Faculty - The Hague, Netherlands
RESIDENT DIRECTORS:
WEEK 1: Wendy Scott, Associate Dean of Special Projects and Professor of Law, Elon University School of Law, Greensboro, North Carolina
WEEK 2: Andrew Appleby, Associate Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida
WEEK 3: Sarah Gerwig-Moore, Director of Experiential Education and Professor of Law, Mercer University School of Law, Macon, Georgia
WEEK 4: Joseph Morrissey, Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida
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FACULTY:
WEEK 1: July 1-4, 2024: COMPARATIVE INDIGENOUS LAW (1 credit)
INSTRUCTOR: Wendy Scott, Associate Dean of Special Projects and Professor of Law, Elon University School of Law, Greensboro, North Carolina
Wendy B. Scott, former Associate Dean for Academic Success, now serves as the Associate Dean of Special Projects. Having taught close to 2000 students since joining the legal academy in 1989, Scott explains, “My goal has always been to make a difference in the lives of law students." Scott ldd a dedicated staff of experienced lawyer/teachers in the Office of Academic Success (OAS) for six years with the goal of motivating students "to learn the skills needed to successfully navigate the short, intense academic experience called law school, pass the bar exam and serve the profession to the best of their abilities. Under Scott's leadership, OAS has created innovative programs for students; expanded support for graduates preparing to sit for the bar examination: and redesigned Introduction to Legal Studies, Mastering Legal Analysis and Bar Exam Foundations.
In her current role of Associate Dean of Special Projects, Professor Scott will work closely with Dean Kramer to build a stronger connection between the law school and main campus.
Professor Scott is a nationally recognized scholar of constitutional law and school desegregation. She has taught Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Gender and the Law and Federal Indian Law. She will soon complete a publication for Carolina Academic Press on the dissenting opinions of Thurgood Marshall with co-author Dean Linda S. Greene.
WEEK 2: July 8-11, 2024: COMPARATIVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (1 credit)
INSTRUCTOR: Andrew Appleby, Associate Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida
Professor Andrew Appleby focuses his teaching and scholarship on tax and business law. He has particular expertise in state and local taxation, taxation of the digital economy, sports taxation, and applied tax policy. Professor Appleby has published in many prominent law journals, most recently the Harvard Journal on Legislation, Arizona State Law Journal, and Maryland Law Review.
He has been featured extensively in the media, including The New York Times, Bloomberg TV, and Tax Notes. Professor Appleby also co-authors the leading treatise on state taxation, Hellerstein’s State Taxation (3d. ed) (with Jerome Hellerstein & Walter Hellerstein), which is cited regularly by the United States Supreme Court and many other courts across the nation.
Professor Appleby practiced tax and corporate law at leading law firms for nearly a decade. Most recently, he was special counsel in the tax group in Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's New York office. Professor Appleby was a partner in the tax group in Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP's New York office, and an associate in the corporate group in Alston & Bird LLP's Atlanta office. Prior to his legal career, Professor Appleby was an information technology and business consultant.
Professor Appleby earned an LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center, where he participated in the Graduate Tax Scholar fellowship program. He earned a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law, an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, and a B.S. from Florida State University.
WEEK 3: July 15-18, 2024: BOOKS AND FLICKS: TRIAL ADVOCACY AND TRIBUNALS THROUGH THE LENSES OF LITERATURE AND FILM (1 credit)
INSTRUCTOR: Sarah Gerwig-Moore, Director of Experiential Education and Professor of Law, Mercer University School of Law, Macon, Georgia
Sarah Gerwig is a Professor at Mercer University School of Law, where she has previously served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Shortly after joining the law faculty in 2006, she founded the nationally-recognized Habeas Project, which provides pro bono representation in post-conviction cases across Georgia. She directs Mercer’s unique Introduction to Client Counseling program, and her textbook, What Brings You Here Today? An Introduction to Client Counseling, was published in Summer 2021. Professor Gerwig is a McDonald Distinguished Fellow with Emory University’s Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law and Religion, and she also writes on topics related to criminal law, mass incarceration, social justice, and legal education. Beyond her teaching and scholarship, she is engaged with a number of statewide nonprofit organizations, including the Georgia Resource Center, the Georgia Innocence Project, and the Altamaha Riverkeeper.
Before joining the Mercer faculty, Professor Gerwig was the Senior Appellate Supervising Attorney in the central office of Georgia’s statewide public defender system. She received her BA, summa cum laude, from Mercer University; her JD from Emory Law School; and her Master of Theological Studies from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, where she studied with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Her other honors include the Candler School of Theology Distinguished Alumni Award (2017); the Shanara Gilbert Emerging Clinician Award from the AALS Clinical Legal Education Section (2013); the Robert J. Benham Award Community Service Award (2011); and in 2016 was named as one of Georgia Trend’s 40 Under 40.
WEEK 4: July 22-25, 2024: INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION (1 credit)
INSTRUCTOR: Joseph Morrissey, Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida
Professor Morrissey received his B.A. from Princeton University and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. He practiced corporate and securities law for Mayer, Brown & Platt, and later Kirkland & Ellis. He also spent several years overseeing a Russian asset portfolio for an investment company in Switzerland. His practice led him to run offices in Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Geneva, Switzerland; and Moscow, Russia.
In the summer of 2001, Professor Morrissey began his full-time academic career at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He joined Stetson Law in the summer of 2004.
Professor Morrissey has taught and published articles in the areas of contracts, constitutional law, corporations, securities, and international private law. His articles have appeared in the Columbia Business Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, The University of Chicago Journal of International Law, The Georgia State University Law Review, and others. Professor Morrissey is the author of International Sales & Arbitration (Aspen Select, 2d Edition, 2017); co-author of Elder Law in Context (Aspen, 2017), and Bankruptcy Law in Context (Aspen, 2019); and authored the Business Entities Chapter in Ellen Podgor's Overview of US Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2d Edition, 2018).