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Amelia Boss
Institute Co-Director Amelia H. Boss, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Rutgers Camden Law School, is one of the country's leading experts in domestic and international commercial law, and in the emerging area of electronic commerce. Her activities in the law reform area domestically include participation in the drafting of the revisions to the Uniform Commercial Code (sales, leases, letters of credit, investment securities),
drafting of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), preparatory work leading to the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, preparation of the White House Framework for Global Electronic Commerce (1997), and development of the E-Sign legislation. A former chair of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, she serves on the Council of the American Law Institute, and on the Permanent
Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code. Professor Boss is a fellow of the American College of Commercial Financial Lawyers, a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of International Commercial Law.
Professor Boss served as an advisor and as the United States Delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) on issues relating to electronic commerce. She represented the US in the development of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce and the Model Law on Electronic Signatures. She has also worked with the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and
the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (APEC) on issues involving electronic commerce. Professor Boss has published extensively domestically and internationally. Former Editor-in-Chief of The Business Lawyer as well as The DataLaw Report (published bi-monthly by Clark Boardman Callaghan), she currently serves on the editorial boards of The Business Lawyer and the Electronic Communication Law Review
(formerly the EDI Law Review). In 1998, she was ranked by The National Law Journal as one of the fifty most influential women attorneys in the United States.
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Jeffrey Dunoff
Institute Co-Director Jeffrey L. Dunoff is Charles Klein Professor of Law and Government and Academic Director of Temple Law School’s Transnational Law Program. He specializes in international law, international trade law, international environmental law, and international transactions. Prior to joining the Temple faculty, he practiced law for several years in Washington, D.C. where he represented Asian,
African and Latin American governments in a variety of international litigations, arbitrations and transactions. He also represented developing nation governments before the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government. Professor Dunoff left practice to accept a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Public International Law at Georgetown University Law Center.
Professor Dunoff is co-author of International Law: Norms, Actors, Process, a leading international law casebook, and his international law scholarship has appeared in leading U.S. and foreign law journals. He serves as a member of EPA’s National Advisory Committee, as Associate Editor of the Yearbook of International Environmental Law, and as Vice Chair of the International Economic Law Group of the American
Society of International Law. Professor Dunoff has been a Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; a Visiting Fellow at the Center of International Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton; and a Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute in Japan.
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Richard K. Greenstein
Professor Greenstein currently teaches Jurisprudence, Ethical Perspectives on th Practice of Law (with Professor Jane Baron), Federal Courts and Jurisdiction, Conflict of Laws, and Criminal Law 1. He was both managing and staff attorney at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society in Atlanta, Georgia from 1973-1980. Between 1982 and 1985 he taught at Georgia State University's College of Law. During those two years he served as a member of ACLU of Georgia Legal Committee and also represented amici curiae in two civil rights cases before the Georgia appellate courts.
Professor Greenstein joined the Temple faculty in 1985. He has an LL.M. from Temple University School of Law where he was an Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Fellow and Lecturer in Law from 1980 until 1982. He received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1973, where he was Special Project Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review, and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa alumnus of Wesleyan University.
In 1996, Professor Greenstein was named Peter J. Liacouras Professor of Law. His publications include: Text as Tool: Why We Read the Law, 52 Wash. and Lee L. Rev. 105 (1995); The Three Faces of ORPP, 54 Louisiana L. Rev. 95 (1993); Rights Talk, 33 Villanova L.Rev. 335 (1988) (with Professor Jane Baron);The Nature of Legal Argument: The Personal Jurisdiction Paradigm, 38 Hastings L. Rev. 855 (1987);Teaching Case Synthesis, 2 Georgia State U.L.Rev. 1 (1986);Bridging The Mootness Gap In Federal Court Class Actions, 35 Stanford L. Rev. 897 (1983).Professor Greenstein is currently at work on a book that sets out a pragmatist theory of law. |
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Duncan B. Hollis
Assistant Professor Duncan B. Hollis teaches in the areas of international law, foreign affairs law and property at Temple University Law School. He specializes in the international law of treaties and the role of treaties in U.S. law. He is co-editor and co-author of a forthcoming book, National Treaty Law and Practice (Martinus Nijhoff), which will examine how various nation states incorporate rules concerning the negotiation, conclusion and implementation of treaties into their national laws.
Professor Hollis received an A.B., summa cum laude, from Bowdoin College. In 1996, he completed a joint-degree program, receiving a Masters in International Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a Juris Doctorate, summa cum laude, from Boston College Law School. At Boston College, he was an Executive Editor of the Law Review and received the James W. Smith Award for Highest Academic Rank.
Following graduation, Professor Hollis worked for the International Department of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. In 1998, Professor Hollis joined the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. During his tenure at the State Department, Professor Hollis served for several years as the attorney-adviser for treaty affairs, working on various legal and constitutional issues associated with the negotiation, conclusion and implementation of U.S. treaties. More recently, Professor Hollis acted as legal counsel for the Department’s Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, specializing in U.S.-Canada environmental issues and U.S. participation in multilateral environmental agreements. Professor Hollis’ work has also involved litigation before the International Court of Justice. He served as Counsel to the United States in the provisional measures phase of the Case Concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States) and contributed to the U.S. presentation in the Oil Platforms Case (Iran v. United States)
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Laura E. Little
Laura E. Little is a Professor of Law and the James E. Beasley Chair in Law at Temple, specializing in federal courts, constitutional law, conflict of laws, and international criminal law. She has written on a broad range of subjects, including articles and books covering international criminal law, conflict of laws, constitutional law, appellate advocacy, remedies, and federal court topics. She lectures internationally on these subjects and is routinely engaged by the federal judiciary for training judges as well as for speeches at judicial conferences. Professor Little has also lectured frequently to Chinese judges and prosecutors on the nature of American law and legal practice. She has also served as a consultant on federal courts, civil procedure, and appellate advocacy issues.
Professor Little has received many awards for teaching and scholarship. Her teaching awards include several law school awards, a university-wide Lindback award, and Temple?s highest award for teaching, the University Great Professor Award. She has taught in Temple?s programs in Tokyo, Japan and Rome, Italy. Professor Little?s scholarship is diverse, integrating law, social science and humanities. A sample of her writings include: Little, Hairsplitting and Complexity in Conflict of Laws: The Paradox of Formalism, 37 University of California at Davis Law Review 925 (2004); Little & Barrett, Lessons of Yugoslav Rape Trials: A Role for Conspiracy Law in International Tribunals, 88 Minnesota Law Review 30 (2003); Little, The ABA?s Role in Prescreening Federal Judicial Candidates: Are We Ready to Give up on the Lawyers? 10 William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 37 (2001); Little, Negotiating the Tangle of Law and Emotion, 86 Cornell Law Review 974 (2001); Little, Jealousy, Envy, and Separation of Powers, 52 Hastings Law Journal 47 (2000); Little, Hiding with Words: Obfuscation, Avoidance, and Federal Jurisdiction Opinions, 46 U.C.L.A. Law Review 75 (1998); Loyalty, Gratitude, and the Federal Judiciary, 44 American U. L. Rev. 699 (1995).
Before entering academia, Professor Little practiced law in Philadelphia , litigating commercial cases and representing the print media in First Amendment cases. Prior to her law practice, Professor Little served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States (October Term 1986) and Judge James Hunter III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1985-1986). She received her B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D., summa cum laude from the Temple Law School. |
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Salil K. Mehra
Salil K. Mehra is an Associate Professor of Law at Temple University School of Law, where he teaches Antitrust, Business Associations and Contracts. He specializes in antitrust law and Japanese law. Professor Mehra's articles on antitrust have appeared in the University of Chicago Law Review and the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, and he was a panelist at the University of Chicago Legal Forum's Fall 1999 symposium on Antitrust in the Information Age.
Professor Mehra received an A.B. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, an M.A. in Japanese Studies from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D., with honors, from the University of Chicago, where he was a member of the Law Review and Order of the Coif. After law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Juan R. Torruella of the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and then worked at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where his practice included antitrust, first amendment, and takeover defense litigation. He also is a past finisher of the New York City Marathon.
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David Post
David Post is currently the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at Temple University Law School, where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace. Prof. Post is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, and the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Cyberspace Law Institute and ICANN Watch, and a sometime contributor to the Volokh Conspiracy blog.
Trained originally as a physical anthropologist, Professor Post spent two years studying the feeding ecology of yellow baboons in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, and he taught at the Columbia University Department of Anthropology from 1976 through 1981. He then attended Georgetown Law Center, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1986. After clerking with then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, he spent 6 years at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, practicing in the areas of intellectual property law and high technology commercial transactions. He then clerked again for Justice Ginsburg during her first term at the Supreme Court of the United States before joining the faculty of, first, the Georgetown University Law Center (1994 - 1997) and then the Temple University Law School (1997 - present).
Professor Post is the author of Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age (West, 2003) (co-authored with Paul Schiff Berman and Patricia Bellia), as well as numerous articles on intellectual property, the law of cyberspace, and the application of complexity theory to Internet legal questions that have appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Esther Dyson's Release 1.0, the Journal of Online Law, the University of Chicago Legal Forum, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and numerous other publications. For four years (1994 - 1998) he wrote a monthly column on law and technology ("Plugging In") for the American Lawyer, and from 1998 ? 2004 he wrote the "On the Horizon" column for InformationWeek (with Bradford Brown). He has appeared as a commentator on the law of cyberspace on such programs as the Lehrer News Hour, Morning Edition, PBS' "Life on the Internet" series, NPR?s All Things Considered and MarketPlace, and Court TV's Supreme Court Preview. During 1996-1997 he conducted, along with two colleagues (Professors Larry Lessig and Eugene Volokh) the first Internet-wide e-mail course on "Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers" which attracted over 20,000 subscribers. He also plays guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica in the band "Bad Dog".
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Robert J. Reinstein
Professor Robert J. Reinstein is Dean of Temple Law School and a Vice President of the University. He has been a member of the Temple Law faculty since 1969 and received the George P. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1975. He teaches in the areas of constitutional law, political and civil rights, employment discrimination, federal jurisdiction and jurisprudence.
Professor Reinstein served as Temple University Counsel for seven years and was responsible for all litigation involving the University. While on leave from Temple from 1977 through 1980 he worked at the United States Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division. He was Senior Attorney in the Appellate Section for the first two years and Chief of the General Litigation Section for the latter.
From 1970 to 1977, Professor Reinstein was Consulting Attorney to the NAACP Social Contribution Fund. He tried numerous civil rights cases including several major class action employment discrimination suits.
Selected publications include Completing the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and Fourteenth Amendment, 66 Temp. L. Rev. 361 (1993); The Evolution of Individual Rights from the Constitution's Original Intent, 61 Temp. L.Rev. 197 (1988); Remedies in Title VII Cases, Federal Civil Rights Litigation Monograph (Prac. Law Inst. 1977 & 1978); An Early View of Executive Powers and Privilege; The Trial of Smith and Odgen, 2 Hast. Con. L.Q. 309 (1975); Legislative Privilege and the Separation of Powers, 86 Harv. L.Rev. 1113 (1973) (with H. Silverglate); and The Welfare Cases; Fundamental Rights, the Poor, and the Burden of Proof in Constitutional Litigation, 44 Temp L.Q. 1 (1970).
In 2002, Dean Reinstein received the National Friendship Award from the Prime Minister of the Peoples Republic of China in recognition of the Law School's contributions to the development of the rule of law in that country. He is the first person to receive that prestigious award for law-related activities."
Professor Reinstein was law clerk to the Hon. Frank A. Kaufman, United States District Court, District of Maryland. He received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School where he held a Felix Frankfurter Scholarship and served in the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. He is a 1965 graduate of Cornell University in Engineering Physics.
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William Woodward
Professor Woodward received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and, following that, spent three years in the Navy on ships in the Western Pacific. He earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Rutgers University School of Law ( Camden ) where he was Executive Editor of its Law Journal. He practiced law for five years as a trial lawyer with Dechert Price & Rhoads in Philadelphia and left practice in 1980 to teach Commercial Law, Bankruptcy, Contracts, and Remedies at Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis . He came to Temple in 1984, was promoted to Professor in 1988, and occupied the I. Herman Stern Chair from 1999 - 2001. He has taught Contracts since 1980. He taught Torts and Secured Credit to Chinese graduate students in Temple 's LLM Program in Beijing during Fall 2003 and has taught in Temple 's Summer Abroad Programs in Athens and Rome .
Professor Woodward is Co-Chair of the Task Force on Consumer Involvement of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section, Co-Chair of the Section's Law School Initiative, is on the Editorial Board of its magazine, Business Law Today, and is the Section's Liaison to the Editorial Board of the ABA Journal. He is past Chair of the Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law of the Association of American Law Schools, is a past President of the Temple University Faculty Senate, and is a consultant-member of Committee T of the American Association of University Professors. Professor Woodward is a elected member of the American Law Institute and was an Advisor to the Drafting Committee for Article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code. He has written broadly on commercial, bankruptcy, intellectual property, and legal education topics.
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Mo Zhang
Mo Zhang is the Director of Graduate Programs for Temple University in China , Associate Professor of Law.
Professor Zhang earned an LL.B. and LL.M. from China University of Political Science and Law (FADA) and an LL.M. from the University of Michigan . Professor Zhang specializes in contract law, conflict of laws and international business transactions. He is a former faculty member at FADA and Fulbright scholar.
Professor Zhang is a member of the Maryland and New York Bars. Before joining Temple in May 1998, Professor Zhang practiced law in the United States, mainly involved in business transactions. Professor Zhang has worked for major U.S. companies and law firms on joint ventures and project financing, and represented clients before state and federal courts. He also served as a legal advisor to major Chinese companies and American-Chinese communities, including U.S.- China Associations of Industry and Commerce and the New World Times. In addition, Professor Zhang has advised American and Chinese firms on their investments and operations in both countries.
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