GRANADA, SPAIN Summer Institute in International and Comparative Law

JEFFREY J. MINETTI
Resident Director
Professor of Law

Professor Minetti is the Director of Academic Support Programs at Stetson University College of Law. He also serves as an Instructor of Legal Research and Writing. Professor Minetti holds a B.A. in Education from the University of South Florida; he taught elementary and middle school students for over five years. Professor Minetti graduated, with honors, from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, receiving his J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Cumberland's joint degree program. While at Cumberland, Professor Minetti served as Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Trial Advocacy. Upon graduation from law school, Professor Minetti clerked for Justice Thomas A. Woodall on the Alabama Supreme Court.

Professor Minetti is a member of the Florida and Alabama State Bars, and the St. Petersburg, Hillsborough County, and Birmingham Bar Associations. Prior to joining the Stetson faculty, Professor Minetti was an associate with the Tampa office of Murray Marin & Herman, where his practice focused on defending London Market insurers.

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JOHN MAKDISI
Professor of Law
Introduction to Islamic Law

Professor John Makdisi has written extensively on American and Islamic property law. His article The Islamic Origins of the Common Law, 77 N. Car. L. Rev. 1635 (1999), offers a startling new theory for connections between Islam and the West.

His books include:

• Estates in Land and Future Intersets
  (5th ed. Aspen 2008 (forthcoming) with D. Bogart)
• Florida Property Law: II. Conveyancing and Governmental Controls
  (Carolina Academic Press 2007)
• Florida Property Law: I. Possession, Estates, and Tenancy
  (Carolina Academic Press 2006)
• Islamic Property Law: Cases and Materials for Comparative Abalysis with the Common Law
  (Carolina Academic Press 2005)
• Introduction to the Study of Law
  (2d ed. Anderson Publishing Co. 2000)

From 1981-1991, Professor Makdisi was a faculty member at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where he also served as Associate Dean from 1988-91. He served as Dean of the University of Tulsa College of Law from 1991-1994, returned to faculty from 1994-96, and then became Dean at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law from 1996-1999. From 1999-2003 Professor Makdisi served as Dean of St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, Florida, as well as Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs in 2000-2001. He returned to faculty where he is now a Professor of Law and teaches Property, Contracts and Islamic Property Law.

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MARK D. BAUER
Professor of Law
Comparative Anti-Trust Law

Professor Bauer received his B.A. in political science from the University of Chicago and his J.D. from Emory University, where he was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable William R. Robie, chief immigration judge of the United States. Following his clerkship, Professor Bauer joined the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, where he worked on several high profile antitrust investigations.

After leaving the Federal Trade Commission, Professor Bauer moved to Chicago where he practiced antitrust and consumer protection law with two large law firms, and wrote a treatise on state unfair trade practice laws. Since joining the Stetson faculty, Professor Bauer has taught and written in the areas of antitrust, administrative law and consumer protection. He speaks frequently on antitrust issues at law schools and conferences around the world.

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JOHN SIMPKINS
Professor of Law
Comparative Constitutional Law

John L. S. Simpkins is Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Diversity Initiatives at the Charleston School of Law in Charleston, SC. He has observed or served as a consultant in constitution-building processes in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. Professor Simpkins has studied in the law faculties of the University of Cape Town and the University of Hong Kong in addition to lecturing at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He currently serves as a member of the African Network of the International Association of Constitutional Law as well as the American Bar Association Task Force on International Electoral Standards.

Professor Simpkins received an A.B. in Government from Harvard College and a J.D. and LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Duke University School of Law. He serves on the Board of Directors of a number of Charleston-area non-profits and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

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ANDREW WOODCOCK
Professor of Law
Introduction to European Union Law

Andrew Woodcock graduated with honours from the University of Queensland and subsequently took an LLM from the same university with the Dean's Commendation, as well as a further Master's degree in law from Queensland University of Technology. He is qualified as a Solicitor and Barrister in Queensland, Western Australia, the Australian Capital Territory, and the High Court of Australia and has worked in various legal fields in Australia, England, Scotland and the Caribbean. His experience of legal practice includes corporate insolvency, insurance practice and confidentiality litigation at several law firms. His academic experience is broad-ranging, having taught an extensive breadth of subjects in English and Australian law. He currently teaches at the Cayman Islands Law School, where he is responsible for European Union Law and Civil Procedure of the Cayman Islands, amongst others. Previous teaching appointments were held in Australia at Griffith University (1997), Curtin University (2002), and a return to Queensland University (2004), before joining the law faculty at Dundee University in Scotland. Mr Woodcock is a regular contributor to legal periodicals; his paper on "Claims for Dishonest Assistance with Breach of Trust" in the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly is cited as an important critique of the most recent common law decisions in the United Kingdom. His current research projects focus on issues in the constitutionality of the European Union, and the history of international law.