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CURRICULUM VITAE

Paul Schiff Berman

CURRENT POSITION

2011 – present The George Washington University

Walter S. Cox Professor of Law. Courses taught: Civil Procedure I, Civil

Procedure II, Conflict of Laws.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

University Administration

2013 – 2016 The George Washington University

Vice Provost for Online Education and Academic Innovation and

Manatt/Ahn Professor of Law; oversaw all online operations for the

University’s 105 online degree and certificate programs, generating nearly

$70 million in gross revenue annually; chaired the University’s Strategic

Planning Committee for Online Education; managed the creation of the

University’s eDesign Shop, a production facility and team of instructional

designers, videographers, computer animation specialists, and supporting

positions; built the eDesign Shop’s capacity to create state-of-the-art online

courses; worked with units throughout the University to create new online

programs; managed all budgeting, vendor contracting, faculty licensing, state

authorization, and university-level support for online programs; launched the

University’s first set of Massive Open Online Courses; built some of the first

large-scale university-level courses in the world using the openedX platform;

created the University’s first comprehensive website for all online programs

university-wide; organized and chaired the first two annual national meetings

of Vice Provosts for Online Education; oversaw the University Academic

Technologies Department and managed the university-wide analog-to-digital

conversion of all campus classrooms; oversaw Operation GW VALOR, the

University’s comprehensive set of services and opportunities for veteran

students and active duty military students, a program that resulted in a 70

percent increase in GW’s military student population over two years; co-

chaired the University’s Innovation Task Force; served on university-wide

committees on Executive Education and on Graduate Enrollment

Management.

2011 – 2013 The George Washington University Law School

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Dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law; completed one of the

most successful 14-month periods of fundraising in the law school’s history,

raising $11.5 million; increased total donors to Annual Fund by 7%, and total

dollars raised increased 11%; engaged with over 2500 alumni (12% of the

total alumni population), a 56% increase in total alumni engagement;

organized capital campaign; balanced two budgets in period of declining

enrollment; initiated new professional development and mentoring programs;

reorganized career services, alumni relations, and communications offices;

developed new initiatives in health law and policy, energy law and policy, and

cybersecurity law and policy, a new collaborative interdisciplinary degree

with the Business School on Government Contracting, and a new Intellectual

Property Masters Degree Program for non-lawyers.

2008 – 2011 Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

Dean and Foundation Professor of Law; secured the first seven-figure gifts in

the history of the College of Law; raised the school’s US News & World

Report ranking from 55 to 26 over three years; initiated five new clinical

programs and five new academic centers.

University Faculty

2016 – 2019 Queen Mary University of London

Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Law

2014 University of Bremen, Germany

Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Centre for Transnational Studies

1998 – 2008 University of Connecticut, School of Law

Jesse Root Professor of Law (2006-2008); Professor (2003-2006); Associate

Professor (1998-2002). Courses taught: Conflict of Laws; Civil Procedure;

Legal and Cultural Issues in Cyberspace; Law, Culture and Community;

Federal Courts and the Appellate Process; Copyright Law.

2006 – 2007 Princeton University, Program in Law & Public Affairs

Visiting Professor and Visiting Research Scholar

Clerkships

1997 – 1998 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States

1995 – 1996 Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards, US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit

Public and Private Practice

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2006 United State Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York, NY

Counsel: Tibbetts v. Dittes, et al., slip op. (2d Cir. 2006).

2003 – 2005 United State Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Washington, DC

Pro Bono Counsel: Court-appointed pro bono counsel in Taylor v. US

Probation Office, et al., 409 F.3d 426 (D.C. Cir. 2005); Mavity v. Veneman,

slip op. (D.C. Cir. 2004); Krishnan v. Barnhart, 328 F.3d 685 (D.C. Cir.

2003).

2005 Wiggin & Dana, New Haven, CT

Consultant on general appellate issues.

2005 Aon Corporation, Chicago, IL

Drafted expert report on Connecticut civil procedure issues for international

litigation in the UK.

1998 – 2005 Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, CT

Consultant on cyberlaw and general appellate issues, served as writing tutor to

associates.

1998 – 2003 Cummings & Lockwood, Hartford, CT

Consultant on cyberlaw and general appellate issues.

1996 – 1997 Sullivan & Cromwell, New York, NY

Pro Bono Extern: Chosen from among all incoming litigation associates to

devote an entire year to the representation of pro se litigants in cases referred

by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Represented fifteen clients. Served as lead counsel during a two-day trial in

SDNY, conducted thirty- four depositions, argued motions, participated in

settlement negotiations, and handled all aspects of litigation.

1992 – 1995 Unemployment Action Center, New York, NY

Claimant’s Representative: Represented over thirty claimants for

unemployment benefits in administrative hearings and on appeal before the

New York State Department of Labor.

1995 Jenner & Block, Washington, DC

Summer Associate

1994 Sullivan & Cromwell, New York, NY

Summer Associate

1993 Laufman, Rauh and Gerhardstein, Cincinnati, OH

Summer Intern: Drafted motions, interviewed clients, and assisted in all

aspects of a civil rights practice.

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1992 – 1993 Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, New York, NY

Intern. Worked one to three days per week at a criminal public defender

office

Non-Legal Experience

2016 – Mytonomy, Washington, DC

Chief Online Learning Officer: Ongoing consulting work for start-up venture

providing targeted online health information to patients.

2016 – Quad Learning, Washington, DC

Academic Advisor: Ongoing consulting work for educational start-up venture

aimed at helping US universities recruit highly qualified foreign students and

help them succeed.

1989 – 1995 Spin Theater, New York, NY

Founder/Artistic Director: Formed and incorporated not-for-profit theater

company with annual budget of approximately $20,000. Directed and

designed eight original theater works including one on tour in Boston, MA.

1988 – 1995 The Wooster Group, New York, NY

Administrative Director: Chief administrative officer for not-for-profit theater

company with annual budget of approximately $900,000. Responsible for all

administrative activities including: long-range planning, fundraising, grant

writing, company management, bookkeeping, and publicity.

1992 – 1995 Ontological-Hysteric Theatre at Saint Mark’s Church, New York, NY

Administrative Director: Chief administrative officer for the operation of a

not-for-profit theater at Saint Mark’s Church. Responsible for organizing and

overseeing visiting artists series, all liaison work with Church administration,

contract negotiations concerning the space itself, and hiring of all theatre

administrative personnel.

EDUCATION

Juris Doctor (summa cum laude), New York University School of Law, 1995 Journal: Managing Editor, New York University Law Review

Awards: University Graduation Prize (for the graduating student with the highest

cumulative GPA)

Frank H. Sommer Memorial Award (for outstanding scholarship, character &

professional activities)

Frank T. Dierson Award (for writing that demonstrates technical accuracy &

clarity of purpose)

Orison Marden Moot Court Competition Prize for Best Oralist

Order of the Coif

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American Jurisprudence Award for Contracts

Public Interest Summer Internship Grant

A.B. (summa cum laude), Princeton University, 1988 Award: Louis B. Sudler Prize for the Arts

PROFESSIONAL HONORS

Queen Mary University of London, UK, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Law,

2016-2019

University of Bremen, Germany, Distinguished Visiting Scholar of the Centre for Transnational

Studies, 2014

LegalTimes/National Law Journal, Champion and Visionary of the Law, 2012

Sandra Day O’Connor Institute Prize for Public Service, 2010

Princeton Program in Law and Public Affairs, Fellowship, 2006-2007

Yale Journal of International Law, Selection in Symposium Issue Competition (A Pluralist

Approach to International Law)

Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, Selected to Present in International Law category (The

Globalization of Jurisdiction)

University of Connecticut Provost’s Research Fellowship, Spring 2004

Connecticut Law Tribune, “Connecticut’s New Leaders of the Law,” Fall 2004

PUBLICATIONS

Books

THE OXFORD RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON GLOBAL LEGAL PLURALISM (Oxford Univ. Press,

forthcoming 2018).

GLOBAL LEGAL PLURALISM: A JURISPRUDENCE OF LAW BEYOND BORDERS (Cambridge Univ.

Press, 2012).

LAW & SOCIETY APPROACHES TO CYBERSPACE, Editor (Ashgate Publishing, 2007).

THE GLOBALIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, Editor (Ashgate Publishing, 2005).

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CYBERLAW: PROBLEMS OF POLICY AND JURISPRUDENCE IN THE INFORMATION AGE, 5th

Edition (with Patricia L. Bellia, Brett Frischman & David G. Post, West Publishing,

forthcoming, 2017).

CYBERLAW: PROBLEMS OF POLICY AND JURISPRUDENCE IN THE INFORMATION AGE, 4th

Edition (with Patricia L. Bellia, Brett Frischman & David G. Post, West Publishing,

2010).

CYBERLAW: PROBLEMS OF POLICY AND JURISPRUDENCE IN THE INFORMATION AGE, 3d

Edition (with Patricia L. Bellia & David G. Post, West Publishing, 2006).

CYBERLAW: PROBLEMS OF POLICY AND JURISPRUDENCE IN THE INFORMATION AGE, 2d

Edition (with Patricia L. Bellia & David G. Post, West Publishing, 2004).

CYBERLAW: PROBLEMS OF POLICY AND JURISPRUDENCE IN THE INFORMATION AGE (with

Patricia L. Bellia & David G. Post, West Publishing, 2003).

Book Chapters

The Legal Pluralism at the Heart of International Economic Governance, in THE OXFORD

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE (forthcoming,

2017).

A Pluralist Approach to International Law, in THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL

LAW (Andrea Bianchi ed., 2017).

The Evolution of Global Legal Pluralism, in AUTHORITY IN TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY:

THEORISING ACROSS DISCIPLINES (Roger Cotterrell & Maksymilian Del Mar eds.,

2016).

Law’s Mistakes, Legal Pluralism, and the Importance of Systemic Justice, in LAW’S

MISTAKES (Austin D. Sarat et al., eds., 2016).

Non-State Lawmaking through the Lens of Global Legal Pluralism, in NEGOTIATING STATE

AND NON-STATE LAW: THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL AND LOCAL LEGAL PLURALISM

(Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015).

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Interaction of Legal Systems, in THE LEGACY OF RUTH BADER

GINSBURG (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015).

From Legal Pluralism to Global Legal Pluralism, in LAW, SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY:

SOCIO-LEGAL ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF ROGER COTTERRELL (Ashgate Pub., 2014).

Global Legal Pluralism: Mapping a Hybrid World, in GOVERNANCE AND RISK: CHALLENGES

OF GLOBAL REGULATION (Karim Benyekhlef ed., Éditions Thémis, 2013).

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Conflict of Laws and the Legal Negotiation of Difference, in LAW AND THE STRANGER

(Austin D. Sarat, Martha Umphrey & Lawrence Douglas eds., Stanford Univ. Press,

2010).

Globaler Rechtspluralismus, in NORMATIVE PLURALITÄT ORDNEN (Matthias Kotter ed.,

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2009).

Cyberspace and the State Action Debate: The Cultural Value of Applying Constitutional

Norms to “Private” Regulation, in CYBERLAW (Brian Fitzgerald ed., Ashgate

Publishing, 2006)

The Internet, Community Definition, and the Social Meaning of Legal Jurisdiction, in

VIRTUAL PUBLICS: POLICY AND COMMUNITY IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE (Beth Kolko,

ed., Columbia Univ. Press, 2003).

Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes Towards a Nonskeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural

Analysis, in CULTURAL ANALYSIS, CULTURAL STUDIES, AND THE LAW: MOVING

BEYOND LEGAL REALISM (Austin D. Sarat & Jonathan Simon eds., Duke Univ. Press,

2003).

Journal Articles

Global Legal Pluralism as a Normative Project, 8 U. C. IRVINE L. REV. ___ (forthcoming,

2018).

The Decline of the Authoritative Voice in a World of Relative Authority, 48 CONN. L. REV.

1598 (2016).

The Inevitable Pluralism within Universal Harmonization Regimes: The Case of the CISG,

21 UNIFORM L. REV. 23 (2016).

Book Review: LAUREN BENTON & RICHARD J. ROSS, EDS., LEGAL HISTORY AND EMPIRES, 1500-

1850, 33 L. & HIST. REV. 1005 (2015).

Global Legal Pluralism and the Management of Conflicts Among International Legal

Regimes (reviewing DIRK PULKOWSKI, THE LAW AND POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL

REGIME CONFLICT (Oxford Univ. Press 2014)), 57 GERMAN YEARBOOK OF INT’L L.

734 (2014).

How Legal Pluralism Is and Is Not Distinct From Liberalism: A Reply to Denis Patterson &

Alexis Galán, 11 INT’L J. CONST’L L. 801 (2013).

Le Nouveau Pluralisme Juridique, 2013 REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE DROIT ÉCONOMIQUE

229.

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Jurisgenerative Constitutionalism: Procedural Principles for Managing Global Legal

Pluralism, 20 IND J. GLOBAL LEGAL STUDS. 665 (2013).

Towards a Jurisprudence of Hybridity, 2010 UTAH L. REV. 11 (2010), reprinted in EVE

DARIAN-SMITH, LAWS AND SOCIETIES IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS (Cambridge Univ. Press

2013).

Global Legal Pluralism and “Private” International Law, 1 TRANSNAT’L LEGAL THEORY

117 (2010) (reviewing ALEX MILLS, THE CONFLUENCE OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC

INTERNATIONAL LAW: JUSTICE, PLURALISM AND SUBSIDIARITY IN THE INTERNATIONAL

CONSTITUTIONAL ORDERING OF PRIVATE LAW).

The New Legal Pluralism, 5 ANN. REV. OF L. & SOC. SCI. 225 (2009).

The Enduring Connections Between Law and Culture, 57 AM. J. COMP. L. 101 (2009)

(reviewing LAWRENCE ROSEN, LAW AS CULTURE and OSCAR CHASE, LAW, CULTURE,

AND RITUAL).

Federalism and International Law Through the Lens of Legal Pluralism, 73 MISSOURI L.

REV. 1151 (2008).

Global Legal Pluralism, 80 S. CAL. L. REV. 1155 (2007).

A Pluralist Approach to International Law, 32 YALE J. INT’L L. 301 (2007), reprinted in

THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (Andrea Bianchi ed.,

2016).

Seeing Beyond the Limits of International Law (reviewing JACK L. GOLDSMITH & ERIC A.

POSNER, THE LIMITS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW), 84 TEX. L. REV. 1265 (2006).

Dialectical Regulation, Territoriality, and Pluralism, 38 CONN. L. REV. 929 (2006)

(commenting on Robert Ahdieh, Dialectical Regulation).

Towards a Cosmopolitan Vision of Conflict of Laws: Redefining Governmental Interests in a

Global Era, 153 U. PA. L. REV. 1819 (2005).

From International Law to Law and Globalization, 43 COLUM. J. TRANSNAT’L L. 485 (2005).

Conflict of Laws, Globalization, and Cosmopolitan Pluralism, 51 WAYNE L. REV. 1105

(2005), (lead article in a symposium issue dedicated to a consideration of my work).

Judges as Cosmopolitan Transnational Actors, 12 TULSA J. OF COMP. & INT’L L. 109 (2005).

The Globalization of Jurisdiction, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 311 (2002).

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The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment: Surveying the Benefits of a Cultural Analysis of

Law (reviewing AUSTIN SARAT, WHEN THE STATE KILLS: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND

THE AMERICAN CONDITION), 102 COLUM. L. REV. 1129 (2002).

Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes Towards a Non-Skeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural

Analysis, 13 YALE J.L. & HUMAN. 95 (2001)

An Observation and a Strange But True “Tale”: What Might the Historical Trials of Animals

Tell Us About the Transformative Potential of Law in American Culture? 52

HASTINGS L.J. 123 (2000).

Cyberspace and the State Action Debate: The Cultural Value of Applying Constitutional

Norms to “Private” Regulation, 71 U. COLO. L. REV. 1263 (2000).

The Culture of Cyberspace: Panel Summary, 93 ASIL PROC. 354 (2000).

An Anthropological Approach to Modern Forfeiture Law: The Symbolic Function of Legal

Actions Against Objects, 11 YALE J.L. & HUMAN. 1 (1999).

Rats, Pigs, and Statues on Trial: The Creation of Cultural Narratives in the Prosecution of

Animals and Inanimate Objects, 69 N.Y.U. L. REV. 288 (1994).

Media Articles/Columns

CNN Caved to Trump. It should have Stood by its Reporters, USA TODAY (July 3, 2017),

https://perma.cc/VQH7-6DBJ.

Gorsuch Proves to Be Powerful Conservative Force on High Court, THE HILL (June 28,

2017), https://perma.cc/RFD2-W5XG.

We Need an Independent Look at the FBI’s Handling of Trump’s Campaign, THE HILL

(March 10, 2017), https://perma.cc/HVS4-4BTS.

Why Jeff Sessions Must Resign, THE HILL (March 7, 2017), https://perma.cc/KL2L-P49W.

For Trump and Russia, the Fall of Michael Flynn Is Only the Beginning, THE HILL (Feb. 16,

2017), https://perma.cc/PG9W-AD6L.

Gorsuch’s Nomination Is an Unlawful Power Play that Must Be Blocked, THE HILL (Feb. 1,

2017), https://perma.cc/SWN2-VLYU.

Whose Laws Apply in the Global Village?, THE HARTFORD COURANT (Jan. 17, 2003).

Stem Cell Patents are a Worry, NEW HAVEN REGISTER (Sept. 6, 2001).

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Can Copyright, First Amendment Peacefully Coexist?, THE HARTFORD COURANT (March 5,

2001).

Letter to the Editor, N.Y. TIMES (Feb. 23, 2001) (responding to Jeffrey Rosen, In Lieu of

Manners).

Are we Overprotecting Intellectual Property?, FT. LAUDERDALE SUN-SENTINEL (Sept. 21,

2000).

Is it Theft or Just Great Advertising?, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS (Sept. 20, 2000).

Danger or Opportunity?: Internet’s Impact on the Music Business Need Not be What Some

Fear, MONTREAL GAZETTE (Sept. 18, 2000).

Cybermusic: Are We Overprotecting Intellectual Property Online?, TULSA WORLD (Sept. 17,

2000).

Creativity, Not Property, Gets Protection, CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER (Sept. 15, 2000).

Ease up on MP3: Are We Overprotecting Intellectual Property Online?, HARTFORD

COURANT (Sept. 10, 2000).

Littleton and the Internet: Responding to the Wrong Threats, HARTFORD COURANT (May 23,

1999).

CONFERENCES AND INVITED LECTURES

A Cosmopolitan Pluralist Research Agenda, Invited Master Class, Queen Mary University of

London, London, UK (June 2017).

International Law Colloquium, Invited Discussant, Temple Law School, Philadelphia, PA

(January 2017).

Arbitration as Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker at Conference on Arbitration and Legal

Reasoning, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK (November 2016).

Cyberspace and Privacy in International Law, Invited Discussant, American Society of

International Law, Washington, DC (September 2016).

From Transnational Law to Cosmopolitan Pluralism, Invited Speaker at Conference on Phillip

Jessup’s TRANSNATIONAL LAW at 60, University of London, King’s College, London,

UK (June 2016).

Global Challenges in Adjudication, Invited Roundtable Participant, Sciences Po, Paris, France

(June 2016).

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Religious Schools and the Failure to Educate, Invited Roundtable Participant, Sciences Po, Paris,

France (June 2016).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Master Class, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

(June 2016).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (May

2016).

Interrogating Jurisdiction, Invited Speaker, Roundtable on Legal Jurisdiction, Queen Mary

University of London, London, UK (April 2016).

The Legal Pluralism at the Heart of International Economic Governance, Invited Speaker,

Workshop on International Economic Governance, European University Institute,

Florence, Italy (April 2016).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Sciences Po, Paris, France (June 2015).

Author Meets Readers: Wibren Van Der Burg’s “Dynamics of Law and Morality,” Invited

Speaker, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN (May 2015).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Washington & Lee University Law School, Lexington,

VA (March 2015).

The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age, Chair, American Society of International Law Annual

Meeting, Washington, DC (March 2015).

From Legal Pluralism to Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Queen Mary University of

London, UK (Oct. 2014).

The Right to Be Forgotten, Chair, American Society of International Law Lunchtime Symposium

Series, Washington, DC (Oct. 2014).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Research Group on Multilevel Constitutionalism,

Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (June 2014).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Conference on Global Law: Unity, Competition,

Pluralism, Univ. of Bremen, Germany (June 2014).

Theorizing Law in the Transnational and the Global, Invited Roundtable Participant, Law and

Society Association Annual Meeting (May 2014).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Conference on the Normative Complex: Legal

Cultures, Validity Cultures, Normativities, Univ. of Bonn, Germany (April 2014).

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Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Seminar Series on Legal Philosophy Between State

and Transnationalism, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada

(March 2013).

Global Legal Pluralism as a Normative Project, Invited Speaker, Conference on Normative

Theory and International Law, Univ. of Richmond (February 2014).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Univ. of Tilburg, Netherlands (Nov. 2013).

Panel Discussion on The Importance of Global Law, Invited Speaker, 50th Anniversary

Celebration, Univ. of Tilburg Law School, Netherlands (Nov. 2013).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Univ. of Rotterdam, Netherlands (Nov. 2013).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Conference on Relations of Relative Authority, Queen

Mary’s College, Univ. of London, UK (Nov. 2013).

Invited Participant, Transnational Legal Theory Network Conference, Queen Mary’s College,

Univ. of London, UK (Nov. 2013).

Invited Commentator, Conference on Justice Beyond the State: Transnationalism and Law,

Univ. of Windsor, Ontario, Canada (Sept. 2013).

Author Meets Reader - Global Legal Pluralism by Paul Schiff Berman, Invited Author

Discussant, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (June 2013).

The Rise of Non-State Law, Invited Symposium Participant, International Legal Theory Interest

Group, American Society of International Law, Washington, DC (May 2013).

Transnational Societal Constitutionalism, Invited Speaker, International Conference Torino,

Turin, Italy (May 2012).

Legal Cultures, Legal Transfer, and Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Goethe University

Frankfurt, Germany (November 2011).

Law Beyond Borders: Jurisprudence for a Hybrid World, Temple International Law Roundtable

discussion of my forthcoming book (October 2010).

Undergraduate Legal Education, Within and Without the Law School, Roundtable Participant,

Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association, Chicago, IL (May 2010).

Towards a Jurisprudence of Hybridity, Invited Speaker, University of Montreal Colloquium

Series (November 2009). Temple International Law Roundtable, Invited Participant

(October 2009).

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Towards a Jurisprudence of Hybridity, Invited Speaker, Conference on Nonstate Governance,

University of Utah (February 2009).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Conference on State and Nonstate Actors in

International Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (November 2008).

Temple International Law Roundtable, Invited Participant (October 2008).

Chair/Discussant, Panel on Rethinking Transnational Environmental Governance, Annual

Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Denver, Colorado (May 2008).

Chair/Discussant, Panel on International Human Rights: Methodology and Ethics, Annual

Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Denver, Colorado (May 2008).

International Law, Foreign Affairs, and the Federal State: Lessons from Coordination, Invited

Commenter, Princeton University (May 2008).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Univ. of Georgia International Law Colloquium Series

(March 2008).

Federalism and International Law Through the Lens of Legal Pluralism, Invited Conference

Participant, Univ. of Missouri School of Law (February 2008).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited Speaker, Yale Law School Human Rights Colloquium Series

(December 2007).

Global Legal Pluralism, Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, Berlin, Germany

(July 2007).

Human Rights and Sociological Institutionalism, Invited Colloquium Participant, Harvard Law

School (June 2007).

Global Legal Pluralism, Plenary Address at Conference on A World of Legal Conflicts: Multiple

Norms in the International System, held at Princeton University (May 2007).

Chair, Panel on Using International Law to Leverage Domestic Change, Princeton University

(May 2007).

The Life Cycle of Pluralist Paradigms in Law and Society Scholarship, Plenary Session

participant at Northeast Law and Society Conference, Amherst College (May 2007).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited speaker in international legal theory colloquium, Georgetown

Univ. Law Center (April 2007).

Global Legal Pluralism, Invited speaker in faculty colloquium series, Univ. of Oregon School of

Law (April 2007).

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Global Legal Pluralism, Invited speaker in Law & Public Affairs colloquium series, Princeton

University (April 2007).

Seeing Beyond the Limits of International Law, Invited speaker in international law colloquium,

Willamette University Law School (April 2007).

A Pluralist Approach to International Law, Invited speaker in international law conference, Yale

Law School (March 2007).

Current Scholarship on Legal Pluralism, Invited roundtable discussion leader, Yale Law School

(March 2007).

Global Legal Pluralism, Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual

Meeting, Georgetown University Law Center (March 2007).

Law and Geography, Invited roundtable participant, Association for the Study of Law, Culture,

and the Humanities Annual Meeting, Georgetown University Law Center (March 2007).

Seeing Beyond the Limits of International Law, Invited speaker in international law colloquium,

Temple Law School (Jan. 2007).

Cyberspace and International Law, Invited web-based lecture, American Society of International

Law (Oct. 2006).

Law and Geography, Invited roundtable participant, International Law Association Annual

Meeting, New York City (Oct. 2006).

Conflict of Laws and the Emerging Global Plural Order, Plenary session presentation, Law and

Society Association, Annual Meeting (July 2006).

Chair, Panel on Transgovernmental Networks, Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting

(July 2006).

The Emerging Global Plural Order, Invited presentation at Kyoonpook National University,

Republic of Korea (May 2006).

“Insiders,” “Outsiders,” and the Legal Negotiation of Difference: Conflict of Laws in a Plural

World, Invited presentation at Amherst College, Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and

Social Thought (April 2006).

Conflict of Laws and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism, Annual Meeting of the Association for

the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities, Syracuse University (March 2006).

Chair/Discussant, panel on Judging, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law,

Culture & the Humanities, Syracuse University (March 2006).

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Chair/Discussant, panel on Legal Pluralism, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of

Law, Culture & the Humanities, Syracuse University (March 2006).

The Erosion and Persistence of Territoriality: Some Legal Consequences of a Hybrid World,

Invited Symposium Participant, UCLA Law School (March 2006).

Chair, Panel on Current Scholarship in International Law, Yale Law School (March 2006).

Conflict of Laws and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism, Invited Symposium Participant,

University of Connecticut School of Law (Jan. 2006).

Sovereignty and the Challenge of Pluralism, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of

Law, Culture & the Humanities, University of Texas, at Austin (March 2005).

Sovereignty and the Challenge of Pluralism, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of

Law, Culture & the Humanities, University of Texas, at Austin (March 2005).

Law Beyond Borders: Jurisdiction in an Era of Globalization, an interdisciplinary symposium

devoted to a discussion of three of my articles, at the Annual Meeting of the Association

of American Law Schools, San Francisco, CA (January 2005).

Choice of Law and Governmental Interests in a Global Era, Invited Symposium Participant,

University of Pennsylvania Law School (November 2004).

Judges as Cosmopolitan Transnational Actors, Invited Symposium Participant, University of

Tulsa Law School (November 2004).

Chair, Panel on Innovative Approaches to Legal Theory, Law and Society Association, Annual

Meeting (May 2004).

Jurispersuasion, Pluralism, and Sovereignty, Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting

(May 2004).

The Internet, Community Definition, and the Social Meaning of Legal Jurisdiction, Invited

Speaker, Brandeis College (April 2004).

Law Beyond Borders: Jurisdiction, Juris-Persuasion, and Community, Invited Speaker, Hofstra

Law School (April 2004).

Chair, Keynote Session on Law & Globalization, Annual Meeting of the Association for the

Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities, University of Connecticut School of Law

(March 2004).

Law Beyond Borders: The Internet, Globalization, and the Social Meaning of Legal Jurisdiction,

Invited Speaker, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University (October 2003).

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The Rise, “Fall,” and Puzzling Persistence of Transnationalism, Invited Speaker, University of

Exeter, UK (October 2003).

The Rise, “Fall,” and Puzzling Persistence of Transnationalism, Invited Speaker, Centre for

International Courts and Tribunals, University College of London, UK (October 2003).

Invited Participant, Cyberlaw Retreat, Sponsored by the Harvard Law School Berkman Center

on Internet and Society (August 2003)

Invited Speaker, Personal Jurisdiction and the Internet: Introducing Students to the Theoretical

Basis for Jurisdictional Rules, Association of American Law Schools Mid-Year

Conference on Civil Procedure (June 2003).

Invited Panelist, Courts, Sovereignty, and International Human Rights, Conference on

Globalization, Democracy, and Regulation: The International Architecture of Law in the

Twenty-First Century, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University (May

2003).

Panel Chair/Discussant, In and Beyond the Post-Modern Moment: New Challenges for Law,

Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities,

Benjamin A. Cardozo School of Law (March 2003).

Panel Chair/Discussant, Sovereignty and the Limits of Sovereign Power, Annual Meeting of the

Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Benjamin A. Cardozo

School of Law (March 2003).

Panel Chair, Socio-Cultural Approaches to International Law, Annual Meeting of the

Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Benjamin A. Cardozo

School of Law (March 2003).

The Assertion of Jurisdiction and the Power to Speak, Annual Meeting of the Association for the

Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania School of Law

(March 2002).

Panel Discussant, Regulating Artistic & Cultural Production, Annual Meeting of the Association

for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Benjamin A. Cardozo School of Law

(March 2003).

The Globalization of Jurisdiction, Invited Participant, Boston College School of Law Faculty

Workshop (February 2003).

The Globalization of Jurisdiction, Invited Participant, Duke University School of Law Faculty

Workshop (February 2003).

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The Globalization of Jurisdiction, Invited Participant, Notre Dame School of Law Faculty

Workshop (January 2003).

The Globalization of Jurisdiction, Invited Participant, Washington & Lee University School of

Law Faculty Workshop (October 2002).

The Globalization of Jurisdiction, Invited Participant, Georgetown University Law Center

Faculty Workshop (October 2002).

The Globalization of Jurisdiction, Invited Participant, American University Washington College

of Law Faculty Workshop (September 2002).

The Globalization of Jurisdiction, Invited Participant, Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, Yale

Law School (June 2002).

Internet Legal Issues, State of Connecticut Judicial Branch (June 2002)

The Internet, the Nation-State, and the Social Meaning of Legal Jurisdiction, Law and Society

Association, Annual Meeting (May 2002).

The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the Eighteenth Century Roots of Twentieth Century Legal

Scholarship, American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting, (April

2002).

The Continuing Conundrum of Internet Jurisdiction, Connecticut Bar Association Computer

Law Section (April 2002).

The Globalization of Jurisdiction: Cyberspace, Nation-States, and Community Definition, Junior

Faculty Workshop, Northeastern Law School (March 2002).

Plenary Session Chair, The Politics of Race, Representation, and Reparations: Amistad, the

Historical Record, and the Role of Law, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study

of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania School of Law (March

2002)

Panel Chair, Surveying Law and Borders: The Role of Law in Defining Disciplinary,

Jurisdictional, Theoretical, and Social Boundaries, Annual Meeting of the Association

for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania School of

Law (March 2002)

The Internet, the Nation-State, and the Social Meaning of Legal Jurisdiction, Annual Meeting of

the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of

Pennsylvania School of Law (March 2002)

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Panel Chair, Law After Postmodernism: Legal Discourse, Relativist Thought, and Civil Society,

Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities,

University of Texas School of Law (March 2001)

The Social Value of Legal Discourse and Legal Education, Annual Meeting of the Association

for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Texas School of Law

(March 2001)

Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes Towards a Non-Skeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural

Analysis, Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association (May 2000)

Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes Towards a Non-Skeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural

Analysis, Conference on Cultural Studies and the Law, Yale Law School (April 2000)

Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes Towards a Non-Skeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural

Analysis, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the

Humanities (March 2000)

Cyberspace and the State Action Debate: The Cultural Value of Applying Constitutional Norms

to “Private” Regulation, Symposium on Telecommunications Law for the 21st Century,

University of Colorado School of Law (February 2000)

An Observation and a Strange But True “Tale”: What Might the Historical Trials of Animals

Tell Us About the Transformative Potential of Law in American Culture?, Law and

Culture Reading Group sponsored by Amherst College Program in Law, Jurisprudence,

and Social Thought (Oct. 1999)

Assessing America’s Abiding Legal Faith: Notes Towards a Theory About the Cultural Benefits

of Legal Discourse and Procedure, Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association

(May 1999)

The Common Senses of Law, Panel Discussant, Annual Meeting of the Law and Society

Association (May 1999)

Broken Bodies in Legal Space, Panel Discussant, Annual Meeting of the Law and Society

Association (May 1999)

The Historical Trials of Animals and Inanimate Objects, and the Transformative Potential of

Law, Conference on Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture, SUNY Binghamton (April

1999)

The Internet, Jurisdiction, and the Symbolic Assertion of Community Membership, Dean’s

Faculty Workshop Series, SUNY Binghamton (April 1999)

The Culture of Cyberspace, Panel Chair, American Society of International Law Annual Meeting

(March 1999)

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Assessing America’s Abiding Legal Faith: Notes Towards a Theory About the Cultural Benefits

of Legal Discourse and Procedure, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of

Law, Culture, and the Humanities (March 1999)

Rats, Pigs, and Statues on Trial: The Creation of Cultural Narratives in the Prosecution of

Animals and Inanimate Objects, Group for Early Modern Culture Studies Annual

Conference (November 1994)

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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities

General Member, 2003 – present

Chair, Annual Meeting Program Committee, 2014-15

Steering Committee, 2003 – 2006, 2014 – 2017

Chair, James Boyd White Prize Committee, 2006 – 2007

American Society of International Law

General Member, 2003 – present

Co-Chair, International Law and Technology Interest Group, 2014-16

Executive Committee, International Law and Technology Interest Group, 2013-14

Law and Society Association

General Member, 2000 – present

Invited Teacher, Graduate Student Program, Annual Meeting, 2007

Association of American Law Schools

General Member, 2003 – present

Chair, Section on Law and Interpretation, 2006 – 2007

Chair, Section on Law and Anthropology, 2004 – 2005

Member, Executive Committee of the Section on Conflict of Laws, 2003 – 2005

International Journal of Information Policy, Law, and Security

Editorial Board Member (2004 – 2008)

PEER AND TENURE REVIEWS

Aspen Law and Business

Cambridge University Press

Cornell University Press

Law, Culture & the Humanities

Law, Politics, & Society

LEXIS Publishing

Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary

Study of Literature

Review of International Studies

Technology & Culture

University of Alabama Press

University of Michigan Press

Oxford Univ. Press

Catholic University Law School

Emory Law School

Syracuse University School of Law

University of Minnesota School of Law

University of Toronto School of Law

University of Tulsa College of Law

York University Osgoode Hall Law School

Northeastern University Law School

Hart Publishing

International Criminal Justice Review

Law and Social Inquiry

Transnational Environmental Law

University of Pittsburgh Law School

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PROFESSORIAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

The George Washington University Law School

2014-15 Teaching and Learning Committee

University of Connecticut

1999-2000 Law School Dean Search Committee (elected)

University of Connecticut School of Law

2000-2008 Chair of Career Services Committee

2007-2008 Member of Law School Promotion and Tenure Committee (elected)

2000-2008 Invited Orientation Speaker

1999-2008 Faculty Advisor to Connecticut Law Review

2004-2006 Chair of Faculty Appointments Committee (elected)

2002-2003 Member of Educational Policy Committee

2000-2002 Member of Faculty Appointments Committee (elected)

1998-2000 Member of Clerkship Committee

MEDIA APPEARANCES

Television Interviews

Fox News (Local Affiliate) regarding nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.

(October 2005)

Fox News (Local Affiliate) regarding nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

(October 2005)

NBC News (Local Affiliate) regarding nomination of John Roberts to Supreme Court.

(September 2005)

Fox News (Local Affiliate) regarding questions of privacy of medical records. (March 13,

2002)

NBC News (Local Affiliate) regarding questions of privacy of medical records. (March 13,

2002)

Fox News (Local Affiliate) regarding the USA Patriot Act (Oct. 25, 2001)

NBC News (Local Affiliate) regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore decision.

(Dec. 12, 2000)

Radio Interviews

WTIC-AM regarding US Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey. (September 2007)

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WTIC-AM regarding US Supreme Court decision in terrorism detention cases. (April 2006)

NPR’s Morning Edition regarding internet privacy. (March 2006)

BBC World Service regarding internet privacy. (March 2006)

BBC’s The World Today regarding internet privacy. (March 2006)

Canada’s “The Rutherford Show” regarding internet privacy. (March 2006)

Jamaica Radio regarding the legality of the U.S. war in Iraq. (March 28, 2003)

WTIC-AM regarding Administration’s plan to authorize military commissions. (Nov. 6,

2001)

Printed Quotations

ABC News (online)

Albany Times-Union

Arizona Republic

Associated Press

Boston Globe (online)

Boston Herald (online)

Business Week

Charlotte News-Observer

Chicago Tribune

CNN (online)

Dallas Morning News

Detroit News

eCampus News

Florida Times-Union

Forbes

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Houston Chronicle

IDG News Service

Kansas City Star

Legal Times

Lexington Herald-Leader

Miami Herald

MSNBC (online)

National Law Journal

National Jurist

New York Sun

Newsday

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Providence Journal

Sacramento Bee

San Francisco Chronicle

San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury-News

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Seattle Times

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Connecticut Law Tribune

The Hartford Courant

The Hartford Courant

The New Orleans Times-Picayune

The New York Times

The State (South Carolina)

The Times (UK)

The Washington Post

USA Today

Wired News