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Law/Government: International: Comparative Law

David S. Clark

David S. Clark

Maynard and Bertha Wilson Professor of Law
Director, Certificate Program in International and Comparative Law

College of Law

JSM Stanford University
JD Stanford University
AB Stanford University

An international law specialist, Professor Clark joined the Willamette faculty in January 2002. Fluent in several languages, Clark has taught in Europe, Latin America and Asia. He has published 10 books and more than 50 articles on comparative law, procedure, courts, and law and society, which track his teaching areas. Since 1978 Clark has been active in the American Society of Comparative Law, the preeminent organization in its field. Clark teaches Civil Procedure, Comparative Law, European Union Law, Dispute Resolution, and Comparative Dispute Resolution. He also supervises Willamette's semester abroad program for study at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.

To read Clark's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.

Symeon C. Symeonides

Symeon C. Symeonides

College of Law Dean and Professor of Law

College of Law

SJD Harvard University Law School
LLM Harvard University Law School
LLB (Public Law) Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Law School
LLB (Private Law) Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Law School

A world-renowned expert in international and comparative law and conflict of laws, Dean Symeonides is a life member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, vice president and former secretary of the American Society of Comparative Law, former chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Conflict of Laws, and a member of the Order of the Coif, the American Law Institute, the Oregon Law Commission, and the Bartolus Society. Dean Symeonides has been active in law reform, both in the United States and abroad, and provided legislative advice to the European Union Parliament and the numerous foreign governments. His teaching subjects include Conflict of Laws, Comparative Law, International Litigation and Property.

To read Symeon C. Symeonides's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.

James A.R. Nafziger

James A.R. Nafziger

Thomas B. Stoel Professor of Law

College of Law

JD Harvard University
MA University of Wisconsin
BA University of Wisconsin

James A.R. Nafziger teaches and writes extensively in the fields of international law, international business transactions, immigration and refugee law, comparative law, international litigation, and conflict of laws. He is chair of the executive committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served on the executive council and executive committee of the American Society of International Law. Nafziger is a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law, is president of the International Association of Sports Law, and sits on the National Council of the United Nations Association.

To read Nafziger's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.


Law/Government: International: Conflict of Laws

Symeon C. Symeonides

Symeon C. Symeonides

College of Law Dean and Professor of Law

College of Law

SJD Harvard University Law School
LLM Harvard University Law School
LLB (Public Law) Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Law School
LLB (Private Law) Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Law School

A world-renowned expert in international and comparative law and conflict of laws, Dean Symeonides is a life member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, vice president and former secretary of the American Society of Comparative Law, former chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Conflict of Laws, and a member of the Order of the Coif, the American Law Institute, the Oregon Law Commission, and the Bartolus Society. Dean Symeonides has been active in law reform, both in the United States and abroad, and provided legislative advice to the European Union Parliament and the numerous foreign governments. His teaching subjects include Conflict of Laws, Comparative Law, International Litigation and Property.

To read Symeon C. Symeonides's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.


Law/Government: International: Cultural Property

James A.R. Nafziger

James A.R. Nafziger

Thomas B. Stoel Professor of Law

College of Law

JD Harvard University
MA University of Wisconsin
BA University of Wisconsin

James A.R. Nafziger teaches and writes extensively in the fields of international law, international business transactions, immigration and refugee law, comparative law, international litigation, and conflict of laws. He is chair of the executive committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served on the executive council and executive committee of the American Society of International Law. Nafziger is a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law, is president of the International Association of Sports Law, and sits on the National Council of the United Nations Association.

To read Nafziger's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.

Robin Morris Collin

Robin Morris Collin

Professor of Law
Director of the Certificate Program in Sustainability Law

College of Law

JD Arizona State University
BA Colorado College

A widely sought speaker and panelist, Robin Morris Collin was the first law professor to teach sustainability at an American law school. Morris Collin came to Willamette in 2003 after a distinguished 10-year career as a tenured member of the faculty at the University of Oregon School of Law. She began her teaching career in 1984 at Tulane Law School and has taught at Pepperdine University School of Law, McGeorge Law School at the University of the Pacific, and Washington and Lee Law School. She also practiced administrative law at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., criminal law as an assistant county attorney in Maricopa County, Ariz., and private plaintiffs’ antitrust law at Reed, Goldstein and Jenkins-Reed in Phoenix.

To read Collin's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.

Symeon C. Symeonides

Symeon C. Symeonides

College of Law Dean and Professor of Law

College of Law

SJD Harvard University Law School
LLM Harvard University Law School
LLB (Public Law) Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Law School
LLB (Private Law) Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Law School

A world-renowned expert in international and comparative law and conflict of laws, Dean Symeonides is a life member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, vice president and former secretary of the American Society of Comparative Law, former chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Conflict of Laws, and a member of the Order of the Coif, the American Law Institute, the Oregon Law Commission, and the Bartolus Society. Dean Symeonides has been active in law reform, both in the United States and abroad, and provided legislative advice to the European Union Parliament and the numerous foreign governments. His teaching subjects include Conflict of Laws, Comparative Law, International Litigation and Property.

To read Symeon C. Symeonides's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.


Law/Government: International: European Union

David S. Clark

David S. Clark

Maynard and Bertha Wilson Professor of Law
Director, Certificate Program in International and Comparative Law

College of Law

JSM Stanford University
JD Stanford University
AB Stanford University

An international law specialist, Professor Clark joined the Willamette faculty in January 2002. Fluent in several languages, Clark has taught in Europe, Latin America and Asia. He has published 10 books and more than 50 articles on comparative law, procedure, courts, and law and society, which track his teaching areas. Since 1978 Clark has been active in the American Society of Comparative Law, the preeminent organization in its field. Clark teaches Civil Procedure, Comparative Law, European Union Law, Dispute Resolution, and Comparative Dispute Resolution. He also supervises Willamette's semester abroad program for study at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.

To read Clark's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.


Law/Government: International: Human Rights

Michael Wise

Michael Wise

Professor of Law

College of Law

JD Stanford University
BA Yale University

Michael Wise teaches civil procedure, constitutional law, comparative constitutional law and human rights law, and is a published authority in these areas. Wise was an attorney and advisor for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1971 to 1973 and a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division from 1977 to 1981. He served as assistant director of the Notre Dame Center for Civil Rights from 1973 to 1977. Wise joined the Willamette University College of Law faculty in 1981.

To read Wise's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.

Keith Cunningham-Parmeter

Keith Cunningham-Parmeter

Assistant Professor of Law

College of Law

JD Stanford University
BA University of Oregon

Professor Cunningham-Parmeter is an expert in employment and immigration law. He has been quoted in the national press, including the Los Angeles Times. Cunningham-Parmeter teaches Employment Law and Discrimination, Labor Law, and Contracts, and his research focuses on the intersection of employment law and immigration law.

Cunningham-Parmeter was ranked among the top persuasive speakers in the nation in college and won two writing competitions at Stanford Law School. Following graduation, he served for two years as law clerk on the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. He then worked as a Skadden Fellow with the Oregon Law Center Farmworker Program, representing migrant agricultural workers in the areas of occupational health and workplace discrimination.

To read Cunningham-Parmeter's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.

Gwynne L. Skinner

Gwynne L. Skinner

Assistant Professor of Clinical Law

College of Law

M.St. in International Human Rights Law (LL.M. equiv.), Oxford University, with distinction
J.D. University of Iowa, with high distinction
M.A. University of Iowa
B.A. University of Northern Iowa, summa cum laude

Professor Skinner’s scholarly research primarily focuses on issues related to human rights litigation in U.S. courts and the role of customary international law in domestic courts. She joined the Clinical Law Program faculty in 2008 to launch the school’s first International Human Rights Clinic. Prior to entering academia, Skinner was a civil rights and international human rights attorney with the Public Interest Law Group PLLC, a Seattle-based law firm she founded in 2003. She also worked as a civil litigator with the national law firm of Dorsey and Whitney LLP and as a federal and state prosecutor. Skinner has several years' experience litigating international human rights cases before U.S. courts, and currently has a case before the European Court of Human Rights. She also has substantial experience representing immigrants seeking asylum and has done extensive work on behalf of the rights of immigrants and conditions of immigrant detention.

To read Skinner's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.

Caroline Davidson

Caroline Davidson

Assistant Professor of Law

College of Law

J.D. Harvard Law School, cum laude
B.A. Princeton University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Professor Davidson’s research interests focus on international criminal and human rights law. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Davidson served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She went on to work as a litigation associate at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco. From 2003 to 2008, she prosecuted war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and defended clients in federal court on criminal and habeas corpus matters as an assistant federal public defender in Portland, Ore. She joined the Willamette law faculty in the fall of 2008. She is fluent in Spanish and French; proficient in Portuguese, Italian and German; and has a working knowledge of Bosnian.

To read Skinner's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.


Law/Government: International: International Business Law

James A.R. Nafziger

James A.R. Nafziger

Thomas B. Stoel Professor of Law

College of Law

JD Harvard University
MA University of Wisconsin
BA University of Wisconsin

James A.R. Nafziger teaches and writes extensively in the fields of international law, international business transactions, immigration and refugee law, comparative law, international litigation, and conflict of laws. He is chair of the executive committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served on the executive council and executive committee of the American Society of International Law. Nafziger is a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law, is president of the International Association of Sports Law, and sits on the National Council of the United Nations Association.

To read Nafziger's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.

David S. Clark

David S. Clark

Maynard and Bertha Wilson Professor of Law
Director, Certificate Program in International and Comparative Law

College of Law

JSM Stanford University
JD Stanford University
AB Stanford University

An international law specialist, Professor Clark joined the Willamette faculty in January 2002. Fluent in several languages, Clark has taught in Europe, Latin America and Asia. He has published 10 books and more than 50 articles on comparative law, procedure, courts, and law and society, which track his teaching areas. Since 1978 Clark has been active in the American Society of Comparative Law, the preeminent organization in its field. Clark teaches Civil Procedure, Comparative Law, European Union Law, Dispute Resolution, and Comparative Dispute Resolution. He also supervises Willamette's semester abroad program for study at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.

To read Clark's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.


Law/Government: International: International Law (Private)

Symeon C. Symeonides

Symeon C. Symeonides

College of Law Dean and Professor of Law

College of Law

SJD Harvard University Law School
LLM Harvard University Law School
LLB (Public Law) Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Law School
LLB (Private Law) Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Law School

A world-renowned expert in international and comparative law and conflict of laws, Dean Symeonides is a life member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, vice president and former secretary of the American Society of Comparative Law, former chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Conflict of Laws, and a member of the Order of the Coif, the American Law Institute, the Oregon Law Commission, and the Bartolus Society. Dean Symeonides has been active in law reform, both in the United States and abroad, and provided legislative advice to the European Union Parliament and the numerous foreign governments. His teaching subjects include Conflict of Laws, Comparative Law, International Litigation and Property.

To read Symeon C. Symeonides's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.


Law/Government: International: International Law (Public)

James A.R. Nafziger

James A.R. Nafziger

Thomas B. Stoel Professor of Law

College of Law

JD Harvard University
MA University of Wisconsin
BA University of Wisconsin

James A.R. Nafziger teaches and writes extensively in the fields of international law, international business transactions, immigration and refugee law, comparative law, international litigation, and conflict of laws. He is chair of the executive committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served on the executive council and executive committee of the American Society of International Law. Nafziger is a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law, is president of the International Association of Sports Law, and sits on the National Council of the United Nations Association.

To read Nafziger's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.

Caroline Davidson

Caroline Davidson

Assistant Professor of Law

College of Law

J.D. Harvard Law School, cum laude
B.A. Princeton University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Professor Davidson’s research interests focus on international criminal and human rights law. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Davidson served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She went on to work as a litigation associate at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco. From 2003 to 2008, she prosecuted war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and defended clients in federal court on criminal and habeas corpus matters as an assistant federal public defender in Portland, Ore. She joined the Willamette law faculty in the fall of 2008. She is fluent in Spanish and French; proficient in Portuguese, Italian and German; and has a working knowledge of Bosnian.

To read Skinner's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.


Law/Government: International: International Litigation and Arbitration

David S. Clark

David S. Clark

Maynard and Bertha Wilson Professor of Law
Director, Certificate Program in International and Comparative Law

College of Law

JSM Stanford University
JD Stanford University
AB Stanford University

An international law specialist, Professor Clark joined the Willamette faculty in January 2002. Fluent in several languages, Clark has taught in Europe, Latin America and Asia. He has published 10 books and more than 50 articles on comparative law, procedure, courts, and law and society, which track his teaching areas. Since 1978 Clark has been active in the American Society of Comparative Law, the preeminent organization in its field. Clark teaches Civil Procedure, Comparative Law, European Union Law, Dispute Resolution, and Comparative Dispute Resolution. He also supervises Willamette's semester abroad program for study at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.

To read Clark's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.

James A.R. Nafziger

James A.R. Nafziger

Thomas B. Stoel Professor of Law

College of Law

JD Harvard University
MA University of Wisconsin
BA University of Wisconsin

James A.R. Nafziger teaches and writes extensively in the fields of international law, international business transactions, immigration and refugee law, comparative law, international litigation, and conflict of laws. He is chair of the executive committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served on the executive council and executive committee of the American Society of International Law. Nafziger is a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law, is president of the International Association of Sports Law, and sits on the National Council of the United Nations Association.

To read Nafziger's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.

Caroline Davidson

Caroline Davidson

Assistant Professor of Law

College of Law

J.D. Harvard Law School, cum laude
B.A. Princeton University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Professor Davidson’s research interests focus on international criminal and human rights law. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Davidson served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She went on to work as a litigation associate at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco. From 2003 to 2008, she prosecuted war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and defended clients in federal court on criminal and habeas corpus matters as an assistant federal public defender in Portland, Ore. She joined the Willamette law faculty in the fall of 2008. She is fluent in Spanish and French; proficient in Portuguese, Italian and German; and has a working knowledge of Bosnian.

To read Skinner's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.


Law/Government: International: International Sports Law

James A.R. Nafziger

James A.R. Nafziger

Thomas B. Stoel Professor of Law

College of Law

JD Harvard University
MA University of Wisconsin
BA University of Wisconsin

James A.R. Nafziger teaches and writes extensively in the fields of international law, international business transactions, immigration and refugee law, comparative law, international litigation, and conflict of laws. He is chair of the executive committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served on the executive council and executive committee of the American Society of International Law. Nafziger is a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law, is president of the International Association of Sports Law, and sits on the National Council of the United Nations Association.

To read Nafziger's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.


Law/Government: International: Maritime Law

Kent Roberts

Adjunct Professor of Law

College of Law

JD Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark
BA University of North Carolina