Global Justice Forum - 2009

Global Justice Forum - Speaker Biography



George A. Bermann

George A. Bermann

Professor, Columbia University School of Law, Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law; Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law; Director, European Legal Studies Center; faculty member of College d’Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and the Master of Law and Globalization of the University of Paris I and the Institut des Sciences of Politiques; Chief Reporter, ALI Restatement of the US Law of International Commercial Arbitration; current President, Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé; former President, American Society of Comparative Law; international commercial arbitrator; Court- and attorney-appointed foreign law expert on French, German, Swiss and EU Law, and transnational litigation and arbitration; founder and Chair of the Board, Columbia Journal of European Law.

J.D. Yale Law School, 1971 (editor of the Yale Law Journal); Doctor honoris causa, University of Fribourg, Switzerland; author or editor of the book titles Transnational Litigation; Introduction to French Law; Cases & Materials on EU Law; Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation; French Business Law in Translation; The Administrative Law of the European Union; WTO Law and Human Health and Safety; WTO Law and Developing Countries; Law and Governance in an Enlarged European Union.

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