Paris Summer Program

Program Faculty and Directors

Co-Directors

Anne Deysine
Professor
University of Paris X (Nanterre)
Co-Director GGU/UPX Summer Law Program
anne.deysine@u-paris10.fr

Professor Deysine holds a JD (Licence et maitrise en Droit) and LLM (DES) from the University of Paris II School of Law, a PhD in political science from the University of Paris, and a degree from Paris Institut d'Etudes Politiques. She is the president of Micefa (www.micefa.org), a US/French consortium for academic cooperation, and has served as director of DESS Affaires internationales et Negociation Interculturelle (a masters degree program in international business and cross cultural negotiation) since its creation in 1994. She served as vice-president for international relations at UPX from 1998 to 2003. Professor Deysine is the author of several books comparing the US and French legal systems. She teaches International Contracts, International Business Transactions, and Introduction to United States Law for law students at University of Paris X (UPX), as well as French Law and terminology for translators and interpreters. She will co-teach Introduction to French and European Union Law.

David B. Oppenheimer
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law
Golden Gate University
Co-Director GGU/UPX Summer Law Program
dbo@ggu.edu

Professor Oppenheimer holds a JD from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute and the author of several books and articles on employment discrimination law, affirmative action, and civil rights history. He has served as a member of the board of directors of several leading American civil rights advocacy groups, including the Northern California chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, and Equal Rights Advocates. He will co-teach Comparative Equality (Civil Rights) Law.

Full-Time Faculty

Florence Bellivier
Professor of Law, University of Paris X (Nanterre)
DEA, University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), Masters in Law, European University Institute, PhD, University of Paris I (Sorbonne) and Agregation de Droit Prive. She will co-teach Comparative Remedies Law.

Elisabeth Fortis
Professor of Law, University of Paris X (Nanterre)
Licence, Paris I, DEA, Paris II, PhD, Paris II and Agregation de Droit Prive. She will co-teach Comparative Criminal Justice.

Sheila Foster
Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
sfoster@law.fordham.edu
Professor Foster has a BA from the University of Michigan and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall). She is coauthor of From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. She will co-teach Comparative Remedies.

Eric Gouvin
Professor of Law, Western New England School of Law
AB, Cornell University, JD and LLM, Boston University, MPA, Harvard University.
egouvin@law.wnec.edu
Professor Gouvin is coauthor of Blumberg on Corporate Groups and serves on the editorial board of the Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction Institute. He will co-teach Comparative Corporate Law.

Hon. Joseph R. Grodin
Associate Justice, California Supreme Court (Ret.)
Professor Emeritus, Hastings College of the Law
BA, University of California, Berkeley, JD, Yale Law School, PhD, University of London.
grodinj@uchastings.edu
He will co-teach Comparative Labor Law.

Helen Hartnell
Professor of Law
Golden Gate University School of Law
hhartnell@ggu.edu
Professor Hartnell holds a BS and JD from the University of Illinois and is a PhD candidate in jurisprudence and social policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She has practiced, taught, and published extensively in the field of private international law and European Union law, and has taught at several leading US and European law schools. She will co-teach Introduction to French and European Union Law.

Pascal Lokiec
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Paris X (Nanterre)
LLM, University of Essex, DEA, PhD, University of Paris X (Nanterre) Pascal.
lokiec@wanadoo.fr
He will co-teach Comparative Labor Law.

Sophie Robin-Olivier
Professor of Law
University of Paris X (Nanterre)
sro@freesurf.fr
Professor Robin-Olivier holds an MBA from Hautes Etudes Commerciales, a DEA in Social & Economic Law from the University of Paris-Dauphine, a PhD from the University of Aix-Marseille, and Agregation de Droit Prive. She is the author of several books and articles on European law, and has taught at several leading law schools in France and the United States. She will co-teach Comparative Equality (Civil Rights) Law.

Paul Secunda
Associate Professor of Law
Marquette University Law School
Professor Paul Secunda's courses at Marquette University include employment discrimination, employee benefits, labor law, employment law, civil procedure, and seminars in many areas including special education law. His nearly three dozen books, articles, and treatises include the treatise Understanding Employment Law, with Rick Bales and Jeff Hirsch; the casebook Global Issues in Employee Benefits Law, with Sam Estreicher and Rosalind Connor; the Teacher's Manual to the 14th edition of the Cox, Bok, Gorman & Finkin Labor Law casebook; and articles in such journals as UCLA Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, and Colorado Law Review. He is co-editor of the Workplace Prof Blog, one of the top law professor blogs in the US, and current national chair-elect of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law.

Rachel Van Cleave
Professor of Law, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Golden Gate University School of Law
rvancleave@ggu.edu
Professor Van Cleave holds a BA and JSM from Stanford University and a JD from Hastings College of the Law. Her teaching and research focus on comparative constitutional law and comparative criminal procedure. She will co-teach Comparative Criminal Procedure.

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