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Anthony Farley, JD

James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence

Albany Law School

Constitutional Law, Contracts, criminal law, criminal procedure, First Amendment, Human Rights, International Law, Jurisprudence

Anthony Paul Farley is the James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Albany Law School. 

He was the James & Mary Lassiter Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law and the Andrew Jefferson Endowed Chair in Trial Advocacy at Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law in 2014-2015, the Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights at CUNY School of Law in 2006, and a tenured professor at Boston College Law School, where he taught for 16 years. Prior to entering academia, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Prior to serving as a federal prosecutor, Farley practiced law as a Corporate/Securities Associate with Shearman & Sterling in NYC.

Professor Farley's work has appeared in chapter form in Bandung Global History and International Law: Critical Pasts and Pending Futures (Eslava et al. eds., Cambridge University Press: forthcoming); Hip Hop and the Law (Bridgewater et al. eds., Carolina Academic Press: 2015); After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina (Troutt ed., The New Press: 2007); Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies & the Law (Sarat & Simon eds., Duke University Press: 2003); Crossroads, Directions & a New Critical Race Theory (Valdes et al. eds., Temple University Press: 2002); Black Men on Race, Gender & Sexuality (Carbado ed., NYU Press: 1999); and Urgent Times: Policing and Rights in Inner-City Communities (Meares & Kahan eds., Beacon: 1999). His writings have appeared in numerous academic journals, including the Yale Journal of Law & Humanities, the NYU Review of Law & Social Change, the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, Law & Literature, UCLA's Chicano Latino Law Review, the Berkeley Journal of African American Law & Policy, the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, and the Columbia Journal of Race & Law.

He has presented recent work at Harvard University, Yale Law School, Howard Law School, the University of Kentucky College of Law, University of Minnesota, the University of California at Davis, York University (Toronto, Canada), the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, and elsewhere. He appeared in the short film "Slavery in Effect," a dialog among scholars at Harvard University's conference The Scope of Slavery: Enduring Geographies of American Bondage in 2014.

Professor Farley was nominated and elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2017. He served a three-year term on the Executive Committee of the Minorities Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He has previously served on the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT).

He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia.

Public Interest:
Professor Farley has conducted the reading group - Changing Lives Through Literature - composed of people convicted in the Dorchester District Court. The ten-week course culminates with an in-court graduation ceremony and a reception for participants, friends, relatives, and alumni. Participants have included judges, probation officers and other court personnel, alumni, and even prosecutors. The syllabus includes authors from Frederick Douglass to Primo Levi to Dorothy Day. His efforts have been profiled in David Holmstrom, Staying Out of Jail with Books' Help: Massachusetts Lowers Recidivism by Helping Repeat Offenders Discover the Power of Literature, The Christian Science Monitor, May 30, 1995, at 13.

He is a member of the Society of American Law Teachers and previously served as a member of its Board of Governors. He is a member of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and a previously served as a member of its Board of Directors. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Public Representation. He is also a member of the American Philosophical Association

Patricia Reyhan, JD

Distinguished Professor of Law

Albany Law School

Business Law, Contracts, International Law

Professor Patricia Reyhan joined Albany Law School in 1980 as its third female faculty member. In 2002, she was named Albany Law School’s first Governor George E. Pataki Endowed Professor of International Commercial Law. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita.

Professor Reyhan has authored numerous articles on international law, property, and conflicts of law. Her most noted and cited work, "A Chaotic Palette: Conflict of Laws in Litigation Between Original Owners and Good-Faith Purchasers of Stolen Art," appeared in the Duke Law Journal. Her current scholarly interests are those surrounding the protection of art and cultural property in times of armed conflict.

Professor Reyhan is a graduate of Washington State University (B.A.), Willamette University (J.D.), and Harvard Law School (LL.M.), and served as confidential law clerk for Justice Charles F. Stafford of the high court of the State of Washington.

Sarah Rogerson, JD

Professor of Law; Director, The Justice Center; Director, Immigration Law Clinic

Albany Law School

Family Law, Gender, Human Rights, Immigration, Immigration Law, Immigration Policy, International Law

Professor Rogerson Directs the Immigration Law Clinic, an experiential course through which students represent immigrant victims of crime including child abuse and neglect, domestic violence and sexual assault. 

Her students also regularly participate in related legislative advocacy and community outreach initiatives. Professor Rogerson worked as a public interest attorney in Newark, New Jersey and has represented immigrant adults and children in cases involving torture, domestic violence, and human trafficking at a human rights non-profit in Dallas, Texas. 

Her scholarship is focused on the intersections between domestic violence, family law, race, gender, international law and immigration law and policy.

Daniel Bodansky, JD

Regents' Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Arizona State University (ASU)

Climate Change, Environmental Law, International Law

Daniel Bodansky is an expert in climate change, international law, and environmental and sustainability law.

He is a regents' professor of law in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and an affiliate faculty member with the Center for Law, Science and Innovation and the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability's School of Sustainability at ASU.

Professor Bodansky's research focuses on public international law, international environmental law, climate change law and legal theory.

Prior to his position at ASU, Bodansky has served as the Climate Change Coordinator at the U.S. Department of State and has consulted for the United Nations in the areas of climate change and tobacco control.

Mortimer Sellers, J.D., D.Phil.

Professor of Law, Director of Center for International and Comparative Law

University of Baltimore School of Law

International Law, Law, legal history

Mortimer "Tim" Sellers is Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland and Director of the University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law. Sellers has written numerous books and articles on international law, constitutional law, the philosophy of law, comparative law, and legal history. He is the co-editor (with Mark Agrast) of the Cambridge University Press book series ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory, and co-editor (with David Gerber) of the Cambridge series ASCL Studies in Comparative Law . He is co-editor (with Stephan Kirste) of the IVR Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law.

In addition to his academic work, Sellers has practised law in Philadelphia and Washington, served as clerk to the Hon. James Hunter III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and studied as a Rhodes Scholar and Frank Knox Fellow at University College, Oxford. He has been a visitor at Oxford University, Cambridge University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Academy of International Law in The Hague, and Georgetown University Law Center.

Sellers is the President of IVR, the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy and an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.  He is a member of the Middle Temple and is admitted to practice before the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the United States Supreme Court bars.

Scott Shackelford, J.D., Ph.D.

Executive Director, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research; Executive Director, Ostrom Workshop; Professor, Business Law & Ethics

Indiana University

blockchain, Business Ethics, Business Law, International Law, International Relations, internet governance, Privacy, Sustainable Development

Scott J. Shackelford is Cybersecurity Program chair at Indiana University, director of the Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance, and professor of business law and ethics at the IU Kelley School of Business. He is a senior fellow at IU's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, academic director of the IU Cybersecurity Clinic and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. Shackelford is also an affiliated scholar at both the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. He has written more than 100 articles, book chapters, essays and op-eds and has been a contributor to The Conversation, the Christian Science Monitor, HuffPost, Security Roundtable, Policy Forum and the World Economic Forum. He is a former national fellow of the Hoover Institution and a former distinguished fellow of the University of Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. His research includes the book "Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations: In Search of Cyber Peace" (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Juscelino Colares, PhD

Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law, School of Law

Case Western Reserve University

Business Law, Federalism, International Law, International Trade

Before joining the CWRU faculty, Juscelino Colares, clerked for the Hon. Jean-Louis Debré, chief justice of France’s Constitutional Court (2008-09 term) and practiced at Dewey Ballantine, LLP in Washington, D.C., where he litigated trade cases before federal agencies, federal courts, and NAFTA panels. Colares has served as chair of the University Faculty Senate and associate dean for Global Legal Studies. 

A native of Brazil and naturalized citizen of the United States, Colares has been appointed by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to serve on the U.S. Roster of North American Free Trade Agreement (Chapter Nineteen) Panelists since 2013. This spring, USTR appointed him to the first U.S. Roster of United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement Panelists. For the last six years, Colares has organized a series of Trade Law Fall Updates, a practitioner-oriented gathering of leading trade lawyers, federal judges, and trade agency officials that has attracted much visibility to CWRU Law, as well as opportunities for his students and recent graduates.  Besides trade law, Colares teaches civil procedure, conflict of laws, and a variety of courses on business and regulatory law.  

Winner of the 2018 Faculty Research Award, Colares is the author of more than 35 articles and book chapters, and, more recently, the book, titled Restructuring Trade Agreements (Wolters Kluwer 2021).  His work has appeared in leading peer-review journals and law reviews, including the American Law and Economics Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of International Economic Law, Journal of World Trade, Jurimetrics, Columbia Journal of European Law, Cornell International Law Journal; Georgetown Journal of International Law; and Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.  Colares enjoys running, riding motorcycles, and eating with friends wherever he may find them. 

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Publications

Book

Colares, Juscelino F. Restructuring Trade Agreements, Wolters Kluwer/KLI Business (Aug. 2021) (with Mustafa Durmus). Available for purchase at: 

Colares, Juscelino F. "The Extraterritorial Impact of the EU and Australian Carbon-Restricting Reforms," in Market-Based Instruments-National Experiences in Environmental Sustainability 1, 106 (Larry Kreiser, David Huff, Janet E. Milne and Hope Ashiabor, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd.) (2013) (peer reviewed).

Articles

Colares, J.F. and Durmus, Mustafa T. Turkey as a WTO Litigant: A Case of Waived Leverage and Mismatched Policy Ends and Means, 51.4 Georgetown Journal of International Law 854 (2020), available at .
 
Colares, J.F. and Durmus, Mustafa T. TURK-SWITCH: The Tariff-Leverage and Legal Case for Turkey's Shift from Customs Union to FTA with the European Union and Beyond, 22.1 Journal of International Economic Law 99 (2019) (peer reviewed), available at .

Colares, J.F. and Rode, Ashwin. The Opportunities and Limitations of Neutral Carbon Tariffs, 19(2) American Law and Economics Rev. 423 (2017) (peer reviewed), available at: .

Colares, J.F. Canada, United States and European Union—Out of Synch on Trade Agreements? Or Are We Sympatico? 41 Canada-United States L. J. 46 (2017) (requested submission).

Colares, J.F. and Canterberry, William. Not COOL: How the Appellate Body Misconstrued the National Treatment Principle, Severely Restricting Agency Discretion to Promulgate Pro-Consumer, Labeling Rules, 51:1 Journal of World Trade 105 (2017) (peer reviewed).

Colares, J.F. & Ristovski, K. Pleading Patterns and the Role of Litigation as a Driver of Federal Climate Change Legislation, 54.4 Jurimetrics 329 (2015) (peer-reviewed), available at .

Colares, J.F. The Dynamics and Global Implications of Subglobal Carbon-Restricting Regimes, 25.3 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 417 (2013), available at .

Colares, J.F. Paths to Carbon Stabilization: How Foreign Carbon-Restricting Reforms Will Affect US Industry, Climate Policy and the Prospects of a Binding Emission Reduction Treaty, 47.2 Journal of World Trade 281 (2013) (peer-reviewed), available at .

Colares, J.F. The Reality of EU-Conformity Litigation in France, 18.3 Columbia Journal of European Law 369 (2012) (peer-reviewed), available at .

Colares, J.F. The Limits of WTO Adjudication: Is Compliance the Problem?, 14.2 Journal of International Economic Law 403 (2011) (peer-reviewed), available at . 

Education

Juris Doctor
 
Cornell University
Doctor of Philosophy 
Political Economy
 
University of Tennessee
Master of Arts
 
Political Economy
 
University of Tennessee
Bachelor of Laws
 
Universidade de Brasília/Universidade Federal do Ceará

Avidan Y. Cover, PhD

Professor of Law, School of Law

Case Western Reserve University

Civil Rights, Human Rights, International Law

Avidan Y. Cover is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Law, and Director of the Institute for Global Security Law & Policy at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Cover currently teaches International Law; International Human Rights Law; and a Race, Law and Society seminar. Cover’s scholarship focuses on human rights, civil rights and national security law. He has appeared in numerous news media, including The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, FOX Ҵý and Court TV.

Cover was a Fulbright Scholar from 2018 to 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya where he taught international criminal law and legal theory at Strathmore Law School and researched refugee and security issues. Prior to his appointment at Case Western Reserve University, Cover taught at the Seton Hall University School of Law, where he supervised the Urban Revitalization Project in Newark, New Jersey. In addition, he was a Gibbons Public Interest and Constitutional Law Fellow from 2007 to 2009 during which time he litigated prisoner’s rights, same-sex marriage, national security and education cases in federal and state court. Cover also served as senior counsel in Human Rights First’s Law and Security Program where he researched and analyzed U.S. military and intelligence agencies’ interrogation and detention policies and practices. 

Teaching Information

Courses Taught

LAWS 1931 Race, Law and Society
LAWS 2002 Constitutional Law
LAWS 4104 International Law
LAWS 4714 Essential Legal Theory
LAWS 5116 International Human Rights
LAWS 5121 International Criminal Law and Procedure
LAWS 6051 Civil Rights, Human Rights and Immigration Clinic

Publications

Education

Juris Doctorate
 
Cornell Law School
Bachelor of Arts
 
Princeton University

Ken Rutherford, PhD

Professor of Political Science

James Madison University

Global Politics, International Law, International Security, Landmines, Peacekeeping

Ken Rutherford is Professor of Political Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University, and B.A. and MBA degrees from the University of Colorado, where he was inducted into its Hall for Distinguished alumni. He has served as the Director of JMU’s Center for International Stabilization and Recovery, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mauritania (1987-1989), an UNHCR Emergency Refugee Coordinator in Senegal (1989), a humanitarian emergency relief officer in northern Kenya and Somalia (1993), and as a Fulbright Scholar in Jordan (2005). 

Dr. Rutherford has delivered presentations in nearly 40 countries and has published in numerous academic and policy journals, including the Journal of International Law and PolicyWorld Politics and the Journal of International Politics. He has published five books:

  • America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War (Savas Beatie Press, April 2020);
  • Disarming States: The Global Movement to Ban Landmines, (Praeger Press, December 2010);
  • Humanitarianism Under Fire: The US and UN Intervention in Somalia, (Kumarian Press, 2008);
  • Human Security and Landmines: International Politics and War’s Hidden Legacy, eds. with Richard Matthew and Bryan McDonald (State University of New York Press, 2004, paperback 2006);
  • Reframing the Agenda: The Impact of NGO and Middle Power Cooperation on International Security Policy, with Stefan Brem and Richard Mathew (Greenwood Press, 2003).

Dr. Rutherford teaches courses on International Law, International Laws of War, Global Disability Rights, Stability and Recovery Operations, and Global Politics

Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, PhD

Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Coordinator of the Middle Eastern Studies Program

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Civil War, Human Rights, International Law, Latin American politics, United Nations

Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Coordinator of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

His research agenda focuses on transitional justice, human rights, post-conflict reconstruction, and democratization across the developing world. He critically examines the empirical and normative arguments used to justify the introduction of social and economic policies in societies emerging from periods of conflict and repression. Much of his work has focused on using social science research methods to evaluate transitional justice mechanisms. His research is driven by a normative desire to set more realistic policy expectations, particularly among victims and marginalized groups.

Dr. Wiebelhaus-Brahm’s most recent book, Truth Commissions and Transitional Societies, was published by Routledge (2010). As of mid-2018, Eric also is the author of 11 book chapters and 17 peer-reviewed articles that have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Peace ResearchInternational Journal of Transitional Justice, and Journal of Human Rights.

Dr. Wiebelhaus-Brahm is a co-investigator on the UK Global Challenges Research Fund-supported “Strategic Network on Justice, Conflict and Development” that links a group of academics and practitioners in the developed world with those in Colombia, Sri Lanka, Syria, and Uganda. He is also a co-investigator on a Norwegian Research Council grant evaluating the implementation record of the recommendations of 13 Latin American truth commissions. He served as a volunteer with the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Diaspora Project between 2007 and 2009. Eric earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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