Standing Faculty

Professor María Pilar Canedo
University of Deusto

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 also holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Law. He is currently 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 C. Hadjiemmannuil, G. Monti & A. Tomkins) European Union Law (2006, CUP).

Professor Carolyn Evans
University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Carolyn Evans is Associate Dean (Research) and Deputy Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne Law School, Australia. She has an LLB (hons) and BA from the University of Melbourne and a D.Phil from Oxford where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. From 1997-1999 she was a Stipendiary Lecture in Law at Exeter College Oxford. In 2000 she returned to a Senior Fellowship at the Melbourne Law School where she has taught since. Associate Professor Evans’ two primary areas of interest are the international and constitutional protection of religious freedom and domestic mechanisms for protecting international human rights. She is the author or editor of several books on law and religion, including Religious Freedom under the European Convention on Human Rights (2001, OUP) which is the leading work in its field. She has presented on religious freedom topics in the United Kingdom, United States, China, Russia, Greece, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Australia and is a member of the advisory board of several journals of law and religion and the International Centre for Law and Religion Studies. She is currently undertaking a major research project on the relationship between religious freedom and discrimination law. Her work in the area of domestic protection of human rights includes a book on the first Australian bills of rights to be published by LexisNexis in early 2008, as well as articles on the roles of parliaments and national human rights institutions in the protection of rights.

Professor Jean-Francois Gaudreault

Professor Evance Kalula
University of Cape Town

Professor Evance Kalula studied and obtained his law degree, LLB with merit, at the University of Zambia in 1974. He later went for postgraduate studies to King’s College, London and Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He obtained his PhD at the School of Law, University of Warwick. He is currently professor of law (labour law and social security) at the University of Cape Town. He is director of the Institute of Development and Labour Law, and also Deputy Dean for Internationalisation and Outreach in the Faculty of Law. He chairs the South African Employment Conditions Commission, a statutory body responsible for setting sectoral conditions of employment and wages. His research and teaching interests are mainly in international and comparative labour law, and social security. He specialises in the jurisdictions of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries.

Professor Arie Reich
Bar Ilan University

Arie Reich is a Law Professor and the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University, Israel. He was born in Sweden and earned his LL.B from Bar Ilan University and his LL.M and S.J.D. from the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of the book International Public Procurement Law (Kluwer, 1999) and The WTO and Israel: Law, Economics and Politics (Bar Ilan University Press, 2006), and of many articles on international trade regulation, EU law, competition law and international public procurement. Prof. Reich has served as Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, UCLA Law School, University of Toronto Faculty of Law and University of Haifa Law Faculty. He served for six years as the Chairman of Israel’s Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Tribunal and was a member of a World Trade Organization arbitration panel in a trade dispute between the EU and the U.S.A. He is member of the Executive of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law and a former President of the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration (IASEI).

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 Khee-Jin TAN
National University of Singapore Faculty of Law

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, Environmental Law and Criminal Law. As a student, Alan represented NUS at the Philip Jessup International Law Mooting Competition. His doctoral thesis was on the law and politics of shipping regulation, which 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, maritime 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 various governmental and donor aid agencies such as the U.N Development Programme (UNDP), the Swedish International Development Agency and the Government of Vietnam. In recent years, his work on aviation has resulted in several studies for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on liberalizing the aviation industry in Asia.

Professor J.H.H. Weiler
New York University School of Law

J.H.H. Weiler is the European Union Jean Monnet  Chair at NYU School of Law and the Director of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice. He is also Honorary Professor at University College London and in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. He has previously been Professor of Law at the European University in Florence, Italy, at the Michigan Law School and a Chaired Professor at  Harvard Law School.

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received a doctorate Honoris Causa from London University and from the University of Sussex. He served as a member of the Committee of Jurists of the Institutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament  and was a member of the Groupe des Sages advising the Commission of the European Union on the 1996/97 Amsterdam Treaty and the Commission White Paper on Governance. He was advisor to the Greek Presidency of the Union during the Constitutional Convention. His recent publications include Un Europa Cristiana (Rizzoli 2004) La Costituzione dell’Europa (F. Martines ed.) (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2003) L’Italia in Europa: Profili istituzionali e costituzionali (con M. Cartabia) (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2000).