International Advisory Board
In 2001, a special advisory board was initiated to support the law school’s growing international programs. Colleagues from distinguished law schools and law practices around the world were invited to participate in various ways to enrich the international programs. From reviewing international program annual reports and offering advice about future direction, to serving as contact points and sources of information for both faculty and students, the diverse group of scholars adds resources and depth to our academic curriculum, scholarship efforts, and future program planning.
The inaugural members of this Advisory Board include the following distinguished scholars, with brief biographical information below:
Prof. Herbert Hausmaninger
University of Vienna, Austria
Prof. Ana Grammaticaki-Alexiou
University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Prof. Gabor Hamza
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Dean Haluk Kabaalioólu
Yditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
Sandra Keegan, Esq.
European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Prof. Hiroo Sono
Kyushu University, Japan
Prof. Obrad Stanojevic, Emeritus
University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Prof. Jeffrey Waincymer
Monash University, Australia
Professor Herbert Hausmaninger has been associated with Loyola College of Law’s international programs for more than a decade; he has taught European law at Loyola and was a co-founder of the law school’s Summer Legal Studies Program in Vienna in 1994. Since then, he has taught hundreds of Loyola law students in the first 10 years of this program at the University of Vienna. Hausmaninger specializes in Roman law, Russian law, and comparative law, and has published numerous books and articles in these fields. He is a former dean of the University of Vienna law faculty, and he regularly teaches at the University of Virginia Law School and other prominent universities in the United States and Europe.
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Professor Ana Grammaticaki-Alexiou is a professor of private international law in the Department of International Studies, College of Law, Economics and Political Science at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she is a member of the Committee of European Programs. She serves as Deputy President of the Committee of Private International Law of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is the National Coordinator of the European Master Program on Human Rights and Democratization based in Venice. She is currently the deputy president of the Greek delegation on civil law matters of the Greek Ministry of Justice during the Greek Presidency of the European Union in 2003 and is also a member of the scientific board of the Union for Democracy in the Balkans. Having represented Greece in many Hague Conferences of Private International Law, she has lectured extensively in Europe and in the United States and is the author of numerous books and articles dealing with the subject of conflict of laws and European Community law. Grammaticaki-Alexiou’s ties to Loyola stem back to 1991 when she was a visiting professor at Loyola College of Law, teaching courses in Conflict of Laws and the European Economic Community.
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Professor Gabor Hamza has visited and taught at Loyola numerous times over the past 10 years, and he co-founded the law school’s Summer Program in Budapest in 1990. Hamza is the chair of the Department of Civil Law at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, as well as department chair for the Center for European Studies. Hamza has taught or held research fellowships at many other universities in the United States and Europe. His specialities include Roman law and comparative law, and he has won honors for his publications in these fields. He is a member of the Commission on European Integration Affairs of the Hungarian Parliament.
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Dean Haluk Kabaalioólu has worked extensively with Loyola College of Law faculty and students, both in his role as dean of the law faculty at Yeditepe University and as special counsel to the Turkish delegation in Brussels. Loyola law professors have taught and taken sabbaticals at Yeditepe University in Istanbul, and future plans include developing more interchange between faculty and students of the two institutions. Kabaalioólu has also organized programs in Brussels for our students participating in the European Union seminar-tour. His specialities include European Union law and comparative law. Kabaalioólu founded and was the first director of the European Community Institute of Marmara University, where he founded the Marmara Journal of European Studies. He is presently the president of the Turkish Universities Association of EC Studies. He has lectured at more than 60 universities around the world, including the Centre for International Relations and Strategic Studies in Brussels, and has published six books and scores of articles.
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Sandra Keegan is a graduate of Loyola College of Law who has proven her loyalty to her alma mater in many ways. Keegan, as an official in the European Commission and a friend of Loyola, has been instrumental in organizing numerous programs for Loyola students in Brussels and at the law school in New Orleans. Through her efforts, a comparative symposium was presented at Loyola in 2002, featuring Justice David Edward of the European Court of Justice, community law expert Ian Forrester, and herself. In Brussels, she has annually welcomed the Loyola group every December at the start of the European Union seminar-tour. She has presented instructional programs on community law to the group, as well as offering good counsel to our faculty and students on many areas of European law studies and practice. Keegan presently serves as head of Legal Sector, Regulatory Policy Development Unit, Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission in Brussels.
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Professor Hiroo Sono, of the faculty of Kyushu University, is one of the top Japanese scholars in commercial law. He is a graduate of Hokkaido University and the University of Michigan Law School, and he was a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia College of Law. He is the general editor for CISG-Japan Database, and he has earned an
international reputation for his work in international commercial law.
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Professor Obrad Stanojevic is an Emeritus professor and former dean of the law faculty at the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He has been
associated with Loyola College of Law since 1990 when he visited the law school as a Fulbright Scholar. He has also taught at our law school as a visiting professor from 1994 to 1996, and he has taught in Loyola’s summer programs in Hungary, Mexico, and Russia. He specializes in Roman law, comparative law, civil law, and international law and has written extensively in these fields. He has lectured widely at numerous European universities.
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Professor Jeffrey Waincymer, is professor of law at Monash University, Australia, and co-director of the Australian Center for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Known internationally for his work in international trade law, he presently serves as a panelist of the World Trade Organization. A graduate of Melbourne and Monash universities, he was a professor of law at Deakin University before his present appointment.
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