- FACULTY from 2008:
Professor Jo Pasqualucci
Globalization and Trade
Dr. Jo M. Pasqualucci has a JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School and an S.J.D. (Doctorate of Juridical Science) in International and Comparative Law from George Washington University Law School. She has written extensively on issues of international law publishing a book with Cambridge University Press and articles in several journals including the Stanford Journal of International Law, Virginia Journal of International Law, Michigan Journal of International Law and Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. Dr. Pasqualucci is fluent in Spanish and has lived for several years in Latin America. She has taught International Business Transactions in Buenos Aires and in the US. In past years she taught in Stetson’s summer programs in The Hague, Freiberg, and Buenos Aires. http://www.usd.edu/law/faculty_staff/directory/pasqualucci.cfm
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Professor Mónica Pinto
International Human Rights Law
Professor Mónica Pinto Attorney-at-law (1975), Ph.D (1983), University of Buenos Aires Law School (UBA). Professor of Human Rights and International Law at UBA. Coordinator, Programme on Human Rights UBA. President, EUDEBA (Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires). Visiting professor of law, Columbia Law School (2003 & 2001), Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II (2005 & 1997), Université de Rouen (2007); Professor (2007), Director of Studies (2000), for the Public International Law Course, The Hague Academy of International Law. She regularly teaches at the European Institute of Human Rights (2004 - 07), at UN-UNITAR Courses (2001 - 02, 2004, 2007). Former Vice-Dean (2002 - 06) and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs (1994 - 02), Law School. Vice-president of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights; Member of the governing boards of the American Society of International Law, International Association of Law Schools, Association pour la prévention de la torture, of the Steering Committee of the Project on International Courts and Tribunals, New York University and University of London, Advisory Council, International Service for Human Rights. Member, Board of Trustees, UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights. She held two mandates on behalf of the UN Commission on Human Rights, one on the situation of human rights in Chad (2004 - 05) and in Guatemala (1993 - 97). Author of four books: L'Amérique latine et le traitement des violations systématiques des droits de l'homme (2007), El derecho international. Vigencia y desafíos en un escenario globalizado (2004), Temas de derechos humanos (1997) and La denuncia ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (1993) and many articles in periodical publications. http://www.law.mercer.edu/faculty/bio.cfm/staffid=518 .
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Professor David Ritchie
Constitutionalism in South America: A Comparative Analysis of the Constitutions of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
Professor David Ritchie, an Associate Professor of Law at Mercer University School of Law, has a BA from Cleveland State University, a J.D. Howard University School of Law, an LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple University Law School, and a Ph.D. in social, political and legal philosophy from the University of Oregon. He is currently a member of the Mercer Law Faculty, and has previously taught at several other ABA approved law schools, including Temple University Law School and the Seton Hall University School of Law. In addition to his teaching in the U.S., Professor Ritchie frequently lectures on U.S. law and legal theory at the Universidade Gama Filho in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he is part of a scholarly working group that has members from Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Portugal, and the U.S. He also works closely with the federal judiciary in Rio, coordinating a cooperative arrangement between Mercer University Law School and the Escola da Magistratura Região Federal da 2a Regino [EMARF].
He has published extensively; his publications include:
UNDERSTANDING LEGAL ANALYSIS AND COMMUNICATION (2007)
The Centrality of Metaphor in Legal Analysis and Communication: An Introduction, 58 Mercer L. Rev. 839 (2007)
Closing Remarks on the Symposium "Using Metaphor in Legal Analysis and Communication," 58 Mercer L. Rev. 991 (2007)
Who is on the Outside Looking in and How did they Get There? Metaphors of Exclusion in Legal Education, 58 Mercer L. Rev. 1021 (2007)
Modern Constitutionalism and Weimar Liberalism, 20 REVISTA DA SECAO JUDICIARIA DO RIO DO JANEIRO (2007)
- Rousseau Misused: Rousseau's Political Thought and the Philosophy of Constitutionalism, 12 REVISTA ENCIAS SOCIAIS
- UGF (2007)
The Promises and Agendas of Constitutionalism: Modern Constitutionalism and International Violence, in Danielle Poe and Eddy Souffrant, eds.
PARCELING THE GLOBE: PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATION IN GLOBALIZATION, GLOBAL BEHAVIOR, AND PEACE (2006)
"Objectively Speaking . . ." There is no Such Thing in the Law, 5 J. DISABILITY MED. 7 (2005)
Organic Constitutionalism: Rousseau, Hegel and the Constitution of Society, 6 J. L. SOC'Y 36 (2005)
The Confines of Modern Constitutionalism, 3 Pierce L. Rev. 1 (2004)
Critiquing Modern Constitutionalism, 3 APPALACHIAN J.L. 37 (2004)
Assessing the Writing Skills of New Law Graduates: A Comparison of the Attitudes of Judges, Practitioners and Legal Writing Professors, 53 J. Legal Ed. 80 (2003)
Situating "Thinking Like a Lawyer" Within Legal Pedagogy, 49 Cleve. St. L. Rev. 29 (2003)
Self-Defense in International Law, the United Nations, and the Bosnian Conflict, 56 Pittsburgh L. Rev. 1 (1995)
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Professor Joseph F. Morrissey
International Sales Law
Professor Morrissey teaches and writes in the areas of corporate, securities and international private law. Prior to entering academia, he practiced corporate and securities law at Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago before running the firm’s office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. While in Uzbekistan, he was a founding member and director of the local American Chamber of Commerce. He later co-managed Russian investments for Unifund, Inc. based in Geneva and Moscow. He returned to Chicago and practiced corporate and securities law with Kirkland & Ellis. He received his AB. from Princeton University and his JD from Columbia University School of Law. For more information, see Professor Morrissey’s webpage at http://www.law.stetson.edu/faculty/morrissey.asp.