The International Law Faculty

Few law schools in the world have as many full-time faculty members engaged in teaching, research, and the practice of international law.

Michael P. Scharf, Director
Professor, B.A. 1985 (Duke), J.D. 1988 (Duke, Order of the Coif)
Professor Scharf is Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and Managing Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group, which has its Cleveland Office at Case. From 1989-93, he worked in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State, as Attorney-Adviser for U.N. Affairs and as Attorney Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence. He was a member of the U.S. delegations to the U.N. General Assembly and the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Prior to joining the State Department, he served as clerk to the Honorable Gerald B. Tjoflat of the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. Author of eight books, Scharf has won two National Book Awards and has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In 2005, the Public International Law and Policy Group and its co-founders, Michael Scharf and Paul Williams, were nominated by eight governments and an international criminal tribunal for the Nobel Peace Prize for "significantly contributing to the promotion of peace throughout the globe by providing crucial pro bono legal assistance to states and non-state entities involved in peace negotiation and in bringing war criminals to justice." He teaches Global Perspectives, International Law, International Criminal Law, and the Law of International Organizations; directs the Summer Abroad Institute for Global Justice in the Netherlands; coaches the Jessup and Pictet Moot Court teams; and oversees the War Crimes Research Lab.

Jacqueline D. Lipton, Associate Director
Associate Professor, B.A. (University of Melbourne), B.A. (La Trobe University), LL.B. (University of Melbourne), LL.M. (Monash University), LL.M. (Cambridge University), Ph.D. (Griffith University)
Professor Lipton is Associate Director of the Cox Center. Before joining the Case School of Law faculty, she was a banking and finance lawyer for a large Australian commercial law firm and a major Australian bank, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Nottingham School of Law in England. She has been widely published and is a frequent lecturer in the areas of International Intellectual Property, Cyberlaw, E-Commerce, and International Business. She serves as the faculty adviser of the International Law Society, runs the Distinguished International Visiting Fellows Program, and counsels students on study abroad opportunities.

Robert N. Strassfeld
Professor, B.A. 1976 (Wesleyan University), M.A. 1980 (Rochester), J.D. 1984 (Virginia)
Professor Strassfeld is director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy and Associate Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center. A legal historian, he has published major law review articles about the Vietnam War and teaches a seminar on the subject. He advises the Center on its activities involving comparative employment and labor law.

Henry T. King
Professor, B.A. 1941, LL.B. 1943 (Yale)
Professor King is U.S. director of the Canada-U.S. Law Institute and U.S. Chair of the Joint American Bar Association-Canadian Bar Association-Barra Mexicana Working Group on the Settlement of International Disputes. He is a leading expert and author in international criminal law and human rights and international arbitration. At age 26, Professor King was a prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials and recently published a book on Albert Speer, one of the central defendants. He teaches International Arbitration.

Lewis R. Katz
John C. Hutchins Professor, A.B. 1959 (Queens College), J.D. 1963 (Indiana)
Professor Katz is Director of the Master of Laws program in U.S. and Global Legal Studies for foreign lawyers. A criminal justice expert, he has written and lectured internationally on criminal justice issues in the U.S. courts.

Christopher Rassi
Adjunct Professor, B.A. 2000, J.D. 2003, MBA 2003 (Case Western Reserve University)
Professor Rassi teaches the War Crimes Research Lab and serves as Deputy Director of the Cox Center's International War Crimes Research Office. Professor Rassi is also an Associate at the law firm of Thompson Hine LLP. In 2003-2004, he served as law clerk to Judge Weinberg de Roca of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and to Justice Y. Mokgoro of the Constitutional Court for South Africa. He is on leave until early 2007, while working as Associate Legal Officer in Chambers at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Jonathan H. Adler
Professor and Director, Center for Business Law and Regulation, B.A. (Yale), J.D. (George Mason)
Professor Adler is Associate Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation. He was clerk to the Honorable David B. Sentelle, Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Prior to law school, he worked as Director of Environmental Studies for the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Focusing on environmental and regulatory policy, he is author or editor of three books, more than eighteen scholarly articles, and articles published in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and National Review. He is a frequent media commentator and lecturer on environmental topics.

Craig M. Boise
Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Center for Business Law and Regulation, B.A. summa cum laude 1991 (Missouri-Kansas City), J.D. 1994 (Chicago, Thomas R. Mulroy Prize), LL.M 1999 (NYU, taxation)
Mr. Boise is Assistant Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation. He came to Case from the Cleveland law firm Thompson Hine LLP, where he was a senior associate in the firm's tax group. Prior to that he was with the New York office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and before that with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, also in New York. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Boise clerked for the Honorable Pasco M. Bowman II for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Kansas City. He is a member of the American Bar Association Tax Section's Committee on Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers. Mr. Boise teaches courses in taxation, with a specialty in international tax, and is co-director of the Cayman Islands International Business Associations course.

Kathleen M. Carrick
Associate Professor, B.A. 1972 (Duquesne), M.L.S. 1973 (Pittsburgh), J.D. 1977 (Cleveland State)
Professor Carrick, Director of the Law Library, is representative to the Women's Interest Network of the American Bar Association Section on International Law and Practice. Her publication, A Comprehensive Bibliography of Legal Education in the U.S., is forthcoming.

Peter B. Friedman
Associate Professor, B.A. 1981 (Brown), J.D. 1984 (Michigan)
Professor Friedman is Director of the Oral Advocacy and Moot Court Program and teaches contracts to foreign lawyers in the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program in U.S. and Global Legal Studies. He practiced law in New York for eleven years, becoming a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, and Feld.

Peter M. Gerhart
Professor, B.A. 1967 (Northwestern), J.D. 1971 (Columbia)
Former dean of the law school, Professor Gerhart teaches International Trade, International Business Transactions, and International Issues in Intellectual Property. He was a visiting scholar at the Centre for European Legal Studies at Cambridge University in England. His textbook on international financial law and policy is forthcoming.

Jessie Hill
Assistant Professor, B.A. 1992 (Brown), J.D. 1999 (Harvard)
Ms. Hill joined the Case faculty in 2003 after practicing First Amendment and civil rights law with the firm of Berkman, Gordon, Murray & DeVan in Cleveland. Before entering private practice, she worked at the Reproductive Freedom Project of the national ACLU office in New York, litigating challenges to state law restrictions on reproductive rights. She also served as law clerk to the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In September 2004, Professor Hill traveled to Dubai to train Iraqi lawyers in human civil rights law.

Sharona Hoffman
Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Law and of Bioethics, B.A. 1985 (Wellesley), J.S. 1988 (Harvard), LL.M. 1999 (Houston)
Professor Hoffman is Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center. She teaches the Health Care and Human Rights seminar. Prior to joining the law faculty in 1999, Professor Hoffman was a Senior Trial Attorney at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Houston, an associate at O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles, where she spent much of her time working on the Exxon Valdez oil spill case, and a judicial clerk for U.S. District Judge Douglas W. Hillman of the Western District of Michigan. In 2003, she taught as a visiting professor at University of Melbourne in Australia.

Robert P. Lawry
Professor Emeritus, B.A. 1963 (Fordham), J.D. 1966 (Pennsylvania), Diploma in Law 1967 (Oxford)
Professor Lawry is an expert in legal ethics and jurisprudence and author of a textbook on legal institutions and methods. He is director emeritus of the Center for Professional Ethics.

Kenneth Ledford
Associate Professor of History and Law, B.A. 1975, J.D. 1978 (North Carolina), M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1989 (Johns Hopkins)
Professor Ledford has a joint appointment with the School of Law and the Department of History. He is a leading scholar on the history of the German legal professions. He teaches European legal history, European legal professions, and European Union law. He was in Germany as a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow.

Judith P. Lipton
Professor, B.S. 1971, M.S.S.W. 1972 (Wisconsin), J.D. 1979 (Connecticut)
Professor Lipton was a social worker and a Legal Aid attorney. She helped establish the J.D./M.S.S.A. dual degree program and teaches Family Law and clinical courses. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary strategies for addressing domestic violence and the health needs of urban children.

Louise W. McKinney
Professor, B.A. 1973 (Heidelberg College), J.D. 1978 (Case Western Reserve)
Professor McKinney is a leader in African clinical legal education. She founded or developed clinic initiatives in Botswana, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya. She is a consultant for the American Bar Association African Law Initiative, the U.S. State Department, and several African law schools. She was a Fulbright Lecturer on clinic curricula at the University of Nairobi. She supervises students handling cases in the school's Immigration Law Clinic.

Spencer Neth
Professor, B.A. 1961 (Miami University), J.D. 1964, LL.M. 1966 (Harvard)
Professor Neth has worked with the judges of the Ukrainian High Court of Arbitration and served as a delegate to international conferences on computers in law schools.

Sidney I. Picker, Jr.
Emeritus Professor of Law, A.B. 1956 (Dartmouth), LL.B. 1959 (Stanford), LL.M. 1960 (Yale)
Founder and current Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Canada-U.S. Law Institute, Professor Picker is a trade expert. He was one of two Americans appointed to the first public international dispute resolution panel under NAFTA in 1996. He is a national leader in Russian legal education and has received many grants for educational reform in Russia. In June 2002, St. Petersburg State University granted him a University Doctor Honoris Causa (university honorary doctorate).

Calvin William Sharpe
John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Professor and Director, CISCDR (Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict & Dispute Resolution), B.A. 1967 (Clark), J.D. 1974 (Northwestern), M.A. 1996 (Chicago Theological Seminary)
Professor Sharpe is a leading expert and author in labor arbitration. He has extensive involvement in South Africa, where he has lectured. He is Director of CISCDR (Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution), which often co-sponsors events with the Cox Center.

Center Staff
Alice Simon - Manager, Communications, Academic Centers
Nancy M. Pratt - Symposia Programming, Academic Centers & Law Journals
Adria Sankovic - Assistant Director, LL.M. program in U.S. & Global Legal Studies
Andrew Dorchak - Law Library Foreign & International Specialist
Carl Roloff - Webmaster, War Crimes Research Internet Portal
Dawn Richards - Administrative Assistant to Cox Center Director Michael Scharf