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Defining Terrorism in International Law by Ben Saul at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Professor Ben Saul is Challis Chair of International Law at the University of Sydney, Australia and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He has taught at Harvard, Oxford, The Hague Academy of International Law and Italy, India, Nepal, and Cambodia, and been a visitor at the Max Planck Institute for International Law and and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights. He has published 20 books and over 100 refereed articles, including the books Defining Terrorism in International Law (2006), the Oxford Commentary on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2014) (awarded a Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law), Research Handbook on International Law and Terrorism (2020), Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law (2020), and the Oxford Handbook on International Law in Asia and the Pacific (2019). Ben has advised United Nations entities, governments, parliaments, militaries, intelligence services, and NGOs; practiced in international courts; served on numerous professional bodies; and undertaken missions in over 35 countries. He has a doctorate from Oxford and honours degrees in Arts and Law from Sydney.
UPDATE: Botswana’s Legal System and Legal Research by Charles Manga Fombad at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Charles Manga Fombad is a Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, (ICLA), Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria. He holds a Licence en Droit (University of Yaounde), an LL.M. and Ph.D. (University of London), and a Diploma in Conflict Resolution (University of Uppsala). Professor Fombad is a member of the editorial board of several distinguished national and international Journals. He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, an Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and a Vice President of the International Association of Constitutional Law. He has published more than 90 articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than 50 book chapters and is the author/editor of 15 books and monographs. He is the Series Editor of the Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law published by Oxford University Press. The fifth book in the series, Democracy, Elections, and Constitutionalism in Africa, came out in March 2021. Professor Fombad is also co-editor (with Professor Rainer Grote of the Max Planck Institute) of the introductory reports to African constitutions published as part of OUP’s Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online. His research interests are in comparative African constitutional law, media law, African Union law, and legal history, especially issues of mixed systems and legal harmonization.
UPDATE: A Description of the Structure of the Hellenic Republic, the Greek Legal System, and Legal Research by Maria Panezi at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Maria Panezi has served as an Assistant Professor at UNB Law since August 2019. She received her LLB at the University of Athens in 2005 and her LL.M. at NYU Law in 2006; she was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2007. She completed her Ph.D. at Osgoode Hall Law School, during which time she was also an Adjunct Professor and a Teaching Assistant at Osgoode Hall and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2015 and became a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. She was also the Director of the Summer Law Institute at Balsillie School of International Affairs (2019). Maria’s research focuses on International Trade Regulation and various aspects of Inclusive Trade and Trade and the SDGs. More specifically, she has written on topics related to the WTO and national strategies on climate change; Trade and Gender and Government Procurement and Indigenous Carve-outs in Trade Agreements. Her teaching interests include Contract Law, Jurisprudence, International Trade Law, Public International Law, and Globalization and the Law.
UPDATE: Italian Legal Research and Resources on the Web by Elio Fameli and Francesco Fameli at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Elio Fameli holds a Law degree from the University of Florence. He is an Associated Research Director at the ITTIG – “Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica” (effective June 1, 2019, ITTIG became IGSG – Istituto di Informatica Giuridica e Sistemi Giudiziari), an organ of the CNR (Italian National Research Council). He was responsible of a CNR National Project. In the ITTIG structure, he was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute and coordinator of the “Information Technology and Law” Section. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the international journal “Informatica e diritto” (starting from 2019 “Rivista Italiana di Informatica e Diritto”). He published numerous scientific essays about the application of Artificial Intelligence to Law, “Computer Law” and the dissemination of legal information on Internet. In his recent research activity, he paid special attention to the problems of definition and systematization of the Legal Informatics as unitary discipline, the right of the citizen to information about the environment and the relevance of social networks for Labor Law.
Francesco Fameli graduated magna cum laude in Law at the University of Florence. Then he took a further specialization degree in Administrative Law at the Florence Postgraduate School of Law. In 2011, he became an officially registered mediator. He wrote large essays concerning the Public Administration damage compensation. He is currently working as a lawyer in Florence. His main interests concern Public and Administrative Law (with special attention to zoning law, building codes and licenses fees), Intellectual Property Law (in particular as regards copyright rule applications in the fields of informatics and music industry) and voluntary associations’ legal guardianship.
UPDATE: The U.S. Federal Legal System Web-Based Public Accessible Sources by Gretchen Feltes at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Gretchen Feltes, retired, Faculty Services/Reference Librarian at New York University School of Law Library.
UPDATE: Current Constitutional Developments in Latin America by Dante Figueroa and Daniel Rocha de Farias at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Dante Figueroa is a Senior Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress and former Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the Chilean Bar, the New York Bar, and the Washington, D.C. Bar. He holds LL.M. degrees from the University of Chile and American University’s Washington College of Law. He has authored five books and many law review articles. His publications are available online. He is fluent in Spanish, English, French, and Italian, and is conversant in German.
Daniel Rocha de Farias is a Senior State Attorney of Brazil and a licensed professor at the Superior Studies Center of the Plateau in Brazil. He is a member of the Brazilian Bar. His legal career has centered on practice before the Brazilian Supreme Court (eight years) and as Legal Counsellor at the high offices of the Brazilian government. He is currently enrolled in the University of Florence’s Ph.D. program in Comparative Law, and the title of his thesis is “Comparative Law used by South American Constitutional Courts.” In addition, Mr. de Farias holds an LL.M. degree from the University Center of Brasilia, where his dissertation title was “Ativismo judicial, judicialização de políticas públicas e Judicial Review no Brasil: análise crítica da supremacia do judiciário e da quimera dialógica” [“Judicial activism, judicialization of public policies and Judicial Review in Brazil: critical analysis of the supremacy of the judiciary and the dialogical chimera”]. He has published several law review articles that are available online, and he is fluent in Portuguese, English, and Italian, and conversant in Spanish.
UPDATE: The Exploitation of Women and Children – A Comparative Study of Human Trafficking Laws between the United States-Mexico and China-Vietnam by Christina T. Le with assistance by Cathleen S. Creegan at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Christina T. Le is a private attorney at an immigration law firm in Houston, Texas. She received her J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center and a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University. Prior to entering private practice, she served as Attorney Advisor and Judicial Law Clerk to the U.S. Immigration Court in Houston. During law school, she worked with victims of human trafficking at the UH Law Center’s Immigration Clinic and at the non-profit organizations Boat People SOS and YMCA International Services.
Cathleen S. Creegan is a private attorney licensed by the State Bar of Texas. She received her J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law and a B.A. in journalism from the University of Oklahoma.
UPDATE: Researching the International Weapons Law by Gudrun Monika Zagel at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Gudrun Monika Zagel is Assistant Professor at the Department of Public, International and European Law of the University of Salzburg. She received her legal education from the University of Salzburg Law School and from the University of Texas School of Law at Austin, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. Previous work experiences include Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of the Federal Army Munich and consultant at the Office of the Legal Advisor of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Gudrun is the author of a treatise and numerous articles on international economic law and co-editor of Smit & Herzog on The Law of the European Union (Matthew Bender). The author would like to thank Ms. Ellie Persellin for her valuable support in updating this research guide.
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