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Program Faculty
 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. |