Rutgers Law Faculty Shaping Legal Education Around the World

Date

June 5, 2025

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Shanida Carter

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globe in the middle of four photos of different people — From top left clockwise: Professors Rose Cuison-Villazor, Ellen Goodman, JC Lore, Yuliya Guseva (seated left)

Distinguished Professor Vera Bergelson
York, United Kingdom: "Should We Forgive Angry Killers?" comment on "Grading Angry Killers" by Gabriel S. Mendlow at the Criminal Law and Philosophy Conference in May 2025 at the University of York

Freiburg, Germany: “The Otherness of the Defense of Others” presentation at the “Theorizing Criminal Law” Conference in June 2024 at the Max Planck Institute

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Professor Jorge Contesse
Utrecht, The Netherlands: “The Inter-American Court of Human Rights: The Magic of Erga Omnes” presentation at The Politics of International Dispute Settlement conference at Utrecht University in June 2025

London, United Kingdom: “Inter-States Disputes in Latin America” at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in June 2025

Ghent, Belgium: “Implications of the RTHE Mobilization in the AO No. 23 for IACtHR’s Exercise of its Jurisdictional Powers” at Ghent University in May 2025

men and women standing in a group in business attire in front of blue background — Professor Contesse (center) with Rutgers Law students at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

Geneva, Switzerland: Rapporteur for France at the 82nd session of the UN Committee Against Torture, (Watch the video here) Rutgers Law students participated in this session in April 2025

Santiago, Chile: "Constitutional Transformation to Accommodate Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Lessons from Around the Globe" in September 2024 at Universidad Diego Portales

Geneva, Switzerland: 81st session of the UN Committee Against Torture - Cameroon and Namibia - in July 2024 (Watch here [min. 55:09] and here [min. 59:09])

Geneva, Switzerland: Rapporteur for Ecuador at the 80th session of the UN Committee Against Torture in July 2024 (Click here to watch)

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Distinguished Professor Jean-Marc Coicaud
Tokyo, Japan and Hong Kong, China: “The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy” book lecture series in May 2025. The book assesses what political legitimacy is, the limitations of legitimacy within international law, and the current international order it seeks to regulate.

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Professor Rose Cuison-Villazor
Lund, Sweden: “"Race" and "Religion" in the Law of Migration: Comparing U.S. and E.U. Context” International and Interdisciplinary Workshop at Lund University in May 2025

Tokyo, Japan: “The Legitimate Citizen: Proving Birthright U.S. Citizenship from Japan” at Sophia University in October 2024

Tokyo, Japan: Legal scholar commentator to Santa Clara University Assistant Professor Sonia Gomez's book, “Picture Bride, War Bride” at Chuo University in October 2024

Four people standing and smiling in front of large class with students seated — Professor Cuison-Villazor (*center left*) at Chuo University

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Professor Matteo Gatti
London, United Kingdom: “How the EU Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Could Reshape Corporate America” paper presentation at the European Corporate Governance Institute Global Corporate Governance Colloquium in June 2025

Hamburg, Germany: “How the EU Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Could Reshape Corporate America” paper presentation at the University of Hamburg in June 2025 (click here to read the paper co-authored by Bocconi University Professor Luca Enriques and Reichman University Professor Roy Shapira)

London, United Kingdom: The Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture workshop speaker at the London School of Economics in June 2025

Frankfurt, Germany: Senior Fellow at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Center for Advanced Studies-Foundations of Law and Finance

Vienna, Austria: “Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Hostile Bid Regime in Europe, 2004-2023” presentation at the "20 Years of the Takeover Directive" Austrian Takeover Commission International Conference in November 2024

Associate Professor Jonathan Gingerich
United Kingdom: Since July 2024, Professor Gingerich has been on competitive fellowship leave from Rutgers Law to run a £1.3 million grant on ‘The Spontaneity of Freedom’, funded by UK Research and Innovation. The grant is housed at University College London. As part of the grant, he is writing a book on spontaneous freedom—the freedom to act in ways that are unplanned and unscripted—and its value and significance for law, politics, and ethical theory. Appearances include:
“Rules: A Short History of What We Live By” panel discussion at the University College London Law School on Lorraine Daston’s recent book of the same name in February 2025

Cambridge University Contemporary Political Theory Seminar in February 2025

“Freedom and Futurity: Simone de Beauvoir’s Moral Philosophy” presentation at the Practical, the Political, the Ethical Research Seminar at the University of London Institute of Philosophy in January 2025

Talk on “The Spontaneity of Freedom” at New Ideas in Legal & Political Philosophy of Online Speech hosted by the University College London Digital Speech Lab in November 2024

group of men and women sitting on steps outside in grassy area — Professor Gingerich (middle row left) at the Oxford-Rutgers International Workshop in Humanistic Ethics at Merton College

With the support of a Rutgers Global Grant, Professor Gingerich organized the Oxford-Rutgers International Workshop in Humanistic Ethics at Merton College, Oxford in June 2024. This event brought together legal scholars, philosophers, political theorists, literature scholars, and musicologists to share work in progress on ethical theory. As an outgrowth of this event, Professor Gingerich co-organized, with James Laing of Oxford University, the Oxford-Rutgers Ethics Reading Group over the 2024-25 academic year, which brought together students and faculty from Oxford and Rutgers to discuss recent methodologically significant research in ethics.

Berlin, Germany: International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society at Freie Universität Berlin speech in June 2024 about his book, “Ethics after Simone de Beauvoir”, co-authored with Daniela Dover. This paper is drawn from his book manuscript on Simeone de Beauvoir’s ethical theory.

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Distinguished Professor Ellen Goodman
Tel Aviv, Israel: “AI Policy and Regulation: Shaping the Future” lecture at AI Week 2024 at Tel Aviv University in July 2024 (Watch Professor Goodman’s remarks here)

Distinguished Professor Stuart Green
Oxford, United Kingdom: "How to Criminalize Death by Omission" lecture at a meeting of the Anglo-German Dialogue on Core Concepts in Criminal Law project at the University of Oxford in September 2024

Madrid, Spain: Talk at Complutense University of Madrid on the occasion of the publication of the Spanish translation of his book, Criminalizing Sex: A Unified Liberal Theory by Marcial Pons publishers in September 2024

men and women seated and speaking in chairs on a large stage next to each other — Professor Guseva (left) at the Owl Explains Crypto Summit in London

Professor Yuliya Guseva
Oslo, Norway: Norges Bank seminar series speaker on stablecoins and recent legislative developments in June 2025

London, United Kingdom: Owl Explains by Ava Labs Crypto Summit panelist in May 2025

Milan, Italy: “Decentralized Markets and Self-Regulation” keynote speech at CAL2025: The 5th Crypto Asset Lab Conference at the University of Milano-Bicocca in January 2025

Zurich, Switzerland: Presentation on self-regulation and financial regulation at UBRI Connect 2024 at the University of Zürich in September 2024

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Distinguished Professor Christina S. Ho
Cape Town, South Africa: “The Role of Law in an Era of Global Crises and Change” workshop presentation at the University of the Western Cape International Teaching Week in July 2025. Her paper and the workshop explore the role of law as the world experiences an unprecedented convergence of disruptions.

Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development Thea Johnson
Graz, Austria: Guest Professor in May and June 2025 at the University of Graz, continuing the 40-year cooperation and exchange between Rutgers Law School and University of Graz faculty. Dean Johnson taught the course, “International Procedural Comparison (A Comparative Look at Criminal Procedural Systems in the USA, Europe and beyond.)”

woman dressed in black speaking at podium in front of classroom — Professor Kim speaking at Seoul National University School of Law

Professor Suzanne Kim
Seoul, South Korea: “Powerful Voices of the Subaltern: Transnational & Interdisciplinary Approaches” international conference speaker at Seoul National University School of Law in June 2025. Professor Kim discussed Comparative Perspectives on Reproductive Autonomy and the Law of Work and Care: the United States and South Korea.

Distinguished Clinical Professor JC Lore
Lagos, Nigeria: In November 2024, Professor Lore supported the Nigerian government and trained lawyers from Lagos State's Office of the Public Defender—the only public defender system in Nigeria, where 50 lawyers serve a population of 23 million. He also trained lawyers from the Department of Public Prosecutions and Office of Public Defender to become future trainers for their offices.

Nairobi, Kenya: In July 2024, in a country without a right to counsel or public defense system, Professor Lore worked inside Kenya’s maximum security prison to train legal professionals who provide legal advice and support to inmates. The program Professor Lore supported has reduced the prison population by 50%, drastically reduced the delay in trials, freed innocent people, and improved the overall conditions inside the prisons.

group of people standing together outside in front of building — Professor Paradise (*second from right*) at the State of Religious Freedom Conference in Switzerland

Associate Professor Brandon Paradise
Blonay-Saint Légier, Switzerland: "The Inner Life, the Struggle for Black Freedom, and Critical Race Theory" paper presentation at the "State of Religious Freedom Conference" in June 2025

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Associate Professor Cymie Payne
Rabat, Morocco: "lntegrated legal protection of Air, Ocean and Land" 4th IUCN WCEL World Environmental Law Congress speaker in May 2025

Rutgers Law Faculty Shaping Legal Education Around the World

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