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Fernanda A. Akamine
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Fernanda A. Akamine earned her LL.B. from Universidade de Sao Paulo in 1999 and passed the bar exam in 2000, becoming a member of Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil. Her first professional experience was at Tozzini, Freire, Teixeira e Silva Advogados, a top-notch international corporate law firm in Brazil, where she worked in the intellectual property department between 1998 and 2003, representing international clients during the Internet and M&A booms in Brazil. Afterwards, she was hired by a start-up company of Telecom Italia Mobile group, where she managed the company's intellectual property interests in all countries where the company did business. Before joining Stanford’s LL.M. program in Law, Science and Technology, Fernanda was working as attorney at Banco Itau, the second largest private bank in Brazil, drafting major IT and services agreements for companies of Itau Group and providing legal counseling in related areas. She has attended several courses in diverse areas such as Economics, Criminal Economical Law and Corporate Law. Instituto Ling, a Brazilian private foundation, granted her a partial merit-based scholarship to attend Stanford. Besides speaking her native language Portuguese, she is conversant in Spanish and proficient in French.
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Yonatan Arbel, a JSM candidate and a SPILS fellow at Stanford Law School, holds an LLB from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Summa Cum Laude, Salutatorian), with a joint degree focusing on Literature and Philosophy, via the elite Amirim honors program.
Prior to matriculating at Hebrew University, Yonatan spent four years serving as an officer in an elite reconnaissance unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. After finishing his service, he spent six memorable months backpacking through South America, leaving him with a lasting interest in Spanish literature and linguistics.
During his studies at Hebrew University, Yonatan was a teaching assistant for the courses of Criminal Law, Torts and Jurisprudence, where he instructed first and second year on those subjects. Yonatan also served for two years on the board of Mishpatim, Israel's foremost Law Journal and was an assistant editor of the Hebrew University's Public International Online Law Review.
Outside of his university studies, Yonatan conducted research for the Israeli Democracy Institute, ultimately publishing a book focusing on freedom of information legislation. Additionally, he worked for an Israeli NGO called the "Movement for Quality Government: and also for a special division in the Ministry of Interior, designed to fight corruption with executive, semi-judicial, tools. In his work there, Yonatan gave legal counsel and advice, and contributed to the Israeli effort to fight corruption.
Lately, Yonatan worked for a year as Chief Justice Aharon Barak's personal research assistant, during which he intensively explored comparative Constitutional Law. after that, Yonatan clerked for Supreme Court Justice Ayala Proccacia, researching Fundamental Rights structuring, Property Law, Contract Law and Constitutional Law. In his thesis, Yonatan plans to explore the basic structure and governing principles of Private Law.
In his spare time, Yonatan enjoys reading classical literature, Continental philosophy (and occasionally some Western), a good debate, hiking and jogging.
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Maria Rocha Barros holds an LL.B. from
University of São Paulo and a certificate in Trading in the
Financial Markets from the Business Institute Foundation. Since
2001, Maria has been specializing in corporate law and capital
markets transactions. Maria initially practiced for the law firm
Freitas e Leite Advogados, specializing in the structuring of mutual
and private equity funds. In 2004, she joined Levy & Salomão
Advogados, where she worked in the structuring of securitizations,
bond issuances and IPOs. In August 2004, she was one of the two
winners of the "V Paper Competition," sponsored by Brazil's
Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) and São Paulo's Stock
Exchange (BOVESPA), for her research paper on disclosure policies in
Brazilian Capital Markets. In November 2004, Maria won first prize
in a research paper competition sponsored by São Paulo's Stock
Exchange and the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/SP) for her paper
entitled "The Role of Securities Regulation in the Development of
Brazilian Capital Markets - Reflections on the Effectiveness of the
Securities Regulation System." In 2006, Maria was granted the
Fundação Estudar Scholarship to pursue her graduate studies at
Stanford Law School.
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Patrick Bauer
LLM CGP 2007
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Patrick Bauer is from Germany. He earned
his law degree at the University of Bayreuth and participated in the
supplementary program in business administration at the same
university. After two years of legal training at the superior court
in Duesseldorf and the law firm Hengeler Mueller, he passed the
national bar exam in 2003. Since then, he has practiced German law
as an associate at the German office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.
He has participated in several international securities offerings as
counsel to the underwriters or as counsel to the issuer and other
capital markets transactions. In addition, he has been involved in
mergers and acquisitions and counseled German public companies on
corporate and securities law
matters.
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Brenda Brito do Carmo
JSM 2008
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Brenda Brito do Carmo is from Belém, in Northern Brazil. She holds a Law Degree from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and is a member of the Brazilian Bar Association.
During 2007-2008, Brenda completed her Master of the Science of Law (JSM) at Stanford Law School. In her thesis “Can environmental agencies stop deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? An analysis in Mato Grosso state”, she studied how state and federal agencies were enforcing environmental laws in the State that is leader in deforestation in the Amazon. She is currently an Adjunct Researcher at Imazon (Amazon Institute of People and Environment), a non governmental organization in Belém, and the Executive Director of this institution for 2009-2010.
Brenda has focused her work on studies in the Brazilian Amazon forests about the enforcement of environmental laws and land administration. In addition, she is currently getting involved with climate change issues including REDD and reforestation in this region.
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Massimiliano Calabro
LLM CGP 2009
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In 2003 Massimiliano Calabro earned his degree in Law from Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi", Milan (Italy). In his third year at Law School, he completed a three-month internship at Trotter Studio Associato in Milan, an Italian firm providing legal, tax and accounting advice, where he practiced in the area of general corporate law. After graduation Massimiliano joined Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners (“GOGP”), a large Italian law firm. For four years (2003-2007), as a member of GOGP’s M&A group, he has advised domestic and multi-national corporations, private equity funds and investment banks on a wide range of M&A and capital market transactions. At the end of 2006, he passed the Italian Bar exam. In September 2007 Massimiliano joined Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy’s Global Corporate/M&A group in New York as visiting foreign associate until July 2008, in order to specialize further on different and new structures of M&A, private equity, and capital markets transactions. After earning his LL.M. degree Massimiliano is planning to sit for the New York Bar Exam in July 2009.
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Felipe Ribeiro da Luz Camara
LLM CGP 2008
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Felipe Camara is from Brazil and holds an LL.B. from the Law School of the University of São Paulo (USP) and a certificate of finance from the Business Institute Foundation, in association with USP’s Business School. Felipe initially worked, for 3 years, in a boutique corporate finance firm advising in Corporate Reorganization and M&A transactions. Following graduation, in early 2005, Felipe was hired as the first lawyer focused on Corporate Reorganization at Tozzini Freire Advogados, Brazil’s largest law firm. At Tozzini Freire he advised some of the main creditors in the three largest Corporate Reorganization cases in Brazil, Varig (US$ 4 billion), Parmalat (US$ 2.5 billion) and Vasp (US$ 3 billion), and the debtor in the fourth largest Corporate Reorganization case in Brazil, Bombril Holding (US$ 750 million), a subsidiary of Italian Cirio Group.
In addition, at Tozzini Freire, Felipe also worked with the publicly held companies practice where he advised some of Brazil’s largest publicly held companies in daily corporate matters, corporate restructurings and M&As, including the first attempted hostile takeover in the Brazil (US$ 2.5 billion). Felipe has lectured at several events regarding Brazil’s new Corporate Reorganization law, including those organized by entities such as the Brazilian Management and Turnaround Institute, affiliated to INSOL and ABI, and published articles on themes such as “Voting Rights in Creditors Meetings”, “DIP Financing”, “Liquidation as a Going Concern” and the Brazilian chapter on the yet to be published International Bar Association - IBA Takeovers Guide.
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Valentina Cassata
LLM CGP 2008
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Valentina Cassata, from Italy, graduated in 2001 with honors from the State University of Milan. Whilst at University she won an Erasmus scholarship to attend the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, for an eight-month program to study public and private international law and comparative commercial and private law. After graduating Valentina entered the legal profession joining Piergrossi Bianchini Eversheds, one of the leading international law firms in Italy, where she practiced commercial, IP, bankruptcy and corporate Italian law as well as international arbitration; she has also been involved in numerous cross-border transactions. Pursuing her interest for different legal systems, and the interaction between them, while at PBE, Valentina completed an internship in East Asia, working in the corporate departments of Eversheds associated offices in China, Malaysia and Singapore. In 2006 Valentina joined the Milan office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP where she is currently practicing commercial and corporate law, focusing on corporate finance and M&A, primarily with an international dimension. Valentina keeps her contacts with the academic world alive by delivering occasional lectures at Milan State University on International Trade. Valentina also co-authored the Italian chapter in “EU Banking and Insurance Insolvency” treaty published by Oxford University Press in 2006, the “Law of Europe” book edited by Eversheds LLP London (a comprehensive and straightforward guide to EU and European Domestic Law) and two multilanguage legal dictionaries (one English-Italian and the other French-English) in conjunction with the Eversheds London office. Valentina is admitted to the Italian Bar (Milan, 2004).
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Anna Chalova
LLM CGP 2008
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Anna Chalova is Russian and lives in the Czech Republic, where she earned her Master’s law degree at the Charles University in Prague. During her studies, she focused on Business Law and International Private Law and she is currently writing her dissertation on the related topic. During her studies, she has also attended one academic year at the Law Faculty of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where she focused her studies on European Law and International Dispute Resolution.
Anna was admitted to the Czech Bar Association in July 2007 after completing her 3 years compulsory legal training. During her legal career, Anna worked as an associate for a major Czech law firm of Havel & Holasek, associated legal advisor to Deloitte, and she currently works as an associate at the Prague office of Baker & McKenzie, LLP, where she is a member of the Banking & Finance Practice Group. Anna has advised clients on various M&A transactions, in particular acquisition projects, acquisition financing, and project financing transactions. Anna participated in several major M&A transactions in the Czech Republic including the largest private equity transaction ever, where she acted for the selling party. In addition, Anna has extensive experience in corporate law, Czech business law and Czech capital market law. Anna is a native speaker in Russian and Czech and is fluent in English and Slovak.
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José Mauro earned his LL.B. from the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC/SP) in 1999 and in 2000 passed the Brazilian bar exam. In 2004 he earned a Master of Laws degree in PUC/SP in Civil Procedure as was approved with maximum grade, receiving all the credits necessary to complete the Ph.D. course at the same university. Since 1997 José Mauro works in Pinheiro Neto Advogados, one of the most traditional Brazilian law firms. He was hired as attorney in 2000 and currently is a senior associate, working with litigation and corporate matters related to Intellectual Property and general practice. During 2007/2008 José Mauro worked in Fulbright & Jaworski LL.P. (Houston, TX) as an international associate, focusing on corporate and litigation matters. Besides the career as a lawyer, he is a Professor of the Superior School for Lawyers (ESA), of the Brazilian Bar Association (São Paulo Section) and author of the books “Injunctions on Industrial Property cases - designs, patents and trademarks”(Brazil, 2007), and “Pharmaceutical Advertising” (Brazilian chapter, published in 2005, 2006 and 2008 in London, UK). José Mauro is also author of several articles published in Brazil and abroad and participates in courses and seminars organized by universities and associations in general. He is fluent in Portuguese (native), English and proficient in Italian and French.
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Mauricio Duce
JSM 1999
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Mauricio Duce, Lawyer from Diego Portales University in Santiago-Chile (1992), Juridical Sciences Master`s from Stanford University (1999). Professor and researcher at Diego Portales School of Law (tenure since 1996) (I teach: Criminal Procedure, Due Process and Trial Advocacy), Director of the Center for Juridical Research at Diego Portales Law School from September 2000 to October 2002 and between June 2006 and March 2007. Executive Director of the Master Program in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Diego Portales Law School (since 2004). I have won twice Fulbright Scholarship in 1998 and 2002 and also once Presidente de la República Scholarship (1998). I have also been Visiting Professor at Pacific McGeorge Law School in Sacramento teaching a one credit course on “Comparative Criminal Procedure”(March 2006 and February 2007). I also have made research visits to Wisconsin Law School, Yale Law School and Berkeley (Center for the Studies of Law and Society in 2002 and 2003).
Since 1992 I have been deeply involved in the process for the reform of the criminal justice system in Chile from my position at the University and advising governmental and non-governmental organizations in the field. Between 1994-1995 I was member of a 4-persons team preparing the draft of the new Criminal Procedural Code as well as the other statutes required to reform the Chilean Criminal Justice System. After that I was a member of the task force that participate in the design and implementation of the new system (from 1996 to 2000). Since then I have been working in training judges, prosecutors and public defenders and also working in the evaluation of the new system.
Currently I am also share my time working as Training Coordinator of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) where I design and implement training programs to improve the work of the criminal justice systems in different countries in Latin American. JSCA is an international organization of the InterAmerican system that enjoys technical and operational autonomy. It was created in 1999 by the institutions of the InterAmerican System and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile. The members of JSCA are the active member states of the Organization of American States (OAS). Its main role is to support judicial reforms in the Americas.
I have published several books and articles about criminal procedure and criminal justice reform in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Perú, Venezuela, US. and China.
Interview with Maricio about his Stanford experience was published in Qué Pasa, Edición Especial, Año V/Julio 2007, pp. 14
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Evan Epstein
LLM CGP 2005
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Evan Epstein, from Chile, holds a BA and a law degree (LL.B.) (cum laude, 2002) from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and an LL.M. degree in Corporate Governance and Practice from Stanford Law School (2005). In addition, Evan was part of the exchange program “Cycle du Diplome” at Sciences-Po, in Paris, France (2001). Evan has also lectured on project finance at Universidad de Chile Law School and received maximum distinctions for his thesis on public-private partnerships in Chile.
Evan is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Girvan Institute of Technology, a CA non-profit corporation chartered in 2002 to facilitate the transfer, development and commercialization of technologies and to foster the growth of early-stage high-tech companies.
Prior to joining Girvan, Evan was a Silicon Valley research analyst with Global Venture 100, a UK-based venture capital and private equity research and analytics start-up company. Prior, Evan was an associate with Morales, Noguera, Valdieso & Besa, a leading Chilean corporate law firm and an intern (stagiaire) with Allen & Overy’s Latin America Projects Group in Paris, France (2001).
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Carmelo Fontana
LLM LST 2008
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Carmelo Fontana, from Italy, earned his law degree summa cum laude from the University of Rome “Luiss Guido Carli” in March 2003 and was awarded the highest honours for his final thesis on The Partial Assignment of Contract. Following his graduation, Carmelo worked as trainee within Prof. Confortini’s Law Firm as well as contract law teaching assistant at University of Rome “La Sapienza”. In November 2004, Carmelo joined as a lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where he dealt with various corporate deals, corporate litigations, IP litigations, international transactions and restructuring. Throughout these years, Carmelo attended a Ph.D. in Consumer and Market Law at University of Roma “Roma Tre”, where he focused on the Circulation of the Trademark and Consumer protection. In March 2007, Carmelo joined the European Commission Legal Service where he participated in various infringement proceedings brought by the EC against the Member States in relation to EU market regulation, insurance law, advertising, broadcasting and information society.
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Carlos H. Gamez
LLM LST 2007
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Carlos H. Gamez, from Monterrey, Mexico,
earned his law degree summa cum laude from the Facultad Libre de
Derecho de Monterrey on February 2003 and was awarded highest honors
by the examining board during his professional dissertation on the
Grey Market in Mexican Intellectual Property Law. Carlos was the
first student from his Law School to gain admission as a visiting
student to the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he developed his
interest for IP Law. He also became the first student to clerk for
the Northern Regional Office of the Mexican Trademark Office in
Monterrey. After graduation, Carlos joined the Intellectual Property
Department at the Mexico City offices of Basham, Ringe y Correa,
S.C, one of Mexico’s oldest and leading international law firms.
While working there, he was invited by his law school to deliver a
speech at the 2003 degree awarding presentation and later, as a
lecturer on Legal Writing courses. Since March 2004 he has been
working as head of the Intellectual Property practice of the
Monterrey office of the firm where he is involved in IP prosecution,
consulting, contracts and litigation procedures for domestic and
international clients. Carlos co-chairs the Nuevo Leon group of the
Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
(Mexican group of AIPPI), focusing in the promotion of legal
education and working on statutory reforms regarding IP
law.
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David Gantz
JSM 1970
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David A. Gantz is Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law and Director of the International Trade and Business Law Program at the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law in Tucson, Arizona, and serves as Associate Director of the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade. He is a graduate of Harvard College (AB 1964) and Stanford Law School (JD 1967, JSM, 1970). David served with the U.S. Agency for International Development law reform project in Costa Rica and as a law clerk with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. At the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, from 1970-1977, he was the chief lawyer responsible for Inter-American affairs. From 1977-1993, he practiced international trade and corporate law in Washington, D.C. David joined the law faculty at Arizona in 1993. He has served as a binational panelist under the dispute resolution provisions of the CFTA and NAFTA and has written extensively on NAFTA, NAFTA and WTO dispute resolution, regional trade agreements, foreign bribery and other international trade, investment and environmental law issues. He and his wife, Cate, travel frequently. They spend much of their free time sailing out of Annapolis, MD.
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Dina Hashish (Cairo, Egypt) obtained her LL.B. from Cairo University in 2005. She holds an LL.M. from the American University in Cairo and was awarded the Delegata Scholarship as part of the Building Bridges Initiative to attend the last semester of her LL.M. at University of the Pacific- McGeorge School of Law. She wrote her LL.M. thesis on Insider Trading Regulations in Emerging Markets; The Case of Egypt. Since 2005, Dina has been working as a corporate associate with Baker & McKenzie LLP, Cairo office. In March 2006, she joined the Securities Practice Group of the firm in order to specialize further on capital market law advice, public debt and equity offerings as well as general corporate advice. She has been involved in different initial public offerings, private placements and bond issuance such as that of a major real estate company in Egypt (US$285 million) and that of the largest independent steel producer in the Middle East (LE 1.1 billion). In March 2008, Dina was selected and appointed as a prosecutor in the prosecution office of the Egyptian Council of State (Conseil d’Etat). Dina joins Stanford’s LL.M. program in Corporate Governance & Practice as a Citadel Capital Scholarship Foundation scholar.
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Mads Ilum
LLM CGP 2008
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Mads Ilum earned his Master of Laws degree from Aarhus University
School of Law (Denmark) in 2002. After graduation he took a job with
DLA (Copenhagen) with special focus on M&A, private equity and venture
capital. In January 2005 he moved to Plesner's (Copenhagen) Corporate
Finance group in order to specialize further within M&A, private
equity and capital markets. Since his graduation in 2002, Mads has
been involved in numerous domestic and international transactions.
Mads graduated from Stanford Law School in 2008 (LL.M. in Corporate
Governance) and will from June 2008 for a period of 6-12 months be
working in Fenwick & West's M&A group in Silicon Valley. By writing
articles and teaching corporate law, Mads has tried to keep in touch
with the academic world of law and has thus inter alia had 5 articles
published in legal and financial journals in Denmark, and has for a
number of years worked as a part-time lecture in corporate law at the
Copenhagen Business School. The titles of Mads's most recent published
articles are: (i) Acquisition Finance - Debt Push Down, (2007); (ii)
The Duties and Liabilities of the Board of Directors in Connection
With a Public Take-Over Bid, (2006); (iii) Compulsory Redemption of
Minority Shareholders - Redemption Models, Statutory Authority and
Practical Matters Regarding the Assessment, (2005); (iv) The European
Company - Societas Europaea, (2004); and (v) Corporate Governance in
Public Corporations, (2004).
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Monika Jedrzejowska
LLM LST 2008
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Monika Jedrzejowska from Montreal, Canada, received a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Universite de Montreal in 2003 and graduated with a mention of excellence. During her studies, Monika spent one semester in Belgium, at Universite Catholique de Louvain, studying European Union Law. In the summer of 2002, Monika joined, as a student, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, a major Canadian law firm that practices nationally and internationally from offices in Montreal, Toronto, New York and Paris. Monika was called to the Quebec Bar in 2004. As a lawyer specializing in corporate and commercial law at Davies, Monika represented clients in connection with a number of matters, including real estate transactions, domestic and international mergers and acquisitions and financings, in addition to advising businesses active in various industry sectors (retail, manufacturing, real estate, etc.) on the requirements of doing business in Quebec. Monika's practice spanned several areas of the law, including intellectual property law. Monika notably developed an expertise over the years in cyberspace regulation, acting on behalf of a number of clients in disputes over domain names and infringement of trademarks over the Internet. Monika is fluent in Polish, French and English.
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Eun Hyun Kim
LLM LST 2005
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Eun Hyun Kim, from Korea, earned his LLB and MPA from Kookmin University in Seoul and an LL.M. degree in Law, Science & Technology from Stanford Law School (2005). In 1989, he joined Samsung Electronics as a founding member of its legal department when corporate legal departments did not exist in manufacturing companies in Korea. After 10 years of legal experience at Samsung, he was recruited by Microsoft to be the primary legal contact for its Korean subsidiary. He proceeded to set up a legal team and run it for five years, handling corporate legal issues ranging from anti-trust and litigation to National Assembly hearings and contract negotiation. In addition, he enthusiastically participated in both academic and industry activities outside of the company and held several chair/director positions in industry associations. Serving as the chairman of Korea Committee of the Business Software Alliance (a nonprofit worldwide trade organization active in 65 countries) for three years, Eun Hyun played an important role as the industry representative in the shaping of government policies regarding the Internet and software industries and the legislation of the related laws in Korea. Returning from Stanford, he resumed his work at Microsoft Korea and is currently leading its Strategy and Coordination Office as managing director.
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Sandeep Kindo
JSM 2008
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Sandeep Kindo is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Director (Center for Human Rights Studies) at the Jindal Global University Law School in Delhi NCR, India. Sandeep was raised in Jharkhand state in mid-northeast of India, and studied law at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore. As a Ford Foundation International Fellow with advanced degrees in law from Notre Dame and Stanford, Sandeep Kindo has had diverse career experiences. While at Stanford, he also worked as a Research Analyst at the Economics Department. Besides serving on the faculty of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (2006-2007), in 2003-09, he lived in the US and worked with human rights and international development organizations, as well as immigration law firm. Sandeep worked with Cultural Survival, Inc. in Cambridge MA and the Ford Foundation’s International Fellowship Fund Inc. at the Institute of International Education in New York City, NY. In the past, he has also worked as a human rights lawyer in Jharkhand in India (2001-2002). His academic interests lies in the areas of human rights, international law, public law, and law and society. |
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Christian Laux
LLM LST 2007 |
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Christian Laux, of Switzerland, studied law
at the Universities of Zurich (Switzerland) and Paris (France) and
graduated from the University of Zurich. After his studies he worked
as a research and teaching assistant in the fields of Copyright law
and Sociology of Law (with Prof. Dr. Manfred Rehbinder, University
of Zurich). Christian took his doctoral degree in 2002. His Ph.D.
thesis describes the rules governing the Interpretation of
Copyright-related contracts ("Vertragsauslegung im Urheberrecht",
published in "Schriften zum Medien- und Immaterialgüterrecht", Berne
2003). In his daily practice as an attorney in Switzerland he
focuses on IP matters and Public Procurement Law. Christian has
authored a number of articles related to Open Source Software and
Open Content issues and regularly presents on this topic. He is
co-founder of Openlaw Plattform für Recht und Freie Software,
a Swiss institute dedicated to the legal aspect of Open Source
Software and Open Content in Switzerland and is responsible for the
implementation of Creative Commons licensing system in Switzerland.
Christian is fluent in German, English and French, and speaks
Russian.
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Dong Li (Connie)
LLM CGP 2008 |
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Dong Li is from mainland China, and is currently an associate with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in Shanghai. She holds LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from Fudan University. She was qualified in China in 1998 and started her practice with a top tier local law firm in 2001. Dong Li joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges Shanghai Office in 2004. She has been involved in various domestic and cross-boarder corporate and financing transactions and her current practice focuses on M&A and foreign direct investment in China. Her most recent projects include acquisitions of Chinese assets by multinational companies, restructuring and disposition of Chinese material business by a U.S. based company and a joint venture between a local Chinese state-owned steel company and a U.S. company.
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Edwin Tze Wai Li
LLM CGP 2007 |
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Li Tze Wai, Edwin, born in Hong Kong,
graduated from The University of Hong Kong with the degree of
Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 1997 and was awarded Postgraduate
Certificate in Laws (PCLL) with Distinction in 1998. He was admitted
as a solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong in 2000 and was
admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of the Supreme Court of England
and Wales in 2001. Edwin joined the Hong Kong office of Baker &
Mc.Kenzie (a world-renowned international law firm) in 1998, and
relocated to the Firm’s Beijing representative office in January
2005. He practices in the areas of commercial and corporate law,
focusing on corporate finance and securities practice and mergers
and acquisitions (M&A), mostly with a Chinese dimension. Since
qualification, Edwin has had experience in a wide range of Hong Kong
corporate finance projects, and has handled various transactions
involving listed companies and assists enterprises in their
restructurings and fund-raising activities. He has been actively
involved in a number of domestic and/or global share offerings,
including several major initial public offerings (IPO) and Hong
Kong/New York dual-listings as well as pioneer deals and
prestigious, award-winning transactions completed in recent years.
Through deal execution, Edwin has become familiar with practices of
Hong Kong securities regulators, and specializes in advising listed
issuers (including Chinese issuers) and investment banks on
continuing regulatory compliance matters. Further, Edwin has also
taken part in certain cross-border M&As, venture capital/private
equity deals and different share or asset sale transactions.
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Martin Liebi
LLM CGP 2007
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Martin Liebi, of Zurich (Switzerland),
wrote his Ph.D. thesis about „hybrid capital“ at the University of
Zurich (2005-2006). In 2004, he was admitted to practice in Switzerland. He graduated from the University
of Fribourg (Switzerland) among the top 3 % of his peer age group
(2001). From the very same University he also received a degree in
European Law and won several prices. He also holds a law degree from
the University of Leiden (NL) and a diploma from the Swiss Tax
Academy. During his studies he served as a teaching and research
assistant for two professors and was an academic community
representative. Before completing his Ph.D. thesis, he was an
associate with the largest Swiss law firm, LENZ & STAEHELIN,
Zurich, in the field of corporate law and corporate tax law
(2003-2005). He is skilled in general corporate matters,
cross-border M&A transactions, leveraged buyouts, private equity
deals, international tax planning and tax compliance on behalf of
major (inter)national corporate clients. His last deal was the sale
of the second largest Swiss insurance company to a foreign insurance
conglomarate. Martin Liebi served as a Judicial Clerk under Judge
Blattler at the District court of Bulach/Zurich (2002-2003). In this
position, he mainly handled the bankruptcy of the Swiss national
airline carrier. He also worked as a law clerk with BAKER &
McKENZIE, Zurich, and facilitated a wide array of transactions and
claims in the areas of Corporate, Contract, Bankruptcy and
International Private Laws (2001-2002). He regularly publishes
articles about current issues in company
law.
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David J. Lisson
JSM 2007
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David Lisson is from Toronto, Canada. He
received his J.D. (Hons.) and the Bronze Medal from the University
of Toronto, Faculty of Law. He has also received an M.A. in
Political Science (International Relations) from the University of
Toronto and a B.A. in History (cum laude) from Yale University.
While in law school David served on the editorial board of the
University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review with primary
responsibility for articles relating to constitutional law. He
worked as a summer intern with Human Rights First and as a summer
associate in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He
is also a contributing author to published reports on civil rights
and civil liberties in the post-9/11 environment and the illegality
of extraordinary rendition under international and domestic criminal
law. After completing his law degree, David served as a law clerk to
the Honourable Justice Ian Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada.
David received the John Peters Humphrey Fellowship from the Canadian
Council on International Law. As a SPILS fellow, he will be
examining the crime of genocide under international criminal
law.
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Stuart Loh
LLM LST 2009 |
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Stuart Loh is from Sydney, Australia. He holds, from the University of New South Wales, a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology with first class honors and a Bachelor of Laws, graduating in the top 5% of his class. While at university, he was on the editorial board of the UNSW Law Journal, served as IT Director of the UNSW Law Society (the peak representative body for the university’s 2,000+ law students) and interned at the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law & Policy Center. Stuart also holds a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.
Stuart is qualified to practice law in New South Wales, Australia and has worked for about three years at Mallesons Stephen Jaques, a top-tier Australia-based international commercial law firm. During his time at Mallesons, Stuart worked in both the Intellectual Property & Technology and Banking & Finance groups, primarily on local and cross-border transactional and advisory matters, practicing a mix of technology, intellectual property, finance, insolvency and general commercial law. Stuart also has experience working in various large organizations in non-legal information technology roles.
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Giovani R. Loss
LLM CGP 2007 |
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Giovani Loss, from Brazil, holds a Bachelor
of Laws (LL.B.) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG
and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of São Paulo – USP.
During his LL.B., Giovani attended several courses at the School of
Economics of the UFMG and in national contests he was selected to
join the summer programs of the Administrative Council of Economic
Defense – CADE and also of the Economic Law Office of the Ministry
of Justice – SDE. In addition, he was awarded in national papers
competitions sponsored by the IBRAC, Brazil’s scholarly body devoted
to the study of antitrust law, and by the IGA-IDEPE, the most
prestigious entity of studies in tax law in Brazil. During his
LL.M., Giovani studied half of his credits at the Institute of
Electrotechnical and Energy of the USP, an institute specialized in
the engineer of energy in a graduate level, where he was the first
lawyer to study. Also, he received an award, at the IV Brazilian
Congress of Energy Planning, where he was the first lawyer to
present a paper. Following this, Giovani received the Ling Institute
Scholarship to pursue the LL.M. at Stanford Law School. Giovani is
currently one of the five Directors of the Brazilian Institute for
Studies of Energy Law – IBDE, the most important Brazilian entity of
research on energy law and also a chamber of arbitration specialized
in energy cases. Giovani’s professional experience as lawyer
includes three years of practice at Pinheiro Neto – Advogados, the
most renowned Brazilian law firm, in mergers and acquisitions,
finance, anti-trust and international business transactions in a
range of industries. Also, six months of secondment experience at
AES Corporation in Brazil, during the renegotiation of debts before
the Brazilian Development Bank – BNDES. In addition, two years of
experience at Thompson & Knight LLP working in mergers and
acquisitions, project finances, regulatory issues and international
business transactions for energy clients all over South America and
in Africa.
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Vidar Ludviksson, of Iceland, earned his
5-year Candidatus Juris degree from the University of Iceland in
1997. During his final year at law school he participated in an
international exchange program with Aarhus University (Denmark).
Vidar was admitted to the national Bar in 1998 as a District Court
Attorney and in 2004 as a Supreme Court Attorney. Since his
graduation Vidar has worked for Landslog – Law Offices, as a partner
from 2003 and as managing partner from 2005. Vidar has provided
legal counsel for the Icelandic Government on negotiations with
foreign corporations, such as ALCOA, regarding their development of
large scale industry in Iceland and dealt with environmental impact
assessment issues. He has provided Icelandic legal counsel for
Citigroup (as underwriter) in major 144A Program Offerings in
Iceland, advised the National Power Company, ministries and
municipalities in Iceland, and handled trials and legal affairs for
a number of large companies, including the country’s largest
construction corporation, the countries largest hardware chain and
the country’s leading pharmaceutical retailer. Recently Vidar
completed his final proposals for the improvement of the Icelandic
hygienic administration at the request of the Icelandic Ministry of
Environmental Affairs. Vidar has tried around 50 cases before the
courts of Iceland concerning a variety of issues, such as the
constitutional rights of individuals and official bodies, gender
based discrimination against an employee, various civil issues,
manslaughter and more. He has lectured at the main three
universities in Iceland, primarily on the Law of Tort and “Practical
Contract Law”. In addition, Vidar has written articles on various
legal matters and was elected board member of Amnesty International
(Icelandic Section) from 2000 until
2004.
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Claudio Magliona
LLM LST 2003 |
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Claudio Magliona has an extensive practice in corporate and financing, technology law, intellectual and industrial property and entertainment law, including corporate structures, mergers and acquisitions, financing and syndicated loan agreements, licensing and software development agreements, franchising, data protection, computer crimes and film distribution, production and financing. Mr. Magliona also handles government relations, policy and enforcement issues affecting the copyright industries.
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Rodrigo Marcilio
LLM CGP 2008 |
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Rodrigo Marcilio is from São Paulo, Brazil. He earned his LL.B. from University of São Paulo (USP), and in addition completed a specialization in Corporate Law at Fundação Getúlio Vargas. In 2006, he also earned an LL.M. in commercial law from USP, where he was approved 'cum laude' and had his dissertation entitled "Mandatory Tender Offer as a Result of Transfer of Control" officially recommended for publication. Rodrigo initially practiced as a lawyer for Machado, Meyer, Sendacz & Opice Advogados (MMSO), focusing in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate finance and securities practice. In 2005, Rodrigo joined Pinheiro Guimarães – Advogados, where he handled various M&A deals, such as the US$2 billion multi-step corporate reorganization of Credicard and the acquisition of Companhia de Cimento Ribeirão Grande by Votorantim. He has also been actively involved in a number of high-profile capital markets transactions, including the IPO of Lojas Renner, the first initial public offering of a Brazilian company resulting in dispersed shareholding ownership in the Brazilian market and which was named the "Equity Deal of The Year" by International Financial Law Review, in 2005, and the IPO of Santos-Brasil and Camargo Corrêa Desenvolvimento Imobiliário. During 2008/2009, Rodrigo worked as Visiting Lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, working in the Latin America group in project finance, capital markets and M&A transactions. In 2009, Rodrigo re-joined Pinheiro Guimarães – Advogados, as a partner. Rodrigo is qualified both in Brazil and in New York and has recently been considered one of the Brazilian rising talents in his area by a specialized Brazilian publication.
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Naoko Matsuzaki
LLM LST 2008 |
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Naoko Matsuzaki, from Japan, is a legal advisor at Hitachi, Ltd., a leading IT/electronics company in Japan. After earning a law degree (LL.B.) from Keio University, she joined the international legal department at NSK Ltd., the world’s second largest bearing manufacturing company. At NSK, she managed bi-annual US anti-dumping proceedings, by compiling theoretical responses with US attorneys and playing a major role at verifications conducted by the US Department of Commerce. In 2002, Naoko joined Hitachi as an exclusive legal advisor in one of Hitachi’s largest divisions handling servers, supercomputers and related computer devices. She analyzes and evaluates business legal issues with US attorneys, and provides legal suggestions to Hitachi executives. In addition, she leads contract negotiations with cutting-edge US corporations on strategic alliance projects regarding computer products and services. She was the first-ever female and first-ever law school applicant sponsored by her division in its 45 years history. Naoko was also featured in a leading Japanese business magazine for her professional achievements as well as her excellent command of English skills.
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Charlotte van Meer
LLM CGP 2007
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Charlotte van Meer is from The Netherlands.
She graduated from the Law School of Leiden University in 2003.
During her years at university she was elected to the board of her
student union (2000 members) and she founded a company which
produced advertising placemats. After graduating, she accepted a
position as associate at The Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, the leading
independent Dutch law firm. De Brauw specialises in providing
high-end legal advice in business transactions and commercial
litigation for domestic and international companies and for
governmental bodies. Charlotte is focusing on corporate and
securities law. Her work in the practice areas of corporate and
securities law provided her with an exposure to complex
transactional, advisory and litigation work. Charlotte has, for
example, been involved in the unification of Royal Dutch Shell and
Shell Transport to one parent company, Royal Dutch Shell plc, which
transaction was completed on 20 July
2005.
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Qian Meng, from China, obtained her LL.B degree from Fudan University in 2002. She passed the PRC National Bar Exam in 2003 and she holds China’s legal profession qualifications. Qian is currently an associate with Allen & Ovey LLP (A&O), Shanghai Office, specializing in M&A, foreign direct investment, general corporate and real estate transactions. Qian has advised many clients including major multinational companies on cross-border corporate and financing transactions. Her most recent deals include the restructuring of a US company’s business in China, which constitutes part of the company’s global restructuring.
In 2005, Qian was seconded to A&O Beijing Office for six months where she strengthened her knowledge on PRC regulatory issues. From October 2006 to September 2007, Qian was on secondment to Allen & Overy London head office for one year, where she worked on real estate acquisition deals in Europe (both asset acquisitions and share acquisitions). Most recently, She has completed a client secondment to Credit Suisse (Hong Kong) Limited (Credit Suisse) for three to four months. At Credit Suisse, she was with the legal department in charge of private equity business stream and she assisted private equity funds in making investments in China and some other jurisdictions in Asia.
Before joining Allen & Ovey LLP, Shanghai Office in 2004, Qian had worked for DLA Piper Shanghai Office and a top-tier local law firm in Shanghai.
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Mahdev Mohan from Singapore earned his LL.B from the National University of Singapore. At law school, Mahdev was the Deputy Chief Editor of the Singapore Law Review and was ranked as one of the top individual oralists at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Championships in Washington DC. Upon graduating, Mahdev clerked at the London offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer, where he assisted on commercial and human rights litigation before the English Courts. He returned to Singapore to serve as a military prosecutor with Singapore’s Ministry of Defence and later joined the litigation & dispute resolution department of Drew & Napier LLC, where he worked on a range of contentious and advisory matters. Last year, Mahdev was appointed as a regional partner by UC Berkeley’s War Crimes Studies Center. Based in Phnom Penh for 6 months, he was tasked with overseeing the Center’s legal outreach and victim participation projects in connection with the trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders accused of heinous crimes that have claimed more than 2 million lives in Cambodia. Mahdev has been accepted by the Cambodian Bar Association to represent victims before the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. As a SPILS Fellow, Mahdev plans to conduct research on the paradoxes inherent in humanitarianism and ways to grant victims of mass crimes access to the international criminal justice process. Mahdev is a Fulbright Scholar and a lecturer of law at the Singapore Management University.
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Maria Esmeralda Moreno
LLM LST 2007
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Maria Esmeralda Moreno from Paraguay,
earned her law degree (J.D.) at the Catholic University “Nuestra
Señora de la Asunción,” Asunción, Paraguay, in the year 2004, where
she graduated as Top Graduate (Valedictorian) and earned an Award
for Outstanding Academic Achievement. After obtaining her law
degree, she traveled to Spain, to the University of Salamanca, for a
graduate course in the area of Private Law (International Commercial
Contracts). As a student, she was member of the Editorial Board of
the Law School’s Law Review, the most important and prestigious
local legal publication of its kind. She has published several legal
articles on local and Argentinean publications, one of them
(Assignment of Contracts), earned the first prize in the Law Review
Competition for Leading Essay by a student. She is Assistant Law
Professor of Civil Law, in the Catholic University of Asuncion. She
obtained a Certificate on Political Sciences of the University of
Bologna, and participated on important international seminars and
conferences. She is a junior lawyer at Moreno Ruffinelli &
Asociados, a leading Paraguayan law, where she provides legal
counseling to several national and international companies, mostly
in the areas of intellectual property law, internet and related
matters, commercial law, telecommunications, labor law, and
contracts. She is member of the International Bar Association and of
the Paraguayan Bar Association. She is also a matriculated Public
Translator of the English
language.
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Mauricio Ipiña Nagel
JSM 2008
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Mauricio Ipiña specializes in Commercial Arbitration and Corporate Law. He received his JD from Universidad Católica Boliviana (1999). He holds a General LL.M. at Tulane University School of Law (2001); there he was admitted at the Editorial Board of “The Journal of American Arbitration”. One year after, Mauricio became a regular student at the LL.M. in Dispute Resolution at University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law (2002); he was granted one of the two vacancies for the post of Graduate Research Assistant. In 2002 he was accepted as intern at the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration in Paris, France; in such condition Mauricio worked as assistant for the Latin American team. After the internship, Mauricio came back to Bolivia and was invited to be part of the Board of the Center of Conciliation and Arbitration at the Bar Association. During that time, the Center was chosen for a project financed by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. At the same time, since 2004, Mauricio has been a university professor at the Bolivian Private University –responsible for the areas of ADR and Commercial Law. Within his practical experience, he has legally represented, as a defense lawyer, the major insurance company in Bolivia in five arbitral proceedings. He also advised clients on corporate law, stock exchange regulations and contractual matters. As SPILS fellow and J.S.M. candidate at Stanford Law School, Mauricio Ipiña intends to focus his research on corporate dispute resolution; he is proposing to conduct empirical research into the attitudes and choices of Bolivian corporations towards the resolution of commercial disputes.
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Roy Ralph van Niekerk
LLM LST 2008
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Roy Ralph van Niekerk (“Ralph”) is a qualified South African attorney and patent attorney. He holds bachelor’s degrees in Law and Engineering. After obtaining his Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degree summa cum laude from the University of Stellenbosch, he went on to study law at the University of South Africa while simultaneously serving his articles at one of the largest South African law firms, Bowman Gilfillan. Ralph completed his LL.B at the end of 2006 and was then admitted as a South African attorney and patent attorney. In January 2007 Ralph and five other patent attorneys teamed up to establish a new IP law firm, Von Seidels, in Cape Town, South Africa. In his current practice Ralph is involved in the preparation and filing of local and foreign patent applications (especially electronic and computer related inventions), registered design application drafting, patent searching, patent and general intellectual property litigation, the drafting of patent infringement opinions and the drafting of IP licence agreements. Ralph joins Stanford’s LL.M. program in Law, Science & Technology as a Fulbright Scholar.
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Gene Soon Park
JSM 2000
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Gene wrote to us: "After 13 years of practicing law in a lawfirm Kim&Chang, Seoul, Korea,
I am now enjoying the inhouse life with Lehman Brothers Seoul Office.
Life at Palo Alto has always been a nice memory and I would like to
share enhanced relations with alumni all over the world.
It's great on my part to help SLS launch co-ed with the newly
establishing US type law school system in Korea by bridging scholars from both
countries nowadays.
Just for fun, I posted a photo taken this summer which went on a fashion
magazine in Korea.
Life is short and everyone make the most of your life!"
Click here to see the photo!
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Camila Peralta
LLM LST 2008
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Camila Peralta, from San José, Costa Rica, earned her law degree from the Universidad
Escuela Libre de Derecho in December of 2005, where she ranked in the top 5% of her
class. She was awarded highest honors by the examining board on her pioneering
investigation titled Extrajudicial Judgment: Right of Honor vs Freedom of Press,
presented during the turmoil suffered as two ex-presidents were sent to jail. Her in depth
views and analysis caught the attention of leaders at the National Liberation Party, while
campaigning for national elections. Consequently, she was chosen to help draft the
Government Plan, the keystone document that outlined the administration’s policies and
legal actions over the next 4 years. In 2006, after obtaining positive results in the
election process and despite her young age, Camila became personal advisor to Vicepresident
of Costa Rica and Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy, and was
shortly appointed as National Project Director for Costa Rica’s E-government initiative.
Additionally, she was responsible for negotiating the necessary external and domestic
funding proposals, particularly with CABEI, IADB, and World Bank in order to obtain
financial support to launch the project.
Before leaving for Stanford, she sought to complete her public office role and, thus,
engaged in an internship at the prestigious law firm Feinzaig, Scharf and van der Putten
where she advised clients on public contracting, telecommunications, and public/private
alliance issues. Camila balances her demanding schedule by travelling abroad with her
husband and training as a runner for half marathons.
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Nicolas Rouleau
JSM 2008
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Nicolas Rouleau, of Canada, completed undergraduate work at the University
of Toronto in arts and sciences. He then enrolled in the French Common
Law Programme at the University of Ottawa to complete his LL.B. At the
University of Ottawa, he co-published a report on parliamentary
privilege for the Senate of Canada. He has also published in the area
of Canadian minority-language rights. Following his LL.B., Nicolas
interned for the United Nations Development Program in Dakar, Senegal.
He volunteered for the Uganda Human Rights Commission in Kampala,
Uganda, and the International Federation of the Red Cross in Niger.
Most recently, Nicolas clerked for the Honourable Justice Marie
Deschamps of the Supreme Court of Canada. At Stanford, Nicolas plans
to conduct research concerning controls on foreign direct investment
in developing countries. He is recipient of a Fulbright Award and the
2007-2008 Viscount Bennett Fellowship.
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Judit Rius Sanjuan
LLM LST 2006
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Judit Rius Sanjuan, from Spain, works for
the Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) in Washington, DC, as an
intellectual property attorney. Judit studied law and earned a
master's degree in international studies at the Pompeu Fabra
University in Barcelona (Spain). With the assistance of an Erasmus
grant, she spent one year studying at the University of Geneva
(Switzerland) and also completed internships at the United Nations
and the Spanish Mission. Upon graduation, Judit started working at
the Information Highway Group, an information technology consulting
firm associated with the leading Spanish business school, IESE,
where she worked in the European Projects Department (personal data
protection, online ADR, domain names, and jurisdiction) and co-wrote
a study on the legal aspects of e-commerce in Europe, which was
given the highest possible assessment by the European Commission.
Judit has also worked for Intelligent Software Components S.A.
(iSOCO), a spin-off company of the Spanish Artificial Intelligence
Research Institute (dependent on the Spanish Ministry of Science and
Technology), where she worked mainly in software licensing. Judit
also worked at the in-house legal department of Laboratorios
Menarini, an international pharmaceutical company, where she had the
opportunity to work on distribution contracts, pharmaceutical
regulatory affairs, and IP law. Judit is the author of several
publications, including the intellectual property courses of a
postgraduate in the legal implications of free software at the on
line Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Judit was awarded La
Caixa Scholarship in 2004 to support her LLM in Law, Science and
Technology degree at Stanford Law School, from which she graduated
in January 2006, after being a 2005 summer legal intern at the
Electronic Frontier Foundation and collaborate with the Stanford
Center for Internet and Society during the fall of
2005.
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Virginie Schwartz
JSM 2007
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Virginie Schwartz specializes in
cross-border commercial litigation and white-collar criminal and
government regulatory defense involving both U.S. and French courts,
laws and parties. A member of the Paris bar, she has been practicing
before French courts for four years. She started her career with
Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP (2001) before following a partner
to White & Case LLP. As a result of her innovative interest and
commitment to adding expertise in U.S. centered litigation matters
involving European civil law countries to her pre-existing French
practice, Virginie has been the first litigation associate assigned
from an overseas office to the New York headquarters of White &
Case LLP. She has represented numerous French and European banks,
industrial manufacturers and commercial businesses in complex and
high-stake civil and criminal matters initiated before U.S. Federal
and state courts. She has also advised U.S. corporations in their
compliance with French laws within the context of U.S. litigation.
Virginie holds a Licence en droit with high distinction from the
London School of Economics and Political Science (joint program with
Strasbourg Law School, France), a Maîtrise in International and EC
Law with distinction (fourth year degree), and another Maîtrise,
completed simultaneously, in Private Law majoring in the Courtroom
Practice with high distinction, as well as an LL.M. in Business Law
with distinction from Panthéon-Assas Paris II Law School, and an
LL.M. in EC Law from Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I Law School. During
her law curriculum, Virginie interned with the parent legal
department of the Pechiney group (now Alcan) and clerked at the
Paris Court of Appeals. Finally, she has contributed to several
comparative law articles published in French and American law
reviews. A SPILS fellow and J.S.M. candidate at Stanford Law School,
Virginie intends to focus her research on international corporate
dispute resolution.
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Kaare Andreas Shetelig
LLM CGP 2008
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Kaare Andreas Shetelig, of Norway, earned his 6-year Candidatus Juris degree from the University of Oslo in 2003 and LLM in Corporate Governance and Practice from Stanford Law School in 2008. Prior to his law studies he was trained one year at the Royal Norwegian Navy’s officer school and subsequently worked for two years as an officer. During his military service and law studies he also completed a bachelor degree in Business and Administration. Kaare was admitted to the Norwegian Bar in 2005 as an attorney and in 2007 as a Supreme Court Attorney. Since his graduation Kaare has worked for the Office of the Attorney General (Civil Affairs) as an attorney-at-law (equals the office of Solicitor General in the US). In this position, his main task is to prepare and plead civil court cases in various fields of law brought by and against the Norwegian ministries and its subordinate bodies. Since 2003 he has lectured at the University of Oslo, primarily on the Law of Administration.
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Tobias Somary
LLM CGP 2004
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Tobias Somary (Stanford LLM CGP ’04) is a graduate from the University of Zurich (Switzerland). He became a lawyer in 1998 and took the Zurich bar and Swiss bar in 2000. Tobias is a partner with CMS von Erlach Henrici, a Zurich-based international law firm he joined in 2000. Following the Masters Program at Stanford University, he worked with Fenwick & West LLP in Mountain View, California (an interview about his experiences with Fenwick was published online, see
(http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/programs/lst/newsletter/04/llmfenwick.html). His work covers the fields of commercial law, general corporate and contract law, estate laws and trusts, banking matters, private international law (conflict of laws), intellectual property law (mainly trademark matters) as well as dispute resolution in the aforementioned areas. Tobias is the regional SLS representative for Switzerland
(http://www.law.stanford.edu/alumni/regionalreps) and is a member of the board of the Stanford Club of Switzerland (www.stanfordalumni.ch).
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Pablo Sorj
LLM CGP 2005
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Pablo Sorj, from Brazil, holds a law degree (LLB) from Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (2000), an executive MBA in corporate finance from IBMEC-RJ (2002) and a LL.M. degree in Corporate Governance and Practice from Stanford Law School (2005), where he served as teaching assistant for the finance course. Pablo worked at the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) and CVC/Opportunity (a private equity fund) before joining the capital markets practice group of Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados. From 2005 to 2007, Pablo worked at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (New York). At Gibson Dunn, he worked on a number of private equity transactions in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America and was appointed the firm representative at the Brazilian Private Equity Association. In August 2007, Pablo returned to Brazil and resumed his capital markets/private equity practice at Mattos Filho.
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Chih-Tang Wang
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Chih-Tang Wang, from Taiwan, obtained her
LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from National Taiwan University (NTU). She
has practiced law as a professional lawyer at a top law firm in
Taiwan, as well as an in-house legal counsel at Yahoo! Taiwan and
TECO-Westinghouse Group. Chih-Tang has also studied law in Japan and
has proven capable of performing research and managing international
affairs in the Chinese, Japanese and English language in a
professional manner. Chih-Tang’s work in Yahoo! focused on legal
service and negotiation regarding appropriation among internet
businesses, network commercials, content license, and client
development. Chih-Tang has been sponsored by Hokkaido University,
Japan to participate in its Graduate Law School’s Special Auditor
Program for one year, during which Chih-Tang studied Japanese law
and equipped herself with a great command of the Japanese language.
Chih-Tang’s practice at Formosa Transnational Attorneys-at-Law,
known for its legal service for Japanese multinationals doing
business in and with Taiwan, focused on litigation, intellectual
property utilization, trade secrets and contract design. She had
been involved in the 3C patent pool case, representing Sony and
Pioneer to consult and negotiate with Taiwan’s Fair Trade Committee.
In Chih-Tang’s position as an in-house legal council at
TECO-Westinghouse Group later, she participated in the first
international Patent infringement Litigation between Taiwan and
Japan (TECO versus Sharp, settled 2006.3.20), as well as major
merger and investment cases relating to the Group. She also assisted
in building brand names on a world-wide scale and providing legal
service within the Group. Chih-Tang had been attending musical
schools for 12 years before University, and is a passionate player
of piano and violin, as well as an Amateur Latin
Dancer.
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Wang Rui obtained a LL.B as well as a double degree in economics from Peking University in 1999. She also attained a Master’s Degree of Common Law from the University of Hong Kong in 2003. She is licensed to practice PRC law and act as sports agent in China. Rui joined King & Wood (one of the largest law firms in China) in 2000 and became a Partner at the law firm in 2006. Since King & Wood was retained by Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) as its legal counsel in 2002, Rui has been working as one of the chief coordinators of the firm’s Olympic team. The legal services she provided to BOCOG include document preparation, participating in negotiation and rendering legal opinion, in the area of marketing, broadcasting, cultural events and entertainment, technology, intellectual property rights protection and so on. Rui also specializes corporate legal affairs and foreign direct investment in China.
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Demián Zayat, a JSM candidate at Stanford Law School, is from Argentina and received his law degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 2000. He completed an LL.M. in Human Rights and Constitutional Law at University of Palermo (Buenos Aires), where he is also a associated editor of the Palermo Law Review. He has a position as Constitutional Law professor at the same Law School since 2002. As a Fulbright Scholar, he spent one semester doing research on the Jury System in Southwestern Law School. In Buenos Aires, in 2000, Demián workedas legal advisor for the chief-member of the then majority party at the House of Representatives, and later, he worked also with the current Ministry of Defense of Argentina. His work was related to the Justice and Impeachment Committees of the National House. After that, he joined to the Center of Legal and Social Studies (CELS), one of the most prominent Human Rights NGO from Argentina, and he concentrated in the area of judicial reforms, from a human rights perspective. He wrote several articles regarding judicial independence, at the national and the provincial level., and he has testified at Argentine House of Representatives, in relation to different judicial reforms. Furthermore, he has researched at Yale Law School, on the ban to former dictatorship leaders of taking a public position in the new democracy. Also, with some colleagues, he founded Copadi (Collective for Diversity) a NGO focused on gender, equality and justice issues in Latin America. As a SPILS fellow, Demián plans to conduct research on the judicial control of police detentions for hawking or others minor infractions perpetrated by informal and poor workers.
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