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Susan Bisom-Rapp is a Professor of Law and Director of Thomas Jefferson School of Law's Center for Law and Social Justice. A widely cited expert on employment discrimination and international and comparative workplace law, Professor Bisom-Rapp's more recent writing on workplace globalization includes a pioneering study on the internationalization of American labor and employment law practice.

Her co-authored casebook, The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law - Cases and Materials (Cambridge University Press 2007), is the first law school text on the subject. She is a contributor to the recently published anthology, Diversity, Equality and Integration: Beyond the Law - A Comparative Study (Roger Blanpain, ed., Vanden Broele Publishers 2008).

Professor Bisom-Rapp is a member of the teaching faculty of the Doctoral Research School in Labour and Industrial Relations at the Marco Biagi Foundation, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. In 2007, she taught in Thomas Jefferson's Study Abroad in China Program at Zhejiang University's Guanghua College of Law in Hangzhou, China. In 2003, Professor Bisom-Rapp was Visiting Associate Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and she has taught at Seton Hall University School of Law and Baruch College (City University of New York).

She holds J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from Columbia University, where she was a Lawrence A. Wien Fellow and received a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Dissertation Grant. She earned a J.D. from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, from which she graduated Order of the Coif, and a B.S. from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Before beginning her academic career in 1996, Professor Bisom-Rapp practiced labor and employment law at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in New York City. Professor Bisom-Rapp was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2007.

Julie Greenberg is a Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Professor Greenberg is an internationally recognized expert on the legal issues relating to gender, sex, sexual identity and sexual orientation. Her path-breaking work on gender identity has been cited by a number of state and federal courts, as well as courts in other countries. Her work has been quoted in hundreds of books and articles and she has been invited to speak at dozens of national and international conferences on the subject. Her forthcoming book to be published by New York University Press will be the first book to address the legal issues relating to intersexuality.

Professor Greenberg joined the Thomas Jefferson faculty in 1990 and she was the Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 2003-2005. She serves on a number of nonprofit organizations' boards of directors and also has been involved in a variety of community service projects relating to the rights of women and sexual minorities. Professor Greenberg's work on behalf of LGBT rights was recognized by the San Diego LGBT organization in 2006 when it presented her with the "Friend of the Community" award. She also was voted by her peers as one of San Diego's Top Attorneys in Academics for 2006.

Linda Keller is a Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Professor Keller joined the faculty in the fall of 2003. After graduating from law school, where she was notes editor for the Yale Law Journal, she served as a clerk and supervisor in the Legal Research Office of the Connecticut Judicial Department. She then taught international human rights law and legal writing for four years at the University of Miami School of Law, where she also served as Fellow of the Center for the Study of Human Rights. She has published on international law and human rights in journals including the American University International Law Review.

Susan W. Tiefenbrun is a Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Global Legal Studies and Director of two LL.M. Programs in International Trade and Finance and in American Legal Studies for foreign lawyers at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. She is the founding director of the Nice Program and has directed it since 1993. As program director, Professor Tiefenbrun will be on site throughout the program, and available to advise and assist students with any problems that may arise.

Professor Tiefenbrun received an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin, a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a J.D. from New York University Law School. Her special interests are international law, corporate law, securities law, international intellectual property, and women and international human rights law. She speaks ten foreign languages and is fluent in French. Before attending law school, she taught French language and literature at Columbia University. Professor Tiefenbrun worked in a French law firm in Paris and in the New York office of Coudert Brothers, where she handled international commercial transactions.

She participated in the opening of one of the first American law offices in Moscow and is a specialist in eastern European joint venture laws, as well as the laws of the European Union, China and the former Soviet Union. She has written a book length study of Soviet laws and eastern European joint venture laws, and numerous articles on international intellectual property, the World Court and international human rights. She has edited three books on law and the arts, war crimes and legal ethics. She is Vice President of the Law & Humanities Institute. She is past coordinator of several bar association committees on Soviet Law and the Soviet American Banking Law Committee. Professor Tiefenbrun was made a member of the French Legion of Honor in 2003. She lectures in English, French and Russian on private international law transactions and international trade.