Institute Faculty
Matteo Barra - Lalive Law Firm (Switzerland)
Joseph Blocher - (B.A., Rice University; MPhil; Cambridge University; J.D., Yale Law School). Mr. Blocher is an assistant professor at Duke Law School, where his research and teaching are focused on constitutional law. Before joining the Duke faculty, he practiced in the appellate group of a law firm in Washington, D.C. and clerked twice for the federal courts of appeal. His papers have appeared in many scholarly journals, including the Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, New York University Law Review, and Georgetown Law Journal.
Tarcisio Gazzini - (LL.M., University of Nottingham; Ph.D., University of Padua). Mr. Gazzini is Associate Professor in International Law at VU University Amsterdam. He has previously taught at the Universities of Padua (Italy) and Glasgow (United Kingdom). He has published a monograph on The Changing Rules on the Use of Force in International Law, and several articles on international economic law, foreign investment law, collective security, regional organizations and economic sanctions. Mr. Gazzini is currently completing a monograph on The Interpretation of International Investment Treaties, and editing a collective work on The Sources of Rights and Obligations in Investment Law. He is a member of the International Law Commission Committee on non-state actors, a member of the editorial board of the Leiden Journal of International Law, and a consultant of UNITAR.
Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan - Mr. Grosse Ruse-Khan is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich (Germany). He frequently teaches international intellectual property, world trade and investment law at institutions in Europe and Asia. In addition to a monograph on international intellectual property protection, Mr. Grosse Ruse-Khan has published widely in peer-reviewed international academic journals, NGO policy papers and research handbooks. He previously worked in universities in the United Kingdom, Germany, Malaysia and Pakistan and has advised international organizations and NGOs, as well as governments, on international IP, WTO and investment law issues. In 2011, he was elected as associate fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL, Montreal, Canada).
Paul Haagen - (B.A., Haverford College; B.A., M.A., Oxford University; Ph.D., Princeton University; J.D., Yale University). Mr. Haagen is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Sports Law and Policy at Duke Law School. He has taught and lectured at universities in Austria, Belgium, China, Japan, Mexico, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, principally on matters related to arbitration and to sports law. Mr. Haagen has represented collegiate, amateur and professional athletes, has appeared as an expert witness in proceedings before the Court of Arbitration for Sport, has written and lectured on sports and has acted as a consultant to individuals, companies, teams and leagues on matters related to the regulation of Olympic, collegiate and professional sports. Since 1989, he has been the Chair of Duke’s Professional Sports Counseling Committee, the University committee responsible for advising athletes entering careers in professional sports. He also has acted as a Special University Counsel for NCAA enforcement matters.
Laurence Helfer - (B.A., Yale University; M.P.A., Princeton University; J.D., New York University). Mr. Helfer is the Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law and the co-director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at Duke University School of Law. His research interests include international human rights, international intellectual property law, and treaty design, international adjudication, and interdisciplinary analysis of international law and institutions. Mr. Helfer is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and the Journal of World Intellectual Property. He has authored more than sixty publications and lectured widely on his diverse research interests. He is the coauthor of Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Human Rights (2d ed., Foundation Press, 2009).
Carolyn McAllaster - (B.A., J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Ms. McAllaster is a clinical professor of law at Duke University and is the founder and director of the Duke AIDS Legal Project and the Duke AIDS Policy Clinic. She was a litigator in private practice in Durham, N.C., for thirteen years prior to joining the Duke Law School faculty in 1988. She has served as an administrative hearing officer for the N.C. Department of Human Resources and was in the inaugural class of state court arbitrators in Durham, North Carolina in 1987. Ms. McAllaster has taught pre-trial and trial advocacy courses in addition to clinical law courses focusing on child advocacy and AIDS and Law. She has taught trial practice for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and as an adjunct member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other law schools. She was a founder and first president of the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys and was appointed by the Governor to serve on the North Carolina AIDS Advisory Council in 1996. Ms. McAllaster is the author of two books, North Carolina Litigation Forms and Analysis and The Law and the Mentally Handicapped in North Carolina, (co-author), as well as several articles or chapters in books, including “Legal Issues for HIV-Infected Children” in Textbook of Pediatric HIV Care (2005) and co-author of “Issues in Family Law for People with HIV” in AIDS and the Law, 4th ed. (current Supplement, 2012). Ms. McAllaster is a frequent speaker at Continuing Legal Education programs for attorneys and workshops for non-attorneys in the following areas: AIDS and the Law, Pre-trial/trial practice; and Women and the Law.
Henry Peter - (Ph.D., University of Geneva). Mr. Peter is a professor at the University of Geneva Law School, where he is chairman of the Coordination Committee of the Banking and Finance LL.M. and the Tax LL.M., and head of the Commercial Law Department. He also heads the Master in Business Law programs of the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne. Mr. Peter has been a visiting professor at the University of Lyon 3-Jean Moulin, and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Fribourg and a member of the teaching staff of the “Académie Suisse de la magistrature.” In addition to his teaching and research activities, Mr. Peter is senior partner of a law firm based in Lugano. He is a member of the Swiss Takeover Board, the Sanction Commission of the SIX Swiss Exchange, the Swiss Review of Business and Financial Market Law editing board, and the Center of Banking and Financial Law board at the University of Geneva. Since 2001, he is Vice-Chairman of the disciplinary chamber of the Swiss Olympic Association in charge of doping cases. Mr. Peter is author or editor of several books and numerous papers in the various fields of his interests. He frequently acts as chairman, sole arbitrator or member of arbitral tribunals in commercial or sport matters. He was a member of the 31st America’s Cup Arbitration Panel (2000-2003) and of the 32nd America’s Cup Jury (2006-2007), and Chairman of the 33rd America’s Cup Arbitration Panel (2007-2009).
James Salzman - (B.A., Yale College; J.D., Harvard Law School; M.Sc., Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences). Mr. Salzman holds joint appointments at Duke University as the Samuel Fox Mordecai Professor of Law at the Law School and as the Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment. In more than sixty articles and five books, his broad-ranging scholarship has addressed topics spanning trade and environment conflicts, the history of drinking water, environmental protection in the service economy, wetlands mitigation banking, and the legal and institutional issues in creating markets for ecosystem services. A popular classroom teacher, Mr. Salzman has twice been voted Professor of the Year by students at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. An honors graduate of Yale and Harvard, he has lectured on environmental policy in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. He has served as a visiting professor at Yale, Harvard, and Stanford Universities, as well as at Macquarie (Australia), Lund (Sweden), and Tel Aviv (Israel) Universities and the European University Institute (Italy).
Marco Sassoli - (Doctor of Laws, University of Basel). Mr. Sassoli is professor of international law at the University of Geneva, and chairs the boards of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and of Geneva Call, an NGO with the objective to engage armed non-State actors to adhere to humanitarian norms. From 2001-2003, he was professor of international law at the University of Quebec, where he remains associate professor. He is also associate professor at the University of Laval, Canada. Mr. Sassoli is a member of the Swiss Bar and has worked for 13 years for the International Committee of the Red Cross at the headquarters, inter alia as deputy head of its legal division, and in the Middle East and the Balkans. During a sabbatical in 2011, he has again joined the ICRC, at its delegation in Pakistan. He has also served as registrar at the Swiss Supreme Court. Mr. Sassoli has published on international humanitarian law, human rights law, international criminal law, international law and private actors, the sources of international law, and on state responsibility.
Richard Schmalbeck - (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. He serves as Co-Director of the Duke-Geneva Institute.
Scott Silliman - (B.A., J.D., University of North Carolina). Mr. Silliman is a Professor of the Practice of Law at Duke Law School. In addition, he served as Executive Director of Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security from its inception in 1993 until July of 2011, and now serves as its Director Emeritus. He served for 25 years as an Air Force judge advocate, retiring in the grade of colonel just prior to taking his position with the Center in 1993. As the senior attorney for Tactical Air Command during the Persian Gulf War, and later as Air Combat Command’s senior attorney, he has extensive experience in operational law. He is widely sought throughout the United States as a guest lecturer on the Law of War, and is a frequent commentator on CNN, National Public Radio and other national and international radio and television news programs on issues involving military law and national security.
