Faculty and Course Descriptions
Comparative Legal Systems is taught by Professor Herbert Hausmaninger of the University of Vienna College of Law and by Professor Patrick Hugg of Loyola College of Law. Hausmaninger is a former dean of the University of Vienna College of Law and is a regular visitor to the University of Virginia Law School. His specialties include Roman law, Russian law, and comparative law. Professor Patrick Hugg is the John McAuley Distinguished Professor and former Associate Dean of the Loyola Law School. He has taught and published in the fields of European Union Law, International Trade Law, Comparative Law, Federal Courts, and Appellate Advocacy. Professor Hugg is the director of the law school=s international programs, and has also spoken or taught in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, and Istanbul.
This course will present a comparative view of the legal traditions and institutions of the three countries as well as consideration of the common and civil law perspectives on law, legal education, and legal culture. Class instruction will be complemented by visits to the Austrian Parliament, the Austrian Constitutional Court, and the Austrian Supreme Court. This course satisfies Loyola University School of Law's Perspectives requirement.
Comparative Mental Health Law is taught by Brian Bromberger, Dean and the Judge Adrian G. Duplantier Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola. He was educated in his native Australia where he earned a bachelor of laws degree with honors at Melbourne University. He also completed an LL.M. degree at the University of Pennsylvania. He began his teaching career in law in 1969 and has taught or served as a visiting professor at law schools in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States including the University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, the University of Utah, and William and Mary College. He came to Loyola from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he had been associate dean for academic affairs and professor of law since 1995.
This course will explore current issues and trends in mental health law, including state treatment of the mentally ill, execution for capital crimes, involuntary committal procedures, and others.
Comparative Reproductive Bioethics and the Law is taught by Professor Kathryn Venturatos Lorio, the Leon Sarpy Professor of Law and a former Associate Dean at Loyola. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute, also serving as a member of the Marriage-Persons and Successions and Donations Committees of the latter. She is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a member of International Association of Comparative Law, has served as chair of the Section on Women and Legal Education of the Association of American Law Schools, and is currently Vice-Chair of the Louisiana Legislative Task Force on Assisted Conception and Artificial Means of Reproduction. She is author of numerous articles on family and estate law and is also the co-author of both a textbook and a treatise on Successions and Donations (Gifts and Estates). She has lectured on family law and successions issues both in the United States.
Assisted reproductive technologies present challenges to legal systems throughout the world. This course will explore the treatment by courts and legislative bodies of those issues, examining relevant historical and cultural differences of nations and the cumulative effect of those differences on the legal approaches taken.
International Courts and Tribunals is taught by Prof. Ursula Kriebaum who serves on the University of Vienna law faculty. She has taught international human rights law at the University of Vienna, the European Masters Programme in Human Rights and Democratization (Venice (Italy), Vienna (Austria)), the Austrian Federal Academy and for North West Council on Study Abroad. She has worked in the office of the legal adviser of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was legal expert in the team of the Austrian Special Envoy for Holocaust Restitution Issues. She was delegate to the UN Preparatory Committee for an International Criminal Court. She served as expert in an EU Twinning Project on the Improvement of Statement-taking Methods and Rooms in Turkey. She was nominated by the Austrian government as one of three candidates for the election of the Austrian judge to the European Court of Human Rights in 2007. From 1999 to 2002 she was Member of the Human Rights Advisory Board of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior nominated by Amnesty International.
This course will offer an introduction to the Courts and Committees supervising human rights treaties, International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, International Criminal courts and Tribunals, The International Court of Justice, and the GATT-WTO.
Comparative Human Rights is taught by Professor Richard Gamauf of The University of Vienna Law School. Gamauf serves on the University of Vienna law faculty, and has lectured on human rights in Loyola’s summer program for several years. He earned his Magister and Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. He also served as law clerk at the Austrian Constitutional Court.
Professor Gamauf is an Austrian human rights expert and he will lead students in comparison of American and European Union human right sources, principles, and enforcement.
International Environmental Law is taught by Professor Markus Puder an Associate Professor of Law at the Loyola University College of Law in New Orleans. His teaching and research interests include Comparative, Civil, and Roman Law; Environmental and Energy Law; and Public International Law and the Law of the European Union. He has previously been employed in the Environmental Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory (a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC), while holding lectureships at the Georgetown University Law Center and the George Washington University School of Law. He has taught and spoken at the Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, Germany), Universidade Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Bogaziçi Üniversitesi (Istanbul, Turkey).
This course introduces students to the vast and dynamic field of international environmental law. Students will focus on selected legal issues under general international and regional European frameworks. Our discussion topics will include Introduction to Terminology and Themes, Sources of Law under International and Regional Frameworks, State Responsibility and Private Remedies, Environmental Study and Planning for Facility Siting, Environmental Issues in the Nuclear Energy Debate, and Global Climate Change.
Introduction to International Copyright Law is taught by Dane Ciolino is the Alvin R. Christovich Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, New Orleans, where he teaches Copyright Law, Computer Law and related courses. Professor Ciolino practiced intellectual-property litigation in New York and New Orleans prior to joining the Loyola Law School faculty.
This course will cover the protection of copyrightable works of American authors in foreign countries and, conversely, the protection of copyrightable works of foreign authors in the United States. Among other topics, the course will consider the Berne Convention and the extent to which the law protects authors moral rights in America and elsewhere.
Core Issues in International European Corporate Law will taught by Fabian Krings and Christian Temmel. Fabian Krings is a lawyer with the international law firm DLA Piper in Vienna where he specializes in corporate law. He holds a BA in philosophy from the London School of Economics and is admitted to the bar in Munich, Germany, and as a European Lawyer in Austria.
Christian Temmel is a partner with DLA Piper specializing in corporate law, in particular in capital markets and corporate finance issues. He holds a doctorate from the University of Vienna, Austria, and an MBA from the University of Oxford, UK, and is admitted to the Vienna bar
This course will cover an introduction to Austrian, German and European corporate law and highlight the most important current legal issues that companies are facing in national and trans-national business, including relevant topics for US-corporations dealing in Europe.