Faculty - Granada, Spain
Resident Director:
Jennifer Lee North
Professor of Legal Writing
Charleston School of Law
Professor North will serve as resident director in Granada. Professor North joined the Charleston School of Law faculty in 2004. She is a professor of legal writing whose teaching and research interests include admiralty, military law, and war crimes. Before joining the Charleston School of Law faculty, North worked in Fort Worth, Texas, as a legal intern in the trials and appeals division. From 2001-2009, North worked as a solo practitioner in Charleston, S.C., with an emphasis on maritime and business litigation.
North received her admiralty LL.M. from the Tulane School of Law in 2001. In 2000, North earned her J.D. from the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, graduating cum laude, an editor of the Texas Wesleyan law review and a member of the moot court honors program. Prior to pursuing her J.D., North served for six years in the United States Marine Corps, reaching the rank of captain, serving as company executive officer and platoon commander.
North has published two articles: "The Ins and Outs of Modern Ports: Rethinking Container Security," 5 S.C. J Int'l Law & Bus. 191 (2009), and "When Congressional Intent and Binding Precedent Aren't Enough," 25 TUL. MAR. L.J. 1 (2001) (online version). In 2006, North was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, and has also been admitted to practice in the United States District Court of South Carolina (2002), South Carolina (2001) and Texas (2000).
Björn Arp
Assistant Professor of Public International Law and International Relations
Alcalá University School of Law, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Björn Arp is assistant professor of public international law at the University of Alcalá in Madrid, and partner at Aparicio, Arp, Schamis & Associates LLC, where he specializes in complex dispute settlements involving human rights and economic issues between private persons and companies, and governments worldwide.
Dr. Arp has taught on a wide range of topics, including public international law, European Union law, and international human rights law. He also has taught postgraduate courses on the European Union’s judicial system, investment arbitration, and the rights of national minorities in Europe. He has been invited to give lectures throughout Spain, Latin America, and the United States. Dr. Arp has published several books on international human rights law and more than 30 articles and notes about human rights and international economic law. His writings have been published in English, Spanish and French.
From 2000 to 2010, Björn Arp was the academic secretary of the LL.M. in International Human Rights Protection program at the University of Alcalá. Dr. Arp has been a visiting researcher at Harvard University Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, and the American University Washington College of Law.
Dr. Arp is a member of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), the European Society of International Law (ESIL), and the Spanish Association of Professors in International Law and International Relations. He was a member of the Editorial Committee of the Spanish Yearbook of International Law from 2003-2008, and currently he is editor-in-chief of the Law of the Sea Reports, an ASIL publication.
Björn Arp holds a Ph.D. in International Law and a LL.M. in International Human Rights Law from the University of Alcalá, and a J.D. from the University of Alicante, Spain. He is fluent in English, Spanish, German and French.
Luis Hinojosa
Professor of Public International Law, Director of the Department of Public International Law, Facultad de Derecho
University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Professor Luis Hinojosa is the director of the Department of Public International Law and International Relations of Granada University and was the former director of the European Documentation Centre of that university for 10 years. After working as an attorney in Brussels (Van Bael and Bellis law firm), he joined Granada University teaching staff. His main areas of teaching and research include international economic law, European Union law, and international terrorism.
His research has covered a number of different fields in international and European law. He has published extensively on the regulation of the European Single Market, above all on the free movement of capital and the integration of European financial markets. He has dealt with the application of European law by national judges, European and international tax law, EU competencies and EU external economic relations. Within the context of international law, he has analyzed the legal and economic aspects of international terrorism, and their implications for human rights, as well as published on the concepts of sovereignty and globalization, the economic analysis of law and various issues of international economic law. He has written books on international economic law (2010), international legal instruments against the financing of terrorism (2008), the competencies of the European Union (2006), fair trade and social rights (2002) and the international and European regulation of capital movements (1997).
Professor Hinojosa is a member of the Editorial Board of the Revista de Derecho Comunitario Europeo, and of the Executive Board of AEDEUR (Spanish Association for the Study of European Law), a member of the Executive Board of ESIL (European Society of International Law) and co-chair of the ESIL International Economic Law Interest Group, a member of SIEL (Society of International Economic Law), and of AEPDIRI (Spanish Association for International Law), and former member of its Executive Board. He served between 2008-2011 as coordinator of Social and Legal Sciences of AGAE (Andalusian Agency of Evaluation), the independent scientific body in charge of the evaluation of research of the 10 Andalusian universities.
Professor Hinojosa has given conferences or taught courses in Spanish, French and English in universities and institutions in the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Chile, Holland, Mexico, Austria, Morocco, Peru, Cuba and Spain. He has been visiting scholar at Stetson University College of Law (2007) and at Berkeley University (2010). He was the director of the ESIL-IEL Interest Group Conference on the "The International Law of Financial Markets" hosted by Granada University in 2010.
Professor Hinojosa has also participated in nine research projects on different issues related to economic globalization and European integration.
He obtained his law degrees at Granada University, Ph.D., 1996; LL.M., London School of Economics and Political Science, London University, 1990; Licence spécial en droit européen, Institut d'études européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1989.
Francisco Reyes
Visiting Professor at the Paul M. Herbert Law Center of Louisiana State University, Stetson University College of Law, Université de Lyon Jean Moulin (France), University of Fribourg (Switzerland), University of Tilburg (The Netherlands), Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Universidade Agostinho Neto (Angola), and Universidad Católica Argentina
Francisco Reyes is a member of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law (IACCL) and former superintendent of companies of Colombia. He was an active participant and draftsman of the 1995 and 2008 comprehensive reforms to the Colombian laws of corporations and bankruptcy. He designed and implemented the Colombian law that introduced the so-called Simplified Stock Corporation. With more than 100,000 SAS set up in three years, this new form of business entity has been one of the most successful experiments in Latin American company law in the last decade. In 2010, he presided over the governmental commission for the amendment of the Colombian Bankruptcy Law.
He earned his BLL from Javeriana University in Bogotá, LL.M. from the University of Miami School of Law, and Ph.D. in law from the University of Tilburg. He also holds a diploma in Portuguese culture from the University of Lisbon (Portugal).
Reyes has been a visiting professor at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center of Louisiana State University, Stetson University College of Law, Université de Lyon Jean Moulin (France), University of Fribourg (Switzerland), University of Tilburg (The Netherlands), Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Universidade Agostinho Neto (Angola), and Universidad Católica Argentina. He has been distinguished with several lectureships in the Americas, Europe and Africa.
His extensive scholarship includes publications in Spanish, English and Portuguese. He has authored the books SAS – La Sociedad por Acciones Simplificada, Disolución y Liquidación de Sociedades ("Dissolution and Liquidation of Corporations") (three editions: 1992, 1994 and 1998), Sociedades Comerciales en Estados Unidos, Introducción Comparativa ("Business Associations in the U.S. a Comparative Approach") (three editions: 1995, 2005 and 2006), Reforma al Régimen de Sociedades y Concursos ("Reforms to the Law of Corporations and Bankruptcy") (two editions: 1996 and 1999), Transformación, fusión y escisión de sociedades ("Change of form, Mergers and Corporate Divisions") (2000), Arbitraje Comercial en los Estados Unidos (Corporate Arbitration in the U.S.) (Co-authored with Professor Alan R. Palmiter), Treatise on Colombian Company Law (Derecho Societario, 2002), and Latin American Company Law from a Comparative and Economic Perspective, Reshaping the Closely-Held Landscape and Direito Societario Americano (Forthcoming 2012).
He has been an expert witness on Latin American law before international arbitration panels and U.S. courts. He has formed part of the Colombian delegation before UNCITRAL.
HONORARY GUEST SPEAKER:
Judge Patrick Robinson
Former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, 2008-2011
Judge Patrick Lipton Robinson of Jamaica was elected to the position of president for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia by his fellow judges on Nov. 4, 2008. He was first elected as a judge of the Tribunal by the UN General Assembly on Nov. 17, 1998, and was reelected twice.
Judge Robinson began his long and distinguished career in public service working as a graduate teacher of English from 1964-1966, after which he spent three decades working for the Jamaican government. From 1968-1971, he served as a crown counsel in the Office of the Director of the Public Prosecutions. Between 1972 and 1998, he served briefly as legal adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and subsequently in the Attorney General's Department as crown counsel, senior assistant attorney-general, director of the Division of International Law, and deputy solicitor-general.
Judge Robinson's long-standing experience in UN affairs dates back to 1972, when he became Jamaica's representative to the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, a position that he held for 26 years. He played a leadership role on several items while on the committee, including the definition of aggression and the draft statute for an international criminal court. From 1981-1998, he led Jamaica's delegations for the negotiation of treaties on several subjects, including extradition, mutual legal assistance, maritime delimitation and investment promotion and protection. Judge Robinson has been a member of numerous international bodies. As a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights from 1988-1995, and its chair in 1991, he contributed to the development of a corpus of human rights laws for the Inter-American System.
From 1991-1996, he served on the working group that elaborated the draft statute for an international criminal court. Judge Robinson also served as a member of the Haiti Truth and Justice Commission from 1995-1996, was a member of the International Bio-ethics Committee of UNESCO from 1996-2005, serving as its vice-chair from 2002-2005, and represented Jamaica at the United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations (UNCTAD), serving as its chair at its 12th Session in 1986. He represented Jamaica at all sessions of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and was accredited as an ambassador to that conference in 1982.
As a judge of the tribunal, prior to assuming his duties as president, Judge Robinson served in Trial Chamber III, where he presided over numerous cases, including those of Slobodan Milošević and Dragomir Milošević. In addition, he was assigned to sit on the Appeals Chamber in several cases, including the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in the Seromba case.
Judge Robinson is a Barrister of Law, Middle Temple, United Kingdom. He holds a B.A. in English, Latin, and Economics from University College of the West Indies (London), an LLB with honors from London University, and an LL.M. in International Law from King's College, University of London, in the areas of the law of the sea, the law of the air, treaties, and armed conflict. He also holds a Certificate of International Law from The Hague Academy of International Law.