Professor María Pilar Canedo

Deusto University

Professor Canedo joined the School of Law of Deusto University in 1998, after having done her doctoral research at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. She is Professor of Private International Law and International Trade at Deusto University and has been Visiting Professor at several European law schools (including Strasbourg; François Rabelais, Tours; Tilburg; Carlos III, Madrid; and Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid) and North American Law Schools (Hamline University, Minnesota; University of San Francisco).

Her main fields of research are European Antitrust Law and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the European Union. She is director of the research group on Different Implications of Transnational Law.

She is currently Deputy Dean of International Relations and Academic Affairs of the Law School of Deusto University, and is Director of both the Erasmus Mundus European Master in Transnational Trade Law and Finance and the Gertrude Ryan Universidad de Deusto Chair for Comparative American and European Legal Systems.

Professor Damian Chalmers

London School of Economics and Political Science

Damian Chalmers is Professor of European Union Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he is also Head of the European Institute. He also holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Law and is head of the Jean Monnet Centre at LSE. He has been editor of the European Law Review and EU Jurist. He has previously held appointments at the University of Liverpool and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He has also held visiting positions at the European University Institute, the College of Europe and the Instituto de Empresa. His most recent publication is ( with G. Davies & G. Monti) European Union Law (2010, CUP).

Professor Sean Cooney

Sean Cooney's research interests are international and comparative labour law, with a focus on Asia, and Chinese law. He is currently working on new approaches to improving international working standards, including an Australian Research Council-funded projects on enforcement reform in China and Australia, and is part of a research team examining the 'legal origins' debate in several Asia-Pacific countries. Sean speaks Mandarin Chinese, French and German has published articles in major refereed law journals in the United States, China and Australia. He currently teaches Obligations, Chinese Law, Employment Law, and Law and Economic Development in Asia. Sean has studied at the University of Melbourne and Columbia University. He also spent several years as a lawyer practising mainly in the areas of employment and administrative law.

Professor Jean-François Gaudreault

Université de Montréal

Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens is Associate Dean, Research, and Canada Research Chair in North American and Comparative Juridical and Cultural Identities at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal. He has also taught at the faculties of law of the University of Toronto and of McGill University, in addition to having been visiting professor at different universities outside of Canada. His teaching and research interests are constitutional law (domestic and comparative), legal theory and epistemology, and the sociology of legal cultures. His work currently focuses on the legal treatment of religious claims, on the relations between the civil law and common law traditions in a globalized economy, and on the legal theory of federalism. He is a member of the Québec and Ontario Bars. He serves as the Canadian correspondent for the British journal Public Law.

His most recent books are: Le contexte social du droit dans le Québec contemporain.  L’intelligence culturelle dans la pratique du droit (Montréal : Éditions Yvon Blais, 2009, 299 p.) (with D. Labrèche); Le droit, la religion et le « raisonnable » (Montréal : Éditions Thémis, 2009, 552 p.) (as sole editor); Convergence, concurrence et harmonisation des systèmes juridiques (Montréal : Éditions Thémis, 2009, 300 p.) (co-editor with E. Mackaay, B. Moore & S. Rousseau); Les solitudes du bijuridisme canadien. Essai sur les rapports de pouvoir entre les traditions juridiques et la résilience des atavismes identitaires (Montréal : Les Éditions Thémis, 2007, 169 p.).

Professor Oren Perez

Bar Ilan University

Prof. Oren Perez is a member of the Faculty of Law at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He has LLB (Magna Cum Laude) from Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law,1993, and LLM & PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1995, 1997-2001 where he studied as a Chevening Scholar (for the LLM) and as a Marie Curie fellow (for the PhD). His research focuses on environmental law & policy, regulation, globalization and the law, and legal theory. Among his recent publications are:'Ecological Sensitivity and Global Legal Pluralism: Rethinking the Trade and Environment Conflict' (Hart, 2004); Paradoxes and Inconsistencies in Law' (Hart, 2006) (ed. together with Gunther Teubner); 'Regulation as the Art of Intuitive Judgment: A Critique of the Economic Approach to Environmental Regulation', 4 International Journal of Law in Context (2008) 291-313; Perez et al, 'The Dynamic of Corporate Self-Regulation: ISO 14001, Environmental Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior' (2009). 43 Law & Society Review, 2009, 593-630.

Professor Poonam Puri

Osgoode Hall Law School

Poonam Puri is one of Canada’s most respected scholars and commentators on issues of corporate law, securities law, corporate governance, and corporate and white-collar crime. Appointed to York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School in 1997 at the age of 25, and a recipient of its Teaching Excellence Award in 1999, Puri is a prolific scholar who has co-authored or edited three books and written numerous articles or reports. She has an LL.B. degree from the University of Toronto, where she was the Silver Medalist in her 1995 graduating law class, and she holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Harvard Law School. Her work is academically rigorous as well as firmly grounded in the real-time of policy-making. It is for this reason that governments and regulators in Canada and internationally, including Industry Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), the Canadian Senate, the Wise Persons Committee on Securities Regulation and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank, have sought her expertise. In 2008, she was appointed as one of two research directors of the Canadian Ministry of Finance’s Expert Panel on Securities Regulation, which is seeking input on the best way to develop and implement a model Common Securities Act for Canada. In 2005, she was co-research director of the Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation and also served as a member of the OSC’s Investor Advisory Committee from 2005 to 2007. She was the President of the Canadian Law and Economics Association from 2006-2008. A 2005 recipient of Canada’s Top 40 under 40™ award, she was appointed in 2008 to the board of directors of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority. She is on the board of directors of the Ontario Association of Food Banks, and an inaugural member of the University of Toronto President’s International Advisory Council. Areas of interest: Corporate/Commercial Law.

Professor Karsten Schmidt

Bucerius Law School

Karsten Schmidt studied Law and Literature at Kiel University and Munich Universtity. Doctorate and post-doctorate in Bonn, subjects: civil law, commercial law, business law, cartel law and civil procedural law. Professorship in Göttingen, Hamburg, Bonn. President of Bucerius Law School since 2004. Member of academies in Hamburg and Salzburg and Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London, corresponding member of the Academia Nacional de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, Cordoba/Argentina. He holds the honorary doctorates of the Universities of Athens (Greece) and Vienna (Austria). In 2006 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Editor of several law periodicals and has written textbooks on commercial and company law, as well as monographs, commentaries and numerous academic articles.

Professor Craig Scott

Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Professor Scott joined Osgoode Hall Law School in 2000 following a term as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and 11 years at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. To date, Professor Scott’s research has been primarily in the fields of public international law and private international law, with a special focus on the place of international human rights law in both of these fields and on the evolution of ‘transnational law’ and associated theories. He has also written on comparative constitutional law, and was closely involved in the development of the provisions on economic and social rights and judicial review in the current South African constitution. Prior to starting his academic career, Professor Scott served as law clerk to the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Brian Dickson. He attended the Universities of Oxford and London on a Rhodes Scholarship. He is editor of Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001), series editor of the Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law, and convening editor of the new journal Transnational Legal Theory (launching Winter 2010). From 2001 to 2004 Professor Scott was Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies). He is currently Director of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security.

Dr. Alan Kee-Jin Tan

National University of Singapore

Dr Alan Khee-Jin Tan is Associate Professor and Vice-Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Law School. Alan received his bachelor's law degree from NUS and his masters degree and doctorate from Yale Law School. He specialises in maritime law, aviation law and environmental law. As a student, Alan represented NUS at the Philip Jessup International Law Mooting Competition, where the team emerged as semi-finalists. His doctoral thesis on the law and politics of shipping regulation won the Ambrose Gherini International Law Prize at Yale Law School. Alan was a Justices' Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Singapore and has also interned at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London. He has published widely on aviation, shipping and environmental law issues, specializing in how these impact upon Asian countries. In 2006, his book, Vessel-Source Marine Pollution: The Law and Politics of International Regulation, was published by Cambridge University Press. Alan has also been a consultant to the government of Vietnam and agencies such as the U.N Development Programme (UNDP) and the Swedish International Development Agency. In recent years, he has worked on several studies on liberalizing the aviation industry for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In the Fall 2009 term, he was a Hauser Global Visiting Professor at New York University Law School where he taught a course on Global Aviation Law and Policy.

Professor Joseph Weiler

New York University

Professor J.H.H. Weiler is University Professor, Joseph Straus Professor of Law and European Union Jean Monnet Chair at NYU School of Law. He serves as Director of The Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, The Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization, and The Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice. He is also Director of the J.S.D. Program at the Law School. He was previously Professor of Law at the Michigan Law School and then the Manley Hudson Professor of Law and the Jean Monnet Chair at Harvard Law School.

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The European Journal of International Law. His recent publications include Un'Europa Cristiana (translated into nine languages), The Constitution of Europe (translated into seven languages), and a novella, Der Fall Steinmann.