Wayne State University

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International Law faculty

William Burnham is an expert on comparative and Russian law. He has taught at a variety of legal institutions in Russia and around the world, and has been actively involved in law reform activities in Russia. Select publications include Introduction to the Law and Legal System of the United States, 3d Ed. and Law and Legal System of the Russian Federation, 3d Ed. Since 2000, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of "The American Series of Foreign Penal Codes."
John Dolan writes about letters of credit and independent bank guarantees, both of which play major roles in international trade and payments and both of which are subject to international rules fashioned by the International Chamber of Commerce and UNCITRAL, the trade arm of the United Nations. Professor Dolan’s treatise on letters of credit is a leading authority on the subject. He has testified as an expert witness in domestic and foreign litigation and serves on the editorial boards of domestic and foreign banking law journals.
Paul Dubinsky focuses mainly on transnational and human rights law. He serves on the executive committee of the American branch of the International Law Association and on the U.S. Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law. He also serves on the Executive Editorial Board of the American Journal of Comparative Law. Select publications include “Human Rights Law Meets Private Law Harmonization: The Coming Conflict” (Yale Journal of International Law) and “Justice for the Collective: The Limits of the Human Rights Class Action” (Michigan Law Review).
Gregory H. Fox is the Director of Wayne Law's Program on International Legal Studies. He writes and teaches on international organizations, human rights and the international administration of territory. He has been a visiting fellow at Cambridge University, the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and Yale Law School. His many publications include Humanitarian Occupation and Democratic Governance and International Law, both published by Cambridge University Press.
Lance Gable is an expert on international public health law. He has helped develop course materials for the World Health Organization Diploma in International Human Rights and Mental Health and has worked as a human rights consultant for the Pan American Health Organization. Select publications include Realizing the Right to Health and Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform.
Noah Hall focuses on international environmental law. He is a leading expert on U.S.-Canadian environmental law, transboundary pollution, interstate water management, and citizen participation. His scholarship includes "Toward a New Horizontal Federalism: Interstate Water Management in the Great Lakes Region" (Colorado Law Review), "Transboundary Pollution: Harmonizing International and Domestic Law" (University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform) and a forthcoming casebook, Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society (Aspen) He founded the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center and previously advised the Great Lakes Governors and Premiers in developmeing the recently-enacted Great Lakes Compact.
Peter Hammer writes and teaches on international health law. He has an active interest in health policy and development and has served as a visiting professor at the Center for Khmer Studies in Cambodia. Select publications include Living on the Margins: Minorities and Borderlines in Cambodia and Southeast Asia and Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care.
Michael McIntyre is an expert on international tax law. He has served as a consultant to national governments on six continents, to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Select publications include International Tax Primer and The International Income Tax Rules of the United States.
Julia Qin focuses mainly on international business transactions, international finance, international trade law and Chinese law. She serves as a member of the Council and the Steering Committee for the Chinese Society of International Law. Her article, "WTO Regulation of Subsidies to State-owned Enterprises (SOEs)" in the Journal of international Economic Law, was cited by Justice Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court in his dissent opinion in United Haulers Assn., Inc. v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Mgmt. Auth., 550 U.S. 330 (2007).
Brad Roth writes and teaches on international law, comparative public law, and political and legal theory. He holds a joint appointment with the Wayne State University Department of Political Science and has served as law clerk to the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Select publications include Governmental Illegitimacy in International Law and Democratic Governance and International Law.
John Rothchild focuses on international intellectual property law. He has served as an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, and, for several years, led the Commission’s international consumer protection program. Select publications include Internet Commerce: The Emerging Legal Framework and “Consumer Law and the Internet” (Handbook of International Consumer Law and Policy).
Alan Schenk is an expert on international tax law, specifically value added taxation (VAT). He has taught VAT in South Africa, Canada and Taiwan and at several U.S. law schools, served as external expert for China's ongoing tax reform and technical advisor for the International Monetary Fund's legal department, and drafted the VAT law in effect in Botswana, Ethiopia and Dominica. Select publications include Value Added Tax: A Comparative Approach and VAT in Africa (select chapters).
Rachel Settlage focuses mainly on international immigration and refugee law. She has served as foreign affairs officer/senior editor at the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and will soon oversee Wayne Law’s proposed Immigration and Refugee Clinic.
Jonathan Weinberg writes and teaches on immigration and citizenship law. He served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and as a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies. He has published numerous articles on Internet and high-technology law and policy.