Faculty
Resident Director: Randall Abate
Associate Professor of Law, Director, Center for International Law and Justice
Florida A&M University College of Law
Randall S. Abate is the resident director in Argentina. He is an Associate Professor of Law, Director of the Center for International Law and Justice, and Project Director of the Environment, Development & Justice Program at Florida A&M University College of Law in Orlando, Florida. At Florida A&M, Professor Abate teaches Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, Environmental Justice: Domestic and International, Human Rights and the Environment Seminar, Advanced Topics in Environmental Law Seminar, Ocean and Coastal Law Seminar, and Constitutional Law I and II. Professor Abate joined the Florida A&M College of Law faculty in 2009 with 15 years of full-time law teaching experience. He has taught international and comparative environmental law courses in summer study abroad programs in Nairobi, Vancouver, and Northern India, and in Stetson's Winter Intersession program in the Cayman Islands.
Professor Abate has published and presented widely on environmental law topics, with a recent emphasis on climate change law and justice. His articles on climate change law and justice have appeared in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Connecticut Law Review, Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, Washington Law Review, William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Seattle Journal of Environmental Law, and Pace Environmental Law Review. He is the co-editor (with Professor Elizabeth Kronk of the University of Kansas School of Law) of CLIMATE CHANGE AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: THE SEARCH FOR LEGAL REMEDIES (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming Jan. 2013). In 2010, Professor Abate delivered a climate change law and justice lecture series in three cities in Brazil. In 2012, he delivered climate change law and justice lectures in Nairobi and Buenos Aires, and he has been invited to teach a climate change law and justice course in Odessa, Ukraine in 2013 on a Fulbright Specialist grant. Early in his career, Professor Abate handled environmental law matters at two law firms in Manhattan. He holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester and a J.D. and M.S.E.L. (Environmental Law and Policy) from Vermont Law School.
Judith A.M. Scully
Wm. Reece Smith Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law
Stetson University College of Law
Professor Judith A.M. Scully joined Stetson after serving for one year as a visiting professor from West Virginia University College of Law, where she taught since 1996. Professor Scully is co-founder of Stetson's Innocence Project, a collaboration with the Innocence Project of Florida that began in 2009. She teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Trial Advocacy, Advanced Criminal Trial Practice, as well as seminars related to race and American law and international human rights.
Prior to teaching law, Professor Scully managed her own law firm in the City of Chicago where she primarily represented defendants in criminal cases and plaintiffs in Section 1981 and 1983 civil rights cases. She has also served as an arbitrator for the Circuit Court of Cook County, an administrative law judge for the Cook County Commission on Human Rights, and the deputy director of the City of Chicago Board of Ethics.
She is a passionate advocate for racial justice as well as reproductive health and justice in the United States and abroad. She has written several articles on eugenics, forced sterilization initiatives, and contraceptive abuse. Her work on reproductive rights has been presented at various international forums including the International Women's Health and Human Rights Meeting in New Delhi, India; the 8th International Women's Health Conference in Brazil; and the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing.
In 1990, as a member of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, Professor Scully worked with the African National Congress (ANC) to help draft the constitution for a Free and Democratic South Africa. Her suggestions for the protection of women's reproductive rights served as the basis of South Africa's constitutional provision guaranteeing a woman's right to reproductive choice.
Her scholarship has appeared in the Wisconsin International Law Journal, Columbia University Law School's race law journal, the UCLA Women's Law Journal, the Toledo Law Review, the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties and the Encyclopedia of the United States Supreme Court.
Charlene Smith
Professor of Law, Director of the Inter-American Center for Human Rights
Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University
Smith joined the Shepard Broad Law Center at NSU in 2003. She teaches Torts, Lawyering Skills and Values, Advanced Torts, Torts in the Employment Sector for the Masters of Science in Employment Law and sometimes Contracts. She has been the co-coach for the Intellectual Property Moot Court team and for the Sports Law Moot Court Team. She is also Director of the Inter American Center for Human Rights which houses itself at the Law Center. Professor Smith has taught at other institutions: Washburn University School of Law, the University of Richmond School of Law and Santa Clara Law School. Before going to Law School, Smith taught history and political science at the undergraduate level. She was also a 'city manager' for an experimental town in Minnesota and the Director of the Women's Institute for Social Change in Minneapolis. Immediately after graduating from Law school, she was an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Minnesota where she prosecuted discrimination cases. Smith has been very active supporting GLBTI organizations at the various Law Schools. She has been on several Mayors' Task Forces that were focused on discrimination.
Smith, along with others, initiated Washburn University Law School's abroad program in the early 1980's. In the London, England and Dutch programs, she was responsible for all the pre-trip preparation and was responsible for appointing the host school professors. Her duties also included making sure there was an orientation program that included introduction to all the opportunities of the host country. She was also a co-teacher and taught alongside counterparts from the Brunel University Law School (West London) and Utrecht law School (the Netherlands).
Louise Ellen Teitz
Professor of Law
Roger Williams University School of Law
Louise Ellen Teitz is one of the leading experts in international private law who currently is at the leading intergovernmental organization working in family law, The Hague Conference on Private Law, in the Netherlands, founded in 1893. Louise Ellen Teitz is First Secretary at The Hague Conference, with primary responsibility for family law areas, including the 1980 Child Abduction Convention, the 1996 Child Protection Convention, and related projects including surrogacy, civil protective orders, and cross-border recognition of mediated agreements. She is also Professor of Law at Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA.
Professor Teitz's academic areas of expertise include private international law, civil procedure, international litigation and dispute resolution, comparative law, and professional responsibility. She is a graduate of Yale College and Southern Methodist University School of Law. After law school, she clerked for Judge John R. Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced law for several years with law firms in Dallas, Texas, and Washington, D.C. In addition to prior teaching experience at several prestigious U.S. law schools (University of Illinois College of Law, Washington & Lee University School of Law, Rutgers University School of Law- Camden), she has been on the faculties of the University of Konstanz in Germany and the University of Bern in Switzerland. Professor Teitz has also been a Visiting Scholar at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), in Vienna, and at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in Rome and lectures frequently abroad. Professor Teitz is the author of two books and numerous articles on these subjects (e.g., Transnational Litigation (Michie/Lexis 1966 & Supp. 1999)). She currently is working on a West Casebook entitled, Comparative Law with Peter Winship and a Second Edition of Transnational Litigation, her earlier treatise.
Professor Teitz is active in the ABA, has chaired several committees and divisions, and is on the Council of the ABA Section of International Law. She was a member of the ABA Task Force on Electronic Commerce and Alternative Dispute Resolution. She was a member of the United States Delegation to the Hague Conference on Private International Law for the Jurisdiction and Judgments Convention and for the Choice of Court Agreements Convention and is a member of the US Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law. Professor Teitz was also Co-Reporter on the Uniform Law Commissioners (NCCUSL) Drafting Committee on the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements, and is a member of the American Bar Association and Uniform Law Commissioners (NCCUSL) Joint Editorial Board on International Law. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the International Association of Procedural Law, The International Academy of Comparative Law, is a U.S. representative to the International Law Association's International Commercial Arbitration Committee and International Consumer Protection Committee, on the Executive Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association, and a member of ASADIP.