Susan W. Tiefenbrun received her J.D. from New York University Law School, a Ph.D with distinction from Columbia University, an M.A. and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin where she was Phi Beta Kappa as a junior and graduated magna cum laude. Professor Tiefenbrun is Director of the Center of Global Legal Studies at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and Director of the LL.M. Programs in International Trade and Investment and American Legal Studies for foreign lawyers. She was awarded the French Legion of Honor, France’s highest distinction, by Presidential Decree from the Republic of France on July 7, 2003. She was awarded for her service to legal education from the San Diego County Bar Association on April 3, 2004. She was appointed to the Book Awards Committee of the American Society of International Law in 2003 and re-appointed in 2004, and she has been a member of ASIL since l999. She was appointed Master and Scholar in Residence of the Oliver Wendell Holmes American Inns of Court in 2002. She is on the Executive Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association. Her special interests are international law, international business transactions, international intellectual property, international human rights law, and law and literature. She has written a book-length study of Soviet laws and Eastern European joint venture laws, numerous articles on international intellectual property and piracy, the World Court, ad hoc courts, and international human rights, as well as global sex trafficking. She has edited three books on law and the arts, war crimes and legal ethics. She is currently writing three books involving international human rights, semiotics and literature; free trade zones in the United States; and women and comparative human rights law. She is President of the Law & Humanities Institute West-coast Branch. She lectures in English, French and Russian on private international law transactions and international trade. Professor Tiefenbrun speaks ten foreign languages.

Judge Theodor Meron Since his election to the Tribunal by the U.N. General Assembly in March 2001, Judge Meron, a citizen of the United States, has served on the Appeals Chamber, which hears appeals from both the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Between March 2003 and November 2005 he served as President of the Tribunal. A leading scholar of international humanitarian law, human rights, and international criminal law, Judge Meron wrote some of the many books and articles that helped build the legal foundations for international criminal tribunals. A Shakespeare enthusiast, he has also written articles and books on the laws of war and chivalry in Shakespeare’s historical plays. Judge Meron served in the Israeli Foreign Service where his duties included that of Legal Adviser and the Ambassador to Canada and to the United Nations in Geneva. Since 1977, Judge Meron has been a Professor of International Law and, since 1994, the holder of the Charles L. Denison Chair at New York University Law School. In 2000-2001, he served as Counselor on International Law in the U.S. Department of State. Between 1991 and 1995 he was also Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and he has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard and at the University of California ( Berkeley). He received his legal education at the Universities of Jerusalem, Harvard (where he received his doctorate), and Cambridge. He was awarded the 2005 Rule of Law Award by the International Bar Association and the 2006 Manley O. Hudson Medal of the American Society of International Law. He was made Officer of the Legion of Honor by the government of France 2007. He received the Charles Homer Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies for 2008. In 2009 he was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His latest book “The Humanization of International Law” appeared in 2006 (Hague Academy of International Law and Nijhoff). A frequent contributor to the American Journal of International Law and other legal journals, he delivered the 2003 General Course of Public International Law at The Hague Academy of International Law.

Joy Delman is a Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of law. After graduating from Georgetown University Law Center, (where she was editor of the American Criminal Law Review ) she completed a judicial clerkship in Pennsylvania. Professor Delman then practiced at a large Philadelphia firm, specializing in medical malpractice litigation. Moving to San Diego, she joined the litigation department of the city’s largest law firm. She also served as general counsel to a medical products corporation, was a national lecturer for a bar review, sat on the Advisory Board of the Lawyer’s Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, and is a member of the American College of Legal Medicine. Professor Delman has been listed in Who’s Who in American Women. She writes and provides media commentary on legal medicine topics. In addition to Comparative Law, Medicine and Bioethics she teaches Torts I, Torts II and Health Care Liability.

Ilene Durst is a professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Her scholarly interests focus on language and narrative theory, with particular application to appellate advocacy, immigration law and the literary representation of the legal culture. She joined the faculty in 1994, after extensive litigation and immigration law experience with law firms and public service organizations in New York, a judicial clerkship with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, State of New York, and adjunct teaching at New York Law School and University of California, Irvine.

A. Thomas Golden began teaching at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 1976. He served as in-house counsel at the Whitaker Corporation, was an associate at a San Diego law firm, and ran his own civil litigation practice. He was assistant dean from 1986 to 1988. Professor Golden was the director of the school’s former foreign study programs and led legal study groups to Beijing, China, and Cambridge, England in 1986 and 1991 respectively. He has taught much of the civil law curriculum, including Contracts, Remedies, the Law of Democracy, and Antitrust. The Thomas Jefferson Student Bar Association Alumnus of the Year award is named in Professor Golden’s honor.