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Frederick M. Abbott
Edward Ball Eminent Scholar
International Intellectual Property, International Trade Law, Global Regulation of Pharmaceuticals, International Business Transactions
fabbott@law.fsu.edu


Professor Abbott is highly regarded for his scholarship and professional activities in international intellectual property rights and global economic issues. He is Rapporteur for the Committee on International Trade Law of the International Law Association, and consultant to the UNCTAD-ICTSD Project on Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development, to the World Health Organization and to the World Bank. He is active as a dispute settlement panelist for the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center.

A former partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, he is one of the nation’s leading figures on issues concerning the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines. His latest coauthored book is International Intellectual Property in an Integrated
World Economy.

“This is an exciting and challenging time for international law as we confront critical needs in the areas of the environment and energy, public health, the international economy and security. We have terrific faculty resources in these areas, and we look forward to helping our students become effective global problem solvers.”

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Donna R. Christie
Elizabeth C. and Clyde W. Atkinson Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs

International Environmental Law, Jessup International Moot Court, Law of the Sea

dchristi@law.fsu.edu


A leading authority on international legal issues surrounding ocean and coastal management, Professor Christie developed and directs the Certifi cate Program in International Law and the LL.M. Program in American Law for Foreign Lawyers. She is the faculty advisor for the Jessup International Law Moot Court Team, the Journal of Transnational Law & Policy and the International Law Students Association. She also directs the Florida State Summer
Program in Law at Oxford and the law school’s international exchange programs and supervises Florida State externs at the International Bar Association in London.

“I love enriching the law school experience for students by advising a variety international law activities and supervising externs at the International Bar Association in London. Florida State is one of the few law schools in the world with dedicated externships at the International Bar Association.”

 

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Talbot 'Sandy' D'Alemberte
President Emeritus and Professor

International Human Rights, War Crimes Tribunals


President Emeritus D’Alemberte has won numerous awards, including the International Bar Association’s 2006 Rule of Law Award. He is a former president of the American Bar Association and, in that capacity, was co-founder of the Central and Eastern European Law Initiative. He also served as president of Florida State University from 1993 to 2003. He served as president of the American Judicature Society and was a member of the Florida
House of Representatives from 1966 to 1972.

“The College of Law can be very proud of its graduates who have distinguished themselves as international lawyers. Mark Ellis, the executive director of the International Bar Association, and Jim Bacchus, the former chair of the World Trade Court are but two examples.”

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Tahirih V. Lee
Associate Professor

China Trade Simulation, Chinese Law Seminar, Comparative Law, International Business Transactions

tlee@law.fsu.edu


Professor Lee is a leading U.S. scholar on Chinese law and legal history, having published numerous law review articles on China as well as a four-volume anthology on the law, history and economics of China. She has developed a course called “China Trade Simulation,” which connects Florida State students with students at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade through a software package that simulates international trade negotiations. She came to our faculty from the faculty at the University of Minnesota Law School.

“My scholarship on China helped me develop Florida State’s China Trade Simulation course. Connecting Florida State students with future trade offi cials in China and helping them through the paces of realistic trade negotiations gives my students unique insights into international law that they could not get from a book or lecture.”

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Fernando Tesón
Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar

Foreign Relations Law, International Human Rights, Public International Law, War and Intervention

fteson@law.fsu.edu

Professor Tesón has been hailed as a leading moral philosopher of international law. He
is known for his scholarship relating political philosophy to international law (particularly
his defense of humanitarian intervention) and his work on political rhetoric. He is the
author of a number of books, including Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law
and Morality and Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation (with Guido Pincione).
Before entering law teaching, Professor Tesón spent four years as a career diplomat for
the Argentina Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires. He resigned in 1981 in protest of human
rights abuses by the Argentine government.

“Students interested in international law need to understand the broader political, economic and philosophical context of international relations in an interdependent world.”

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Terry Coonan

Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights and Courtesy Professor of Law
Asylum and Refugee Law

As director of Florida State’s Center for
the Advancement of Human Rights,
Professor Coonan is an advocate for human rights nationally and internationally. He is most noted for his work on human trafficking.

Joseph Dodge

Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson Professor
International Tax Law


Professor Dodge is a leading authority on tax issues and has a special interest in international tax law.

Elwin J. Griffith
Tallahassee Alumni Professor
Immigration Law

Much of Professor Griffith’s scholarship focuses on immigration law. He also served for years as executive director of the Caribbean Law Institute, a major legal reform initiative in the Caribbean.

David L. Markell
Steven M. Goldstein Professor
North American Environmental Law and Policy


An expert on international environmental law, Professor Markell has co-edited a Stanford University Press book, Greening NAFTA, and served as director of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation citizen submissions process.


Justice Stanley A. Moore
Visiting Professor and Justice of Appeal of the Republic of Botswana
Comparative Constitutional Law, Public
International Law

Retired from serving as senior justice of the Supreme Court of the Bahamas, Northern Division, and as senior resident judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Justice Moore has become a regular visitor to our faculty.

Lesley Wexler
Assistant Professor
Laws of War, Public International Law

Professor Wexler’s recent writing focuses on the influences that international law can have domestically, even apart from formal national adoption, and on bringing to bear international norms to improve the status of migrants.