“Reflections on a Global Crisis: Current Issues in International Law and Economics”

April 9, 2010.

Norte Dame University, School of Law

Reception to immediately follow close of the panel

Biographies of Panelists

Moderator: Prof. Sean O’Brien: Assistant Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights and the Concurrent Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, School of Law

Biography: Sean O’Brien joined the Center for Civil and Human Rights in 2005, bringing with him his experience in international and domestic human rights work. He holds three degrees from the University of Notre Dame, most recently graduating summa cum laude from the Center’s LL.M. program in 2002. His experience includes work with the Belfast law firm of Madden & Finucane before the Bloody Sunday Inquiry in Derry, Northern Ireland and litigation with the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) in the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights. Immediately prior to his return to Notre Dame, he served as Chief Counsel for Immigration and Human Rights at the Center for Multicultural Human Services (CMHS) in Falls Church, VA, directing a legal services program for survivors of torture and war trauma.

Prof. Faisal Kutty:Associate Professor of Law from Valparaiso University School of Law

Biography: Professor Kutty has practiced law for over thirteen years in Toronto, Canada. He has taught legal writing and reasoning, ethical lawyering in a global community and comparative law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. While a law student he served stints as book reviews and articles editor of the Ottawa Law Review. He has also taught skills and professional responsibility and corporate law at the Law Society of Upper Canada. After graduation he started his own firm and later became a partner at Baksh & Kutty in Ontario. In addition to his academic publications, he has published more than 200 opinion and commentary pieces in leading newspapers and publications around the world and is an avid blogger.

Prof. Robert Hockett: Professor of Law at Cornell University School of Law

Biography: Prof. Robert C. Hockett joined the Cornell Law School faculty in 2004. His principal research and teaching interests lie in the fields of organizational and financial law and economics, particularly as these bear upon and are borne upon by economic “globalization” and distributive justice concerns. Prior to entering full-time academe he worked for the International Monetary Fund and clerked for the Hon. Deanell Reece Tacha, then Circuit Judge, now Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. While a graduate student and as a judicial clerk he taught respectively at Yale, Harvard, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Kansas.

Prof. Sungjoon Cho: Associate Professor of Law and Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar at the Chicago-Kent College of Law

Biography: Professor Sungjoon Cho, an authority on international economic law, joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2003 and teaches courses in international law, international trade law, international business transactions, and comparative law. He earned his LL.B. from Seoul National University in 1989, his M.P.A. degree from Seoul National University in 1994 and his LL.M. in international economic law from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997. In 2002, he received his S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) degree from Harvard Law School. Prof. Cho currently serves as international economic adviser to the South Korean government’s Ministry of Strategy and Finance. He has held appointments with Harvard Law School and New York University Law School. He has taught also at several prestigious institutions. Professor Cho has written numerous books and articles on international economic law dealing with the World Trade Organization, Anticompetitve Trade Remedies and Regionalism and Multilateralism. From 1994 to 1996, before coming to the United States, Professor Cho represented the government of the Republic of Korea in negotiations under the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Prof. Mary Ellen O’Connell: Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution at the University of Notre Dame Law School

Biography: Professor O’Connell joined the faculty at Notre Dame in 2005. Prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty, Professor O’Connell was the William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law of Ohio State University. She earned her B.A. in History, with highest honors, from Northwestern University in 1980. She received an MSc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1981, and an LL.B., with first class honors, from Cambridge University in 1982. She earned her J.D. from Columbia University in 1985, where she was a Stone Scholar and book review editor for the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. After graduation, she practiced with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. She then taught at Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington; at The Bologna Center of The Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy; and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; and the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She is the author of several casebooks, edited collections, articles and book chapters as well as the The Power and Purpose of International Law .She was recently named the Vice President of the American Society of International Law.

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