SUSAN
W. TIEFENBRUN
Susan W. Tiefenbrun is an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the
Center for Global Legal Studies at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. She is the
Founder and Director of the Hofstra University School of Law International Law
Summer Program in Nice, France in cooperation with the University of Nice School
of Law and Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
She
received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin, magna cum laude,
and was awarded Phi Beta Kappa as a junior. She received her Master of Arts
from the University of Wisconsin with distinction, a Ph.D. from Columbia University,
summa cum laude, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
In 2003 she was awarded the medal of the French Legion of Honor by Presidential
Decree for her achievements in the field of French and American cooperation
in literature, the arts, and the law. She has written a book-length study of
Soviet laws and eastern European joint venture laws and numerous articles on
international intellectual property, the World Court, and international intellectual
property, and international human rights.
Her current research is on global trafficking of women as a contemporary form
of slavery. She has edited three books on law and the arts, war crimes and war
crimes tribunals, and legal ethics. She is President of the Law and Humanities
Institute. She was recently appointed to the American Society of International
Law Book Award Selection Committee.
BOOKS
Co-Editor
with LEON FRIEDMAN, WAR CRIMES AND WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS: PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE
(1999)
ARTICLES, BOOK
CHAPTERS, AND OTHER ARTICLE-LENGTH WORKS
"Civil
Disobedience and the U.S. Constitution, 32, 4 SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW 677-701
(2003).
"Copyright
Infringement, Sex Trafficking, and the Fictional Life of a Geisha," 365
MICHIGAN J.L.and GENDER (forthcoming, 2003)
"La
Desobeissance Civile et la Constitution des Etats-Unis in L'Esprit Humain
(Editions Seuil,forthcoming 2003)
"A
Semiotic Approach to Legal Definition of Terrorism, 9,2 ISLA J. INT'L and
COMP.L. 358-389 (Spring 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 LR 107-175 (2002).
"Sex
Sells But Drugs Don't Talk: Trafficking of Women Sex Workers and an Economic
Solution," 24, 2 TJSL LR 161 (Spring 2002), Symposium Issue, First
Annual Women in the Law Conference, revised and updated version of article
published 23, 2 TJSL LR. 199 (Spring 2001). Reprinted entirely in WOMEN
AND THE LAW, Ed. Carol H. Lefcourt, Release # 17 (Nov 2003)(Thomson West
Publishers).
Arthur
Goldenās Memoirs of a Geisha: Artisan or Courtesan or the Law and Literature
of Sex Trafficking and Copyright Infringement (under submission).
Sex
Sells but Drugs Donāt Talk: Trafficking of Women Sex Workers, 23 Thomas
Jefferson School of Law L.R. 199 (2001).
The
Saga of Susannah: A U.S. Remedy for Sex Trafficking in Women: The Victims
of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, Utah Law Review
(forthcoming April, 2002).
Business
and International Trade, in UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support
Systems 6.31 (Aaron Schwabach, ed., forthcoming 2002).
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. Intāl Law & Com.
Reg. 551 (2000).
Free
Trade and Protectionism: The Semiotics of Seattle, 17 Ariz. J. Intāl & Comp.
L. 257 (2000)
A Hermeneutic
Methodology and How Pirates Read and Misread the Berne Convention, 17
Wisconsin Intāl. 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)
The
Piracy of Intellectual Property in China and the Former Soviet Union
and Its Effects Upon International Trade: A Comparison, 46 Buffalo L.
Rev. 1 (1998)
.
The
Role of the World Court in Settling International Disputes: A Recent
Assessment, 20 Loyola Rev. of Intāl & Comp. L. 1 (1997).
The
Lie, The Law, and La Fontaineās Fables, 25 Metaphore 109 (1996).
ćState
and Federal Foreign Affairs Power in the United States,ä in Government
Structures in the U.S.A., and in 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 Boston Coll. Intāl & Comp.
L. Rev. 25 (1992).
New
Soviet Fundamentals of Law on Land Ownership, 4 N.Y. Intāl L. Rev. 93
(1991)
A
Legal Framework for Soviet Privatization, 18 Pepperdine L. Rev. 849
(1991)
Joint
Ventures in the U.S.S.R., Eastern Europe, and the Peopleās Republic of
China, as of December, 1989, 21 N.Y.U. J. Intāl. L. & Politics
667 (1989).
How
Pirates Read and Misread the Berne Convention, 92 Am. Socāy Intāl L. Proc.
375 (1998).
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).
SHORTER WORKS
Peace
With Justice, 3 Hofstra L. & Polāy Symp. 1 (1999) (Symposium on War Crimes and War Crimes Tribunals: Past, Present,
and Future) (Susan W. Tiefenbrun & Leon Friedman, eds.).