COLUMBIA - AMSTERDAM - LEYDEN SUMMER 2003 PROGRAM IN AMERICAN LAW July 6 - August 2, 2003
Penny Andrews, Professor of Law, City University of New York School of Law
Teaches courses in Torts, International Human Rights Law, Lawyering and Comparative Perspectives on Race and the Law. She earned her B.A. and LL. B. degrees from The University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School. She was the Chamberlain Fellow in Legislation at Columbia Law School, and has worked at the Legal Resources Center in Johannesburg, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York. She was on the faculty of the Department of Law and Legal Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia and has visited at the University of Maryland School of Law, the University of Natal in South Africa and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. She has written extensively on constitutional and human rights issues in the South African and Australian contexts, with particular emphasis on the rights of women and people of color, affirmative action and the provision of legal services to disadvantaged communities. She is active in many international organizations and is the secretary/treasurer of the International Third World Legal Studies Association. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Welfare Law Center in New York.
Barbara Black, George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History, Columbia
B.A., Brooklyn, 1953; LL.B., Columbia, 1955; Ph.D., Yale, 1975. Honorary doctorates from Brooklyn; Marymount Manhattan; Osgoode Hall; New Rochelle; New York Law School; Smith; Vermont Law School; and Georgetown University Law Center. Editor, Columbia Law Review. Associate-in-law, Columbia, 1955-56. In 1965 began a doctoral program in history at Yale, specializing in Anglo-American legal history. Served as instructor and lecturer in history while completing graduate study and, on award of the Ph.D. degree, became assistant professor of history at Yale. Appointed associate professor of law at Yale in 1979. Visiting lecturer, Harvard Law School, 1978. Visiting professor, Columbia Law School, 1984. Joined the Columbia faculty in 1984. Dean of the Faculty of Law, 1986-91. President, American Society for Legal History, 1986-87, 1988-89. Member, Selden Society; Massachusetts Historical Society; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Philosophical Society; New York State Ethics Commission, 1992-95; Board of Trustees, New York Law School, 1992-98; Board of Directors, Supreme Court Historical Society; Board of Guarantors, The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University; and Permanent Advisory Board, Jay Papers Project, Columbia University. Publications are on legal history. Principal areas of interest are legal history and contracts.
William Buzbee, Professor of Law, Emory University
B.A., Amherst College, 1983; J.D., Columbia, 1986. Notes and comments editor, Columbia Law Review. Law Clerk to Federal Judge Jose A. Cabranes, 1986-87. Attorney-fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council, 1987-88. Associate working on environmental, litigation, and land use matters, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, NYC, 1988-93. Joined Emory Law School's faculty in 1993 and is now a professor of law and director of Emory Law School's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program. Lectured at numerous law schools and other gatherings. Recent publications have appeared in Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and Fordham Law Review, as well as in other journals, books and treatises. Scholarship focusing upon regulatory federalism and separation of powers, drawing substantially on statutory interpretation jurisprudence, includes "Legislative Record Review," (with Robert Schapiro, 2001), "The One-Congress Fiction in Statutory Interpretation," (2000), and "Standing and the Statutory Universe" (2001). Other explorations of regulatory federalism, but in the context of analysis of urban form, sprawl, and smart growth debates, include a recent book review in Michigan Law Review, "Federalism Tales and Accountability Conceptions: Disney's Wonderful World?" and "Urban Sprawl, Federalism and the Problem of Institutional Complexity" (1999) (republished as one of 1999's top ten articles on land use and environmental law), "Sprawl's Dynamics: A Comparative Institutional Analysis Institutional Analysis Critique" (2000), "Smart Growth Micro-Incentives and the Tree-Cut Tax Case" (2001), "Sprawl's Political Economy and the Case for Metropolitan Green Space Initiative" (2000) and a chapter on related issues in the book Sprawl City. A series of articles and a treatise contribution focus on hazardous waste and brownfields policy, including "Remembering Repose: Voluntary Contamination Cleanup Approvals, Incentives, and the Costs of Interminable Liability" (1995) and "Brownfields, Environmental Federalism, and Institutional Determinism" (1997). Additional scholarship on administrative law includes "Regulatory Reform or Statutory Muddle: The ‘Legislative Mirage of Single-Statute Regulatory Reform'" (1996) and "Expanding the Zone, Tilting the Field: Zone of Interests and Article III Standing Analysis after Bennett v. Spear" (1997). Co-founded and secured foundation monetary support to launch Emory Law School's new Turner Environmental Law Clinic; heads the Turner Clinic's Advisory Board; and is vice president and litigation chair of the board of the Georgia Center for Law in the Public Interest, a not-for-profit focused on environmental regulation and litigation in the southeast. Founding member scholar of a recently convened forum of scholars interested in ensuring transparent, responsive, and protective regulation, currently going by the working name of the Center for Progressive Regulation. In recent years has taught environmental law, administrative law, land use, legal methods, and a seminar on federalism and devolution.
Simon Canick, Reference Librarian, Columbia Law School Library
Simon Canick has been a reference librarian at the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library of Columbia Law School since July 2000. In that capacity, he has participated in the Advanced Legal Research seminar, and has taught numerous research sessions for diverse audiences. Simon was recently appointed Adjunct Associate at Fordham Law School. Earlier, Simon interned at the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he obtained his Masters of Library and Information Science. Simon earned a J.D. from the Boston University School of Law in 1997, and a B.A. from Hamilton College in 1992.
Ellen Chapnick, Assistant Dean, Columbia Law School; Director of the Center for Public Interest Law and Director of the Human Rights Internship Program Assistant
Dean Ellen P. Chapnick is the founding director of the Center for Public Interest Law at Columbia Law School. She joined Columbia after 20 years as a federal litigator including as the senior partner responsible for the environmental law department at Wolf Pepper Ross Wolf & Jones where, among other matters, she served as a plaintiff's lawyer in the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Litigation, for which she and her co-counsel shared the Trial Lawyers for Public Justices 1995 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. Her recent pro bono work includes being co-president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, co-chairing the Court as Employer Subcommittee of the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness, and serving on the Association of American Law Schools Task Force on Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities, of which she is the chair-elect. Dean Chapnick has received the 1997 Pro Bono Publico Award from Pro Bono Students America and a 1998 award in recognition of outstanding pro bono publico service from the Legal Aid Society of the City of New York. She is the author of several articles and the Access to the Courts chapter in the ABA's The Law of Environmental Justice. Dean Chapnick is an honors graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences.
Christopher Gosnell, Lecturer in Law, Columbia
Jane Spinak, Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia
B.A., Smith, 1974; J.D., New York University, 1979. Prior to attending law school, taught high school history and social studies. Staff attorney, Juvenile Rights Division, Legal Aid Society, 1980-82. Joined Columbia faculty in 1982 as co-founder of the Child Advocacy Clinic. Attorney-in-charge, Juvenile Rights Division, Legal Aid Society of New York, 1995-98. Has served on numerous task forces and committees addressing the needs and rights of children and families. Current member, New York State Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children and the Steering Committee of the Columbia University Institute on Child and Family Policy. Chair of the Board, Center for Family Representation. Lectures and writes on issues of child welfare policy, juvenile justice, child advocacy, Family Court reform, clinical legal education, and legal organization management.
Kendall Thomas, Professor of Law, Columbia
Professor of Law, founding Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University in the City of New York, and Co-Director of the Columbia-Leiden-Amsterdam Summer Program in American Law. Joined the faculty in 1984. Teaching and research interests include U.S. and comparative constitutional law, human rights, legal philosophy, feminist legal theory, Critical Race Theory and Law and Sexuality. Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School, and Visiting Professor in American Studies and Afro-American Studies at Princeton University. Has taught or lectured in France, The Netherlands, England, The Czech Republic, Germany, Haiti and South Africa. His writings have appeared in several academic journals and volumes of collected essays. He is a co-editor of Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Founded the Movement (The New Press, 1996) and What's Left of Theory? (Routledge Press, 2000). Thomas was an inaugural recipient of the Berlin Prize Fellowship of the American Academy in Berlin, Germany and a member of the Special Committee of the American Center in Paris, France. Past chair of the Jurisprudence and Law & Humanities sections of the Association of American Law Schools. Founding member of the Majority Action Caucus of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Sex Panic! and the AIDS Prevention Action League. Currently serves as a member and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Gay Men's Health Crisis.
