dennis j. block center for the study of international business law

DENNIS J. BLOCK CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAWThe 20th Anniversary

brooklyn law school

PUBLISHED APRIL 2008

For more information about the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study

of International Business Law, visit www.brooklaw.edu/centers/ibl

or call 718-780-7522.

CONTENTS

2 Origin and Mission

5 International Business Law Fellowship Program

7 Symposia and Lectures

25 Breakfast Roundtable Series

35 International Economic Law Forums

41 Brown Bag Luncheons

45 Visiting Scholars

49 International Business Law Fellows

52 International Business Law Steering Committee

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Twenty years ago, Brooklyn Law School recognized that the

regulatory landscape of the corporate world was shifting from a national

to a global model, and that as a result, the study and practice of interna-

tional business law would change dramatically. In 1987, the Law School became a

leader in international legal education by establishing a center to study and shape the

laws and policies driving globalization. The Center was renamed the Dennis J. Block

Center for the Study of International Business Law in 2007 in honor of a distinguished

alumnus and international business lawyer.

In the years since its founding, the Center has evolved to meet the needs of the inter-

national business law community and future lawyers who practice in a world where

globalization is a given. The Center offers the legal community a valuable resource to

assist in understanding the changing nature of many facets of the international busi-

ness world. Through well-regarded programs open to the public, including symposia

and a breakfast roundtable series, and with the prestigious IBL Fellowship Program

for students, the Center attracts important speakers and public figures as well as the

brightest students interested in international business law.

In addition to its primary focus on international financial regulation, the Center has

expanded its programs and adopted a multidisciplinary approach, covering a variety

of fields including social corporate responsibility, international trade, bankruptcy

and insolvency, intellectual property, conflict of laws, antitrust, and social policy.

As international law has developed as a field, the line between public regulation and

private activity has blurred. Brooklyn Law School is at the forefront of confronting

the resulting issues that every international businessperson and lawyer faces today.

The Center’s mission – today and tomorrow – is to contribute to the exploration of

timely issues of interest to business organizations, regulators, policy makers,

practitioners, jurists, scholars, and future lawyers in this important field.

ORIGIN AND MISSION OF THE CENTER

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Dennis J. Block, a senior partner

in the New York office of Cadwalader,

Wickersham & Taft LLP, is widely recog-

nized as one of the world’s leading corpo-

rate attorneys. He has been called one of

the “Most Influential Lawyers in America”

by The National Law Journal and was twice

named as a “Dealmaker of the Year” by

The American Lawyer. A 1967 graduate of

Brooklyn Law School, he teaches Advanced

Corporate Law as an adjunct professor at

the Law School.

In his long and distinguished career, Block

has advised numerous high-profile clients

on a variety of complex issues and deals,

including Procter & Gamble’s acquisi-

tion of Gillette; Quaker Oats’ acquisition

by PepsiCo Inc.; and the largest hostile

takeover in U.S. history – Pfizer’s acquisi-

tion of Warner Lambert. In addition to his

transactional work, Block regularly provides

counsel to large publicly-held corpora-

tions, their boards of directors, and their

audit and special committees on issues

involving mergers and acquisitions, cor-

porate governance, federal securities laws,

attorney-client privilege, and government

investigations.

DENNIS J. BLOCK ’67

Block is a former member and co-chair

of the Committee on Corporate Counsel

of the American Bar Association Section

of Litigation and a former member of the

Committee on Corporate Laws of the

ABA Section of Business Law. He is also a

member of the editorial boards of several

legal publications as well as an author and

a frequent lecturer. Prior to entering

private practice, he served as a Branch

Chief of Enforcement at the New York

Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and

Exchange Commission.

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Professor Arthur R. Pinto (center), Co-director of the Center, and Professor Roberta S. Karmel (far right), Co-director and Chair, with a group of IBL Fellows

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From its beginning, the Center has

been built around its International Business

Law Fellowship Program, which provides

an outstanding educational experience for

academically gifted students who are inter-

ested in pursuing a career in international

business law. IBL Fellowships are awarded

annually to promising students from the

entering and upper classes. Fellows enroll

at Brooklyn Law School from all over the

United States and around the world,

bringing with them a wide array of view-

points and creating a diversity that adds

richness to their study of international law.

Fellows have come to the Law School from

Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Guyana, Israel,

Japan, Korea, Lebanon, the Netherlands,

Nigeria, Russia, Taiwan, Turkey, and the

United Kingdom.

The number of IBL Fellows in the program

annually has grown from four, in its first

few years, to almost 25. This has been

in response to increased student interest

and growing demand for lawyers with a

background in international business law.

Students accepted into the program receive

an annual scholarship and a guarantee of

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

paid employment during the summer after

their first year of law school. Fellows are

typically placed in financial institutions,

governmental internships, or research

assistant positions with Center faculty

members. Student Fellows, who are invited

to attend all of the Center’s programs,

participate fully in the life of the Center in

preparation for successful practices in many

fields. In the upperclass years, they take a

wide assortment of courses in international

and business fields, and before graduation,

they are required to complete and present

a research paper of publishable quality –

under the close supervision of a Center

faculty member – on an international

business law topic of their choice.

After graduation, these outstanding alumni

take prestigious positions around the world

with international law firms, government

agencies and private companies. Each year,

many return to the Law School to partici-

pate in the wide variety of programs the

Center sponsors.

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Paul Bennett, Chief Economist of the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., at the “Securities Market Structure and Regulation” Symposium

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The Center’s symposia and lectures

have established Brooklyn Law School at

the forefront of the development of inter-

national business law. Every year, these

popular programs bring together lead-

ing practitioners, high-level government

officials, and legal scholars from around the

world to discuss important legal develop-

ments, trends, and public policy issues that

concern the global financial and trading

markets as well as the larger international

business community.

Over the past 20 years, the Center’s pro-

grams have addressed topics as varied as

social corporate responsibility, international

trade, banking, international taxation,

pension reform, international corporate

and securities law, human rights issues,

intellectual property law, and international

telecommunications.

SYMPOSIA AND LECTURES

Organized and moderated by Brooklyn Law

School’s well-respected business law faculty,

the IBL symposia provide a forum for legal

and business communities around the

world to discuss the myriad issues raised by

globalization. Brooklyn Law students who

are fellows in the International Business

Law program participate in these important

programs, and the Center has expanded

its audience for the symposia each year as

more law students have expressed inter-

est in attending. The Brooklyn Journal of

International Law co-sponsors at least one

symposium each year, and the papers and

proceedings are published in the Journal.

The Center has also co-sponsored sympo-

sia with the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate,

Financial & Commercial Law.

Above: (L to R) Professors Nicola Jagers of Tilburg University; Julian Ku of Hofstra University School of Law; and Beth Stephens of Rutgers School of Law-Camden at the “Corporate Liability for Grave Breaches of International Law” Symposium

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The “Going Private” of US Capital MarketsFebruary 29, 2008

Published in vol. 3, no. 1 Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law (Forthcoming 2008)Co-sponsored with the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law, in partnership with the SEC Historical Society

SPEAKERS: Professor William Wilson Bratton, Georgetown University Law Center; Professor James A. Fanto, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Kent Greenfield, Boston College Law School; Professor Daniel J.H. Greenwood, Hofstra University School of Law; Professor Faith S. Kahn, New York Law School; Professor Lawrence E. Mitchell, The George Washington University Law School; Professor Dale A. Oesterle, Moritz College of Law Ohio State University; Professor Peter B. Oh, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Professor Alan R. Palmiter, Wake Forest University School of Law; and Professor Troy Paredes, Washington University School of Law

Corporate Liability for Grave Breaches of International LawNovember 16, 2007

Published in vol. 33, no. 3 Brooklyn Journal of International Law (2008)Co-sponsored with the Brooklyn Journal of International Law

SPEAKERS: Professor Beth Stephens, Rutgers School of Law-Camden; Professor Julian Ku, Hofstra University School of Law; Professor Nicola Jagers, Tilburg University; Professor Anthony Sebok, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; Professor Anita Ramasastry, University of Washington School of Law; Dr. Jonathan Clough, Monash University and Brooklyn Law School; Professor Ralph G. Steinhardt, The George Washington University Law School; Professor Cynthia A. Williams, University of Illinois College of Law; and Professor Ron C. Slye, Seattle University School of Law

MODERATORS: Professors Anita Bernstein, Maryellen Fullerton, Samuel K. Murumba, Brooklyn Law School

COMMENTATORS: Professor William S. Dodge, University of California Hastings College of the Law; and Lee A. Casey, Partner, Baker Hostetler

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Securities Market Structure and Regulation: What Does the Future Hold?November 10, 2006

Published in vol. 1, no. 2 Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law (2007)Co-sponsored with the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law in partnership with the SEC Historical Society

SPEAKERS: Roger D. Blanc, Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP; Paul Bennett, Chief Economist, New York Stock Exchange, Inc.; Professor Junius W. Peake, Monfort Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Finance, Kenneth W. Monfort College of Business Administration, University of Northern Colorado; Professor Onnig H. Dombalagian, Tulane Law School; Professor Eric J. Pan, Director of The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; Roberta S. Karmel, Centennial Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School; Annette L. Nazareth, Commissioner U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Robert L.D. Colby, Deputy Director Division of Market Regulations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Allen Ferrell, the Harvey Greenfield Professor of Securities Law, Harvard Law School; and Lanny A. Schwartz, Counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell formerly, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange

MODERATORS: Professors Norman S. Poser, James A. Fanto, and Roberta S. Karmel, Brooklyn Law School

Bankruptcy in the Global Village: The Second DecadeOctober 20–21, 2006


SPEAKERS: Professor Ian Fletcher, the Herbert Smith Chair of International Commercial Law, Faculty of Laws at the University College in London; Professor Jacob S. Ziegel, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; Professor John A.E. Pottow, University of Michigan Law School; Professor Susan Block-Lieb, Fordham University School of Law; Professor Terry Halliday, Northwestern University; Professor Robert K. Rasmussen, Milton Underwood Chair in Law, and Director, Law and Human Behavior Program, Vanderbilt University Law School; Nick Segal, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Dering; Professor Neil B. Cohen, Jeffrey D. Forchelli Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School; Gabriel Moss, Q.C. Barrister, 3/4 South Square, Gray’s


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Inn; Professor Jay L. Westbrook, Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Business Law, University of Texas School of Law; Professor Steven L. Harris, Chicago-Kent College of Law; and Professor Edward J. Janger, Brooklyn Law School

COMMENTATORS: Professor Claire R. Kelly, Associate Dean and Professor Michael Gerber, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Christoph G. Paulus, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin; and Terry Halliday, Northwestern University

War and TradeSeptember 22–23, 2005


KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Duncan McLean Kennedy, Harvard Law School

SPEAKERS: Professor David Kennedy, Harvard Law School; Professor Dan Danielsen, Northeastern University School of Law; Professor Karen Knop, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; Professor James Thuo Gathii, Albany Law School, Union University; Professor Kerry Rittich, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; Professor Robert Wai, Osgoode Hall Law School; Professor Janet Halley, Harvard Law School; Professor Anthony Anghie, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law; Professor Ileana Porras, Boston College of Law; and Professor Thomas Franck, New York University School of Law

Intellectual Property Online–The Challenge of Multi-Territorial DisputesOctober 8, 2004


SPEAKERS: Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University Law School; Professor Francois Dessemontet, Lausanne University, Law School; Professor Toshiyuki Kono, Kyushu University Faculty of Law; Professor Fraeme Dinwoodie, Director, Program in Intellectual Property Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology; Professor Graeme Austin, University of Arizona; Professor Richard Garnett, Director, E-Law Program, University of Melbourne; and Dr. Annette Kur, Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law


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MODERATORS: Professors Maryellen Fullerton, Roberta S. Karmel, Samuel K. Murumba, and Claire R. Kelly, Brooklyn Law School

Creating and Interpreting Law in a Multilingual EnvironmentSeptember 19, 2003

Published in vol. 28, no. 3 Brooklyn Journal of International Law (2004)Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition and the Brooklyn Journal of International Law

SPEAKERS: Professor Pierre-Andre Cote, University of Montreal; Professor Ruth Sullivan, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law; Donald L. Ravell, Chief Legislative Counsel, Province of Ontario; Professor Ian McLeod, London Metropolitan University; Professor Ian Engberg, University of Aarhus, Denmark; Tarja Salmi-Tolonen, University of Lapland, Finland; Harry C. Sigman, Practitioner/Law Reform Consultant, Los Angeles, California; and Professor Ana M. Lopez-Rodriguez, University of Aarhus, Denmark

DISCUSSANTS: Professors Nathaniel A. Berman, Lawrence M. Solan, and Neil B. Cohen, Brooklyn Law School

MODERATORS: Professors Nathaniel A. Berman, and Claire R. Kelly, Brooklyn Law School

Do Financial Supermarkets Need Super Regulators?September 20, 2002


SPEAKERS: Honorable Peter R. Fisher, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, United States Treasury; Dr. Ellis Ferran, University of Cambridge; Professor Howell Edmunds Jackson, Harvard Law School; Professor Jerry W. Markham, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law; Professor Heidi Mandanis Schooner, The Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America; Professor Giorgio Di Giorgio, University Luiss Guido Carli (Rome); Dr. Carmine Di Noia, Coordinator of Company Law/Capital Markets, Assonime (an association of Italian corporations); and Professor Roberta S. Karmel, Brooklyn Law School

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COMMENTATORS: Professor James A. Fanto, Brooklyn Law School; Sheila C. Blair, University of Massachusetts; and Professor Peter Strauss, Columbia University School of Law

MODERATORS: Professors Nathaniel A. Berman, Norman S. Poser, and Claire R. Kelly, Brooklyn Law School

National Security vs. Civil Liberties: Must We Choose?March 14, 2002

Co-sponsored with the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Program

SPEAKERS: Mary Jo White, former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Joshua L. Dratel, Esq.; Christopher A. Ford, Minority Counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; and Professor David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center

MODERATOR: Professor Susan N. Herman, Brooklyn Law School

International Telecommunications Law, Post-Deregulatory LandscapeMarch 1, 2002


SPEAKERS: Reed E. Hundt, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Co., Inc.; Professor Herbert Burkert, University of St. Gallen, Research Center for Information Law; Professors Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger and David M. Lazer, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government; Professor Tamar Frankel, Boston University School of Law; Professor Michael A. Geist, University of Ottawa Law School; and Professor C. Edwin Baker, University of Pennsylvania Law School

COMMENTATORS: Edward R. Leahy, Bingham Dana LLP.; Professor Stefaan Verhulst, Oxford University, Wolfson College and Markle Foundation; Professor Jonathan Weinberg, Wayne State University Law School; Professor Jonathan L. Zittrain, Harvard Law School; Professor Jerome A. Barron, The George Washington University Law School; Professor Oliver R. Goodenough, Vermont Law School; and Professor Monroe E. Price, Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

MODERATORS: Professors Nathaniel A. Berman, Edward J. Janger, and Paul M. Schwartz, Brooklyn Law School


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International Tax Policy in the New MillenniumNovember 9–10, 2000


SPEAKERS: Vito Tanzi, Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund; Professor Jack Mintz, The Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; Professor Peggy B. Musgrave, Professor Emerita, University of California at Santa Cruz; Professor Michael J. Graetz, Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Professor David F. Bradford, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; H. David Rosenbloom, Partner, Caplin & Drysdale, former International Tax Counsel, Department of the Treasury; Professor Paul R. McDaniel, New York University School of Law; and Victor Thuronyi, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund

COMMENTATORS: Sandford G. Ross, Chair, Social Security Advisory Board and Partner, Arnold & Porter; David P. Hariton, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell; Professor Nancy H. Kaufman, Saint Louis University School of Law; Professor Lawrence Lokken, Culverhouse Eminent Scholar in Taxation, University of Florida, Levin College of Law; Professor Kees Van Raad, International Tax Law, University of Leiden (The Netherlands); Gary C. Hufbauer, Director, Institute for International Economics; Charles I. Kingson, Ernst & Young, former International Tax Counsel, Department of the Treasury; Professor Robert J. Peroni, Robert Kramer Research Professor, The George Washington University Law School; Professor John P. Steines, Jr., New York University School of Law; Professor Hugh J. Ault, Boston College Law School and Special Advisor, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Professor Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, The University of Michigan Law School; and Professor Diane M. Ring, Harvard Law School

MODERATORS: Professors Arthur R. Pinto and Claire R. Kelly, and Visiting Professors Leo J. Raskind and Patrick B. Crawford, Brooklyn Law School

Software as a Commodity: International Licensing of Intellectual PropertyJanuary 28, 2000


SPEAKERS: Professor Raymond T. Nimmer, Leonard H. Childs Professor and Director, Information Law Program, University of Houston Law Center and Reporter for Uniform

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Computer Information Transactions Act; Professor François Dessemontet, Center for Business Law, University of Lausanne; and Professor H. Katheen Patchel, Indiana University School of Law (Indianapolis)

COMMENTATORS: Wayne Bennett, Bingham Dana LLP; Professor Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, New York University School of Law; Professor Bernt Hugenholtz, Institute for Informational Law, University of Amsterdam; Professor Samuel K. Murumba, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Edward J. Janger, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Amos Shapira, Lubowski Professor of Law and Biomedical Ethics, Tel Aviv University and Visiting Professor, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Paul B. Stephan, Percy Brown, Jr. Professor, University of Virginia School of Law

MODERATORS: Professors Neil B. Cohen, Edward J. Janger, and Spencer Weber Waller, Brooklyn Law School

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 50 and the Challenge of Global Markets November 5, 1998

Published in vol. 25, no. 1 Brooklyn Journal of International Law (1999)Co-sponsored with the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Program and the Brooklyn Journal of International Law

SPEAKERS: Professor Louis Henkin, University Professor Emeritus, Columbia University; Professor Frank Garcia, Florida State University College of Law; Mark A. A. Warner, Legal Counsel, Trade Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; His Excellency Judge Christopher G. Weeramantry, Vice-President, International Court of Justice (The Hague); Joanna Kerr, Senior Researcher, The North-South Institute (Ottawa); Professor Elizabeth M. Schneider, Brooklyn Law School; Martina Vandenberg, European Research Associate, Human Rights Watch/Women’s Rights Division; Richard Dicker, Associate Counsel, Human Rights Watch; Sidney Jones, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch/Asia Division; and Associate Dean and Professor Spencer Weber Waller, Brooklyn Law School

COMMENTATORS: Professor Steve Charnovitz, Director, Global Environment and Trade Study, Yale University; and Associate Professor Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Temple University School of Law

MODERATORS: Professors Samuel K. Murumba, Maryellen Fullerton, and Lawrence M. Solan, Brooklyn Law School; and Kathleen Peratis, Frank & Peratis


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Getting Ready For Individually Managed Pensions: A Global PerspectiveSeptember 18–19, 1998

Published in vol. 64, no. 3 Brooklyn Law Review (1999)Co-sponsored with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and the Brooklyn Law Review

SPEAKERS: Governor Edward M. Gramlich, Member, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; Dr. Lawrence H. Thompson, Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute; Professor Maria O’Brien Hylton, Boston University School of Law; Dr. Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Lothar Schruff, Chair of Accounting and Auditing, Institute of Accounting and Auditing of Private and Public Enterprises, University of Gottingen (Germany); Professor Joseph J. Norton, Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking Law, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; George A. Walker, Teaching and Research Fellow in Banking Law, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; Richard Nobles, Senior Law Lecturer and Dr. Julia Black, Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics; Dr. Paolo Clarotti, Banking and Financial Establishments Division, DG XV, European Commission; Visiting Professor Deborah Marion Weiss, University of Southern California Law School; Professor Bevis Longstreth, Columbia University School of Law and Of Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton; Professor Roberta S. Karmel, Brooklyn Law School; and Professor James A. Fanto, Brooklyn Law School

COMMENTATORS: Morton Klevan, Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary, Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, U. S. Department of Labor; Professor Jeffrey N. Gordon, Columbia University School of Law; Professor Gregory S. Alexander, Cornell Law School; and Margaret A. Bancroft, Dechert Price & Rhoads

MODERATORS: Professors Roberta S. Karmel, James A. Fanto, Arthur R. Pinto, Brooklyn Law School; and Professor Joseph J. Norton, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

Enforcing Judgments Abroad: The Global ChallengeNovember 6, 1997


SPEAKERS: Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Patrick J. Borchers, Albany Law School, Union University; Professor Ronald A. Brand, Director, Pittsburgh Center

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for International Legal Education, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Professor Paul R. Beaumont, University of Aberdeen (Scotland); Professor Friedrich K. Juenger, University of California at Davis School of Law; Louise Lussier, Counsel, Public Law Policy Section, Department of Justice of Canada; Peter H. Pfund, Assistant Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State; Arthur T. von Mehren, Professor of Law Emeritus, Harvard Law School; Professor Russell J. Weintraub, University of Texas School of Law; Thurlow Bradbrooke Smith, Q.C., Stikeman, Elliott (Canada)

MODERATORS: Professor Maryellen Fullerton and Associate Dean and Professor Spencer Weber Waller, Brooklyn Law School

Bankruptcy in the Global VillageSeptember 19, 1996 (New York) and June 10, 1997 (London)

Published in vol. 23, no. 1 Brooklyn Journal of International Law (1997)Co-sponsored with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and the Brooklyn Journal of International Law

NEw YORK SPEAKERS: Professor Ian F. Fletcher, Centre for Commercial Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; Professor Jacob Ziegel, University of Toronto; Professor Jay L. Westbrook, University of Texas School of Law; Nick A. Segal, Allen & Overy (London); Professor Ronald Harmer, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; Dr. Manfred Balz, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Berlin); Hon. Tina L. Brozman, Chief Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York; and Gabriel Moss, Solicitor, Q.C. (London)

NEw YORK MODERATORS: Associate Dean and Professor Michael A. Gerber and Professor Barry L. Zaretsky, Brooklyn Law School

lONDON SPEAKERS: Hon. James L. Garrity, Jr., U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York; Professors Jay L. Westbrook, Jacob Ziegel and Michael A. Gerber; Nick A. Segal; and Dr. Manfred Balz

lONDON MODERATORS: Professor Ian F. Fletcher and Associate Dean and Professor Michael A. Gerber


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New Developments in the Law of Credit Enhancement: Domestic and InternationalSeptember 19, 1995


SPEAKERS: Professor Roy Goode, Oxford University; and Professor Neil B. Cohen, Brooklyn Law School.

COMMENTATORS: Donald J. Rapson, Senior Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and Secretary, The CIT Group, Inc.; and Professor Peter Winship, Southern Methodist University School of Law

MODERATOR: Professor Barry L. Zaretsky, Brooklyn Law School

Comparative Models of Privatization: Paradigms and PoliticsNovember 4, 1994


SPEAKERS: Professor Cosmo Graham, University of Hull Law School (England); Professor Lan Cao, Brooklyn Law School; Ambassador Emilio J. Cardenas, Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations; Professor Tony Prosser, University of Glasgow School of Law (Scotland); and Professor James A. Fanto, Brooklyn Law School

COMMENTATORS: Professor Timothy A. Gelatt, New York University School of Law; Professor Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Columbia University School of Business; Benjamin Lubinda Ngenda, former Vice Chairman, Zambia Privatization Agency; Sophie L’Helias, Franklin Global Investor Services (Paris); Hon. Alice Pezard, Direction du Trésor, Ministère de L’Economie (Paris); Howard D. Sherman, Director, Global Services, Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc.

MODERATORS: Professors Roberta S. Karmel and Arthur R. Pinto, Brooklyn Law School

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Forums of the Future –The Role of Specialized Courts in Resolving Business DisputesOctober 13, 1994

Published in vol. 61, no. 1 Brooklyn Law Review (1995)Co-sponsored with the Abraham L. Pomerantz Lecture Series and the Brooklyn Law Review SPEAKER: Professor Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, New York University School of Law

COMMENTATORS: Professor John L. Gibbons, Seton Hall University School of Law; Hon. Pauline Newman, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; and Professor Jeffrey W. Stempel, Brooklyn Law School

MODERATOR: Professor Arthur R. Pinto, Brooklyn Law School

Intellectual Property and Competition Law: Changing Views in the European Community and the United States of AmericaNovember 1, 1993 and April 15, 1994

Published in vol. 20, no. 1 Brooklyn Journal of International Law (1994). Co-sponsored with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and the Brooklyn Journal of International Law

lONDON AND NEw YORK SPEAKERS: Professor Noel Byrne, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; Visiting Professor Leo J. Raskind, Brooklyn Law School; Ben Smulders, Legal Service, Commission of European Communities; Professor Jerome Reichman, Vanderbilt University School of Law; Judge Christopher Bellamy, Court of First Instance, European Court of Justice; Charles F. Rule, Covington & Burling; and Professor Spencer Weber Waller, Brooklyn Law School

lONDON COMMENTATORS: Professor Alison Firth, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; Professor Valentine Korah, University College, London; Professor Gerald Dworkin, Kings College, London; and Professor Rosa Greaves, University of Southampton (England)

NEw YORK COMMENTATORS: Professor Joel Reidenberg, Fordham University School of Law; Gerald Sobel, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler; Professor Samuel K. Murumba, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Eleanor Fox, New York University School of Law

lONDON AND NEw YORK MODERATORS: Professor Spencer Weber Waller, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Noel Byrne, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; and Professor Rosa Greaves, University of Southampton (England)


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The New Corporate LawMarch 25, 1993

Published in vol. 59, no. 1 Brooklyn Law Review (1993)Co-sponsored with the Abraham L. Pomerantz Lecture Series and the Brooklyn Law Review

SPEAKER: Professor Joel Seligman, University of Michigan Law School

COMMENTATORS: Dennis J. Block, Weil, Gotshal & Manges; Professor Deborah A. DeMott, Duke University School of Law; and Justice William T. Quillen, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, Widener University School of Law

MODERATOR: Professor Norman S. Poser, Brooklyn Law School

Global Trends Toward Universal Banking–A Comparative and Regulatory AnalysisNovember 9, 1992


SPEAKERS: Professor Edward L. Symons, Jr., University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Professor Thomas F. Cargill, University of Nevada; Professor Blanche Sousi, University of Lyon; Michael Gruson, Shearman & Sterling; Professor Cynthia Crawford Lichtenstein, Boston College Law School; Professor Helen A. Garten, Rutgers University School of Law (Newark); and Professor Jonathan R. Macey, Cornell Law School

COMMENTATORS: Professor Robert Z. Aliber, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business; Professor Charles W. Calomiris, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign); Professor Michael Klausner, New York University School of Law; Robert E. Litan, Brookings Institution; and Professor Geoffrey P. Miller, University of Chicago Law School

MODERATORS: Professors Roberta S. Karmel and Arthur R. Pinto, Brooklyn Law School.

The Impact of European Integration on Intellectual PropertiesApril 8, 1992


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SPEAKERS: Silke von Lewinski, Research Staff, Max-Planck Institute (Munich); Baila H. Caledonia, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.; Visiting Professor Leo J. Raskind, Brooklyn Law School; and Wayne H. Herrington, Senior Counselor and Special Advisor for Intellectual Property and Technology, U.S. International Trade Commission

MODERATOR: Professor Beryl R. Jones, Brooklyn Law School

The Uruguay Round and the Future of World TradeNovember 15, 1991

Published in vol. 18, no. 1 Brooklyn Journal of International Law (1992)Co-sponsored with the International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, and the Brooklyn Journal of International Law

SPEAKERS: Professor John H. Jackson, University of Michigan Law School; Professor Kenneth W. Abbott, Northwestern University School of Law; Professor Ronald A. Brand, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Professor Harold H. Koh, Yale Law School; and William B. Barreda, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade and Investment, U.S. Treasury Department

COMMENTATORS: Richard Wright, European Communities Office (Washington, D.C.); Gary N. Horlick, O’Melveny & Myers; M. Jean Anderson, Weil, Gotshal & Manges; and Jonathan T. Fried, Department of External Affairs, Government of Canada

MODERATOR: Professor Spencer Weber Waller, Brooklyn Law School

Taxing the International Transfer of InformationDecember 5, 1990 (New York) and April 10, 1991 (London)

Published in vol. 17, no. 1 Brooklyn Journal of International Law (1991)Co-sponsored with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and the Brooklyn Journal of International Law

NEw YORK SPEAKERS: Professor Karen B. Brown, Brooklyn Law School; Professor David W. Williams, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; Ron Watson and P. Ann Fisher, U.S. Treasury Department; Peter N. James, Price Waterhouse; and Arthur Pasternak, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher


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NEw YORK MODERATOR: Professor Beryl R. Jones, Brooklyn Law School

lONDON SPEAKERS: Professors Karen B. Brown and David W. Williams; Ron Watson and P. Ann Fisher; Ian Wood, Inland Revenue; Miles Walton, Wilde Sapte, and Terry Simons, Price Waterhouse

lONDON MODERATOR: Professor Arthur R. Pinto, Brooklyn Law School

Tensions Between Institutional Owners and Corporate Managers: An International PerspectiveNovember 27, 1990

Published in vol. 57, no. 1 Brooklyn Law Review (1991)Co-sponsored with the Abraham L. Pomerantz Lecture Series

SPEAKER: Professor Richard M. Buxbaum, University of California at Berkeley School of Law

COMMENTATORS: Professor Paul L. Davies, Balliol College, Oxford University; Professor Roberta S. Karmel, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Freidrich K. Kubler, Frankfurt University; and Bevis Lonstreth, Debevois & Plimpton.

MODERATOR: Professor Arthur R. Pinto, Brooklyn Law School

Resolution of International Products Liability Disputes: An Emerging Procedural FrameworkDecember 6, 1989


SPEAKERS: Bud G. Holman, Kelley Drye & Warren; Professor Russell J. Weintraub, University of Texas School of Law; Sheila L. Birnbaum, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Dr. Ernst C. Stiefel, Rechtsanwalt (Düsseldorf), Licencie en Droit (Paris), Barrister at Law (London), Of Counsel, Coudert Brothers

MODERATOR: Professor Aaron D. Twerski, Brooklyn Law School

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International Securities Regulation: Recent Developments in the United States, United Kingdom, and European CommunityMay 22, 1989 (London) and September 11, 1989 (New York)

Published in vol. 16, no.1, Brooklyn Journal of International Law (1990)Co-sponsored with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College, University of London

lONDON SPEAKERS: Ross Cranston, Dean of the Faculty of Laws, Queen Mary College, University of London; Daniel Goelzer, General Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission; Professor Roberta S. Karmel, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Arthur R. Pinto, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Norman S. Poser, Brooklyn Law School; Barry Rider, Fellow and Tutor, Jesus College, Cambridge University, and President, British Institute of Securities Law; Professor Tony Shea, Head of the Department of Law, City University (London); Professor Manning G. Warren III, University of Alabama School of Law

lONDON COMMENTATORS: Ralph Aldwinckle, Linklaters & Paines; Michael Blane, Senior Compliance Officer, Merrill Lynch Europe Ltd.; John D’Alimonte, Willkie Farr & Gallagher; Martin Harty, Legal and Compliance Director, CL-Alexanders Laing & Cruickshank Holdings, Ltd.; Guy Morton, Freshfields; James McHugh, Executive Director, Goldman Sachs International, Ltd.; G.F. Pimlott, Senior Director, Corporate Finance Division, Kleinwort Benson, Ltd.; and Leslie N. Silverman, Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton

NEw YORK SPEAKERS: Professor Roberta S. Karmel, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Manning G. Warren, III, University of Alabama School of Law; Professor Arthur R. Pinto, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Tony Shea, City University (London); Professor Norman S. Poser, Brooklyn Law School; Ross Cranston, Dean of the Faculty of Laws, Queen Mary College, University of London; Daniel L. Goelzer, General Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission; and Professor Barry Rider, Jesus College, Cambridge University

NEw YORK COMMENTATORS: Francis J. Morison, Davis Polk & Wardwell; David M. Barnard, Linklaters & Paines; Robert E. Zimet, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Michael Cuthbert, Clifford Chance; James B. McHugh, Executive Director, Goldman Sachs International, Ltd. (London); George E.S. Seligman, Slaughter and May; David Marcus, Executive Vice President, New York Stock Exchange; and David Farrington, Lovell White Durrant

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The Codification of International Commercial Law: Toward a New Law Merchant?December 7, 1988

Published in vol. 15, no. 1 Brooklyn Journal of International Law (1989)

SPEAKERS: Peter H. Pfund, Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law, U.S. Department of State; Robert S. Rendell, Chairman, International Practice Group, Johnson and Swanson; Ernest T. Patrikis, General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and Professor Karen B. Brown, Brooklyn Law School

MODERATOR: Professor Gerald T. McLaughlin, Brooklyn Law School

Risk Based Capital Adequacy Guidelines: A New Competitive Environment for International BankingOctober 7, 1988

SPEAKERS: Professor Roberta S. Karmel, Brooklyn Law School; Merrill B. Stone, Kelley Drye & Warren; Dietmar K.R. Klein, Director, Deutsche Bundesbank; Suzanne B. Labarge, Deputy Superintendent, Regulatory Policy, Planning and Resources, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Canada; Akira Nagashima, Chief Representative in the Americas, Bank of Japan; J. Andrew Spindler, Vice President, Banking Studies and Analysis Function, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Keith Clark, Clifford Chance (London); Harold S. Nathan, Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts; Professor Gerald T. McLaughlin, Brooklyn Law School; Joseph P. Bauman, Vice President, Chemical Bank; Ryuzo Kodama, Joint General Manager, Sumitomo Bank, Ltd.; Hugh G. O’Brien, Head of Group Financing, Midland Bank PLC (London); Gerhard Schleif, Senior Vice President and Manager, Berliner Handels and Frankfurter Bank, New York/Grand Cayman Branch; Steven M. Roberts, Peat Marwick Main & Co.; Robert E. Garber, General Counsel, Irving Bank Corp. and Irving Trust Company; and Robert M. MacAllister, Vice President and Senior Associate Counsel, Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A

MODERATORS: Connie M. Friesen, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Kaz Brunicki, Clifford Chance; Flavian E. Zeugin, First Vice President, Swiss Bank Corp.; and Sara A. Kelsey, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Chemical Bank

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Securities and Exchange Commissioner Cynthia Glassman, who discussed current issues facing the SEC in the global marketplace

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Each year, the Center offers several

breakfast roundtables at which notable

speakers address practitioners, members

of the Center’s faculty, and IBL Fellows.

The New York Stock Exchange typically co-

sponsors two of these breakfasts concerning

the future of international capital markets.

The other breakfasts are co-sponsored by

quasi-governmental bodies, prominent law

firms and regulatory organizations.

In a reflection of the Center’s broad

and growing curriculum, the Breakfast

Roundtable Series has expanded to cover

additional topics including terrorism and

war, international trade and antitrust,

international intellectual property,

international taxation, international

bankruptcy, and commercial law. Speakers

have included distinguished participants

such as a former U.S. Attorney General,

Securities and Exchange commissioners,

federal judges, foreign securities regula-

tors, and top officials from UNCITRAL,

the Treasury Department, and the Federal

Reserve System.

BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLE SERIES

Jernej Sekolec, Secretary of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), speaking on “The Emerging Law of International Commerce”

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2007–2008

Erik R. Sirri, Director of the Division of Market Regulation, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Market Regulation in a Global Setting.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — September 17, 2007

Honorable Delissa A. Ridgway, U.S. Court of International Trade, “Trade: The Antidote to Terrorism?” Co-sponsored by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP — October 19, 2007

Jernej Sekolec, Secretary, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL); and Director, International Trade Law Division, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, “The Emerging Law of International Commerce.” — January 31, 2008

Crispin Waymouth, First Secretary, Delegation of the European Commission to the United States, “Recent Moves in EU Securities Regulation and their Implications for the US.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — February 25, 2008

2006–2007

Sheila C. Bair, Chairman of the Board of Directors FDIC, “Update from Washington.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — December 1, 2006

Professor Emilios Avgouleas, University of Piraeus and Partner, Tsibanoulis & Partners, “The EU Regime for Market Abuse.” Co-sponsored by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP — February 5, 2007

John W. White, Director of the Division of Corporate Finance, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Current Issues in the Global Capital Markets.” Co-sponsored by NYSE—March 23, 2007

2005–2006

Debra Valentine, Vice President, Secretary and Associate General Counsel, United Technologies Corporation, “Merger Developments: US, EU and Worldwide.” — September 9, 2005

Cynthia Glassman, Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission, “The SEC in a Global Marketplace: Current Issues.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — October 7, 2005

Klaus Hopt, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, “Corporate Governance on the Agenda of the European Commission.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — March 22, 2006


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2004–2005

Edward F. Greene, General Counsel, Global Corporate & Investment Bank, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., “An Update on the European Financial Services Action Plan.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — October 26, 2004

Michael Silva, Vice President and Counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and Raleigh Tozer, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank, “International Payment Systems, Developing Economies and the War on Terror: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Emerging Banking System of Iraq.” Co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank — November 10, 2004

Christoph Paulus, Professor of Law, Humboldt University (Berlin) and Member, International Insolvency Institute and the American College of Bankruptcy, “Can ‘Odious’ Debt be Instrumentalized?” — January 25, 2005

Jingzhou Tao, Managing Partner of the Beijing Office of Coudert Brothers, “China’s Antitrust Regime: Current Status and Future Forecast.” — February 10, 2005

Beth Golden, Global Head of Compliance, Bear Stearns and Former New York State Deputy Attorney General, “Global Compliance Challenges.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — April 20, 2005

2003–2004

Sean Hagan, Deputy General Counsel, IMF, “The Legal Framework for the Resolution of Financial Crises.” — October 10, 2003

Dan Goelzer, Member, PCAOB, “The Impact of PCAOB on Foreign Auditors.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — October 27, 2003

Honorable Jane A. Restani, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of International Trade, “The CIT in the Era of Multilateral Trade Agreements.” — February 4, 2004

Andrea Corcoran, Director of Office of International Affairs, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, “Implications of Exchange Alliances.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — March 30, 2004

2002–2003

Calley Jordan, Senior Counsel, Legal VPU, The World Bank, “The Conundrum of Corporate Governance: Making Rules Work.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — October 4, 2002

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Mary Helen Carlson, Legal Advisor, Department of State, “How the U.S. Negotiates Private International Law Treaties: The Convention on the Carriage of Goods, A Case in Point.” Co-sponsored by Holland & Knight — November 19, 2002

Harry Ballan, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell, “Corporate Inversions and International Tax Policy.” — January 22, 2003

Alan Beller, Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Current Developments Regarding Foreign Issuers.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — February 24, 2003

2001–2002

Martin Van Empel, Partner, Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhu and Amsterdam Professor European Law, University Luiss Guido Carli (Rome), “The Euro and Antitrust.” — November 7, 2001

Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, “Current International Copyright Issues and Their Impact on the United States.” — November 27, 2001

Chancellor William B. Chandler III, Court of Chancery, “The Future of Delaware Corporate Law in the New Millennium.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — January 31, 2002

Paul M. Dudek, Chief, Office of International Corporate Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission, “Recent Developments Effecting Foreign Issuers.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — April 29, 2002

2000–2001

Didier Davydoff, Director, European Savings Institute and Director, Initiative Epargne et Marches, “Stock Exchange Alliances in Europe and Implications for European Savings.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — October 13, 2000

Professor Neil B. Cohen, Brooklyn Law School, “The Emerging Law Governing International Secured Transactions.” — November 2, 2000

Laura S. Unger, Commissioner and Acting Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Regulatory Issues Relating to Global Market Access.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — March 15, 2001

Shira Perlmutter, Vice President and General Counsel, Intellectual Property Policy, AOL Time Warner, Inc. and former Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office, “International Copyright in the Digital Environment.” Co-sponsored by American Express — March 28, 2001


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1999–2000

Elliott E. Maxwell, Special Advisor to the Secretary for the Digital Economy Office of the Secretary, United States Commerce Department, “International and National Policy Issues in Electronic Commerce.” Co-sponsored by American Express — September 23, 1999

Ira M. Millstein, Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, “The World Bank/OECD Corporate Governance Project.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — October 8, 1999

Honorable Donald C. Lubick, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Tax Policy, “Current Issues in the Taxation of U.S. Multinationals.” — November 11, 1999

Annette Nazareth, Director of the Division of Market Regulation, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Market Regulation in a Technological and Global Economy.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — February 8, 2000

Robert Pitofsky, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission, “Merger Review in a Global Economy.” — February 17, 2000

Thomas J. Erickson, Commissioner, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, “Demutualization and Regulation of Commodities Exchanges.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — April 18, 2000

1998–1999

Professor Guido Ferrarini, Faculty of Law, University of Genoa (Italy), “Corporate Governance Reforms in Italy.” Co-sponsored by Weil, Gotshal & Manges — October 2, 1998

Professor Fritz Kubler, University of Pennsylvania Law School, “Recent Pressures on German Corporate Governance.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — December 1, 1998

Dr. Roger Ferguson, Member, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, “The Asian Crisis and Global Market Stability.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — March 12, 1999

1997–1998

Kyra Bergin, Managing Director, Salomon Brothers International, Ltd. (London), “Practical Effects of EU Securities Law Directives.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — September 22, 1997

Leslie N. Silverman, Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, “SEC Registration Versus Rule 144A: The Pros and Cons.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — November 25, 1997

Professor Eddy Wymeersch, Director, Financial Law Institute, University of Ghent (Belgium), “The Effect on European Stock Markets of the Introduction of the Euro.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — February 24, 1998

Ernest T. Patrikis, First Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, “Financial Reform in Japan.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — April 27, 1998

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1996–1997

Brian J. Lane, Director, Division of Corporation Finance, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Update on International Initiatives.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — November 15, 1996

Edward J. Waitzer, former Chairman, Ontario Securities Commission (Toronto), and former Chairman, Technical Committee, IOSCO, “The Role of Metaorganizations in Securities Regulation.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — December 11, 1996

Randall D. Guynn, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell, “Reducing Legal Risks in Cross-Border Securities Transaction.” Co-sponsored by Capital Markets Forum, International Bar Association — March 12, 1997

Daniel P. Cunningham, Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, “Multibranch Netting — A Solution to the Problems of Cross-Border Bank Insolvencies.” Co-sponsored by J.P. Morgan Company, Inc. — April 29, 1997

1995–1996

Professor Roy Goode, Norton Rose Professor of English Law, St. John’s College, Oxford University, “Interests in Uncertificated Securities: A New Form of Property?” Co-sponsored by NYSE — September 20, 1995

Barry Barbash, Director, Division of Investment Management, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Regulating International Money Management Services: The SEC’s Perspective.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — December 1, 1995

Richard Bernard, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, New York Stock Exchange, “Looking Through the Other End of the Telescope: The Emerging Russian Stock Market.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — March 5, 1996

Dr. Carole A. Ryavec, Director, Plexus Group, “What If We All Went Global? An Examination of Non-U.S., Equity Opportunities.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — April 29, 1996

1994–1995

Honorable Eugene A. Ludwig, Comptroller of the Currency, “Current Banking Issues.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — September 21, 1994

Honorable Alice Pezard, Direction du Trésor, Ministère de L’Economie (Paris),“Current Issues in French Privatization.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — November 1, 1994


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Dr. Susan M. Phillips, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System and former Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, “Regulatory Challenges of Financial Derivatives.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — March 9, 1995

Eugene Rotberg, former Vice President and Treasurer, World Bank, “Risks in Emerging Markets.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — April 12, 1995

1993–1994

Brenda Eprile, Chief Accountant, Ontario Securities Commission (Toronto), “The Choice between Harmonization and Mutual Recognition in Accounting Standards.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — September 29, 1993

Mary L. Schapiro, Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Current Developments in International Securities Regulation.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — November 10, 1993

Richard Kosnik, Clifford Chance, and former Associate Director, Division of Corporate Finance, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Update on Internationalization Initiatives.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — March 10, 1994

Professor Hideki Kanda, University of Tokyo, “Japanese Securities Regulation — Recent Developments.” Co-sponsored by Paine Webber Inc. — April 28, 1994

1992–1993

Ricki Rhodarmer Tigert, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and former Associate General Counsel, International Banking, Federal Reserve System, “Competition in the International Capital Markets.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — November 18, 1992

Marianne K. Smythe, Director, Division of Investment Management, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Internationalization of Investment Companies.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — December 17, 1992

Iain Cullen, Simmons & Simon, (London), “An Update on the Investment Services Directive.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — March 9, 1992

Vladimira Glatzova, the Czech Republic, “Doing Business in Czech and Slovak Republics — Privatization and Economic Development.” Co-sponsored by Paine Webber, Inc. — April 28, 1993

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1991–1992

Alessandro Roselli, Representative for the U.S. of the Italian Foreign Exchange Office, “Recent Developments in the Italian Financial Markets.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — October 30, 1991

Bruce A. Wolfson, Managing Director, Bear, Stearns & Co., “Proposed Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada and Its Implications for the Securities Industry.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — February 25, 1992

John J. Phelan Jr., former Chairman and CEO, New York Stock Exchange, and Chairman, FIVB, “Work of the Fédération International des Bourses de Valeurs.” Co-sponsored by Paine Webber, Inc. — April 29, 1992

1990–1991

Peter J. Pettibone, Lord Day & Lord, Barrett Smith, “Emerging Capital Markets in the Soviet Union.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — September 24, 1990

Suzanne Nora Johnson, Goldman, Sachs & Company, “ Latin America’s New Access to the Global Equity Markets: Fantasy vs. Reality.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — December 13, 1990

Philip R. Lochner Jr., Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Planning for Spontaneity: The Creation of Free Markets in Eastern Europe.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — March 11, 1991

Joseph C. F. Lufkin, Founder and Managing Director, Global Proxy Services Corp., “Corporate Governance in the International Arena.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — April 26, 1991

1989–1990

Auke Haagsma, First Secretary, Legal Affairs Delegation of the European Communities, “EC Initiatives on Company Law and Takeovers.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — September 14, 1989

Isaac Shapiro, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, “Political and Economic Developments in Japan.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — November 20, 1989

Catherine Heron, Deputy General Counsel, Investment Company Institute, “Mutual Fund Regulation in Europe: Implications of the UCITS Directive.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — March 28, 1990

Michael D. Mann, Director, Office of International Affairs, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Update on International Securities Enforcement Cooperation.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — April 23, 1990


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1988–1989

Marie-Claude Robert, Head of the External Relations Department, Commission des Opérations de Bourse (Paris), “De-regulation of the Equity Markets in France.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — November 11, 1988

Paul Guy, Head of the Commission des Valeurs Mobilières du Québec (Montreal), and General Secretary of the International Organization of Securities Commissions, “IOSCO Report on Multi-National Securities Offerings.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — December 5, 1988

Paul M. Thiel, Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc., and Arnold W. Sametz, Director, Salomon Brothers Center for the Study of Financial Institutions, Graduate School of Business, New York University, “Development of Securities Markets and Regulation in China.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — March 13, 1989

1987–1988

Jonathan Kallman, Associate Director, Division of Market Regulation, Securities and Exchange Commission, “International Clearance and Settlement: The Back Office Crisis of the 1980’s?” Co-sponsored by NYSE — October 20, 1987

Michael J. Simon, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, National Securities Clearing Corporation, “Price Protection in International Markets.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — November 24, 1987

Nicholas de B. Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney General, and Senior Partner, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, “Impact of Program Trading on Current Market Practices.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — February 24, 1988

Linda C. Quinn, Director, Division of Corporation Finance, Securities and Exchange Commission, “The Concept of a Territorial Exemption from SEC Registration for Foreign Securities Offerings.” Co-sponsored by NYSE — April 15, 1988

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Professor Jonathan Clough, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, who spoke about “Data Theft? Cybercrime and the Criminalization of Access to Data”

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Since 1995, the Center has sponsored

colloquia where students and faculty meet to

discuss international economic law topics in

a dynamic, informal setting.

These programs provide opportunities

for scholars from Brooklyn Law School

and faculty members of other U.S. and

foreign law schools to present their works

in progress to an audience of faculty,

student fellows, and invited guests at the

Law School. Scholars have traveled from

law schools around the world including

Bologna University School of Law, Humbolt

University, the University of Windsor,

the University of Piraeus, Queen Mary

College – University of London, and

Monash University.

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW FORUMS

The intellectual exchange of ideas at these

forums allows presenters to refine their

papers’ arguments through an interactive

discussion and exposes the Center’s

participants to new ideas. Topics covered

at recent International Economic Law

Forums have included cybercrime, uniform

law conventions, international dispute

resolution, corporate governance in West

Africa, takeover regulations in the United

States and United Kingdom, and European

Community financial market regulation.Above: Students at the forum on “Constitutional Adjudication in the WTO” presented by Professor Sungjoon Cho of Chicago-Kent College of Law

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2007–2008

Professor Sungjoon Cho, Chicago-Kent College of Law, “Constitutional Adjudication in the WTO.”

Professor Jonathan Clough, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, “Data Theft? Cybercrime and the Criminalization of Access to Data.”

Professor Takis Tridmas, Penn State Dickinson School of Law, and Sir John Lubock Professor of Banking Law, Queen Mary College, University of London, “Harmonisation of Securities Regulation in the EU: Assessments and Prospects.”

2006–2007

Professor Emilios Avgouleas, University of Piraeus and Partner, Tsibanoulis & Partners, “A Critical Evaluation of the New EC Financial-Market Regulation: Peaks, Troughs, and the Road Ahead.”

Professor Christie Ford, University of British Columbia, “Principles-Based and Outcome-Oriented Securities Regulation in British Columbia.”

Professor Claire R. Kelly, Brooklyn Law School, “Compromising (and) Legitmacy: Alliances Among International Organizations.”

Professor William A. Lovett, Tulane University, “Four Competing Models: U.S. Leadership, OECD Partnership, Multipolar Rivalry and/or Multilateral Governance.”

2005–2006

Professor Aaron A. Dhir, Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor, “Transnational Corporations and Human Rights.”

Professor Paolo Galizzi, Marie Curie Fellow, Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham University Law School, “The Protection of the Global Environment and Developing Countries: Promoting Economic Sustainable Development.”

Professor Cynthia Lichtenstein, Visiting Professor, Brooklyn Law School, “How the Federal Reserve Supervises and Examines the Financial Services Conglomerates Whose Failure Might Threaten International Financial Stability.”

Professor David Skeel, University of Pennsylvania Law School, “Who Makes the Rules for Hostile Takeovers, and Why? The Peculiar Divergence of US and UK Takeover Regulation.”


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2004–2005

Professor Allison Christians, Northwestern Law School, “Tax Treaties and Aid to Sub-Sahara Africa: A Case Study.”

Professor Clare Moore Dickerson, Arthur L. Dickson Scholar, the State University of New Jersey at Rutgers, “Corporate Governance in West Africa.”

Professor Daniel Greenwood, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, “The Semi-Sovereign Corporation, or, the Return of Non-Territorial Law.”

Professor Christoph Paulus, Humboldt University (Berlin) and Member of the International Insolvency Institute and the American College of Bankruptcy, “The Problem of the Group in European Insolvency Law.”

2003–2004

Professor Lan Cao, William and Mary School of Law, “The Ethnic Question in Law and Development.”

Professor Mark Poirier, Seton Hall University, “The NAFTA Chapter 11 Expropriation Debate Through the Eyes of a Property Theorist.”

Professor Andrea Schneider, Marquette University School of Law, “International Dispute Resolution.”

Professor Marco Torsello, Bologna University School of Law, “Common Features of Uniform Law Conventions.”

2002–2003

Professor Hannah Buxbaum, Indiana University School of Law, “Conflicts of Law in Cross-Border Collateral Transactions: Security Interest in Indirectly-Held Securities.”

Professor Sydney M. Cone, III, Star Professor of Law, New York Law School and Senior Counsel, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, “Current Status of Doha Round WTO Trade Negotiations.”

Professor Claire R. Kelly, Brooklyn Law School, “International Regimes and Realist Theory.”

Professor Toshijuko Kono, Kyushu University (Japan), “The Hagne Draft Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters and Its Analysis from a Japanese Point of View.”

Professor Angel Oquendo, University of Connecticut, “Practical Dilemmas.”

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2001–2002

Professor Lawrence E. Mitchell, The George Washington University Law School, “If I Only Had a Heart or, How Can We Identify a Corporate Morality.”

Professor Teemu Ruskola, Visiting Professor, Cornell Law School, “What is the Difference (If Any) Between a Corporation and a Family? A Chinese and American Legal Perspective.”

Professor Spencer Weber Waller, Director of the Institute for Consumer Anti-Trust Studies, Loyola University School of Law (Chicago), “Suing OPEC.”

2000–2001

Professor William Bratton, The George Washington University Law School, “Tax Coordination and Tax Competition in the European Union.”

Professor Fred Cate, Indiana University School of Law (Bloomington), “Privacy: Can the U.S. Learn Anything From Europe?”

Professor David J. Gerber, Chicago-Kent College of Law, “Globalization and Comparative Law.”

Professor Howell E. Jackson, Harvard Law School, “Regulatory Competition in International Securities Markets: Evidence from Europe in 1999 Part II” (co-authored with Eric J. Pan).

1999–2000

Professor John Martin Conley, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, and Professor William M. O’barr, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, “Law and Anthropology.”

Professor Kent Greenfield, Boston College, “Using Corporate Law to Reinforce International Law.”

Professor John Mcginnis, Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and Professor Mark Movesesian, Hofstra Law School, “World Trade Organization.”

1998–1999

Professor Claire R. Kelly, Brooklyn Law School, “The Export Clause of the United States Constitution.”

Professor Peter Spiro, Hofstra Law School, “Federalism and Foreign Affairs.”Surya P. Subedi, Senior Lecturer, University of Hull Law School, UK, “International Trade —

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1997–1998

Professor Neil B. Cohen, Brooklyn Law School, “Developing Countries and Secured Credit: A Look at the Bolivian Experience.”

Professor Claire Hill, George Mason University School of Law, “The Case of the Disappearing Political Risk.”

Professor Samuel K. Murumba, Brooklyn Law School, “Globalizing Intellectual Property: Linkage and the Challenge of a Justice Constituency.”

Professor Ann Marie Slaughter, Harvard Law School, “The Demise of the Nation-State in International Economic Law.”

Professor Eddy Wymeersch, Financial Law Institute, University of Ghent (Belgium), “Corporate Governance.”

1996–1997

Professor Jeffrey Atik, Suffolk University Law School, “The Construction of the Off-Shore.”

Professor Lan Cao, Brooklyn Law School, “Towards a New Sensibility in International Economic Development.”

Professor Jeffrey Dunoff, Temple University School of Law, “The Trade and Challenge to Traditional Understandings of the International Trade Regime.”

Professor James A. Fanto, Brooklyn Law School, “The Absence of Cross-Cultural Communication: SEC Mandatory Disclosure and Foreign Corporate Governance.”

1995–1996

Professor Merritt Fox, University of Michigan Law School, “Securities Law Disclosure.”Professor Jonathan Macey, Cornell Law School, “International Corporate Governance.”Professor Joel Reidenberg, Fordham University School of Law, “Governing

Global Networks.” Professor Joel Trachtman, Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts University, “Trade

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Professor Neil B. Cohen with IBL Fellow Lydia Tomitova ’09 (right) at an informal faculty-student discussion about their experiences at UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT

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The Brown Bag Luncheon Program,

which the Center launched in 1994,

brings international lawyers to Brooklyn

Law School to discuss their experiences,

their careers, and current legal issues with

the International Business Law Fellows.

Students learn about the range of careers

that are available in international business

law and they are able to personally engage

with lawyers with real practice experience.

Throughout the year, additional Brown Bag

lunches are held in which BLS faculty

discuss international business law issues

with students as well.

Guest speakers range from solo practitio-

ners to lawyers from large firms, and from

private sector corporate counsel to govern-

ment lawyers. In recent years, Brown Bag

lunches have featured former Fellows such

as the head of the legal department of a

multinational media firm, and the direc-

tor of the global control group of Citigroup

Global Markets, Inc.’s office of the

general counsel.

BROWN BAG LUNCHEONS

Former IBL Fellow Gabrielle Brussel ’92, Vice President of Legal Affairs and North American Counsel at JCDecaux North America, with IBL Steering Committee member Assistant Professor Steven A. Dean

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2007–2008Gabrielle Brussel ’92 (former IBL

Fellow), Vice President, Legal Affairs and North American Counsel at JCDecaux North America

Professor Neil B. Cohen, Brooklyn Law School, and Lydia Tomitova ’09 (IBL Fellow)

Professor Winnie Taylor, Cornell Law School, Visiting Professor, Brooklyn Law School

2006–2007Robert Cubitto, Retired Partner of

Debevoise & PlimptonIlana Marcus ’87, Chief Compliance

Officer Global Regulatory Affairs and Assistant General Counsel at Standard & Poor’s

2005–2006Sherry Didia ’03, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley

& McCloy, LLPAnne Flanagan ’82, Centre for

Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London

Peggy Kuo, New York Stock ExchangeMichele Siano ’97, Director and Co-Head

of the Global Control Group, Citigroup

2004–2005Amyt Eckstein ’01 (former IBL Fellow),

Pillsbury Winthrop Melvin S. Schwechter, LeBoeuf, Lamb,

Greene & MacRae, LLPNick Segal, Partner, Davis, Polk &

WardwellRobert Yalen, Debevoise & Plimpton

2003–2004Carl Goodman ’61, Attorney at LawAmy Johannansen, Coudert BrothersRebecca Roiphe, Manhattan District

Attorney’s OfficeElene Spanakos ’00 (former IBL Fellow),

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Brandon Ziegler ’98 (former IBL Fellow), Linklaters

2002–2003Jonathan K. Bender ’93 (former IBL

Fellow), Morrison Cohen Singer & Weinstein, LLP

David Harrison, Rosen & Livingston Elinor Hoffman, Coudert Brothers Scott Shauf, Staff Attorney, International

Monetary Fund

2001–2002Richard Andersen, Arnold & PorterRobin Gruber, Assistant General Counsel,

Chanel U.S.A., Inc.John H. Moore ’91 (former IBL Fellow),

Vice President, Citigroup, Inc.Professor Frank Tuerkheimer,

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2000–2001Janice Handler, Vice President and Senior

Counsel, Elizabeth ArdenColleen Piccone, Deputy Associate Chief

Counsel, United States CustomsProfessor Silvia Vanoni, Catholic

University, Milan, Italy

1999–2000Neil Molberger, Coudert BrothersDean Shen Sibao, UIBE Law School,

Beijing, ChinaWilton Wouter, Head of the Delegation

(Sri Lanka), European Commission

1998–1999Professor Sheldon Leader, University of

Essex, UKProfessor Paul M. Schwartz, Brooklyn

Law SchoolSurya Subedi, Senior Lecturer, University

of Hull Law School, UKVijay Tata, Arnold and Porter

1997–1998Professor Olga Dyuzheva, Moscow State

University Law SchoolStephen Fishbein, Shearman and SterlingArnold A. Gurwitch ’55, General

Counsel, ASCAPDebra Valentine, General Counsel,

Federal Trade Commission

1996–1997Bill Bierce, Bierce & Kenerson, P.C.Professor Franco Ferrari, University

of Bologna, Italy and Tiburg University, The Netherlands

Nicholas C. Howson, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison

Howard Sussman, Sussman Sollis Ebin Tweedy & Wood, LLP

1995–1996Irene Skidan ’90 (former IBL Fellow),

Linklaters

1994–1995Eric Gilliol, Marks, Murase & WhiteRichard Lutringer, Morgan, Lewis &

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Professor Emilios Avgouleas, of the University of Piraeus, a Partner at Tsibanoulis & Partners, Athens, Greece

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Brooklyn Law School hosts visiting

scholars from throughout the United States

and around the world who add richness to

the study of international business law here.

Each year, Visiting Distinguished Scholars,

Junior Scholars-in-Residence, and Visiting

Professors conduct research during their

stay and participate in the Center’s public

activities, often playing key roles in many

of its symposia.

Visiting Scholars also enrich the Brooklyn

Law School community by giving lectures

or teaching courses in international

business law. Past scholars and speakers

have come from Albania, Argentina,

Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria,

Canada, China, Colombia, the Czech

Republic, England, France, Germany,

Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico,

Mongolia, the Netherlands, Norway, Serbia,

Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine,

and Zambia.

VISITING SCHOLARS

Professor Christoph Paulus of Humbolt University, Berlin, Germany

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2007–2008Professor Jonathan Clough, Monash

University, Melbourne, AustraliaProfessor Fatos Lazimi, Luarasi

University, Tirana, AlbaniaProfessor Diego Lopez, Law School

Carrera, ColombiaSara Alice Perera, University Luiss

Guido Carli, Rome, Italy

2006–2007Professor Emilios Avgouleas,

University of Piraeus and Partner at Tsibanoulis & Partners, Athens, Greece

Professor Domenico Borghese, Modena, Bologna, Italy

Professor Petar Djundic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Alberto Recchia, University Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, Italy

Emanuela Vitello, University Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, Italy

2005–2006Lucia Albertin, University of

Bologna, ItalyItalo De Santis, Studio Legale Bussoletti

Nuzzo & Associati, Rome, ItalyProfessor Anne Flanagan ’82, Queen

Mary College, University of London, England

Professor Luljeta Ikonomi, Tirana University, Albania

2004–2005Professor Christoph Paulus, Humboldt

University, Berlin, GermanyNenad Tesic, University of Belgrade

Faculty of Law, Belgrade, Serbia

2003–2004Biancamaria Raganelli, University Luiss

Guido Carli, Rome, ItalyProfessor Gustavo Visentini, University

Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, Italy

2002–2003 Professor Silvia Vanoni, Catholic


2001–2002Chancellor William B. Chandler III,

Delaware Court of ChanceryProfessor Martin Von Empel, University

of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2000–2001Professor Silvia Vanoni, Catholic


1998–1999Professor Sheldon Leader, University of

Essex, UKSurya P. Subedi, Senior Lecturer,

University of Hull Law School, UK


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1997–1998Professor Eddy Wymeersch, University

of Ghent, Belgium

1995–1996Professor Roy Goode, Norton Rose

Professor of English Law, St. John’s College, Oxford University, UK

Professor Narumi Hasegawa, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan

Professor Reiko Nakosone, Chiba Keizai University, Japan

Professor Helge Stemshaug, University of Oslo, Norway

1994–1995Honorable Alice Pezard, Direction du

Trésor, Ministère de L’Economie, ParisProfessor Eugenio Ruggerio, University

Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, ItalySilvia Vanoni, Researcher, Catholic

University, Milan, ItalyProfessor Gustavo Visentini, University

Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, ItalyProfessor Edith Brown Weiss,

Georgetown University Law Center, and President of the American Society of International Law

1993–1994Professor Jill Fisch, Fordham University

School of Law Dean Mauro Cruz Garza, Universidad

Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterey, Mexico

Professor Ronald Macarthur, University of East London, UK

Professor Mitsuo Matsushita, University of Tokyo, Japan

Professor Hideaki Otsuka, Waseda University of Tokyo, Japan

Silvia Vanoni, Researcher, Catholic University, Milan, Italy

1992–1993Vladimira Glatzova, Attorney, the Czech

RepublicProfessor Mirta Mussilino, University

Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, ItalyProfessor Eugenio Ruggiero, University

Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, ItalyProfessor Gustavo Visentini, University


1991–1992 Professor Kenneth Abbott,

Northwestern University Law School Professor Arem Khachaturyan, Kiev

State University, UkraineDean Obrad Stanojevic, Belgrade

University School of Law, SerbiaProfessor Gustavo Visentini, University


1990–1991Professor Anna Maria Devita,

University of Florence, ItalyProfessor Aubrey Diamond,

Co-Director, London Law Center, University of Notre Dame

Professor Jacob Dolinger, State University of Rio de Janerio, Brazil

Professor Paul Latimer, Monash University in Clayton, Australia

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Professor Claire R. Kelly ’93, a former IBL Fellow and currently a member of the IBL Steering Committee, at a Breakfast Roundtable

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW FELLOWS

Brooklyn Law School’s International

Business Law Program prepares its Fellows

for a range of successful careers around the

world. Highly regarded and sought after

by employers from banks and securities

firms to law firms and courts, these students

are the recipients of many academic honors

and prizes and are very active in the Law

School community.

Fellows have gone on to practice as law-

yers in international law firms including

Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom in Tokyo,

Clifford Chance in Frankfurt, O’Melveny

& Myers in Beijing, Simpson Thacher &

Bartlett in Hong Kong, Chadbourne &

Parke in St. Petersburg, Russia, and White

& Case, Davis Polk & Wardwell, and Willkie

Farr & Gallagher in New York.

Alumni of the IBL Fellowship Program also

hold important positions at major interna-

tional corporations, including director and

counsel for Global Transaction Services at

Citigroup Markets & Banking, director of

the Contracts & Negotiations Group at IBM

Corporation, and chief operating officer

at Balyasny Europe Asset Management

in Hong Kong. Others have secured posi-

tions at prestigious institutions including

the United Nations, the U.S. Securities

and Exchange Commission, and the U.S.

Department of Justice. They are also regu-

larly hired as law clerks by federal and state

judges across the United States.

IBL Fellows maintain strong connections

to the Law School community, returning

regularly for alumni events, participating as

speakers in a variety of programs, and serv-

ing as mentors for current student Fellows.

IBL Fellows are invited to a range of events sponsored by the Center

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1990Carolyn V. Greene- AndersonMeite C. MeshelIrene Skidan

1991Peter M. AndersonSally G. BlinkenAlbertine R. GibbsJohn H. Moore

1992Robert AbramsGabrielle S. BrusselEdward K. DennehyRobert C. LewisMichael T. PriorRamon E. Reyes, Jr.Debra Vester

1993Jonathan K. BenderMiles J. FlamenbaumAna-Maria GaleanoClaire R. Kelly

1994Marc A. BergerLaura B. LehmanAndrea J. Strong

1995Michael G. AlbanoLisa E. GrossTracy E. JungMark F. Radom

1996Emil BukhmanMaria MarkovichMichael J. MoellerAntonio Yanez, Jr.

1997Michael J. DeMarJennifer L. JohnsonKristen J. McVeetyAnne E. Reilly

1998Ipek Nicole CandanMahendra N. ChuramanSouad Y. GhosnJasmine H. JordaanYoon J. ShinBrandon E. Ziegler

1999Jennifer Bartosiewicz- EdlindTian-Wein (Dianna) ChenOlga EgorovaAna C. RamirezJohanna Schmitt

2000Aimee M. AdlerIan G. MerrillLisa A. MondscheinLatif Oduola-OwooElene M. SpanakosSatu S. SvahnKeith Taketo TashimaJohn David Werner

2001Josh S. BauchnerRobert B. CaseyAmyt M. EcksteinLina GelferJanine C. GuidoMatthew J. McAlpineMara MoldwinWalter NaederMichael C. PerryRekha Ramani


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2002Michele AbrahamTodd DoyleBryan KellyAngela M. KhorshidJoseph LynchMaureen Peyton KingSusan L. Shin

2003Hui CaoAndrea FortHiroyuki IwamuraIlya KatsmanPaul LibrettaJessica LubarskyNicholas MinellaMichael PengSherry SandlerDavid Smitham

2004James BaribeauAmity BoyeJohn EmslieJohn KnappYohei MasudaRyan McCarthyKathryn McHaleRebekah RolloElena Tsaneva

2005Nima AshokDavid Cole BeauboufMichelle CrutchfieldAndrea GildeaJennifer GreeneDeborah KoplovitzMatthieu MilgromSara NordinNicole SkallaJeanne ZelnickJinghua Zou

2006Nithya (Balasubramanian) DasSherry DiamondMichael FreedmanRachel HollrahLindsay KassofJoshua ReisbergKenny TerreroDaniel WiigJessica Wong

2007Katharine E.G. BrookerBenjamin N. BrustJed FriedmanMark LegaspiAlexander RayskinNathalie ReyJoshua UristThomas J. Welling, Jr.

CURRENT FELLOWS

2008James AntoszewskiDaniel BaeSusan GreenMargaret HansonJennifer KernkampYou Jung ParkSara SchumanRebecca SendkerKesav Wable

2009Lisa AtkinsTodd BatsonMichael DaileyAnna KornikovaJessica LeeAndre NanceMax ShterngelHeather SmithLydia TomitovaJacob Zambrzycki

2010Aaron AnselYue DingStephanie SpellDiana Trotsenko

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW STEERING COMMITTEE

Center DirectorsProfessor Roberta S. Karmel, Co-director and Chair of Steering CommitteeProfessor Arthur R. Pinto, Co-directorProfessor James A. Fanto, Associate DirectorAssociate Professor Claire R. Kelly, Associate Director

Committee MembersAssociate Professor of Clinical Law Jonathan AskinAssistant Professor Miriam Hechler BaerAssistant Professor Derek E. BambauerProfessor Nathaniel A. BermanProfessor Anita BernsteinProfessor Dana Brakman ReiserProfessor Neil B. CohenAssistant Professor Steven A. DeanAssistant Professor Robin J. EffronAssociate Dean Michael A. GerberProfessor Edward J. JangerAssociate Dean Beryl R. Jones-WoodinAdjunct Professor Louis B. KimmelmanAssistant Professor Rebecca M. KysarProfessor Samuel K. MurumbaAssistant Professor James J. ParkAssociate Dean Lawrence M. SolanAssistant Professor Yane SvetievProfessor Winnie F. Taylor


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Committee MembersAssociate Professor of Clinical Law Jonathan AskinAssistant Professor Miriam Hechler BaerAssistant Professor Derek E. BambauerProfessor Nathaniel A. BermanProfessor Anita BernsteinProfessor Dana Brakman ReiserProfessor Neil B. CohenAssociate Professor Steven A. DeanAssistant Professor Robin J. EffronAssociate Dean Michael A. GerberProfessor Edward J. JangerAssociate Dean Beryl R. Jones-WoodinAdjunct Professor Louis B. KimmelmanAssistant Professor Rebecca M. KysarProfessor Samuel K. MurumbaAssistant Professor James J. ParkAssociate Dean Lawrence M. SolanAssistant Professor Yane SvetievProfessor Winnie F. Taylor

Former IBL Fellow Gabrielle Brussel ’92, Vice President of Legal Affairs and North American Counsel at JCDecaux North America, with IBL Steering Committee member Professor Steven A. Dean

DENNIS J. BLOCK CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAWThe 20th Anniversary

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