Private and Transactional International Law at New York ... - IILJ
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on U.S./English practice with respect to masters <strong>and</strong> magistr<strong>at</strong>es under the supervision<br />
of the l<strong>at</strong>e Sir I.H. (Jack) Jacob. After firmly establishing her pre-eminence as a teacher<br />
<strong>and</strong> scholar of U.S. civil procedure, Professor Silberman turned her <strong>at</strong>tention to the<br />
procedural issues th<strong>at</strong> arise in the intern<strong>at</strong>ional arena; her casebook, Civil Procedure:<br />
Theory <strong>and</strong> Practice (with Allan Stein <strong>and</strong> Tobias Wolff), introduced a compar<strong>at</strong>ive<br />
dimension to the first-year Civil Procedure course. Since then, she has particip<strong>at</strong>ed in<br />
several Study Groups convened by the U.S. Department of St<strong>at</strong>e on a diverse array of<br />
priv<strong>at</strong>e intern<strong>at</strong>ional law issues <strong>and</strong> has also been a member of numerous U.S. St<strong>at</strong>e<br />
Department deleg<strong>at</strong>ions to the Hague Conference on <strong>Priv<strong>at</strong>e</strong> <strong>Intern<strong>at</strong>ional</strong> <strong>Law</strong>. She is a<br />
member of the Associ<strong>at</strong>ion of the Bar of the City of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>’s <strong>Intern<strong>at</strong>ional</strong><br />
Commercial Disputes Committee; she sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of<br />
<strong>Priv<strong>at</strong>e</strong> <strong>Intern<strong>at</strong>ional</strong> <strong>Law</strong>; <strong>and</strong> she writes extensively on a diverse array of priv<strong>at</strong>e<br />
intern<strong>at</strong>ional law issues – from intern<strong>at</strong>ional jurisdiction <strong>and</strong> compar<strong>at</strong>ive<br />
recognition/enforcement of foreign judgments to substantive issues in intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
family law. Professor Silberman also has substantial litig<strong>at</strong>ion experience; she was<br />
Professor-in-Residence <strong>at</strong> the U.S. Department of Justice, Appell<strong>at</strong>e Staff, Civil Division,<br />
<strong>and</strong> has been both expert <strong>and</strong> counsel in a number of important cases in both the U.S.<br />
<strong>and</strong> abroad, including the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal.<br />
Clayton P. Gillette<br />
Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract <strong>Law</strong><br />
Professor Gillette possesses considerable expertise in the law of commercial sales, both<br />
domestic (the UCC) <strong>and</strong> intern<strong>at</strong>ional (the CISG). In addition to his scholarly efforts<br />
aimed <strong>at</strong> promoting an underst<strong>and</strong>ing of the CISG, Professor Gillette is an active<br />
participant in the deb<strong>at</strong>e regarding the merits of the harmoniz<strong>at</strong>ion of intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
sales law. He is an active member of the Associ<strong>at</strong>ion of the Bar of the City of <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong>’s Uniform St<strong>at</strong>e <strong>Law</strong>s Committee; in addition, he recently organized a Conference<br />
on Commercial <strong>Law</strong> Theory <strong>and</strong> the Convention on the <strong>Intern<strong>at</strong>ional</strong> Sale of Goods<br />
(CISG) <strong>at</strong> the University School of <strong>Law</strong> <strong>at</strong> Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy; the<br />
proceedings of the conference are available in the <strong>Intern<strong>at</strong>ional</strong> Review of <strong>Law</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
Economics 25 (2005). Professor Gillette will be teaching a course in intern<strong>at</strong>ional sales<br />
law as a Visiting Professor <strong>at</strong> Tel Aviv University in l<strong>at</strong>e 2007.<br />
Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss<br />
Pauline <strong>New</strong>man Professor of <strong>Law</strong><br />
Professor Dreyfuss is the Director of the Engelberg Center on Innov<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>Law</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
Policy <strong>at</strong> NYU School of <strong>Law</strong>. She is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading<br />
experts in intellectual property law. Professor Dreyfuss is a member of the American<br />
<strong>Law</strong> Institute <strong>and</strong> serves as a Reporter for its Project on Intellectual Property: Principles<br />
Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of <strong>Law</strong>, <strong>and</strong> Judgments in Transn<strong>at</strong>ional Disputes, which was<br />
recently approved by the Institute for public<strong>at</strong>ion in 2008. Professor Dreyfuss has<br />
spoken about the ALI Project <strong>at</strong> numerous intern<strong>at</strong>ional conferences, including three in