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(Law degree and Doctorate in Law, University of Geneva). After a career start in banking, Ms. Baddeley became lecturer (1993) and then professor (1999) at the University of Geneva Law School, where she teaches family and inheritance law and estate planning. For several years, she has also held classes in this field for Widener University’s summer school. Ms. Baddeley has always had a strong interest in sports law and has given several conferences on questions about the legal set-up of sports bodies, on doping and on the legal status of athletes. Her doctoral theses as well as many of her publications deal with sports law. She lectures in this field at the University of Geneva and at the Master of Sports administration and technology (MSA) of the Academy International de Sciences du Sport (AiSTS) in Lausanne, as well as being the coordinator of the Law Module of the MSA. Ms. Baddeley is co-editor of publications in sports law and of the Swiss law journal CausaSport. After having organized two previous sports law conferences, Legal Forms and Liabilities of Sports Bodies (1999) and Extreme Sports in a Multidisciplinary Approach (2001), she is now co-organizer of the yearly Sports and the Law conference of the University of St. Gall.

(LL.B., Harvard University). Mr. Carrington has taught in fifteen American law schools, and at law schools in Colombia, Japan, China, and Germany. He was the dean of the Duke Law School from 1978 to 1988 and was the Reporter (the principal draftsman) of amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure from 1985 to 1992. Mr. Carrington is an author or editor of ten books and the author of over two hundred published essays. Bits of his work have been translated into Spanish, German, Chinese, and Japanese. He has also been involved in state and federal politics, chiefly in regard to laws bearing on judicial institutions and their use or misuse.

(B.A., Cornell University; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center). Ms. Coleman is a professor of law at Duke Law School. She was an Articles Editor on the Georgetown Law Journal and began her legal career as an associate in the litigation department of a large Washington, D.C. law firm, focusing on a range of matters including toxic torts. At Duke, she has taught courses in Torts and Children and the Law, and seminars in Child Abuse and Neglect, Genetics and the Law, and the Writ of Certiorari. In 2002, Ms. Coleman received the Duke Bar Association’s Distinguished Teacher Award. The subject-matter of her scholarship is wide-ranging, although it has tended most recently to focus on the ways law and culture impact the lives of women and children. Her work includes a book, Fixing Columbine: The Challenge to American Liberalism (2002), and articles including “The Legal Ethics of Pediatric Research,” forthcoming in the Duke Law Journal (2007); “Storming the Castle to Save the Children: The Ironic Costs of a Child Welfare Exception to the Fourth Amendment,” William and Mary Law Review (2005); “Culture, Cloaked in Mens Rea,” South Atlantic Quarterly (2002); “The Seattle Compromise: Multicultural Sensitivity and Americanization,” Duke Law Journal (1998); “Individualizing Justice Through Multiculturalism: The Liberals’ Dilemma,” Columbia Law Review (1996); “The Contradiction Between Soviet and American Human Rights Doctrine: Reconciliation Through Perestroika and Pragmatism,” Boston University International Law Journal (1989); and “Internationalizing The Copyright Code: An Analysis of Legislative Proposals Seeking Adherence to the Berne Convention,” Intellectual Property Law Review (1989).

(A.B., Harvard University; J.D., Columbia University). Mr. Coleman left his partnership at a large law firm in Washington, D.C., in 1996 to join the faculty at Duke Law School. He had previously taught for two years at Duke and received the Duke Bar Association Distinguished Teaching Award. His extensive professional experience includes a judicial clerkship, service as chief counsel for a congressional investigative committee, two years as an assistant general counsel for the Legal Services Corporation, and a term as a deputy general counsel for the U.S. Department of Education. In private practice, he represented criminal defendants in capital collateral proceedings and specialized in federal court and administrative litigation. At Duke, he teaches classes on criminal law, legal ethics, negotiation and mediation, and capital punishment. He has worked internationally on matters relating to the death penalty.

(B.A., Swarthmore College; J.D., New York University). Ms. DeMott is the David F. Cavers Professor of Law at Duke Law School and Adjunct Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business. In 1989, she received the Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award from Duke University. Ms. DeMott served as the Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of Agency, published in final form in 2006. From 2000-2002, she held a secondary appointment as Centennial Visiting Professor in the Law Department of the London School of Economics. She has also taught as visiting professor at universities in Australia, Canada, and the United States. She is the author of a treatise, Shareholder Derivative Actions, published in 1987 and a casebook, Fiduciary Obligation, Agency and Partnership, published in 1991, as well as numerous articles on corporate law, takeovers and acquisitions, and fiduciary obligation.

(J.D., JSM/JSD, Stanford University, M.D. spec. internal med.). Mr. Ducor is professor at the University of Geneva Law School and a partner with a Geneva business law firm. In his position of Director of the Interdisciplinary Master Program in Life Sciences Law of the University of Geneva, he teaches intellectual property and biotechnology law. Fully trained as a physician, he has practiced internal and emergency medicine for several years before redirecting his career to law. His main interest areas include intellectual property, especially in the field of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, technology transfer, regulatory matters, health law, and medical malpractice. He has published on biotechnology patent law in leading legal and scientific reviews.

(Ph.D. in Tax Law, University of Geneva; M.B.A., University of St. Gallen (lic.oec. HSG); Certified Swiss Tax Expert). Mr. Glauser is a professor of Swiss domestic and international tax law at the University of Lausanne Business School (HEC). He is also a partner of Oberson Avocats, a Geneva-based tax law firm in which he advises clients on domestic and international corporate tax matters and VAT. He is a member of the Federal Supervisory Board of the VAT Administration and participated actively in the issuance of a new VAT law in Switzerland. Mr. Glauser is a member of various academic and professional organizations, including without limitation the Swiss Association of Tax Law Professors (SATLP), the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and the Swiss Bar Association. He is a member of the Board of the Institute for Swiss and International Tax Law (ISIS) and of the Geneva Business Law Association (AGDA). Mr. Glauser participates as a member of the editorial committee to a major Swiss leading scientific tax periodical, Archives de droit fiscal Suisse/Archiv für Schweizerisches Abgaberech). His research in the field of VAT and corporate tax law, in particular on tax issues linked to company reorganizations and financing, was published in numerous contributions. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded with one of the Swiss’ most prestigious scientific distinction awards (Latsis Prize 2005).

(Ph.D. in Law, University of Muenster; LL.M., Yale University). Mr. Grossfeld is Professor Emeritus at the University of Muenster and Director Emeritus at both the Institute for Comparative Law and the Institute for Cooperative Corporations. He has been a faculty member of the University of Goettingen Law School and has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Michigan, Chicago, NYU, Richmond and SMU. He has published extensively in the areas of corporation law, accounting, and comparative law. Mr. Grossfeld has lectured on five continents and his books have appeared in Germany, China, Japan, Korea, England, and the U.S.

(Ph.D., University of Regensburg). Mr. Haas studied law at the University of Regensburg (Germany) and Lausanne and passed his Law degree in 1988. After his Ph.D. and qualification as a university lecturer in 1996, he became professor of law at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). From 2001-2007, he was professor at the University of Mainz (Germany) and beginning in January 2008, he will teach at the University of Zurich. His main lecturing activities are in the fields of procedural law, insolvency law and sports law. Mr. Haas does consultative work as well as legal opinions in the fields he teaches and acts as an arbitrator in commercial arbitrations as well as with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). He has chaired the German Anti-Doping Commission (1998-2002) and the Advisory Group on Legal Issues of the Council of Europe's Anti-Doping Convention (2002-2004). In 2004, he acted as the chair of the Independent Observer Team of WADA for the Athens Olympics. Mr. Haas is editor of numerous publications in sports law and of the Swiss law journal Causa Sport.

(Ph.D. in Law, University of Geneva; LL.M., University of Pennsylvania; J.S.M., Stanford University). Mr. Junod is the co-director of the Duke-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law. She is “maître-assistante” at the Geneva Law School, where she teaches pharmaceutical law and public health law and directs a seminar on biomedical conflicts of interest. Her focus is on administrative regulations, particularly those of the Swiss, E.U. and U.S. drug agencies. Her Ph.D. thesis on drug clinical trials was awarded the Walther Hug, the Joseph des Arts and the Latsis prizes. She has published several articles in Swiss and foreign journals, including the U.S. Food and Drug Law Journal and U.K. World Competition Journal. Ms. Junod also manages the Geneva master in life sciences law. She remains counsel at the Geneva law firm, Junod, Guyet, Muhlstein & Levy, and advises clients on topics related to pharmaceutical law.

(B.A., Yale College; J.D., Harvard Law School). Mr. Metzloff is a Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. Prior to coming to Duke, he had a clerkship with the Supreme Court of the United States. At Duke, he teaches the course on American Law for all J.D./LL.M. students. He has taught regularly at Duke’s Geneva and Hong Kong summer programs as well as at Tsinghua University in Beijing. At Duke, Mr. Metzloff regularly teaches a course on legal ethics. He served as a member of the North Carolina State Bar’s ethics committee for the past eight years. He has been involved in numerous cases as an expert witness on issues relating to lawyers’ ethical conduct. He is also currently the Director of the Distinctive Aspects Video Project which is producing documentaries on leading Supreme Court cases. These award-winning documentaries are now being used at many law schools and colleges in courses on Constitutional Law..

(B.A., J.D., University of Chicago). Mr. Schmalbeck is a member of the faculty of Duke Law School, where he specializes in federal taxation. He is also of counsel to a law firm in Washington, D.C. He has taught at the law schools of the University of Michigan and Northwestern University, and has served as the dean of the University of Illinois College of Law. Mr. Schmalbeck’s recent publications have primarily related to tax-exempt organizations, and international tax and estate planning.

(Dr. iur., Dr. iur. habil.,University of Tuebingen; First and Second State Examination). Mr. Stürner is Professor of Law at Albert Ludwigs Universitat in Freiburg. In addition to his teaching, he has served for 25 years as a full- and part-time judge on German first-instance and appellate courts, and participates in the governance of the legal profession in Germany. At Freiburg, he is Director of the Institut für Deutsches und Ausländisches Zivilprozessrecht. Mr. Stürner is the co-author of a major treatise on German Civil Procedure published in English in 2004. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School and has lectured at numerous other law schools and conferences in America and Europe. He was co-reporter of the first joint project of the ALI and Unidroit on Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure, which were affirmed by both institutions for harmonization in 2004.

(Ph.D. in Law,University of Leiden; B.A., University of Louvain). Mr. van Rhee is head of the Metajuridica Department of the Maastricht University Law School and former Academic Director of the Maastricht University European Law School. He taught Roman Law at the University of Leiden and Property and Civil Procedure at the University of Utrecht. Currently, he teaches Comparative Civil Procedure, Comparative Contract Law, Comparative Trust Law, and Legal History. Mr. van Rhee has been a visiting professor at various universities in the U.S., Belgium, Ukraine, Moldova and South Africa. His research focuses mainly on comparative civil procedure and its history in Europe and the U.S. Mr. van Rhee was one of the directors of the research program “Foundations of European Private Law” of the Ius Commune Research School and is currently involved as director in the program “Foundations and Principles of Civil Procedure in Europe” of the same Research School. He is chair of the Working Group on the History of Civil Procedure sponsored by the German Gerda Henkel Foundation. Additionally, he is general editor of the Civil Procedure Casebook of the Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe.

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