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Visiting International Faculty
Visiting International Faculty
Over the past four years Columbia has hosted over twenty visiting professors from eleven countries. These visitors expand our curriculum, bring a new perspective to existing courses and foster joint research projects.
Visitors have taught in a variety of fields, EU law, human rights law, commercial contracts, trade, US corporate law, Japanese law and comparative constitutional law among others. In addition to teaching their own courses, several visiting professors have co-taught an offering with a CLS faculty member. In the fall 2004 semester, Arthur Chaskalson co-taught a course with Louis Henkin on comparative constitutionalism. In the past, Joanne Scott has taught in Chuck Sabel's first year course, Foundations of the Regulatory State. The European Law Seminar always brings in 1-3 visitors who teach in an area of European Union Law. Petros Mavroidis has co-taught courses with George Bermann, Harvey Goldschmid, Jagdish Bhagwati and Merrit Janow. Nearly all visiting professors participate in law school conferences and workshops during their stay.
Petros Mavroidis is one of two individuals who made several visits to Columbia and are now part of the Faculty of Law (Zohar Goshen is the second). Both Professor Mavroidis and Goshen came to Columbia as part of regularized visiting professor programs, while the others were invited through a faculty committee, International Visitors Committee.
Visiting Professors Programs
Professor Mavroidis came originally as the BNL Professor in European Law. The professorship is generously funded through Banco Nazionale di Lavoro (BNL). Each year, a distinguished European law professor is invited to teach a subject in European Law at Columbia. 2004's BNL professor, the eleventh, was Marco Torsello from the University of Bologna Through a three-year grant from the Thyssen Foundation, the European Legal Studies Center also established a Visiting Professor in European Economic Law for short-term visits (five weeks) of two to three experts in European Economic Law who teach the Advanced European Seminar in European Law.
The third standing program that has brought numerous visiting professors to the Law School is the Faculty Exchange with Hebrew University. Visitors from Hebrew University, including Zohar Goshen, teach for a semester, or sometimes for a full year. CLS faculty participating in this exchange generally teach at Hebrew University for much shorter periods of time. For the most part, faculty receive funding (salaries) from their home university.
Most of our visiting professors do not, however, come through a standing visiting professor program. Rather, they are proposed by individual faculty members, vetted by the International Visitors Committee, and finally selected by the full faculty upon that committee's recommendation on a highly selective basis.
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