All the World is a Stage - an International Law Stage - for Professor Louise Ellen Teitz
From Japan’s Supreme Court, to France’s Cour de Cassation (the highest court in the French judiciary), to Brussels (the European Union’s capitol), you will find RWU LAW’s own Professor Louise Ellen Teitz. She can be heard speaking on an international law panel, or as a member of a legal exchange delegation with a United States Supreme Court Justice, or creating new law as part of a State Department treaty delegation.
Professor Teitz participated this past summer as a delegate on an American Bar Association Section of International Law briefing trip (International Legal Exchange-- ILEX) to Japan and the People’s Republic of China. The delegation of 20 distinguished members of the U.S. legal profession and Bar leaders was led in Tokyo by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, where they were received at the Japanese Supreme Court. The delegation’s goal, in both Japan and China, was to focus on the rule of law, dispute settlement, the role of the lawyer as gatekeeper and the evolution of legal practice.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Breyer & Professor Teitz
RWU Law has a number of faculty members who research and write in the area of international law. Professor Teitz, who is one of the founding members of the law school faculty, has become a sought-out expert in international law in general, and particularly in her field of specialty—international litigation and dispute resolution. The author of a treatise on the topic, “Transnational Litigation”, she is often asked to evaluate proposed changes to international law. Recently, she participated in an ABA Section of International Law meeting in Brussels, which focused on evolving “choice of law” principles in the European Union and their likely impact on U.S. litigation.
(L-R: Prof. Teitz; Arnaud Nuyts, Chair of Private International Law at the Free University of Brussels; Diana Wallace, Vice President of the European Parliament, the Reporter on the Rome II Regulation.)
Most law professors comment about existing law and how it should be changed. Professor Teitz actively changes the law by participating in the international treaty process. Professor Teitz was a member of the U.S. delegation to The Hague for the Jurisdiction and Judgments Treaty and the Choice of Court Convention, the latter of which was recently signed by the United States.
Professor Teitz will continue her role in creating international law in February 2009, when she returns as a member of the U.S. delegation in negotiations in The Hague, the Netherlands, in connection with three existing treaties to which the U.S. is a party: The Hague Service Convention, The Evidence Convention, and The Apostille Convention.
