Frederick K. Cox International Law Center

International and Comparative Law Faculty

The 24 full-time faculty members who teach international and comparative law at Case include prominent experts in human rights law, international criminal law, international trade law, cyberlaw, international financial institutions, international tax law, international intellectual property law, and international business law. In the past two years they have published dozens of scholarly articles and books and have appeared in the media (television, radio, and newspapers) more than 300 times.

Directors

Michael P. Scharf
Professor; Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center; Director of the Cox Center War Crimes Research Office
Professor Scharf is Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and Managing Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group, which has its Cleveland Office at Case. From 1989-93, he worked in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State, as Attorney-Adviser for U.N. Affairs and as Attorney Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence. He was a member of the U.S. delegations to the U.N. General Assembly and the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Prior to joining the State Department, he served as clerk to the Honorable Gerald B. Tjoflat of the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. Author of eight books, Scharf has won two National Book Awards and has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In 2005, the Public International Law and Policy Group and its co-founders, Michael Scharf and Paul Williams, were nominated by eight governments and an international criminal tribunal for the Nobel Peace Prize for "significantly contributing to the promotion of peace throughout the globe by providing crucial pro bono legal assistance to states and non-state entities involved in peace negotiation and in bringing war criminals to justice." He teaches Global Perspectives, International Law, International Criminal Law, and the Law of International Organizations; directs the Summer Abroad Institute for Global Justice in the Netherlands; coaches the Jessup and Pictet Moot Court teams; and oversees the War Crimes Research Lab.

Jacqueline D. Lipton
Professor; Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research; Co-Director of the Center for Law Technology and the Arts; Associate Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
Professor Lipton is Associate Director of the Cox Center. Before joining the Case School of Law faculty, she was a banking and finance lawyer for a large Australian commercial law firm and a major Australian bank, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Nottingham School of Law in England. She has been widely published and is a frequent lecturer in the areas of International Intellectual Property, Cyberlaw, E-Commerce, and International Business. She serves as the faculty adviser of the International Law Society, runs the Distinguished International Visiting Fellows Program, and counsels students on study abroad opportunities.

Robert N. Strassfeld
Professor of Law; Associate Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center; Director, Institute for Global Security Law and Policy
Professor Strassfeld, a legal historian, has published major law review articles about the Vietnam War and teaches a seminar on the subject. He advises the Center on its activities involving comparative employment and labor law.

Lewis R. Katz
John C. Hutchins Professor; Director of the Master of Laws in U.S. and Global Legal Studies program
Professor Katz is Director of the Master of Laws program in U.S. and Global Legal Studies for foreign lawyers. A criminal justice expert, he has written and lectured internationally on criminal justice issues in the U.S. courts.

Faculty

Jonathan Adler
Professor; Director, Center for Business Law and Regulation
Professor Adler was clerk to the Honorable David B. Sentelle, Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Prior to law school, he worked as Director of Environmental Studies for the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Focusing on environmental and regulatory policy, he is author or editor of three books, more than eighteen scholarly articles, and articles published in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and National Review. He is a frequent media commentator and lecturer on environmental topics.

Rafael D. Brown
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law
Rafael Brown teaches Legal Writing and Research and Evidence to foreign lawyers in the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program in U.S. and Global Legal Studies. He also directs the Summer Language and Law Institute for incoming LL .M. students and foreign legal professionals interested in a short course in legal English and an introduction to the basics of U.S. law. For the past few summers, he has traveled to India to train Indian lawyers in U.S. legal writing and research methods. Prof. Brown received his B.A. (1998) and his J.D. (2001) from Case Western Reserve University.

Kathleen M. Carrick
Associate Professor; Director of the Law Library
Professor Carrick, Director of the Law Library, is representative to the Women's Interest Network of the American Bar Association Section on International Law and Practice. Her publication, A Comprehensive Bibliography of Legal Education in the U.S., is forthcoming.

Timothy M. Casey
Professor of Law
Professor Casey practiced criminal law with the Legal Aid Society in New York City, first with the Trial Division and then with the Criminal Appeals Bureau. He later trained newly hired attorneys and developed a niche practice in coram nobis litigation. He joined the Case faculty in 2004, arriving from Columbia Law School where, as an Associate in Law, he developed and taught the Criminal Practice Clinic. In 2003, he was awarded a Public Policy Fellowship at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. In 2004, he was presented with the Presidential Teaching Award at Columbia University, and in 2005, he received a UCITE Learning Fellowship at Case Western Reserve University. His scholarly interests include public institutional design and specialized courts, and he recently published an article on juvenile drug courts, When Good Intentions are Not Enough: Problem Solving Courts and the Impending Crisis of Legitimacy, SMU Law Review (Fall, 2004). Mr. Casey currently teaches the Criminal Justice Clinic.

Peter M. Gerhart
Professor
Former dean of the law school, Professor Gerhart teaches International Trade, International Business Transactions, and International Issues in Intellectual Property. He was a visiting scholar at the Centre for European Legal Studies at Cambridge University in England. His textbook on international financial law and policy is forthcoming.

Richard Gordon
Associate Professor
Associate Professor Richard Gordon teaches courses on business associations, corporate governance, financial sector integrity, and international and comparative taxation. Prior to coming to CWRU, Mr. Gordon practiced law at Dewey Ballantine (now Dewey & LeBoeuf) in Washington and taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, where he was a visiting lecturer in the law faculty, and the Harvard Law School, where he was Deputy Director of the International Tax Program. While at Harvard Mr. Gordon completed extensive field work on law and development in both Indonesia and rural India, and advised the government of Indonesia on the reform of tax, company, and securities laws. After leaving Harvard Mr. Gordon joined the staff of the International Monetary Fund where worked on a wide variety of issues, including public international law, governance, sovereign debt restructuring, and taxation. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001 he was appointed to the select IMF Task Force on Terrorism Finance and was a principal author of the report on the role of the IMF and World Bank in countering terrorism finance and money laundering. He is a principal author of the book Tax Law Design and Drafting (Aspen 2001) and the author of numerous scholarly articles and book chapters.

Jon Groetzinger
Visiting Professor
United States Director of the Canada-United States Law Institute
Jon Groetzinger is a Visiting Professor of Law and teaches courses in International Business Transactions, International Trade and Development, Business Associations for LL.M.’s and Doing Business in the U.S. He is U.S. National Director of the Canada-U.S. Law Institute and Associate Director of the Case Abroad at Home program. He founded and advises the Vis International Arbitral Moot team. Before becoming a full-time faculty member, Professor Groetzinger taught Case LL.M. candidates for more than a dozen years. With over 30 years of international business practice experience, he has served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of American Greetings, listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Prior to American Greetings, he was President and Chief International Counsel for international operations at aerospace giant Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin). He has also been CEO of other domestic and international businesses. Prior to becoming in-house counsel at Martin Marietta, Mr. Groetzinger practiced international corporate law in Boston. He has chaired national and regional General Counsel associations and appeared on TV and been quoted on international corporate matters in Forbes, USA Today, China Post, Times of India, ABC, CBS and NBC News, among other media.

Jessie Hill
Associate Professor
Professor Hill joined the Case faculty in 2003 after practicing First Amendment and civil rights law with the firm of Berkman, Gordon, Murray & DeVan in Cleveland. Before entering private practice, she worked at the Reproductive Freedom Project of the national ACLU office in New York, litigating challenges to state law restrictions on reproductive rights. She also served as law clerk to the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In Septemeber 2004, Professor Hill traveled to Dubai to train Iraqi lawyers in human civil rights law.

Sharona Hoffman
Professor of Law and Bioethics; Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center
Professor Hoffman is Associate Director of the Law-Medicine Center. She teaches the Health Care and Human Rights seminar. Prior to joining the law faculty in 1999, Professor Hoffman was a Senior Trial Attorney at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Houston, an associate at O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles, where she spent much of her time working on the Exxon Valdez oil spill case, and a judicial clerk for U.S. District Judge Douglas W. Hillman of the Western District of Michigan. In 2003, she taught as a visiting professor at University of Melbourne in Australia.

Raymond Ku
Professor; Co-Director of Center for Law, Technology and the Arts
Raymond Ku is Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Co-Director of Case's Center for Law, Technology and the Arts. He received his J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law where he was a Leonard Boudin First Amendment Fellow in the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, and his A.B. with Honors from Brown University where he was the recipient of the Philo Sherman Bennet Prize for the best political science thesis discussing the principles of free government. Professor Ku clerked for the Honorable Timothy K. Lewis, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He then practiced constitutional, intellectual property, and antitrust law with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, and First Amendment/media and intellectual property law with Levine Pierson Sullivan & Koch, L.L.P., both in Washington, D.C. He has taught at Cornell Law School, Seton Hall University School of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and St. Thomas University School of Law.

A prolific scholar, Professor Ku writes on legal issues impacting individual liberty, creativity, and technology. His articles appear in the law reviews and journals of Berkeley, Chicago, Fordham, Minnesota, Stanford, Tulane, Vanderbilt, and Wisconsin among others. Professor Ku is also the lead author of the first casebook devoted exclusively to the study of cyberspace law. He teaches Copyright Law, Constitutional Law, Property, and Copyright Law in the Digital Millennium (seminar).

Kenneth F. Ledford
Associate Professor of History and Law
Professor Ledford has a joint appointment with the School of Law and the Department of History. He is a leading scholar on the history of the German legal professions. He teaches European legal history, European legal professions, and European Union law. He was in Germany as a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow.

Judith P. Lipton
Professor; Co-Director of the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center
Professor Lipton was a social worker and a Legal Aid attorney. She helped establish the J.D./M.S.S.A. dual degree program and teaches Family Law and clinical courses. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary strategies for addressing domestic violence and the health needs of urban children.

Louise W. McKinney
Professor
Professor McKinney is a leader in African clinical legal education. She founded or developed clinic initiatives in Botswana, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya. She is a consultant for the American Bar Association African Law Initiative, the U.S. State Department, and several African law schools. She was a Fulbright Lecturer on clinic curricula at the University of Nairobi. She supervises students handling cases in the school's Immigration Law Clinic.

Spencer Neth
Professor
Professor Neth has worked with the judges of the Ukrainian High Court of Arbitration and served as a delegate to international conferences on computers in law schools.

Cassandra Burke Robertson
Assistant Professor
Prior to joining the faculty in 2007, Cassandra Burke Robertson clerked for the Texas Supreme Court and served as Assistant Solicitor General in the Office of the Texas Attorney General. She teaches Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility, International Civil Litigation, and Remedies, and she co-coaches the Niagara International Moot Court team along with Professor Bell. Her scholarship focuses on organizational theory and institutional choice, and her articles have appeared in the Washington Law Review, Tulane Law Review, and Connecticut Law Review, among others.

Calvin W. Sharpe
John Deaver Drinko Baker & Hostetler Professor; Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution
Professor Sharpe is a leading expert and author in labor arbitration. He has extensive involvement in South Africa, where he has lectured. He is Director of CISCDR (Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution), which often co-sponsors events with the Cox Center.

Gary J. Simson
Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law
Gary J. Simson, the Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law, joined Case School of Law as Dean in July 2006. He served in that capacity through the fall semester of 2008, when he returned to full-time teaching. Following his graduation in 1974 from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, he clerked for the Hon. J. Joseph Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Professor Simson began his teaching career at the University of Texas School of Law in 1975, was promoted to full professor in 1977, and joined the Cornell Law School faculty in 1980.

At Cornell he served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 1997-2000 and as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2000-04. Professor Simson has taught, and written extensively on, constitutional law and conflict of laws. His constitutional law scholarship in recent years has addressed such controversial issues as sex education, Supreme Court appointments, school vouchers, the death penalty and religion, and single-sex schools. He is also the author of a leading conflict of laws casebook now in its fourth edition and various articles in the field.