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International, Transnational & Comparative Law
at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

ITC LAW FACULTY
Numerous full-time faculty members have international, transnational, or comparative law issues among their primary areas of interest. Moreover, many other full-time faculty members address aspects of international or comparative law in their teaching or scholarship or both.

Core ITC Law Faculty

Rachel J. Anderson
• International Human Rights Law
• Public International Law
• Transnational Business Law
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Christopher L. Blakesley
• Comparative & International Criminal Law
• Comparative & International Family Law
• International Humanitarian Law & Terrorism
• Public International Law
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Mary LaFrance
• Comparative & International Intellectual
Property Law
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Francis J. Mootz III
• Comparative Jurisprudence
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Keith A. Rowley
• Comparative & Transnational Contract Law
• Transnational Commercial Law
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Leticia Saucedo
• Employment Law
• Immigration Law
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David Thronson
• Immigration Law
• Transnational Family Law
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John Valery White
• Comparative Civil Rights Law
• International Human Rights Law
• Multiculturalism
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Associated ITC Law Faculty

Bret Birdsong
• Environmental Law
• Natural Resources Law
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Robert Correales
• Evidence
• Tort Law
• Workers’ Rights
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Martin A. Geer
• Comparative Legal Education
• International Human Rights Law
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Lynne Henderson
• Constitutional Law
• Feminist Jurisprudence
• International Human Rights Law
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Kay Kindred
• Education Law
• Family Law
• Remedies
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Steve Johnson
• Administrative Law
• Gaming Law
• Tax Law
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Thomas McAffee
• Constitutional Law
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Jeanne Price
• Comparative Intellectual Property Law
• Transnational Securities Law
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Jean Sternlight
• Conflict Resolution
• Employment Law
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David S. Tanenhaus
• Juvenile Justice
• Legal History
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FACULTY ITC LAW HIGHLIGHTS

Core Faculty ITC Law Highlights

Rachel J. Anderson
Associate Professor of Law
J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; M.A. in International Policy Studies, Stanford University; Zwischenprüfung, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

ITC Highlights: Professor Anderson’s research interests lie in the intersection of international human rights law and transnational business law. Before entering academia, she worked on international business transactions at the London, England, office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP. Prior to attending law school, Professor Anderson worked as a consultant for a subsidiary of a major German utility company in Berlin, Germany on European Commission projects in Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation. As a consultant, she also organized and implemented trainings on energy policy at the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, the Municipality of Krakow, Poland, and the Slovenian Ministry of Economics, as well as on international business practices at the Institute for International Relations in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and the EC Energy Centres in Ekaterinburg and Novosibirsk, Russia. Professor Anderson has published in the areas of international human rights and international trade. View full profile.

Christopher L. Blakesley
The Cobeaga Law Firm Professor of Law
J.S.D., Columbia University School of Law; LL.M, Columbia University School of Law; J.D. Order of the Coif, University of Utah College of Law; M.A. in International Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy; B.A., University of Utah

ITC Highlights: Professor Blakesley’s research interests include international and comparative criminal and family law. He has taught at the Ëtvos-Lorrand University and the University of the Pacific in Budapest, Hungary; the Universität Salzburg and the University of the Pacific in Salzburg, Austria; the University of Innsbruck and St. Mary’s University in Innsbruck, Austria; the Universiteit van Amsterdam and Tulane University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and the Faculté de Droit de l’Université de Paris I Panthèon-Sorbonne, France. He also studied and wrote his doctoral dissertation at the Sorbonne under the tutelage of Roger Pinto (Droit International Public) and Georges Levasseur (Droit Pénal), thanks to Columbia University School of Law in Paris. Professor Blakesley also has taught several additional times at the Faculté de Droit de l’Université de Paris I Panthèon-Sorbonne, Paris in conjunction with the University of San Diego, Faculté de Droit de l’Université d'Aix-Marseilles and Louisiana State University in Aix-en-Provence, France. Prior to entering academia, Professor Blakesley practiced in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. He is on the Board of Advisors of the International Human Rights Law Institute and the International Criminal Justice & Weapons Control Center as well as Vice President of the Association International de Droit Pénal, U.S. Branch, and a member of the Academic Advisory Board for Transnational Publishers, Inc.’s International and Comparative Law Series. Professor Blakesley has also served as one of six Sécrétaires Généraux Adjoints, on the Board of Directors of the Association International de Droit Pénal, the Board of Editors (Conseil de Rédacteurs) of the Revue International De Droit Pénal, France. He was appointed to the Board of Contributors (U.S. representative) of La Revue Pénitentiaire et de Droit Pénal, Paris, France, and is on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law. Professor Blakesley has authored over 100 publications in the areas of international and comparative law. View full profile.

Mary LaFrance
William S. Boyd Professor of Law
J.D. with High Honors, Duke University School of Law; M.A., Duke University School of Graduate Studies; A.B. summa cum laude, Bryn Mawr College

ITC Highlights: Professor LaFrance’s research interests include all aspects of international intellectual property law. Before entering academia, her law practice at the Washington, D.C. office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson included international tax matters involving foreign real property investments and motion picture tax credits for films initially released outside of the United States. Professor LaFrance has taught and conducted research in Tokyo, as an Invited Researcher at the Institute of Intellectual Property and as a Visiting Professor at the Tokai University School of Law. She has also taught comparative intellectual property courses to American and foreign law students as well as foreign lawyers in Paris, London, Florence, and Barbados, and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii’s Richardson School of Law. Professor LaFrance has published extensively in the area of international intellectual property, including two forthcoming books on international intellectual property law. View full profile.

Francis J. Mootz III
William S. Boyd Professor of Law
J.D. with High Honors, Duke University School of Law; M.A., Duke University School of Graduate Studies; B.A. with High Honors, University of Notre Dame

ITC Highlights: Professor Mootz’s research interests are in the areas of commercial law, law and philosophy, and law and rhetoric. His scholarship draws extensively from contemporary European philosophy. Professor Mootz has taught in Italy and has presented papers at conferences in Europe, Africa, and South America. In 2008, he is lecturing at Perelman Center for Legal Philosophy in Brussels, Belgium, the Università degli Studi di Cagliari and the Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy. In 2007 Professor Mootz lectured at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, Pontifícia Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Brazil and Universidade Federal do Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil. He is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Association of Law, Culture and the Humanities, which hosts an international conference every year. He has authored numerous journal articles and is the author and editor of several books. View full profile.

Keith A. Rowley
Professor of Law
J.D., University of Texas School of Law; M.P.P., Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government; B.A. with Honors, Baylor University

ITC Highlights: Professor Rowley’s primary research interests are in the areas of contract law and commercial law, policy, and theory. Prior to entering legal academia, his commercial law practice in Houston included transnational antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, and securities fraud matters. He also has researched international issues for Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C. In 2009, he will be teaching in the LL.M. and Master in Commercial Law programs at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Professor Rowley has spoken on transnational sales law issues at several American Bar Association programs and at the Uniform Commercial Code Institute. He has co-authored several articles about and co-edited a book on international trade law and practice. Professor Rowley also has written numerous publications devoted in whole or in part to international and comparative issues in contract law, electronic contracting, and commercial law. View full profile.

Leticia Saucedo
Co-Director, Immigration Clinic & Associate Professor of Law
J.D. cum laude, Harvard Law School; A.B. cum laude, Bryn Mawr College

ITC Highlights: Professor Saucedo’s research interests lie in the intersection of employment and labor law and immigration law. Professor Saucedo has co-developed and taught international and domestic service learning legal courses covering the immigration consequences of crime and domestic violence in a post-conflict society. She has published in the areas of employment law, immigration law, and conflict resolution. View full profile.

David Thronson
Associate Dean for Clinical Studies, Co-Director, Immigration Clinic & Associate Professor of Law
J.D. cum laude, Harvard Law School; M.A., Columbia University; B.S., University of Kansas

ITC Highlights: Professor Thronson’s research interests lie in the intersection of family law and immigration law. He addresses international human rights in his scholarship, especially the rights of children. Professor Thronson also writes about the transnational aspects inherent in immigrant families. View full profile.

John Valery White
Dean & Professor of Law
J.D., Yale Law School; B.A., Southern University

ITC Highlights: Dean White’s research interests include comparative civil rights law, international human rights law, and multiculturalism. As a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy, Dean White worked on the role of civil rights law and multicultural theories in responding to globalism. He helped organize and direct a summer school in comparative law in Insubria. He also has taught in the Louisiana State University Summer Abroad program at the Faculté de Droit de l’Université d’Aix-Marseille III and taught in and twice directed Louisiana State University's subsequent summer program at Faculté de Droit de Jean Moulin l’Université Lyon III in Lyon, France. Before entering academia, Dean White was an Orville Schell Fellow at Human Rights Watch in New York City where he worked on prison and human rights practices in Egypt. Dean White has published in the areas of international human rights, multiculturalism, and civil rights in the international context. View full profile.

Associated Faculty ITC Law Highlights

Bret Birdsong
Professor of Law
J.D., University of California, Hastings College of Law; B.A., Princeton University

Highlights: Professor Birdsong’s research interests lie in the area of environmental law. Prior to entering academia, he worked at the United States Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division as a trial attorney focusing on public land and natural resources litigation. As an Ian Axford Fellow in Public Policy, he studied New Zealand's specialized Environment Court and served as a visiting fellow in the office of New Zealand’s Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. Professor Birdsong’s research focuses on public land management and natural resources. View full profile.

Robert Correales
Assistant Professor of Law
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center; J.D., University of Kansas School of Law; B.A., University of North Texas

Highlights: Professor Correales’s research interests include evidence, torts law, and workers’ rights. He has published in the area of workers’ compensation and has written about the right of undocumented immigrants to receive workers’ compensation and vocational rehabilitation as well as the extent to which they are protect by U.S. labor laws and other employment laws. More recently he has focused on issues relating to health law. View full profile.

Martin A. Geer
Director, Externship Program
LL.M., Columbia University School of Law; J.D., Wayne State University; B.A. magna cum laude, University of Michigan

Highlights: Professor Geer’s research interests include legal education and human rights law. He has taught as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Pune, India and was appointed Senior Fulbright Specialist in 2007. He has engaged in judicial and clinical law teacher training in Argentina, Brazil, India, and Russia. Professor Geer is an ABA-CEELI Legal Education Consultant, Tbilisi State University, Federation of Georgia. Professor Geer also has been a member of the Global Alliance for Justice Education since its inception. He has published in the areas of human rights and legal education. View full profile.

Lynne Henderson
Professor of Law
J.D., Stanford Law School; B.A., Stanford University

Highlights: Professor Henderson’s research interests include human rights law. Professor Henderson has written extensively on victims’ rights, rape, and feminist jurisprudence. More recently she has focused on issues relating to torture, the Geneva Conventions, and international human rights. View full profile.

Kay Kindred
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor of Law
J.D., Columbia University School of Law; A.B. cum laude, Duke University

Highlights: Professor Kindred’s research interests include conflicts of laws, constitutional law, and family law. Prior to entering academia, she served on the corporate legal staff for General Electric Company in Connecticut and as assistant to the general counsel at Old Dominion University. Professor Kindred has published extensively in the areas of family law, children’s rights, and education law. View full profile.

Steve Johnson
E.L. Wiegand Professor of Law
J.D., New York University School of Law; B.A. summa cum laude, St. Francis College (New York)

Highlights: Professor Johnson’s research interests include administrative law, gaming law, statutory interpretation, and tax law. Prior to entering academia, he was in private tax practice in New York City, after which he served as a Senior Attorney with the IRS Chief Counsel’s Office and a Special Assistant United States Attorney. Professor Johnson’s scholarship incorporates international tax cooperation and enforcement as well as comparative tax anti-abuse doctrines. View full profile.

Thomas B. McAffee
Professor of Law
J.D. Order of the Coif, University of Utah College of Law; B.S., University of Utah

Highlights: Professor McAffee’s research interests focus on constitutional law. Professor McAffee has published extensively in the area of constitutional law. He has written several articles and is currently writing a book that addresses international and comparative issues in constitutional law, in particular as they relate to the war powers. View full profile.

Jeanne Price
Director, Wiener-Rogers Law Library & Associate Professor of Law
M.L.S., University of Maryland; J.D., University of Texas; B.A., Yale University

Highlights: Professor Price’s primary interest areas lie in comparative intellectual property, international aspects of securities transactions and regulation, and leximetrics. Before entering academia, her law practice included representing and advising a national energy corporation in Doha, Qatar on international business transactions. She has published in the area of legal research. View full profile.

Jean Sternlight
Director, Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution & Michael and Sonja Saltman Professor of Law
J.D. cum laude, Harvard Law School; B.A., Swarthmore College

Highlights: Professor Sternlight’s research focuses on arbitration, mediation, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. She has done comparative work on mandatory arbitration and the links between rule-of-law and alternative dispute resolution. She has compared how employment discrimination matters are handled, from a procedural standpoint, in Australia, England, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the United States. Professor Sternlight has also organized trainings on alternative dispute resolution for judges and lawyers in the Caribbean (Barbados & St. Lucia) and mentored faculty and lectured at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. View full profile.

David S. Tanenhaus
James E. Rogers Professor of History and Law
Ph.D., University of Chicago; M.A., University of Chicago; B.A. with honors, Grinnell College

Highlights: Professor Tanenhaus’ research interests lie in the areas of juvenile justice and legal history. He is a co-editor of A Century of Juvenile Justice, author of Juvenile Justice in the Making, and the editor of the Law and History Review. Currently, Professor Tanenhaus is working on a book that emphasizes internationalism as a theme of American juvenile justice from the turn of the twentieth century to modern times. View full profile.

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