Institute Faculty
Margaret Beare - Ms. Beare is Professor of Sociology and Law at York University, Toronto. She served as the Director of the Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption, Osgoode Hall Law School, from 1996-2006. Before coming to academia, Ms. Beare worked for eleven years within the Department of the Solicitor General Canada and served two years as Director of Police Policy and Research. Her publications include Criminal Conspiracies, Organized Crime in Canada (1996); Major Issues Relating to Organized Crime (with Tom Naylor); Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering and Corruption (edited, 2003); Money Laundering in Canada: The Chasing of Dirty and Dangerous Dollars (co-authored with S. Schneider 2007); Police and Government Relations: Who’s Calling the Shots (co-edited with Tonita Murray 2007); and Honouring Social Justice: Honouring Dianne Martin (edited, 2009).
Mark Fenwick - (B.A., London University; M.Phil, Ph.D., Cambridge University). Mr. Fenwick is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, where he has been since 1999. Before moving to Japan, he taught at London University and at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. Mr. Fenwick teaches in the areas of criminology and sociology of law. His principal research interests are in comparative criminal law and criminology, with a particular focus on Japanese law and white collar and corporate crime. He has been a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, Chulalongkorn University and Tilburg University. Mr. Fenwick has taught at the Institute on three previous occasions.
Henry Gao - (LL.B., China Youth Politics Institute; LL.M., University College London; J.D., Vanderbilt University). Mr. Gao is Associate Professor of law at Singapore Management University and Dongfang Scholar Chair Professor at Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade. With law degrees from three continents, he started his career as the first Chinese lawyer at the WTO Secretariat. Before moving to Singapore in late 2007, he taught law at University of Hong Kong, where he was also the Deputy Director of the East Asian International Economic Law and Policy Program. He has taught at the IELPO program in Barcelona and the Academy of International Trade Law in Macau, and was the Academic Coordinator to the first Asia-Pacific Regional Trade Policy Course officially sponsored by the WTO. Widely published on issues relating to China and WTO, Mr. Gao’s research has been featured in CNN, BBC, The Economist, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. He has advised many national governments as well as the WTO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, APEC and ASEAN on trade issues. He sits on the Advisory Board of the WTO Chairs Program, which was established by the WTO Secretariat in 2009 to promote research and teaching on WTO issues in leading universities around the world.
Mitu Gulati - Mr. Gulati is on the law faculty at Duke University. His work on international insolvency focuses on the use of contractual mechanisms to solve insolvency problems and the historical evolution of the use of such contractual techniques.
Daphna Hacker - (LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D., Adv.) is a senior lecturer at the Law Faculty and the Gender Studies Program at Tel Aviv University. Ms. Hacker published numerous articles based on her socio-legal studies of the intersection between family, law and gender, including on child custody, singlehood, inheritance, and inter-religious marriages. She has recently edited (with Cynthia Bowman) a volume on Rights and Obligations in the Contemporary Family: Retheorizing Individualism, Families and the State, and wrote a book on Family Issues through the Lens of the Law, to be published in 2012.
Trina Jones - (A.B., Cornell University; J.D., University of Michigan). Ms. Jones is Professor of Law at Duke Law School, where she teaches civil procedure, employment discrimination, and race and the law. Before joining the Duke faculty, she practiced law as a litigator with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering. Her scholarly publications have focused on color discrimination, socio-economic inequality, diversity, and the conservative influence on anti-discrimination doctrine in U.S. law. Ms. Jones recently co-edited a book of essays entitled Law and Class in America: Trends Since the Cold War (2006 with Carrington), which examines the effects of legal reforms on poor people. She is a member of the North Carolina Bar and the District of Columbia Bar.
Kimberly Krawiec - (B.A., North Carolina State University; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center). Ms. Krawiec is an expert on corporate law who teaches courses on securities, corporate, and derivatives law at Duke University. Her research interests span a variety of fields, including the empirical analysis of contract disputes; the choice of organizational form by professional service firms, including law firms; forbidden or taboo markets; corporate compliance systems; insider trading; derivatives hedging practices; and “rogue” trading. Prior to joining academia, Ms. Krawiec was a member of the Commodity & Derivatives Group at the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell. She has served as a commentator for the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI) of the American Bar Association and on the faculty of the National Association of Securities Dealers Institute for Professional Development at the Wharton School of Business. Ms. Krawiec’s recent scholarship addresses organizational misconduct and trade within forbidden or contested markets. These works include “Price and Pretense in The Baby Market,” in Baby Markets: Money, Morals, And The Neopolitics Of Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2009); “Sunny Samaritans & Egomaniacs: Price-Fixing in the Gamete Market,” and “Show Me The Money: Making Markets in Forbidden Exchange,” in Duke Law School’s Law and Contemporary Problems; and “Altruism and Intermediation in the Market for Babies,” in the Washington & Lee Law Review. She also recently contributed a chapter, “Operational Risk Management: An Emergent Industry,” to the book Operational Risk Towards Basel III: Best Practices And Issues In Modeling, Management And Regulation (John Wiley and Sons, 2009). Ms. Krawiec also has taught law at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina, Harvard, and Northwestern, where she received the 1999-2000 Robert Childres Award for Teaching Excellence.
Jaemin Lee - (LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D., Seoul National University; LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center; J.D., Boston College Law School). Mr. Lee is currently Professor of Law at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea. After graduating from Seoul National University in 1992, he joined the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a career foreign service officer. He served as deputy director of the Treaties Division and the North American Trade Division of the Foreign Ministry. Upon earning his J.D. from Boston College, Mr. Lee joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP to practice international trade law in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office between 2001-2005. Since 2005, he has taught international trade law and public international law at Hanyang University and, as legal counsel, has represented or otherwise assisted the Government of Korea in a WTO panel and Appellate Body proceedings in 25 disputes in which Korea has participated as a direct party or a third party. Mr. Lee has been nominated as a panelist candidate in the Korea-EU FTA dispute settlement roster, the Korea-Chile FTA dispute settlement roster, and the WTO national panelist roster. He has been a visiting professor at Washington & Lee University School of Law and has authored or co-authored various articles and books relating to public international law and international trade law. His main area of research is anti-dumping and subsidy disputes.
Francis E. McGovern - (B.A., Yale University; J.D., University of Virginia). Mr. McGovern is Professor of Law at Duke University, and a leading international scholar on alternative dispute resolution (ADR). His pioneering work in promoting ADR in the litigation process is well known internationally. He maintains a distinguished practice as a court-appointed special master to help resolve and distribute assets in mass claim disputes.
Ralf Michaels - (J.D., S.J.D., University of Passau (Germany); LL.M., University of Cambridge). Mr. Michaels is Professor of Law at Duke University. He is an expert in comparative law and conflict of laws. His current research focuses mainly on three issues: the role of domestic courts in globalization, the potential of conflict of laws as a theory of global legal fragmentation, and the status and relevance of non-state law. He is the editor or co-editor of two special volumes of the American Journal of Comparative Law ("Beyond the State: Rethinking Private Law," 2008, also published as a book with Mohr/Siebeck; and "Legal Origins," 2009), as well as a book and a journal issue on conflict of laws ("Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World", Cambridge University Press, 2007; and "Transdisciplinary Conflicts", Law & Contemporary Problems, 2008). In addition, he has authored numerous articles and lectured widely on all three topics. While at Duke, Mr. Michaels has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Panthéon/Assas (Paris 2), Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Toronto; he has also held senior research fellowships at Harvard and Princeton, as well as the American Academy in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Private Law in Hamburg.
Ignacio Tirado - (LL.B., Universidad Complutense de Madrid [Spain]; LL.M., University College London [UK]; Ph.D., Universita di Bologna [Italy]; Ph.D., Universidad Autonoma de Madrid [Spain]). Mr. Tirado is Professor of Corporate and Insolvency Law at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Profesor Titular) and Special Counsel to the World Bank's Legal Vice-Presidency, where he has served on special leave since Jan. 2010. He is the author of a large number of publications on corporate and insolvency law, a regular speaker in international fora and visiting professor at the postgraduate programs of the University of Turin, the University of Rome La Sapienza or the China-EU School of Law in Beijing. Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Tirado was Of Counsel and founder of the Business Restructuring and Insolvency practice of Lovells LLP Office in Madrid.
Simon Young - (B.ArtsSc., McMaster University; LL.B., University of Toronto; LL.M., University of Cambridge). Mr. Young is Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Co-Director of the Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law. He teaches criminal law and evidence and specializes in legal issues concerning money laundering and the proceeds of crime.
