexandra Mikroulea is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Athens. Concurrently, she practices law as a partner in the legal firm Mikroulea-Chrissanthis and is head of antitrust and consumer law practice at the legal department of National Bank of Greece. She received her law degree from the University of Athens, and holds a PhD in Law from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, with a focus on antitrust law. At the University of Athens, Mikroulea teaches courses in Industrial Property Law, Banking Law, Securities, and Insurance Law. She has served on the State legislative committees relating to issues of trademark law, consumer protection and insurance law. Mikroulea is a member of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) and has been a member of the Hellenic Competition Commission for three years. She is a regular contributor to the Journal of Corporate Law and Business, to the Journal of Commercial Law, and is a member of the editorial board for the Private Insurance Law Review. She has also served as a member in the Legal Support Group in Brussels for SEPA (Single European Payment Area) as a representative for the Hellenic Banks Association. While at Penn Law, Mikroulea is conducting legal research on comparative issues relating to the business judgment rule.

Seok-Jae Park (Korea)
Seok-Jae Park has been working as a public prosecutor of the Korean government for 14 years. He was recently selected as an overseas trainee under the public prosecutors' overseas training program sponsored by the Ministry of Justice of the Korean Government. Park received his law degree from the College of the Law at Seoul National University, before completing the two-year training program at the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court. At Penn Law, he plans to study the protection and support of criminal victims in the U.S. with an aim to develop law enforcement methods that are adoptable and feasible to the practices of the South Korean legal system. His faculty sponsor for this project will be Stephanos Bibas.

Hardy Sieglitz (Germany)
Hardy Sieglitz is a PhD candidate at the University of Leipzig. He is a German attorney, who has worked in the legal branch of civil law for 10 years. Sieglitz started his professional career with a health insurance company as the in-house counsel. Since 2003, he has been with the Saxon Public Authority for Private Broadcast and New Media (SLM), where he broadened his legal work to include labor law and general contract law. His dissertation is a study of "The Development of German Product Liability Law under the Influence of US Product Liability Law.” His research will focus on several key legal problems, which he has identified within German liability law in respect to globalization and the increasing complexity of products. His faculty co-sponsors at Penn Law will be Jacques deLisle and Bill Ewald.

Zhiyuan Wang (China)
Zhiyuan Wang is an Associate Professor at Jilin University and Director of the China Criminal Law Academy Project. His academic interests center on criminal law, and include: criminal jurisprudence, the theory of criminal composition, the theory of accomplice, the criminal cases system, juvenile delinquency, and criminal justice. Wang received his first legal degree from Lanzhou University School of Law; he also holds a PhD in Law from Jilin University. One of Wang's goals for his time at Penn Law is to study the relationship between the development of the criminal justice system and rule of law, and to identify suggestions to reform criminal justice in China. His faculty sponsor during this time will be Paul Robinson.

Mehdi Zakerian (Iran)
Mehdi Zakerian, considered a leading thinker on human rights in the Middle East, was detained August 2008 on the charge of espionage while he awaited U.S. visa clearance to travel to Philadelphia as a visiting scholar at Penn but has since been freed for travel. He currently chairs Iran's International Relations Institute and is a senior analyst for the Scientific Research Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies. He edits the journal International Studies, a quarterly devoted to international affairs and human rights. In 2002, Zakerian was a fellow at the Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands. At the time of his arrest, Zakerian had been a professor at Islamic Azad University and had previously taught at Tehran University, where he was dismissed in 2007 as part of the much-publicized campaign of dismissals of liberal and reformist professors from Iran's universities.

Peihong Zhang (China)
Peihong Zhang is a criminal defense attorney in Shanghai, and also holds the post of Vice-Director of the Criminal Defense Committee of the SBA. He received his law degree from the Department of Politics and Law of Yunnan Normal University. Zhang has received several awards for his legal work, including being named Shanghai Excellent Young Lawyer of 2008. Throughout his career, Zhang has taken on many tough cases, representing a host of clients for whom China's legal system presents little realistic opportunity for justice. Some of his better known defense trials include: the Rio Tinto corruption case, the Yangjia case, and the 11/15 Fire Case of Shanghai. Zhang is committed to improving the human rights situation in China. He plans to use his time at Penn Law to gain a greater understanding of due process in the U.S. and how the American judicial system can advance human rights protections. His faculty sponsors during this period will be Jacques deLisle and David Rudovsky.