Pacific McGeorge Sacramento International Faculty
Linda E. Carter
Professor of Law
B.A. University of Illinois
J.D. University of Utah College of Law
Professor Carter has taught criminal law courses at Pacific McGeorge for 20 years. She is a well recognized expert in domestic and international criminal law and criminal procedure. In the last few years, her research has mainly focused on international issues. Professor Carter’s research took her to Rwanda in July 2005, where she studied the Gacaca proceedings that are lay tribunals hearing genocide cases. The following month she lectured at a workshop on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In January 2006, Professor Carter was a Co-Director of the Brandeis Institute for International Judges that held a program on Complementarity and Cooperation: Challenges for International Justice held in Dakar, Senegal. Immediately following the Institute, she participated in a Brandeis-sponsored colloquium for judges from West African countries, leading a session on international law and the death penalty. And in April 2006, she was moderator of a panel on the application of international models in a conference on wrongful convictions in Los Angeles. In addition, Professor Carter is an active member of the Globalizing the Law School Curriculum effort. She is co-authoring GLOBAL ISSUES IN CRIMINAL LAW as part of the “Global Issues” series of book published by Thomson- West, which will be available in early 2007. Before joining Pacific law faculty 20 years ago, Professor Carter worked for two and a half years as a trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department. She then spent four years as a trial attorney with the Salt Lake City Legal Defender Association, trying a wide variety of criminal cases from theft to murder.
Omar Dajani
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., Northwestern University
J.D., Yale Law School
Omar M. Dajani's legal, political, and diplomatic skills have placed him squarely in the center of one of the world's most troubled regions: the Middle East. As advisor to United Nations Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larson from 2001 to 2003, Professor Dajani was intimately involved in a range of multilateral initiatives to foster peace in the region, including the Middle Wast Roadmap. He also played a lead role in marshalling and organizing international efforts to support Palestinian legal and political reforms, and represented the U.N. in donor groups supporting Palestinian elections, the development of rule of law, and civil society mobilization. Prior to joining the UN, Professor Dajani was Senior Legal Advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team in peace talks with Israel. In that capacity, he gained unique experience in preparing and negotiating complex agreements covering a variety of contested matters including borders, security, law enforcement, trade and financial issues. Professor Dajani's private sector experience includes work at the Washington, D.C. offices of Sidley & Austin and Steptoe & Johnson. In 1997 he clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, in Pasadena, Calif. At Yale Law School, Professor Dajani was General Director of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Project.
Courses: Foreign Investment and Development, International Organizations, and Immigration & Nationality
Marjorie Florestal
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., J.D., New York University
Marjorie Florestal brings her considerable talents and scholarship to bear on one of the most difficult challenges in the world trade arena: the economic development of Africa. Most recently, she served as Senior Legal Advisor working with the Cape Verde government to prepare that country to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). She has been a Visiting Researcher in Africa, lecturing at a number of institutions, working with the African Development Bank to mainstream trade issues in their lending practices and to train African trade officials on substantive aspects of WTO law, and publishing a variety of articles on international trade issues. At the invitation of the State Department, Professor Florestal has designed and implemented programs in Nigeria and Ethiopia working with those governments on good governance issues and integrating developing countries into the world trading system. Previously, Professor Florestal was Managing Attorney for Africa in the Commercial Law Development Program at the U.S. Department of Commerce. There she administered a multimillion dollar technical assistance program in North and West Africa implementing a range of training programs on commercial legal reform and the WTO Agreement. From 1998 to 2000 she was Assistant General Counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where, as lead attorney and head of the U.S. delegation for safeguards measures, she presented arguments before WTO dispute settlement panels.
Courses: EU law, and Advanced International Trade Law
Franklin A. Gevurtz
Distinguished Professor and Scholar
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles
J.D., University of California, Berkeley
In addition to his teaching and writing as a Distinguished Professor and Scholar at Pacific McGeorge, Professor Gevurtz is the Director of the Pacific McGeorge Institute for Global Business - part of the Pacific McGeorge Center for Global Business and Development. In this role, he is spearheading a revolutionary effort to “globalize” the curriculum throughout legal education in the United States. This includes acting as the Series Editor for the “Global Issues” series of books published by Thomson-West, which are designed to facilitate the introduction of international and comparative law issues in core law school courses. Professor Gevurtz’ principal area of scholarship and teaching is in corporate and business law. His treatise, CORPORATION LAW, is widely read and cited both in the United States and abroad. He is also well-known for authoring the casebook, BUSINESS PLANNING (now in its third edition) - which is by far and away the dominant book used to teach this course in law schools throughout the United States. Merging his background in corporate law, with global business, Professor Gevurtz authored the book, GLOBAL ISSUES IN CORPORATE LAW as part of the Global Issues series. Professor Gevurtz also has written numerous law review articles, including on topics of foreign corruption, and comparative corporate and securities laws. He has taught or lectured in Athens, London, Nancy (France), Salzburg and Seoul, and has been a visiting professor at the law schools of the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), and the University of California, Davis. Prior to joining the Pacific McGeorge faculty in 1982, Professor Gevurtz practiced with the internationally recognized law firm of O’Melveny and Myers in Los Angeles.
Courses: Antitrust, Agency and Unfair Trade Practices
Thomas Orin Main
Professor of Law
B.A. Grinnell College
J.D. Northeastern Univ. School of Law
Professor Main is an expert in the field of domestic and international civil procedure with numerous publications including Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context ( Aspen), a leading casebook in the field that is now in its second edition. A second book, Global Issues in Civil Procedure (West), is the first of a series of books intended to globalize the law school curriculum. In addition, he is co-authoring a book with Professor Stephen McCaffrey, Transnational Litigation in Comparative Perspective, which will be published by Oxford University Press. Professor Main has taught domestic and international procedure courses at Pacific McGeorge since 2000, and has also taught as a visiting professor at law schools at the University of Salzburg, Florida State University, Yeshiva University (Cardozo), and University of California, Davis. Prior to his academic career, Professor Main was a litigator in the trial department at Hill & Barlow in Boston, Massachusetts, and was the Associate General Counsel at Platinum Equity. He clerked for Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Dr. Michael P. Malloy
Distinguished Professor and Scholar
J.D., University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Georgetown University
An internationally recognized expert on bank regulation and on economic sanctions, Dr. Malloy received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from Georgetown University. He has served as a Research Associate at the Institute of International Law & Economic Development in Washington, D.C., as an attorney-adviser with the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control and with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and as Special Counsel (Disclosure and Enforcement Policy) at the Securities and Exchange Commission. In 1982, he entered law teaching as an assistant professor of law at New York Law School, and later served as professor of law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Seton Hall University School of Law. From 1987-1996, he was professor of law at Fordham University School of Law, where he also served as Director of Graduate Studies. A member of the American Society of International Law since 1975, Dr. Malloy served on the Society’s Executive Council (1986-1989) and as the Editor of the Proceedings of the American Society of International Law (1987-1989). From 1995-1997, he was Chair of the Committee on Economic Sanctions of the International Law Association (American Branch). During the same period, he was Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Banking Law Anthology, published by the International Library. He has also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services of the Association of American Law Schools (1998-2000), as Secretary-Treasurer of the Section (2000-2001), as Chair-Elect and Program Chair of the Section (2001-2002), and as Section Chair (2002-2003). In 2006, he was appointed a member of the Athens Institute for Education and Research. He joined the Pacific McGeorge Faculty in 1996. In May 2000, the University of the Pacific honored him as its Distinguished Faculty of the Year. In January 2003, he was appointed Distinguished Professor and Scholar. From June 2004 to January 2008, he served as the first Director of the Pacific McGeorge Center for Global Business and Development. The 2006-2007 Academic Year marks his 25th year in teaching. Malloy is a frequent consultant to the federal government on issues involving bank regulatory policy and international economic sanctions. In addition to his many scholarly articles, he has authored or edited over 70 books and book-length supplements in such fields as banking regulation, economic sanctions, international banking and public international law. His most recent publications are Global Issues in Contract Law (Thomson-West, 2007); Banking Law and Regulation (3 vols., Aspen, 2008 Supp. No. 1); Banking and Financial Services Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems (2d ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2005); International Banking: Cases, Materials, and Problems (2d ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2005); Principles of Bank Regulation (Concise Hornbook Series, 2d ed., Thomson-West, 2003); and, U.S. Economic Sanctions: Theory and Practice (Kluwer Law International, 2001). He is currently working on a new edition of International Trade and Investment with his coauthors, John H. Barton, of Stanford Law School, and Bart S. Fisher, Esq., of Washington, DC.
Courses: Banking Law, Business Associations, Contracts, Economic Sanctions and Trade, Federal Securities Regulation, International Banking, International Trade, Law and Literature
Christine Manolakas
Professor of Law
B.A., University of Southern California
J.D., Loyola University, Los Angeles
LLM in Taxation, New York University
Professor Manolakas has been teaching tax law at Pacific McGeorge for more than 20 years. Her recent scholarship has focused on issues relating to international tax law, the interpretation of tax treaties, and a comparison of the tax systems of the NAFTA countries. Most recently, she has co-authored five articles with Catherine Brown, a law professor at the University of Calgary. Other publications include articles on federal tax law and chapters in two treatises: Tax Factors in Real Estate Operations and Family Law in the United States. She oversees the off-campus tax law externships for students with the Internal Revenue Service, the Franchise Tax Board, the State Board of Equalization, and the state Attorney General's Business and Tax Division.
Course: Taxation ( U.S.) of International Transactions
Stephen McCaffrey
Distinguished Professor and Scholar
B.A., University of Colorado
J.D., University of California, Berkeley
Dr. iur., University of Cologne, Germany
Professor McCaffrey, one of the world's foremost experts on international water resources law, is a former chairman of the International Law Commission. As the ILC's "special rapporteur" for international watercourses, he guided the ILC's work that formed the basis of the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational uses of International Watercourses. The treaty is designed to ensure the equitable use of waters shared by more than one country. Professor McCaffrey currently serves as legal consultant to the Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework, a UN-sponsored project to forge a multinational agreement on utilization of the Nile's water resources. A frequent international traveler, McCaffrey has argued in front of The World Court, taught environmental law courses in German at Swiss universities, advised the State Department, and represented foreign governments in river-use disputes. A member of the Pacific McGeorge faculty since 1977, he has published several books and more than 50
Courses: Conflict of Laws, International Water Resources Law Seminar, The Law of Treaties, Transnational Litigation
Gregory S. Weber
Professor of Law
A.B., Williams College
J.D., University of California, Hastings
Professor Weber has two principal research interests: dispute resolution processes and natural resources law. Much of his current work looks at the intersection of those two research interests. At McGeorge, he co-founded and heads the Institute for Sustainable Development, a program focused on transnational natural resources issues. Greg is also an associate mediator with the Center for Collaborative Policy, where he has helped mediate complex natural resources disputes. As an environmental law advisor, he has studied forestry disputes in Mexico for the World Wildlife Fund and in Canada for the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Currently, he is leading a project to revise the FSC dispute resolution protocol which he wrote while on academic sabbatical in Oaxaca, Mexico. He is also researching the Friendly Settlement practices in the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter American Court of Human Rights. He has trained Chilean prosecutors and defenders in negotiation skills. Before joining the McGeorge faculty, he clerked for Justice Edmond Burke, Alaska Supreme Court, practiced with a leading California water resources law firm, and was a senior attorney for the California Court of Appeal. He is a co-founder of the California Water Law and Policy Reporter. Greg has published more than a half-dozen law review articles, mostly on water resources law. He has also co-authored four books, including one on civil pretrial procedure, two on Water Resources Law and one on the Law of Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Substances. Greg speaks and reads Spanish.
Course: Alternative Dispute Resolution
Kojo Yelpaala
Professor of Law
B.L., LL.B., University of Ghana
M.B.A., Bowling Green State University
Msc., S.J.D., University of Wisconsin
Professor Yelpaala is an expert in international business law who is fluent in three languages. He was a state attorney for three years in his native Ghana. Professor Yelpaala was a lecturer in law at the University of Wisconsin before coming to Pacific McGeorge in 1981. Professor Yelpaala has edited books and law review articles in such topics as the Lome Conventions, foreign direct investment, licensing agreements, drafting and enforcing contracts, international conflicts of laws, global product distribution and several other topics. At Pacific McGeorge, he has been an advisor to International Moot Court and The Transnational Lawyer. Professor Yelpaala is a consultant on various aspects of international business transactions and industrial policy to several foreign governments.
Courses: Advanced International Business Transactions, Antitrust, Transnational Litigation, Conflict of Laws, Foreign Investment and Development