Weitseng Chen specializes in comparative Asian law—particularly within greater China area, with an emphasis on law and development. After he received a JSD from Yale Law School, he worked for Stanford University as a Hewlett Fellow of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). Immediately before he joined NUS Faculty of Law, Weitseng worked as a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell. He is a fellow of Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin during 2021-22. Weitseng's recent research interests include authoritarian legality in South Korea, Taiwan and China, Asian state capitalism, China’s outbound investment, shadow banking in Asia, property rights transition in greater China, and German law legacy in East Asia. He has published Regime Type and Beyond: The Transformation of Police in Asia (w. Hualing Fu; CUP, forthcoming 2023), Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation, Development and Transition (w. Hualing Fu; CUP 2019), The Beijing Consensus? How China has Changed the Western Ideas of Law and Economic Development (CUP, 2017), Property and Trust Law: Taiwan (w. Yun-Chien Chang & Y. J. Wu) (Kluwer, 2017), and Law and Economic Miracle: Interaction between Taiwan’s Development and Economic Laws after WWII (in Chinese, 2000).
Kevin Davis is the Beller Family Professor of Business Law at New York University School of Law. His research and teaching generally concern the relationship between law and economic development, with particular emphasis on anti-corruption law, commercial law, and measurement of the performance of legal systems. His publications include more than 50 articles or essays, four edited volumes, and a monograph, Between Impunity and Imperialism: The Regulation of Transnational Bribery (Oxford University Press, 2019). He has held visiting appointments at Cambridge University’s Clare Hall, Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Law (São Paulo), the University of Southern California, the University of Toronto, and the University of the West Indies (Barbados), and has lectured at many other institutions around the world. He joined the NYU law faculty in 2004 and served as Vice Dean for Global Affairs from 2012 to 2017. Before joining NYU, he was a tenured member of the faculty at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, worked as an associate at Torys LLP in Toronto, and served as law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada to Mr. Justice John Sopinka. He holds a B.A. from McGill University, a LL.B. from the University of Toronto, and a LL.M. from Columbia University.
Blake Emerson is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Emerson’s research examines the normative and historical foundations of American public law. His book, The Public’s Law: Origins and Architecture of Progressive Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2019), offers a history and theory of democracy in the American administrative state. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Jurisprudence, the Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory, Yale Journal on Regulation, Harvard Law & Policy Review, Minnesota Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, and Review of Politics, among other publications. Emerson received his B.A. magna cum laude with Highest Honors from Williams College, his Ph.D. with Honors from Yale University, and his J.D. with Honors from Yale Law School. In 2021, he received the Association of American Law Schools, Administrative Law Section’s Emerging Scholar Award.
Heather K. Gerken is the Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Dean Gerken is one of the country’s leading experts on constitutional law and election law. A founder of the “nationalist school” of federalism, her work focuses on federalism, diversity, and dissent. Hailed as an “intellectual guru” in the New York Times, Gerken’s scholarship has been featured in The Atlantic, the Boston Globe, NPR, the New York Times, and Time. In 2017, Politico Magazine named Gerken one of The Politico 50, a list of idea makers in American politics. Her work on election reform has affected policy at a national level. At Yale, she founded and runs the country’s most innovative clinic in local government law, the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project (SFALP). Gerken is also a renowned teacher who has won awards at both Yale and Harvard. She was named one of the nation’s “twenty-six best law teachers” in a book published by the Harvard University Press. A native of Massachusetts, Gerken graduated from Princeton University, where she received her A.B. degree, summa cum laude in 1991. A Darrow Scholar, she graduated from the University of Michigan Law School summa cum laude in 1994. Gerken currently serves as a trustee for Princeton University. After law school, Gerken clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the 9th Circuit and Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court. She then served as an appellate lawyer in Washington, D.C., before joining the Harvard Law School faculty in 2000. Gerken came to Yale in 2006 and became the inaugural J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law in 2008. She became dean of Yale Law School on July 1, 2017. Gerken has published extensively. Her work has been featured in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, as well as numerous popular publications. Her work has been the subject of four symposia, and she has served as a commentator for a number of major media outlets, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC News. Dean Gerken served as a senior advisor to the Obama campaign in 2008 and 2012. In 2013, her proposal for creating a “Democracy Index” — a national ranking of election systems — was adopted by the Pew Charitable Trusts, which created the nation’s first Election Performance Index. She has been featured in the National Law Journal for balancing teaching and research, won a Green Bag award for legal writing, and has testified before the Senate three times. Gerken is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Daniel Halberstam is the Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law, and Director of European Legal Studies, at the University of Michigan Law School. He served as Associate Dean for Faculty & Research from 2016-2020. An expert on European Union law, constitutional law, and federalism, and one of the principal architects of the theory of constitutional pluralism, Halberstam writes more broadly on comparative public law and legal theory.
Nancy F. Hite-Rubin received her PhD in Political Science at Yale University in 2012 and served as an Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the Fletcher School from 2012-2018. She holds an LL.M in Law and Economics from the University of Hamburg (earned on a Fulbright Scholarship) and a B.A. in Economics (with distinction) from the University of Texas, Austin. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of comparative political economy and international relations. She focuses mainly on comparative politics in developing and transitional countries and is keenly interested in corruption, informality, clientelism, political psychology, and access to state institutions. Her book manuscript, “Economic Modernization and the Disruption of Patronage Politics: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines,” employs qualitative, field experimental, and quantitative research methodology to investigate how marginalized people respond politically to economic and institutional development. Her work has been published in both policy-focused outlets, such as Brookings Institution for Oxford University Press, and academic journals, such as the American Journal of Political Science. Hite-Rubin was the Research and Evaluation Lead for Global Development at the Cloudburst Group (2019-2020), managing and contributing to dozens of USAID and MCC development projects while maintaining active, academic research as Affiliated Faculty.
Stephen B. Kaplan is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University, and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for International Economic Policy. He is also a current global fellow at the Wilson Center. Kaplan's research and teaching interests focus on the frontiers of international and comparative political economy, where he specializes in the political economy of global finance and development, China's foreign investment in developing countries, and Latin American politics. His first book, Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2013), offers important lessons for understanding financial crises in the wake of the global pandemic. His new book, Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas (Cambridge University Press, 2021), examines China's overseas financial investments in the developing world. Professor Kaplan has also published articles in many top research journals, including the Journal of Politics, the Review of International Political Economy, the Latin American Research Review, and World Development. Kaplan holds a Ph.D. from Yale University, a M.S. from Georgetown University, and a postdoctoral fellowship from Princeton University. Prior to his doctoral studies, Kaplan was a senior economic researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, writing extensively on developing country economics, global finance, and emerging market crises.
Daniel Kaufmann is a senior fellow at Results for Development (R4D), and president emeritus at the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), where he served as the president and CEO from 2013-2020 and still a current member of its Advisory Council. He is also affiliated with the Brookings Institution and the faculty of economics of the University of Philippines. He has served as a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) international board, as well as various advisory boards including the Organization for Economic Cooperation, and the Development Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Anti-Corruption, and similarly for Anti-Corruption at the Inter-American Bank. In the past, Kaufmann was director at the World Bank Institute, where he led a program to address governance and corruption. He also held other leadership positions at the World Bank focusing on finance, regulation, and anti-corruption, and was also a lead economist for the economies in transition as well as in the research department. In the early nineties, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, he became the first chief of mission of the World Bank to Ukraine. He also held a visiting scholar position at Harvard University and was a member of the Global Agenda Council and faculty of the World Economic Forum. Occasionally he also lectures on opera, on politics, and on the interface between both. Kaufmann’s research on economic development, governance and corruption, and natural resources has been published in leading academic journals. He has also co-authored a set of widely used global indicators, such as the Worldwide Governance Indicators, as well as the Resource Governance Index, and with colleagues he also pioneered the study and empirical analysis of “legal corruption” and state capture. He is one of the most downloaded social scientists in the SSRN portal. He has authored articles in publications such as the Financial Times, the IMF’s Finance & Development, and other publications. His work has been regularly featured in print media internationally, as well as online and broadcast media interviews, such as a series of RAW Talks on resource policy and governance and a recent discussion on the need for a revamp of the field of natural resource governance (based on work conducted with colleagues at R4D). Kaufmann received his MA and PhD in economics at Harvard, and a BA in economics and statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A native Spanish speaker, he is fluent in Hebrew.
Maciej Kisilowski is an Associate Professor of Law and Strategy at Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. He publishes in law, management strategy and political science, with his research being focused on the application of the principles of innovation strategy to various nonmarket fields, including public law and regulation. He is the founding Faculty Program Director of CEU Executive MBA: CEU's signature program for experienced executives, managers, and leaders. Kisilowski is a frequent commentator on issues of political-economy of East-Central Europe, contributing (among others) to Los Angeles Times, Project Syndicate, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Haaretz, Der Standard, EU Observer, and EURActive. He is the author/editor of three books, including his co-authored Administrategy, which was translated into five languages. Kisilowski is involved in a number of social change projects at the intersection of strategy and governance, including The Social Contract Incubator in his native Poland. He is a consultant to governmental organizations, progressive political parties, advocacy groups and businesses in Central Europe and beyond.
Stephen Kosack is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is a political scientist who focuses on how governments become more responsive and effective for citizens without unusual wealth or other advantages. He has written on human development, education, civil society, transparency and accountability, foreign aid, foreign-direct investment, and democratic governance in the British Journal of Political Science, International Organization, the Annual Review of Political Science, World Development, and Comparative Education; in two books, The Education of Nations (Oxford University Press, 2012), and From the Ground Up (Brookings Institution Press, 2010; with Charles Griffin and Courtney Tolmie); and in policy papers for organizations including the UNDP and the Brookings Institution. He received his Ph.D. in political science in 2008 from Yale University, was previously a labor policy advisor to the late Senator Ted Kennedy and a research fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, and taught at Brown, the London School of Economics, and Harvard.
Jana Kunicová is a Lead Public Sector Specialist at the World Bank. She currently serves as a Governance Coordinator for Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda, and Uganda. Since joining the Bank in 2006, Kunicová has worked on various aspects of improving public sector performance, including service delivery, strategic planning, public administration, anti-corruption systems, and political economy analysis. Kunicová has led teams to deliver lending operations, helped develop country strategies, and authored major analytical reports, including a global flagship on public sector performance. Her work took her to more than 50 countries across Africa, Europe and Central Asia, and East Asia and Pacific, including a three-year stint at the Bank’s Global Knowledge and Research Hub in Kuala Lumpur. Jana holds a PhD in political science from Yale University. When not working to improve public sector performance, she is most likely outside enjoying the mountains, or training for her next triathlon.
Paul Lagunes is the author of The Eye and the Whip: Corruption Control in the Americas. Having obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University, he has over a decade of experience applying field experiments to test the effectiveness of anticorruption interventions.
Peter L. Lindseth teaches at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he is the Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law; Director of Graduate, International, and Non-JD Programs; and Co-Director of the Professional Certificate Program in Corporate and Regulatory Compliance. His research focuses on comparative administrative law, European integration, and the origins and evolution of governance structures and the state. His books include a reinterpretation of the history of European integration, Power and Legitimacy: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State (OUP), as well as three co-edited volumes on comparative administrative law (from Elgar and OUP), two of which co-edited with Susan Rose-Ackerman. His articles have appeared in the Columbia Law Review, Contemporary European History, the European Constitutional Law Review, the European Law Journal, and the Yale Law Journal, among other publications. He holds a B.A. and J.D. from Cornell and a Ph.D. in European history from Columbia.
Jerry L. Mashaw is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School, where he teaches courses on administrative law, social welfare policy, regulation, legislation, and the design of public institutions. He formerly taught at Tulane University and the University of Virginia.
Jud Mathews is a Professor of Law at Penn State Law and an Affiliate Professor in Penn State's School of International Affairs. His principal teaching and research areas are administrative law and constitutional law, and he also teaches or has taught courses in civil procedure, state and local government law, and international commercial arbitration. He has written extensively about techniques of constitutional rights adjudication, in the United States and in other jurisdictions, and in particular about proportionality review. Mathews holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. After law school, he worked as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Joana Mendes is Professor of Comparative and Administrative Law at the University of Luxembourg since 2016, where she teaches courses in Comparative Administrative Law and EU Law. She graduated in law and obtained a master’s degree in public law at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). She has a doctor degree from the European University Institute (Italy). Before joining the University of Luxembourg, she worked at the University of Amsterdam, where she was Associate Professor at the Department of International and EU Law and PhD Dean. She has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School (2014). She has also taught as a guest lecturer at the University of Coimbra, the European University Institute, the LUISS Carlo Guidi School of Government (summer school), and at the Legal and Judicial Training Centre of Macao. She is co-founder of European Law Open and was previously co-editor of the European Law Journal. She is a member of the editorial board of the German Law Journal, of the Steering Committee of ReNEUAL (Research Network of European Administrative Law), and was member of the Council of the International Society of Public Law between 2017 and 2022.
Jennifer Nou is Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. She is currently on leave as a senior advisor at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). Nou’s main research interests are in administrative law, executive branch dynamics, regulatory policy, and constitutional separation-of-powers. Nou is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School and received an MPhil in Politics from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. After law school, she was a law clerk to Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then to Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court. She is a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Anne Joseph O’Connell, a lawyer and social scientist whose research focuses on the federal bureaucracy, is the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford University. She is also a contributor to the Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution and an appointed senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Public Administration. O’Connell frequently consults with congressional staff, non-profit organizations and others, and she has testified in front of Congress. She took Administrative Law from Susan Rose-Ackerman and wrote her SAW (required major paper) under Rose-Ackerman’s supervision. O’Connell is a three-time recipient of the American Bar Association’s Scholarship Award in Administrative Law for the best article or book published in the preceding year and a two-time winner of the Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law from the American Constitution Society. She joined the Gellhorn and Byse’s Administrative Law: Cases and Comments casebook as a co-editor with the twelfth edition. Most recently, her work has focused on acting officials and delegations of authority in federal agencies. She is currently working on a book, Stand-Ins, on temporary leadership in government, business, and religion. Before entering law school teaching, O’Connell clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Judge Stephen F. Williams and served as a trial attorney for the Federal Programs Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division.
Bonnie J. Palifka is an international anti-corruption scholar, Associate Research Professor in the Department of Economics at the Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico), and Lecturer for Yale Summer Online. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Latin American studies from the University of Vermont, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. Palifka is the founder and organizer of the Academia against Corruption in the Americas conference; she has consulted for Transparency International and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). She received the Rómulo Garza award for the second edition of Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform (with Susan Rose-Ackerman). Her most recent work is a co-authored book chapter, “Mexico’s National Anti-Corruption System.”
Nicholas R. Parrillo is William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale, with a secondary appointment as Professor of History. His research and teaching focus on administrative law and government bureaucracy and extend to legal history, remedies, and legislation.
Thomas Perroud is Professor of Public Law at University Panthéon-Assas and Fellow (Experienced researcher) of the Humboldt Foundation at Humboldt University. Perroud is a graduate of HEC, Sciences Po Paris, holds a B.A. in History and a Doctorate in public law from Panthéon-Sorbonne University, as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Warwick. He was successively tenured assistant professor at Paris-Est University and professor at Aix-Marseille University (Institut Louis Favoreu). He is now at the University Panthéon-Assas (CERSA). He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Rome 2 and 3, and Bocconi, Oxford (Saint John's College), Humboldt (Berlin), Jena. He was Deputy Director of the Comparative Administrative Law Program at Yale Law School in 2013.
Mariana Mota Prado obtained her law degree (LLB) from the University of Sao Paulo, and her master's (LLM) and Doctorate (JSD) from Yale Law School. She is currently a Professor and the William C. Graham Chair in International Law and Development at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where she was also the Associate Dean for the Graduate Programs from 2014 to 2019. She has published extensively on law and development, including three co-authored books with Michael J. Trebilcock: Institutional Bypasses: A Strategy to Promote Reforms for Development (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Advanced Introduction to Law and Development (Edward Elgar, 1st ed. 2014; 2nd ed. 2021), and What Makes Poor Countries Poor (Edward Elgar, 2011). A Brazilian national, she has taught courses at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London, Direito Rio - Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in Brazil, ITAM Law School in Mexico, Los Andes Law School in Colombia, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina and University of Puerto Rico School of Law in the United States. Her scholarship focuses on law and development, corruption and comparative law.
Athanasios (Akis) Psygkas is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at Western University in Canada, where he directs the Public Law Research Group. His research interests include comparative public law, law of democracy, regulation and governance, and he has advised international NGOs on these issues. Prior to his appointment at Western University, Akis was a Senior Lecturer in Public Law and Politics at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Akis has held visiting positions at the University of Toronto, European University Institute, University of Milan-Bicocca, Université Paris-Dauphine, and Sciences Po Paris. As an Oscar M. Ruebhausen visiting research fellow at Yale Law School, Akis was involved in the Comparative Administrative Law Initiative, where he has been managing the Comparative Administrative Law Blog since 2009. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Susan Rose-Ackerman is Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science and Professorial Lecturer in Law, Yale University. In 2021, Yale University Press published Democracy and Executive Power: Policymaking Accountability in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France, a culmination and synthesis of her past work in policymaking and comparative public law. She is the author of Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform (1999, 2d edition with Bonnie Palifka, 2016), Due Process of Lawmaking: The United States, South Africa, Germany, and the European Union (with Stefanie Egidy and James Fowkes, 2015); From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland (2005); Controlling Environmental Policy: The Limits of Public Law in Germany and the United States (1995); Rethinking the Progressive Agenda: The Reform of the American Regulatory State (1992); and Corruption: A Study in Political Economy (1978). Her edited book, Comparative Administrative Law (2nd edition, with Peter Lindseth and Blake Emerson), was published in 2017. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and has held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, at Collegium Budapest, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa, Queen Mary University of London, and from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. She holds honorary degrees from the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, and the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas Lima, Peru. She has published widely in the fields of law, economics, and public policy, and she has edited nine books on aspects of corruption and administrative law. She was a member of the High-Level Panel of the Financial Accountability and Transparency Initiative for Achieving the 2030 Agenda [FACTI], whose report was published in 2021. Her research interests include comparative regulatory law and policy, the political economy of corruption, public policy and administrative law, and law and economics.
Hans-Bernd Schäfer is affiliate professor for Law and Economics at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg (Germany). He is also professor emeritus of economics at the University of Hamburg, where he was director of the Institute of Law and Economics. He published widely in the field of Law and economics. His book on the economics of civil law, co-authored with Claus Ott, is in its sixth edition and was translated into several languages. With Hein Kötz he published a book on the analysis of decisions of the German Supreme Court from a law and economics point of view. Schäfer was president of the European Association of Law and Economics, director of the Erasmus Program in Law and Economics (EMLE) and director of the Ph.D. program in law and Economics, funded by the German research association. He was awarded the scholar prize of the European as well as the Latin American and Caribbean Association of Law and Economics. He is an honorary member of the Polish and the German Association of Law and Economics. He lectures on Law and Economics as well as on law and economic development in many universities in Europe, America and Asia.
Tina Søreide is Director General of the Norwegian Competition Authority, on leave from her position as Professor of Law and Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). She was formerly employed by the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen (UiB), the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Norway, and the World Bank, Washington DC. Her research themes include corruption, competition in markets, law enforcement, and governance, and these topics are reflected in her teaching as well – at masters and PhD level. Søreide publishes her work in law, such as "The International Endorsement of Corporate Settlements in Foreign Bribery Cases" with Radha Ivory in the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, and in economics, such as "An Economic Analysis of Debarment" with Emmanuelle Auriol in The International Review of Law and Economics. She has written and co-edited several books, including Corruption and Criminal Justice: Bridging Legal and Economic Perspectives (monograph), Negotiated Settlements in Bribery Cases: A Principled Approach, co-edited with Abiola Makinwa, and The International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Volume II with Susan Rose-Ackerman. Søreide has been engaged in policy work for the Norwegian Government and internationally, including for the EU and the World Bank, and member of the OECD Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Anti-Corruption and Integrity.
Peter L. Strauss ’64 is the Betts Professor of Law Emeritus at Columbia Law School, where he long taught public law courses with a scholarly focus on administrative law, and has long been co-author of one of the leading law school casebooks on administrative law. Before joining the Columbia faculty in 1971, he had clerked for David L. Bazelon and William J. Brennan in Washington, D.C.; spent two years lecturing on criminal law in the national university of Ethiopia; and three years as an attorney in the Office of the Solicitor General, briefing and arguing cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. During 1975 to 1977, he was the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission's first general counsel. This last experience catalyzed much of Strauss's scholarship in the American context, treating the internal political and oversight relationships within the executive branch, increasingly fraught in recent years. While she was his colleague at Columbia, Susan Rose-Ackerman was one of his "students," and he has long followed and admired her remarkable career as an administrative law scholar, groundbreaking in comparative administrative law. Like his monograph, Administrative Justice in the United States, much of his work, if not strictly comparativist, has been written to introduce foreign lawyers to the often hard-to-appreciate characteristics of the American government and its public law, and he has often taught and lectured on this subject abroad.
Jennifer Tobin is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. She earned her Ph.D. at Yale University, and has worked at the Brookings Institution, the World Bank, Oxford University, and microfinance institutions in Uganda, Haiti, and Mexico. Her main research interests are in the political economy of development, specifically focusing on international investment, trade, development assistance aid, and investor state dispute resolution. She is currently working on projects focused on property rights enforcement for small investors, investor state dispute settlement (ISDS), free trade agreements in emerging market economies, financial crises, and the emergence of pro-poor economic policies in developing countries
Natalia Volosin is an anticorruption campaigner and human rights advocate in Argentina. She holds a J.D. degree magna cum laude and class valedictorian from Universidad de Palermo, and an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School. She is the author of Corruption in Argentina: Towards an Institutional Approach, with a foreword by Susan Rose-Ackerman (Routledge 2019). Volosin has published and conducted research for Transparency International, academic institutions, and government agencies, and has been a professor at multiple universities. She served as senior law clerk at the Asset Recovery Unit and as Chief of the Criminal Investigations Unit, both at the Office of the Attorney General. She is currently on leave, working as a senior columnist at Infobae, a major Spanish media.
Sponsored by the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund at Yale Law School