Faculty

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes (Ph.D., Graduate Institute of International Studies (Switzerland); Masters in private law, Diploma in political science, University of Lyon II and Lyon III (France)). Ms. Boisson de Chazournes is professor of international law and Head of the Department of Public International Law and International Organization at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva. She is also Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva) and the University of Aix-Marseille III (France). Between 1995-99, she was senior counsel with the Legal Department of the World Bank, with the Environment and International Law Unit. She has appeared before the International Court of Justice and international arbitral tribunals. A consultant and a member of groups of experts with various international organizations, including the World Bank, WHO, UNDP and ILO, she is the author of a large number of publications dealing with international law, international organizations and international environmental law and natural resources law.

George Christie (A.B., J.D., Columbia University; S.J.D., Harvard University). A native of New York City, Mr. Christie was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review . He commenced his legal career with private practice in Washington, D.C. In 1960-61, he was a Ford Fellow at Harvard Law School; and in 1961-62, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, where he earned a Diploma in International Law. He then joined the law faculty of the University of Minnesota, where he taught for almost four years. In 1966, he returned to Washington to serve as Assistant General Counsel for the Near East and South Asia of the Agency for International Development before coming in 1967 to Duke. His chief academic interests are in the areas of torts and jurisprudence, in both of which he has published widely. He is the editor of a casebook in jurisprudence published in 1973, and now in its second edition, and one on torts first published in 1983, and now in its third edition. His monograph, “The Notion of an Ideal Audience in Legal Argument,” was published in 2000. He has been a visiting professor at Northwestern University, George Washington University, the Universities of Michigan, Florida, Athens in Greece, Otago in New Zealand, Witwatersrand in South Africa, and Fudan University in Shanghai, 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. He is a member of the Board of Editors of Law and Philosophy and of Isopoliteia .

Diane Dimond (B.A., University of Iowa; J.D., Harvard University). Ms. Dimond is a Clinical Professor of Law at Duke Law School. She teaches the first year course in Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing, and an upper-level seminar in Negotiation and Mediation. Her experience includes 17 years of law practice, first in the litigation department of a large New York City law firm, and later with a large North Carolina law firm, where she became a partner in 1987. Her practice was concentrated in commercial litigation, including employment-related litigation and advice, defense of securities fraud actions, trade secrets/intellectual property suits, nuclear power plant construction litigation, personal injury insurance defense, and representation of both corporate clients and foreign governmental bodies in transnational disputes. She joined the Duke law faculty full-time in 1994, became the Director of Legal Writing in 1998, and a Clinical Professor in 2001. She is a frequent lecturer on legal writing and negotiation to practicing attorneys, including teaching an advanced advocacy writing course for assistant U.S. Attorneys for the Department of Justice.

Hans Dolinar (Doctor of Law, M.B.A., Vienna University). Mr. Dolinar is a professor of law for civil procedure at the University of Linz. In 1984, he was appointed president (rector) of the University of Linz and concentrated on international linkages between Austrian universities and American universities. As a member of the Austrian Rectors' Conference, he was in charge of foreign affairs for the Anglo-American world. In 1991, after stepping down as president, Mr. Dolinar spent a year in the United States as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School pursuing research on international commercial arbitration and comparative civil procedure. From 1994-99, Mr. Dolinar worked in cooperation with a professor at Georgia State University in setting up the Austro-American Dispute Resolution Program, which permitted American students to gain experience in a foreign civil law country during their J.D. studies. In 1998, Mr. Dolinar initiated the addition of Legal English as a mandatory course in the first year law curriculum at the University of Linz. Under his directive, students in their second to fourth-year of legal studies may also choose an international track, which features international public law, the Law of the European Communities, and a package of courses taught in English by Mr. Dolinar touching on international commercial arbitration, comparative civil procedure and Introduction to the Common Law Legal Order. Mr. Dolinar has been a visiting professor at the College of Law at Georgia State University and a visiting scholar at Duke Law School.

Patrick Fazzone (B.A., University of Connecticut; J.D., Duke University). A native of Fairfield, Connecticut, Mr. Fazzone has taught and counseled on international trade and commercial law in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia and has been involved in many of the key developments in the liberalization of trade and investment in the past twenty years. Mr. Fazzone has been a faculty member of the University of Sydney Law School, where he taught courses on international trade regulation, international commercial transactions, public international law and maritime law. He has taught a course in international commercial transactions and a seminar on developments in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum at the Duke European and Asian summer programs. Over the past twenty years, Mr. Fazzone has practiced international trade and commercial law at several leading law firms in Washington, D.C. and has been an advisor to a number of government instrumentalities on international trade and investment matters. Mr. Fazzone has been a Fulbright Scholar in International Law in Geneva and in Sydney and a Visiting Fellow at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and is the author of numerous articles on issues in international trade and commercial law. He is the founder and Chairman of the Trade and Government Committee for the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia and has also served as Vice Chairman for Trade for the Asia Pacific Council of American Chambers of Commerce.

Thomas Kadner ( Dr. iur. , University of Frankfurt am Main; habil. , Humboldt-University Berlin; LL.M., Harvard Law School). Since 2001, Mr. Kadner has been a professor of law at the University of Geneva and director of the law faculty's program “Certificate on Transnational Law.” He has previously taught at Humboldt-University Berlin, at the University of Potsdam and at the University of Florida at Gainesville. His main teaching and research areas focus on European private law, comparative law (contracts and torts), harmonization of the law, European private international law and transnational litigation and German private law. His recent publications include several books and articles on comparative tort law and European private international law of torts, as well as the harmonization of these areas of law within the European Union.

Frédéric Mégret (LL.B., King's College London; lauréat (avec les félicitations du jury), Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris; LL.M., Sorbonne (Paris I)). Mr. Mégret is a Boulton Fellow at McGill University, where he is conducting research on diverse aspects of international law, including international criminal law, international humanitarian law and the international protection of human rights. He was with the French military in Sarajevo as a blue helmet in 1995, has worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross, and was a member of the French delegation at the Rome Conference on the creation of the International Criminal Court. He is the author of “Le Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda” (Pedone, 1995) and of various articles in academic journals. Mr. Mégret is also the book review editor for the European Journal of International Law .

Madeline Morris (B.A., J.D., Yale University). Ms. Morris is Professor of Law at Duke University and Director of the Duke-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law. She has published widely in the field of international criminal law. Ms. Morris currently serves as Senior Legal Counsel, Office of the Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone, and directs the Duke Legal Clinic which provides legal support to that court. She has provided consultation to the U.S. State Department, Office of War Crimes Issues; served as Advisor on Justice to the President of Rwanda; as Special Consultant to the Secretary of the U.S. Army; as Co-convenor of the Inter-African Cooperation on Truth and Justice program; and as Consultant and Adjunct Faculty Member of the U.S. Naval Justice School. Ms. Morris is a Member of the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association's Central and East European Law Initiative, and a Member of the Board of Advisors of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke University. Ms. Morris teaches public international law, international human rights, and international criminal law.

Joost Pauwelyn ( Cand.Jur. , Namur University; Lic.Jur. , Leuven University; M.Jur. , Oxford University; Ph.D., Neuchâtel University). Mr. Pauwelyn is Associate Professor of Law at Duke Law School. Prior to joining the Duke law faculty in the fall of 2002, he served as a Legal Affairs Officer for the World Trade Organization in Geneva (1996-2002), first, in the Legal Affairs Division, then in the Appellate Body Secretariat. His areas of concentration are international economic law, in particular, the law of the WTO, public international law, and European Union law. His research focuses on the settlement of disputes in the WTO and other international tribunals, especially health and environmental disputes, and international governance, in particular the problem of “conflict of norms” in public international law. In addition to several articles, Mr. Pauwelyn's first book entitled Conflict of Norms in Public International Law, How WTO Law Relates to Other Rules of International Law , was published in July 2003.

Kal Raustiala (A.B., Duke University; Ph.D., University of California-San Diego; J.D., Harvard University). Mr. Raustiala teaches Public International Law and International Environmental Law, as well as undergraduate courses in Global Environmental Politics. He holds a joint appointment with UCLA's Institute of the Environment, a campus-wide multidisciplinary program. Mr. Raustiala has previously taught at Princeton, Brandeis, and the University of Chicago. He has been a fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution and a Peccei Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems in Vienna, Austria. He is a member of the American Society of International Law and the Council on Foreign Relations. Recent publications include “The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources” (with David Victor), forthcoming in International Organization (Spring 2004); “Citizen Submissions and Treaty Review in the NAAEC,” (forthcoming in J. Knox and D. Markell, eds., The North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (Stanford University Press, 2003); “The Architecture of International Cooperation: Transgovernmental Networks and the Future of International Law,” Virginia Journal of International Law (Fall 2002); and with Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Compliance, International Relations, and International Law,” in The Handbook of International Relations (W. Carlsnaes, T. Risse, and B. Simmons, eds., 2002).

Richard Schmalbeck (B.A., J.D., University of Chicago). Mr. Schmalbeck is a member of the faculty of the Duke Law School, where he specializes in federal taxation. Prior to his appointment at Duke, he practiced tax law with a private 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 his recent professional service activities have primarily consisted of working with the Russian government, assisting efforts to reform the tax system within the Russian Federation.

Henri Torrione (LL.M., Georgetown University; J.D., Ph.D., University of Fribourg). Mr. Torrione is a professor of law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) Law School, where he teaches Swiss and international taxation. His main research interests and publication focuses are on international tax law, in particular on issues connected with the OECD Model Tax Convention. He is one of the co-authors of the Commentary on the Swiss-U.S. Double Tax Convention , published by the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce. In private practice, as a partner of one of the main law firms in Switzerland, with a large tax department in Geneva, Zurich and Fribourg, he is regularly advising multinational companies on Swiss and international taxation in the context of mergers and acquisitions, financial transactions and financial products, and application of double taxation conventions. Previously, he worked in the legal and tax department of a U.S. multinational company.