Golden Gate University

COURSES TAUGHT

Bankruptcy Law

Introduction to US Legal Systems

Writing and Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Bankruptcy Law

Post-graduate law degrees, dual degrees, exchange agreements

Writing and Editing

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Practiced bankruptcy litigation in San Francisco at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin

Law Clerk to chief Judge of the US Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of California

Deputy District Attorney, County of Sacramento

Taught at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; Marmara University Law School, Istanbul, Turkey; University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• A Review of Great Legal Traditions: Civil Law, Common Law, and Chinese Law in Historical and Operational Perspective, 60 U. Kan. L.Rev. 1135 (2012).

• Editor's Take, 26 Real Property Law Reporter 196 (Sept. 2003).

• The Non-Discrimination Principle and Its Effect on the Education of Roma Children in the Czech Republic, 30 Capital Univ. L. Rev. 665 (2002).

• Kosovo: To Bomb or Not to Bomb? The Legality is the Question, 7 Annual Survey of Int'l. & Comp. L. 49 (2001).

• Saving the African Elephant, 1 Indian J. Envt'l. L. 61 (2000).

• An Overview of Insolvency Proceedings in Asia, 6 Annual Survey of Int'l. & Comp. L. 113 (2000).

• Toward an International Bankruptcy Policy in Europe: Four Decades in Search of a Treaty, 5 Annual Survey of Int'l. & Comp. L. 205 (1999).

• Limitations on Use of the California Homestead Exemption in Bankruptcy Cases: The Case for Following In re Pladson, 21 Calif. Bankruptcy J. 323 (1993). With Jeffrey C. Wurms.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Member, California State Bar

• Bar Association of San Francisco

• American Association of Law Schools, sections on International Legal Exchange and Post-Graduate Legal Education

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Fulbright Scholar, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

• Fellow, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Accademic Exchange Service), Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

• Fulbright Senior Specialist