George Christie - Duke University (A.B., J.D., Columbia University; S.J.D., Harvard University; Hon. doc., University of Athens)

Mr. Christie was a Ford Fellow at Harvard Law School and a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, where he earned a Diploma in International Law. He began his legal career with private practice in Washington, D.C. before joining the University of Minnesota Law Faculty for almost four years. He returned to Washington to serve in the Agency for International Development as Assistant General Counsel for the Near East and South Asia before joining the Duke Law faculty in 1967. Mr. Christie has published widely in torts and jurisprudence. He is the editor of a casebook in jurisprudence (1973) now in its third edition and a casebook in torts (1983) now in its fourth edition. He has published many articles as well as several monographs including The Notion of an Ideal Audience in Legal Argument (2000). Mr. Christie has been a visiting professor at law schools in the United States and in Greece, New Zealand, South Africa, Germany, Japan, and China, and a fellow of the National Humanities Center. He has also been a visiting fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra. Mr. Christie is a member of the Board of Editors of Law and Philosophy and of Isopoliteia.

Rohan Edrisinha - University of Colombo (Sri Lanka) (LL.B. Hons., University of Colombo; LL.M., University of California, Berkeley)

Mr. Edrisinha has taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo since 1986. He has taught courses in constitutional law, interpretation of statutes and documents, and torts law. He taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, in 1995 and was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University in 2004-05. Mr. Edrisinha attended three rounds of peace negotiations between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2003, as an advisor to the Forum of Federations and the chief government negotiator for the Minister of Constitutional Affairs. In recent years, his research and advocacy work has focused on promoting federal options for bridging the gap between the negotiating parties. His paper “Multination Federalism and Minority Rights in Sri Lanka” is published in Multiculturalism in Asia, edited by Will Kymlicka and Baogang He (2005). In 2007, Mr. Edrisinha was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) and is a Vice President of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists. He is founder and director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives, which is committed to constitutional reform for conflict resolution, human rights, and good governance. Since its establishment in 1997, it has been at the forefront of the campaign for a federal Sri Lanka, promoting legal and policy options and alternatives.

He was a founder Co-Director of the Centre for Policy Research and Analysis, University of Colombo from 1992-1995 and a founder of the Council for Liberal Democracy, and its Secretary General, from 1989 to 1993. He was also Deputy Secretary General of the Liberal Party from its inception in 1987 until his resignation from the party in 1993. In 1995 he was a member of two committees appointed by the Government to propose media law reforms.

Mark Fenwick - Kyushu University (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 EU law. His principal research interests are in comparative criminal law with a particular focus on Japanese law. He has published a number of articles in the field of criminology and was formerly assistant editor of the international journal, Theoretical Criminology. Mr. Fenwick has taught at the Institute on two previous occasions.

Robert Hillman - University of California-Davis (B.A., California State University at Long Beach; J.D., Duke University)

Mr. Hillman is the Fair Business Practices and Investor Advocacy Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis. He joined the Davis faculty in 1981 and specializes in corporate law, securities law, and international business transactions. Previously, he was in private practice at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker law firm and was General Counsel of Star-Kist foods. He has taught at New York University, Duke University, the University of Georgia, the University of Southern California, and the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. Professor Hillman’s texts include Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (with Cox and Langevoort), The Revised Uniform Partnership Act (with Weidner and Vestal), and Hillman on Lawyer Mobility. He has been an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law of Agency, an advisor to the National Conference of Commissioners for Uniform State Law’s revision of The Uniform Partnership Act, an advisor to the English Law Commission’s Partnership Law Reform Commission, a member of the California State Senate’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Shareholder Litigation, and of counsel to a San Francisco law firm specializing in shareholder class action litigation. For the last two years, he has been special counsel to the President of Liberia and has provided assistance to the country in its review and negotiation of contracts with foreign investors.

Donald L. Horowitz - Duke University (B.A., LL.B., Syracuse University; LL.M., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University)

Mr. Horowitz is the James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. The author of numerous books and articles on the legal system and on ethnic group relations around the world, Mr. Horowitz’s current research focuses on issues of constitutional design. For his book The Courts and Social Policy, he was awarded the Louis Brownlow Prize. His book A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society won the Ralph J. Bunche Prize for the best book in ethnic and cultural pluralism. His most recent book, The Deadly Ethnic Riot, was published in 2001. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is also President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. He has been the Institute’s Duke Faculty Director for several years.

Oliver Jones - University of Hong Kong (B.A., LL.B., University of Technology, Sydney; BCL, Oxford University)

Mr. Jones teaches at the Faculty of Law, Hong Kong University. He came to the Faculty from London, where he practiced as solicitor and junior counsel in public international law and international commercial arbitration at the premier English firm, Herbert Smith LLP. At Oxford, he was a British Chevening Scholar. He also worked as an administrative and constitutional law counsel to the Australian government and clerked for a judge of the Australian Federal Court. He received the University Medal for the highest performance for the LL.B. degree. He has published several articles in arbitration and in international and public law.

Trina Jones - Duke University (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, 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.

Paul Lejot - Asian Institute of International Financial Law ( Ph.D. candidate in law, University of Hong Kong; B.Sc. (Econ), University of London)

Mr. Lejot is a Visiting Fellow with the Asian Institute of International Financial Law, University of Hong Kong, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the ICMA Centre, University of Reading. Formerly an investment banker with a wide transactional command in structured debt, fixed income, regulatory capital, and financial restructuring, and with extensive experience in Europe and throughout East and South Asia, he is now engaged in research into financial market development and policy reform. Mr. Lejot’s interests include legal and institutional aspects of financial market behavior, regulation and development, transaction law and economics, and Asian regional financial policy. Since resuming an academic career in 2003, he has published widely on these topics and consulted with official organizations, in particular examining the legal and practical obstacles that constrain capital market development and effectiveness in Asia. His current work includes research and postgraduate course development in law and finance, notably legal influences on development instruments, institutions and markets, as well as structured finance, regulatory arbitrage, and financial derivatives.

Amir Licht - Radzyner Law School (B.A. (Econ), LL.B., Tel Aviv University; LL.M., S.J.D., Harvard Law School)

Mr. Licht is Dean and professor of law at the Radzyner Law School at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, a private university in Israel, and affiliated professor at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on comparative corporate governance, cultural dimensions of social institutions, and international securities regulation. Mr. Licht has published a very large number of articles on the interaction between national regulatory regimes governing cross-listed firms and on the role of culture in corporate governance, corruption and the rule of law, and international investment. At Boalt, he coordinated activities on corporate governance in East Asia. He has served as an advisor to the Israeli Securities Authority and the Ministry of Justice, and is a council member at the Israeli Institute of Corporate Governance and a research fellow at the European Institute of Corporate Governance.

Raul Pangalangan - University of the Philippines (A.B., LL.B., University of the Philippines; LL.M., S.J.D., Harvard Law School)

Mr. Pangalangan teaches constitutional law and public international law at the University of the Philippines. He won the Laylin Prize in international law and the Sumner Prize on issues of international peace at Harvard and the Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law. He was a visiting professor at the Harvard Law School in Spring 2007 and Fall 1998 and was Director of Studies at the Hague Academy in 2000. Mr. Pangalangan has lectured at Melbourne University, the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Thessaloniki Institute of International Public Law, and has frequently lectured on international humanitarian law for the International Committee of the Red Cross. He has been short-listed as Supreme Court Justice by the Philippines’ Judicial and Bar Council, the sole nominating body under the Constitution. He was a Philippine Delegate and a Drafting Committee member at the Rome Conference that established the International Criminal Court.

Mr. Vidmar is the Russell M. Robinson II Professor of Law at Duke University and Professor of Psychology. Before coming to Duke Law School, he was Professor of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada and also taught in its law school as well as at Osgoode Hall Law School. Mr. Vidmar developed the Negotiation course at Duke that is in high demand from both J.D. and LL.M. students. His scholarly works include American Juries: The Verdict (2007), World Jury Systems (2000), Medical Malpractice and the American Jury (1995), and over 100 law review and social science articles on topics that include dispute resolution, procedural systems, rights consciousness, and the social psychology of justice behavior.

Simon Young - University of Hong Kong (B.ArtsSc., McMaster University; LL.B., University of Toronto; LL.M., Cambridge University)

Mr. Young is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, and Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law. Prior to joining HKU, he was a Crown prosecutor for the Ministry of the Attorney General for Ontario in Toronto. Mr. Young specializes in criminal law and procedure, evidence, and Hong Kong constitutional law. He taught courses on terrorist financing, money laundering, and white collar crime for the Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law in 2003 and 2005. He serves as HKU Co-Director for the Asia-America Institute.