Susan Tiefenbrun
Professor of Law
Director, Center for Global Legal Studies
Director, Thomas Jefferson School of Law/Zhejiang University College of Law Summer Program in Hangzhou, China
Director, Thomas Jefferson School of Law/Hofstra International/University of North Carolina Summer Program in Nice, France
J.D., New York University School of Law;
Ph.D., Columbia University, magna cum laude;
M.S., University of Wisconsin, magna cum laude;
B.S., University of Wisconsin, magna cum laude
Telephone: 619.374.6908
Email: susant@tjsl.edu
Professor Tiefenbrun brings international experience and scholarship to Thomas Jefferson School of Law. In 2003, she was awarded the French Legion of Honor by President Jacques Chirac for fostering French-American cooperation and cultural exchanges. After attending law school, she worked in an international law firm in Paris and in the New York office of Coudert Brothers, where she handled international commercial transactions. She participated in the opening of one of the first American law offices in Moscow and is a specialist in eastern European joint venture laws, as well as the laws of the European Union, China and the former Soviet Union. Prior to teaching at Thomas Jefferson, she taught at Columbia University graduate school, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Michigan and Hofstra University School of Law. Her special interests are international law, corporate law, securities law, international intellectual property, women and international human rights law, and law and literature. She has written extensively on human trafficking as a form of contemporary slavery. She speaks ten foreign languages and is able to speak, read, write and understand Mandarin Chinese. She has written a book length study of Chinese, Russian and Eastern European joint venture laws, and numerous articles on international intellectual property, especially in China, the World Court, international human rights laws and child soldiers. She has edited three books on law and the arts, war crimes and legal ethics. She is currently writing a book on International Human Rights Law, World Literature and Semiotics. She is past President of the Law and Humanities Institute and is currently the Vice President of its West coast branch. She received a special award for her service to legal education from the San Diego County Bar Association in 2004. She is a frequent speaker and presenter at invitational conferences.
Scholarship
Women and Human Rights Law - Casebook to be published byUniversity of North Carolina Academic Press (forthcoming 2009) Editor, Law and the Arts (Greenwood Press, 1999) Editor Legal Ethics: Access to Justice (Hofstra Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics Symposium, v. 2 1999) (with Roy Simon) Editor, War Crimes and War Crimes Tribunals: Past, Present, and Future (Hofstra Law & Policy Symposium, v.3 1993) (with Leon Friedman) The Legal Right to Wear the Veil and Its Multiple Meanings, in Proceedings of International Law and Literature Conference (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008) The Semiotics of Women's Human Rights in Iran, 23 Conn. J. Int's L. (forthcoming 2007) Updating the Domestic and International Impact of the U. S. Victims of Trafficking Protection Act of 2000: Does Law Deter Crime?, 38 Case W. Res. J. Intl. L. 249 (2006-2007) William J. Clinton's Legacy to Women's Rights, Symposium Issue Hofstra University (2006) Why the Medieval Trial of Joan of Arc is of Particular Interest Today, Review of Daniel Hobbins, The Trial Of Joan Of Arc, Hamline J. L. & Religion (2006) The Cultural, Political, and Legal Climate Behind the Fight to Stop Trafficking in Women: William J. Clinton's Legacy to Women's Rights, 12 Cardozo J. Law & Gender 855 (2006) The Failure of The International Laws of War and the Role of Art and Story-Telling as a Self-Help Remedy for Restorative Justice, Symposium Issue, 12 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 91 (Fall 2005) The Domestic and International Impact of the U.S. Victims of Trafficking Protection Act of 2000: Does Law Deter Crime?, 2 Loy U. Chi Int'l L. Rev. 193 (2005) Symposium Issur 193 (Spring/Summer 2005), to be Reprinted in 38 Case Western J. Int'l Law ___(forthcoming 2007) Representatin of International Humanitarian Laws in the Film "The Pianist": On the Curative Role of the Arts During Genocidal War, 28 Thomas Jefferson L. Rev. 43 (2005) Le Droit de Resistance a l'Oppression, Le Genre Humain 159 (2005) Sex Slavery in the United States and Its Law to Stop it Here and Abroad, 11 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. (2005) Copyright Infringement, Sex Trafficking, and the Fictional Life of a Geisha, 10 Mich. J. Gender & L. 327 (2004) Civil Disobedience and the U.S. Constitution, 32 Southwestern U.L. Rev. 677 (2003), also forthcoming in French as La Désobeissance Civile et la Constitution des États-Unis, in L’Droit De Resistance a L'Oppression, Collection "Le Genre Humain," ed., Editions du Seuil, 380 (2005) A Semiotic Approach to a Legal Definition of Terrorism, 9 Int'l Law Students Ass'n J. Int'l & Comp. L. 365 (2003) The Saga of Susannah – A U.S. Remedy for Sex Trafficking in Women: The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, 1 Utah L. Rev. 107 (2002) Sex Sells But Drugs Don’t Talk: Trafficking of Women Sex Workers and an Economic Solution, 24 T. Jefferson L. Rev. 161 (2002), reprinted entirely in Women and the Law (Carol H. Lefcourt, ed., Thomson-West, 2003 ed.), updating Sex Sells But Drugs Don’t Talk: Trafficking of Women Sex Workers, 23 T. Jefferson L. Rev. 199 (2001) Business and Trade Law, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, Social Sciences and Humanities: Law, § 6.31.2.2 (UNESCO-Eolss, 2002) (published online, http://www.eolss.net) Preface to the Second Annual Women and the Law Conference, in 24 Thomas Jefferson L. Rev. 191 (Spring 2002), Symposium Issue, Second Annual Women in the Law Conference The Paradox of International Adjudication: Developments in the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the World Court, and the International Criminal Court, 25 N.C.J. Int'l L. & Comm. Reg. 551 (2000) Free Trade and Protectionism: The Semiotics of Seattle, 17 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 257 (2000) Legal Ethics: Access to Justice 2 Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics (Roy Simon and Susan Tiefenbrun, Eds., (1999) War Crimes and War Crimes Tribunals: Past, Present, and Future, 3 Law and Policy Symposium (Leon Friedman and Susan Tiefenbrun, Eds. 1999) A Hermeneutic Methodology and How Pirates Read and Misread the Berne Convention, 17 Wis. Int'l L.J. 1 (1999) On Civil Disobedience, Jurisprudence, Feminism and the Law in the Antigones of Sophocles and Anouilh, 11 Cardozo Studies in L. & Lit. 35 (1999) Peace With Justice, 3 Hofstra L. & Policy Symposium 1 (1999) Introduction to Interdisciplinarity and Retrial of Shylock in Law And The Arts 149-153 (Susan Tiefenbrun, Ed.,1999) The Piracy of Intellectual Property in China and the Former Soviet Union and Its Effects Upon International Trade: A Comparison, 46 Buff L. Rev. 1 (1998) On the Tenth Anniversary of Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, 10 Cardozo Stud. in Law & Lit 139-142 (1998) The Role of the World Court in Settling International Disputes: A Recent Assessment, 20 Loyola Rev. OF Int'l L & Comp. L. 1 (1997) The Lie, The Law and La Fontaine's Fables, 25 Metaphore 109 (1996) State and Federal Foreign Affairs Power in the United States, In Government Structures in the U.S.A. and the Sovereign States of the Former U.S.S.R. 156 (Greenwood Press, 1996) Land Ownership in the Russian Federation: Laws and Obstacles, 37 St. Louis L. Rev. 235 (1993) A Comparison of International Arbitral Rules, 15 B.C. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 25 (Winter 1992) Semiotics and Martin Luther King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail, 4 Cardozo Stud. L. & Lit. 255 (1992) New Soviet Fundamentals of Law on Land Ownership, 4 N.Y. Int'l L. Rev. 93-107 (Summer 1991). (cited in publication of World Bank) Hidden Costs of Buying and Selling Property in New York, NYLJ (October 1991) A Legal Framework for Soviet Privatization, 18 Pepperdine L. Rev. 849-892 (1991) Joint Ventures in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and The People's Republic of China as of December, 1989, 21 NYU J. Int'l L .& Pol. 667-794 (Summer l989) (monograph). Legal Semiotics, Cardozo Arts & Enter. L.J, 89-156 (1986)
List of Works
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Subjects Include:
Business Associations, Business Planning, European Union Law, International Business Transactions, International Intellectual Property Law, Securities Regulation, Women & International Human Rights.
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