Eric C. Christiansen

• BA, University of Notre Dame
• MA, University of Chicago, The Divinity School
• JD, New York University

• Foreign and Comparative Constitutional law
• US Constitutional law, esp. fundamental rights (substantive due process and equality)
• Social welfare rights (education, health care, housing)
• South Africa

• Director, GGU-Paris X (Nanterre) Summer Program in Comparative Law.
• Co-Founder and Co-Director, GGU Law & Leadership Program.
• Co-Founder, Faculty Scholarship Support Group.
• Attended New York University School of Law as a Root-Tilden Public Interest Law Scholar.
• Former associate, Latham & Watkins (London and San Francisco); practice emphasized cross-border corporate finance and capital markets.
• Former foreign/international law clerk to Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson, Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa.
• Former editor-in-chief of NYU Journal of International Law & Politics and NYU JILP International Citation Manual.
• Currently a member of the Board of Directors of two organization providing financial assistance to local people struggling with poverty in connection with illness, the Breast Cancer Emergency Fund and the AIDS Emergency Fund.
• Prior to law school Professor Christiansen worked in the field of non-profit management and HIV/AIDS education and services.
• Fellow, U.S. Department of Defense Foreign Language and Areas Studies, 2000-2001.
• Fellow, Center for Transitional Justice, 1999-2000.
• Member of the California Bar.

• SSRN Scholarship Social Science Research Network scholarly papers by Prof. Christiansen.
• South Africa's Use of Constitutional Rights Adjudication to Remedy Persistent Economic Inequality, forthcoming.
• All or No One: Assessing Popular Involvement in Constitution Making, (forthcoming Summer 2010).
• Transformative Constitutionalism in South Africa: Creative Uses of Constitutional Court Authority to Advance Substantive Justice, 14 Journal of Race, Gender and Justice, forthcoming (2010).
• Survey of Socio-economic Rights in National Constitutions: Healthcare, Education, Social Security, Housing, Food and Water, (currently being updated for 2009).
• Using Constitutional Adjudication to Remedy Socio-Economic Injustice: Comparative Lessons from South Africa, 13 UCLA J. of Int'l. Law and Foreign Affairs 369 (2008).
• Exporting South Africa's Social Rights Jurisprudence, 5 Loyola Univ. Chicago Int'l. L. Rev. 29 (2007).
• Security Freeze Laws, Free Speech and Tenant Screening Procedures: Recent Legal Developments in the Fight Against Identity Theft, 30 CEB Real Property Law Reporter 5 (Jan. 2007).
• Adjudicating Non-Justiciable Rights: Socio-economic Rights and the South African Constitutional Court, 38 Columbia Human Rights L. Rev. 321 (2007).
• Ending the Apartheid of the Closet: Sexual Orientation in the South African Constitutional Process, 32 NYU J. of Int'l. Law & Politics 997 (2000). Also available online here.

• Property I & II
• Constitutional Law I & II
• Comparative Constitutional Design
• Constitutional Issues Seminar