Helen E. Hartnell

• BS (cum laude), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• JD (magna cum laude), University of Illinois College of Law
  

• Comparative Law
• European Union Law
• International Economic Law: Trade (WTO, NAFTA), Business Transactions
• Transnational Dispute Resolution: Transnational Litigation, Conflicts of Law, Arbitration

• Former practicing international attorney in Germany (Gleiss, Lutz, Hootz & Partner) and in the United States (Foley & Lardner)
• Taught at Freie Universitaet, Berlin; Tulane Law School, ELTE Law School and Central European University (both in Budapest, Hungary); SMU School of Law; Harvard Law School (Graduate Program); and American University of Armenia (Yerevan)
• Chair, Private International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law
• Co-rapporteur, Committee on Regional Economic Development Law of the International Law Association
• Has numerous publications on international and comparative law, including "European Integration through the Kaleidoscope: the View from the Central and East European Margins"
• Member of the Illinois State Bar Association

• Living La Vida Lex Mercatoria, XII N.S. Uniform Law Rev. 733 (2007).
• Belonging: Citizenship and Migration in the European Union and Germany, 24 Berkeley J. Int'l Law 330 (2006).
• EUstitia: Institutionalizing Justice in the European Union, 23 Northwestern J. of Int'l. Law and Business 65 (Fall 2002).
• Margins in European Integration ch. 2 in European Integration through the Kaleidoscope: The View from the Central and Eastern European Margins, (Noel Parker and Bill Armstrong eds., NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000).
• Sub-regional Coalescence in European Regional Integration, 16 Wisconsin International Law Journal 115 (1997).
• The First Five-Year Span (1989-1994): Law and Religion in Post-Communist Hungary, 1996 Brigham Young Univ. L.J. 731.
• Association Agreements between the EC and Central and Eastern European States, 35 Acta Juridica Hungarica 225 (1993).
• Central/Eastern Europe: The Long and Winding Road toward European Union, 15 Comp. Law Yearbook of Int'l. Business 179 (Graham & Trotman/Martinus Nijhoff, 1993).
• Rousing the Sleeping Dog: The Validity Exception to the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, 18 Yale J. of Int'l. Law 1 (1993).
• The New New International Economic Order, 87 American Society of Int'l. Proc. 462 (1993).
• Book Review, 25 International Lawyer 291 (1991) (reviewing Reithmann & Martiny: Internationales Vertragsrecht).
• with Uchtmann, Qualified Disclaimers of Joint Tenancies: A Policy and Property Law Analysis, 22 Arizona L. Rev. 987 (1981).

• European Union Law
• International Business Transactions
• Private International Law
• International Trade Regulation
• Sales
• Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court