Rudolph C. Barnes Sr. Symposium

Col. David Gordon, Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute, United States Army War College, Carlisle, PA

David S. Gordon holds a reserve commission as Colonel in the US Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, serving on active duty since 2002. He studied law at the University of Georgia (A.B.; J.D.) and church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A.). He is a graduate of the Army Judge Advocate Graduate Course and the Army War College, and has done graduate work in international law at the Hague Academy of International Law and Georgetown University . Most recently, he spent a year in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he was the senior legal advisor and Rule of Law Officer for the US Office of Military Cooperation before his dual current assignments to the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, US Army War College, with parallel responsibilities at the US Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. His primary duty is to develop training and doctrine for US Army Civil Affairs military lawyers. Col. Gordon also served as the International Law Officer of the 360 th Civil Affairs Brigade, and deployed to Saudi Arabia in Operation Desert Storm in 1991. He served on active duty with the US Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps from 1977-86, primarily in Europe, including two years as an attorney in the International Affairs Division of the Office of the Judge Advocate, US Army Europe. 1987-2002, Colonel Gordon was the General Counsel for Caldwell Aircraft Trading Company in Charlotte, NC.

Major General Nilendra Kumar is Judge Advocate General of the Indian Army and a member of the Indian Supreme Court Bar Association. A graduate of the National Defence Academy and Indian Military Academy, he holds a Law Degree and Diploma in Public Administration from Lucknow University, and is also an alumnus of the Jamna Lal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. He was commissioned in the Regiment of Artillery in 1969 and saw combat in the 1971 India-Pakistan Western Sector War. Serving in the JAG Department since 1982, Major General Kumar has conducted a number of trials as Judge Advocate as well as litigation on behalf of the Army in High Courts of the Southern States. He has authored six books on military law and other subjects, and undertook concrete steps for dissemination of human rights knowledge among Indian Armed Forces personnel. Most recently, he was a member of the Indian delegation to the United Nations open-ended working session on steps to stop the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, held in New York City January - February 2005.

Baryalai Hakimi teaches in the Faculty of Law & Political Science at the University of Kabul, Afghanistan. He graduated from the judicial prosecutorial branch of the Faculty of Law & Political Science, University of Kabul. He specializes in the history of foreign relations of Afghanistan, international organizations and international relations.

Kevin H. Govern is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army on active duty currently serving as a faculty member in the Department of Law, United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied history and German at Marquette University (B.A. 1984) and law at Marquette University (J.D. 1987), The Judge Advocate General’s School at Charlottesville, Virginia (LL.M. 1995) and University of Notre Dame (LL.M. 2004). He participates in the Barnes Symposium as military law practitioner who was responsible for organizing humanitarian relief in Kurdish areas following the first Gulf War. During the period 1990–2003 he has served in a legal advisory capacity for the 10th Special Forces Group in the U.S. and Turkey, for the 1st Armored Division/Task Force Eagle in Bosnia, the Command Operations Review Board of the U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base-Tampa, for the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg-North Carolina, and for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg. He is a frequent speaker within the military’s special operations community and at professional military conferences on legal aspects of civil affairs and special operations. He has published in professional military and legal journals on the topics of counterterrorism, POW treatment and humanitarian assistance as well as legal oversight of sensitive activities.

Daniel L. Rubini is a U.S. Administrative Law Judge in Philadelphia and a former U.S. Army military lawyer who retired recently as a colonel after an extensive career in civil affairs, most recently in Iraq as Senior Advisor in the Coalition Provisional Authority to the Ministry of Justice 9/03-2/04, in Haiti as Ministry of Justice Adviser (Operation Uphold Democracy) and on later Ministerial Advisory Teams II, II (Team Chief-Justice), V and VI (Team Chief-Justice) 1995-97, and as Staff Judge Advocate to the 304 th Civil Affairs Brigade and advisor to the Kuwaiti Ministry of Justice in the First Gulf War (Operation Desert Shield/Storm). He also served as Assistant Chief of Staff of the Government Team and Special Functions Team, and as Brigade Staff Judge Advocate for the 358 th Civil Affairs Brigade, as well as other senior postings as military lawyer outside the civil affairs area. He studied political science at VPI (B.A.) and law at Temple University (J.D.).

Inge Fryklund, Chief of Party, USAID West Bank-Gaza Office of Transition Initiatives Project

Inge Fryklund is currently Chief of Party for the USAID Office of Transition Initiatives Project in the West Bank and Gaza, immediately prior to which she spent two and one half years in Afghanistan, initially as USAID Rule of Law Adviser at the US Embassy in Kabul, later moving out to a forward operating base in Jalalabad as legal and development adviser and resource on Islamic law for Provincial Reconstruction Teams. Prior positions include a year-long USAID ROL project in Tajikistan and work for the UN and OSCE on training and capacity building for the 2001 and 2002 elections in Kosovo. She studied human factors psychology at the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1971) and thereafter law at the University of Chicago (J.D. 1979) where she was a member of the law review. She clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and was a prosecutor and city department head in Chicago before entering business, management and development consulting. For five years during the 1990's, she taught privatization and public sector management at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Her particular interests are in the relationship between stability and development in conflict and post-conflict environments, and the role of Western common law legal perspectives in civil code and Islamic legal systems.

Julia Suryakusuma is an Indonesian feminist, social critic and journalist. She studied psychology at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta before studying social sciences at the City University, London (B.Sc.) and the politics of development at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague (M.A.). She has been a professional writer and intellectual since the age of 18, most recently including acting as publisher for the Almanac of Indonesian Political Parties (1999) and the Indonesian Parliament Guide (2001), as well as authoring Sex, Power and Nation: An Anthology of Writing 1979-2003. She is a self-described feminist and social scientist, in her own words often mistaken for an activist. She currently writes a weekly column for The Jakarta Post.

Maggie Gallagher, American syndicated columnist & social commentator, New York, NY

Maggie Gallagher is an author and nationally syndicated columnist in the United States . She is a leading voice in the emerging marriage movement and is known for her sharp, right-leaning social policy analysis of social trends and conditions in the United States and abroad. She has been a columnist at New York Newsday and a former editor at the National Review. She is also president of the newly-founded nonprofit, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy (iMAPP: http://marriagedebate.com). She graduated from Yale University (B.A. 1982). Her most recent book is The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially (Doubleday, 2000).

Robin Wilson is currently a visiting professor at Washington & Lee Law School in Lexington, Virginia. She studied at the University of Virginia (B.A. 1989; J.D. 1995). She worked as a law clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and served on the law faculties at the Universities of South Carolina and Maryland. She is interested in health and family law, particularly as it involves children.

Michael Kessler is Assistant Dean for Strategic Planning and Faculty Development at the College of Georgetown University. He also teaches religion and politics in the Department of Theology. He received his Ph.D. in religion and political theory from the University of Chicago and has studied law at Georgetown University Law Center . His research and writing focus on philosophical and religious ethics as well as social, political, and legal theory, with particular attention to the secularization of religious culture and the changing bases of political and legal legitimacy under the impact of modernity.

Chen Zhidong is a senior professor of economic law at Fudan University Law School in Shanghai, China. He received his LL.M. from East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai, China, and has been a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Private Law in Hamburg, Germany, Boalt Law School of UC-Berkeley, University of Wisconsin Law School and University of San Francisco Law School. Prof. Chen’s research focuses on international commercial arbitration law, international trade law and international investment law. He is a Council Member of the Chinese Society of International Law and the Chinese Society of International Economic Law. He is also an Executive Member of the Council, China Law Society – WTO Studies. He serves as one of three Chinese arbitrators for the United Nations International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and is also an arbitrator for the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Committee.

Zhang Xuezhong is a rising economic law scholar at the Center for Civil and Commercial Law Research, East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai. He graduated from Jiangxi Institute of Education (B.A., English Language & Literature, 1997) and Southwest University of Political Science and Law (LL.M., Civil and Commercial Law, 2001). He is currently a doctoral candidate at ECUPL. Prof. Zhang’s research concentrates on the economic, civil and commercial law of China. He has been a consulting attorney in Shanghai since 2002, and also visited at the National University of Singapore during 2005 as an Asian Law Institute (ASLI) Fellow.

John Ohnesorge teaches at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He received his B.A. degree from St. Olaf College (1985) and studied law at the University of Minnesota Law School (J.D. 1989) and Harvard Law School (S.J.D. 2002). He has worked as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Public and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany and as a legal consultant in Korea. His research focuses on business organizations, administrative law and comparative law, especially East Asian law.

Darminto Hartono is a rising economic law scholar teaching at Diponegoro University (UNDIP) faculty of law in Semarang, Indonesia. He studied law at UNDIP (S.H.), Harvard University and Boston University (LL.M.), and is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. (S-3) economic law program at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta. His area of special expertise is capital markets, bankruptcy and tax law. He has been active as a legal consultant particularly in workouts and insolvency practice since the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.

Dr. Edgardo Buscaglia, Hoover Institution, Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA & Columbia Univ. Law School, New York, NY

Edgardo Buscaglia is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University . He is also director of the International Law and Economic Development Center at the University of Virginia School of Law and vice president of the Inter-American Law and Economics Association. He received his legal postdoctoral training in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California at Berkeley Law School . He also received a master's in law and economics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Buscaglia studies the impact of legal and judicial frameworks on economic development, initially in Latin America but now more broadly. He has held teaching positions at Georgetown University , Washington College, the University of Ghent in Belgium, and the National University of Buenos Aires in Argentina . His current research focuses on factors affecting legal and economic integration in developing countries, the causes of public sector corruption, and intellectual property rights in developing countries.

Angelika Nussberger teaches at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cologne, Germany, serving since 2002 as director of its Institute for Eastern European Law. She was formerly an academic researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Welfare Law in Munich (1993-2001) and still serves as a member of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labour Organisation. She is also a substitute member of the Venice Commission (Commission for Democracy through Law) of the Council of Europe. She studied Slavic languages (M.A.1987) and law at the Universities of Munich (1984-1989), Strassburg (Diploma in Comparative Law 1988) and Würzburg (Ph.D. 1991). She has worked as a visiting researcher at Harvard University (1994-95) and as a Legal Counsellor at the Council of Europe in Strassburg (2001-02). Her research interests encompass public law in Eastern Europe, especially Russia, public international law’s effects on legal development of social welfare law in Central and Eastern Europe, and more generally legal development in Central and Eastern Europe.

Prof. Peter Haas, Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies, Case Western Univ., Cleveland, OH

Peter Haas serves as chair of the Department of Religious Studies and director of the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies at Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied Ancient Near East History at the University of Michigan (B.A. 1970) and received his Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from Brown University (1980). He has taught courses in Judaism, Jewish ethics, the Holocaust and Western religion, and his most recent work is on the relationship between science and moral discourse.

Michael Kubiciel is a rising criminal law scholar, who is currently writing his Habilitation at the University of Regensburg Faculty of Law, Germany. He studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Freiburg i. Br. (Ph.D. 2002), Germany as well as Granada, Spain. He is associated as lecturer and senior research assistant with the Chair for Criminal Law, Procedure and Legal Philosophy at Regenburg, and acts as a consultant and expert for the Council of Europe and various United Nations bodies in the corruption area.

Dr. Patrick Mason, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Univ. of Notre Dame, IN

Patrick Mason is coordinator of the Program on Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. He studied history at Brigham Young University (B.A. 1999) and the University of Notre Dame (M.A. 2003), and received his Ph.D degree in 2005 from the University of Notre Dame. His research and teaching specialties include religion, race, and violence in U.S. history, as well as comparative religious violence and peacebuilding.

David Linnan is a scholar of comparative, economic and public international law with a special interest in Asian law. He studied humanities at Emory University (B.A. 1976) and law at the University of Chicago (J.D. 1979), where he was comment editor of the law review. He was in private law practice for six years in Los Angeles and has held research or teaching visitorships at the University of Washington-Seattle, the Australian National University (RSPAS & Faculty of Law), the University of Melbourne, the University of Indonesia Faculty of Law and Graduate Law Program (separately), and the Max-Planck-Institut (Strafrecht), Freiburg i.Br., Germany. 2000 to date he is the Program Director for the Law & Finance Institutional Partnership (http://www.lfip.org), a legal and financial sector reform project run from Jakarta via a consortium of Indonesian and foreign universities.

Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin teaches in the Department of Sharia Law at the State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where she is also head of the Women’s Studies Center. She studied sharia law at UIN Sunan Kalijaga (LL.B. 1988), and sociology at Monash (M.A. 1993) and Gadjah Mada University (S-3 program since 2004). Her research focus is Islam and women, and she serves as a consultant to a variety of multilateral and bilateral institutions and projects.

Abdul Qader Nael teaches in the Shari’a (Islamic Law) Faculty at the University of Kabul, Afghanistan. He specializes in Islamic criminal law and principles of Islamic law.

Dr. Robin Bush, Deputy Country Representative, Asia Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia

Robin Bush is the Assistant Country Representative and formerly served as the Regional Director, Islam and Development, at the Asia Foundation’s Jakarta office. She studied political science at the Universities of South Carolina (B.A.) and Washington (Ph.D. 2002) and international affairs at Ohio University (M.A.). Her areas of responsibility include civil society, democracy, gender and anti-poverty programs that work with and through Moslem organizations in South and Southeast Asia.

Prof. Tim Lindsey, Asian Law Centre & Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

Tim Lindsey is director of the Asian Law Centre, deputy director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam and a Federation Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also a member of the Board of the Australia-Indonesia Institute, as well as a founding editor of the Australian Journal of Asian Law. He studied the humanities (B.A. (honors) & B.Litt. (honors)) and law (LL.B.), as well as modern Asian history (Ph.D.) at the University of Melbourne. His teaching and research focuses on Indonesian law, sharia (Islamic law), comparative law and law reform in developing countries.

The Honorable Albie Sachs is a Justice of the South African Constitutional Court. He studied law at the University of Capetown, where he became active as a student in the early political movement which eventually ended apartheid in South Africa. He entered legal practice as a human rights advocate, defending people charged under apartheid and repressive security laws, eventually himself being subject to banning and detention by the South African government. In 1966 he went into exile, where he taught law for 22 years in the United Kingdom and Mozambique. He worked closely with the ANC leadership in exile, suffering severe injury in a 1988 Maputo bomb attack by South African security agents. In 1990 he returned to South Africa as member of the Constitutional Committee and the National Executive of the ANC, taking an active part in the negotiations which led to South Africa becoming a constitutional democracy. He was appointed in 1994 to the Constitutional Court by President Nelson Mandela, and has since become known internationally for his opinions mixing theory and practice in human rights controversies.

Harkristuti Harkrisnowo is a criminologist and public commentator, plus human and women’s rights activist in Indonesia as the world’s most populous Islamic country. She studied law at the University of Indonesia (S.H., LL.M.) and criminology at Sam Houston State University (M.A., Ph.D.). She teaches at the University of Indonesia where she leads its Center for the Study of Human Rights. Since 1999, she has been a member of the Indonesian National Law Commission, a reform body. She is also a senior advisor to the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission and has worked within government at the deputy secretary level in the short-lived Ministry of Human Rights. She currently serves in parallel to her academic position as Director General for Human Rights in the Indonesian Ministry of Justice.

Colonel Cindy Jebb is Academy Professor and Deputy Head in the Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy at West Point. She teaches courses in comparative politics, international security, cultural anthropology, and terrorism and counterterrorism. She studied at USMA (B.S. 1982) and national security and strategic studies at the Naval War College (M.A. 2000), as well as political science at Duke University (M.A. 1992; Ph.D. 1997). She has served in numerous command and staff positions in the United States and overseas, including tours with armored forces, in military intelligence and at the NSA. In 2000-01, she was USMA Fellow at the Naval War College, where she taught the graduate-level course on Strategy and Force Planning. More recently, she has spent time in Africa (Chad & Niger) studying African political and social developments from a security and development context.

Marsudi Triatmodjo is Dean of the Faculty of Law, Gadjah Mada University and a scholar of public international law. He studied law at Gadjah Mada University (S.H. 1984; Ph.D. 2001) and Dalhousie University-Canada (LL.M. 1990). He has been a researcher and teacher at leading Indonesian institutions of higher education and for the Indonesian government in the areas of public international law, the law of the sea and international environmental law. Most recently he participated in the government-sponsored drafting committee for statutory reform of Indonesian higher education, to move towards autonomous institutions of higher education. He now is implementing the concept in practice.

Veronica Taylor is director of the Asian Law Center at the University of Washington in Seattle , and serves as Project Director for its U.S. Department of State funded U.S.-Afghan LL.M. Program for Afghan Legal Educators, as well as for a State Department program on legal services delivery in rural China . She studied law at Monash University, Australia (LL.B. 1988) and the University of Washington (LL.M. 1992). She specializes in commercial law and society in Asia , regulation, and law reform in transition economies. She has been a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo and was formerly Associate Director (Japan) of the Asian Law Centre of the University of Melbourne .

Prof. John Haley, Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies, Washington University Law School, Saint Louis, MO

John Haley is director of the Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies, Washington University Law School in St. Louis, Missouri. He has taught and lectured at Aoyama Gakuin University, Kobe University and Tohoku University in Japan, Tuebingen University in Germany and the University of Washington in Seattle. He received his A.B. degree at Princeton University (1964) and studied law at Yale University (LL.B.1969) and the University of Washington (LL.M.1971). His research interests encompass comparative law, contracts, Japanese law and transnational litigation. His most recent book, Antitrust in Germany and Japan: The First Fifty Years, 1947-1998 is the first comparative study of German and Japanese antitrust law in English.

Eric Feldman teaches law at University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has worked as associate director of the Institute for Law and Society , New York University, as well as visiting professor at Waseda University and Seikei University in Japan . He studied at Vassar College (B.A. 1982), then studied law (J.D. 1989) and jurisprudence & social policy (Ph.D. 1994) at University of California , Berkeley . His expertise is in Japanese law, comparative public health law, and law & society.

Prof. Kent Anderson, The Australian National University, ANU College of Law and ANU College of Asia-Pacific, Canberra

Kent Anderson teaches in the Faculty of Law and is head of the Japan Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, at The Australian National University in Canberra . He studied International Economics and Politics at Middlebury College (B.A.), Asian Studies at Washington University (M.A.), and law at Washington University (J.D.) and Oxford University (M.Jur.). He has taught in Japan at the law schools of Hokkaido University, Nagoya University, Chuo University, and Waseda University . His scholarly interests encompass Asian law, commercial and insolvency law, as well as private international law.

Prof. Andrew Harding, Univ. of Victoria Faculty of Law & Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, Victoria, BC

Andrew Harding is a specialist in Southeast Asian law, including public law in Thailand. He studied law at Oxford (M.A. 1974), the National University of Singapore (LL.M. 1984) and Monash University (Ph.D. 1987). He is a former Head of Department and Professor of Law in the Law Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and Chair of SOAS South East Asian Studies, who recently was appointed by the University of Victoria, BC in parallel to the Faculty of Law and its university-wide Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives.

Eugene Huskey is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair and Director of Russian Studies at Stetson University. He studied history and politics at Vanderbilt (B.A. 1974), politics at the University of Essex (M.A, 1976) and London School of Economics and Political Science (Ph.D, 1983). His expertise is in Soviet and post-Soviet Russian law. He has held teaching positions at Bowdoin College, Colgate University and Stetson University.

Alexei Trochev is a rising scholar of Russian law and a Research Associate at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. He completed his doctorate in political science at the University of Toronto with a dissertation on the origins and impact of the Russian Constitutional Court. He has taught political science at Queen's University in Canada, and Russian and comparative constitutional law at Pomor State University Law School in Arkhangelsk, Russia. His newest research explores different roles of high courts in elections covering the "colored" revolutions in states formed out of the former Soviet Union.

Joel Samuels teaches law at the University of South Carolina Law School. He has worked as visiting faculty member at University of Michigan Law School and also at the World Bank in both Washington and in Zimbabwe . He studied political science at Princeton University (B.A. 1994) and law (J.D. 1999) and Russian & East European Studies (M.A. 2003) at the University of Michigan. His interests encompass Russian law, civil procedure and arbitration as well as public and private international law generally.