Faculty

Lorand Bartels, PhD
Faculty of Law
University of Cambridge (UK)

Lorand Bartels, BA (Hons) LLB (UNSW) PhD (EUI) is an University Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, where he teaches WTO law, international law, and EU law.

Dr Bartels is on the Executive Council of the Society for International Economic Law and the International Trade Law Committee of the International Law Association, and is a co-editor of the monographs series International Trade and Economic Law Series, Cambridge University Press.

Publications include ‘Trade and Human Rights’ in D Bethlehem et al (eds), Oxford Handbook on International Trade Law, Law (Oxford: OUP, 2009) 571-596, ‘The WTO Legality of the EU’s GSP+ Arrangement’ (2007) 10 J Int Econ Law 869-86, Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO Legal System (Oxford: OUP, 2006), edited with F Ortino; and Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s International Agreements (Oxford: OUP, 2005).

Marco Claudio Corradi, PhD
St. Catherine’s College
University of Oxford

Marco Corradi qualified as a lawyer at the University of Bologna ‘Alma Mater Studiorum’ in 2001. After having completed his PHD in Competition Law and Economics at ‘Richard Goodwin Faculty of Economics’ in Siena (2008) he continued his studies at the University of Oxford (MJUR, 2009) where he is currently pursuing a research degree (MPHIL) in Comparative and European Corporate Law. He is also a qualified barrister (“Avvocato”) at Bologna Court of Appeal since 2005. In 2005 he has also been a member of a Ministerial Research Project (MIUR) for the implementation of Reg. 1/2003 in the Italian Jurisdiction. His research interests and publications mainly pertain to commercial law and economics, with special focus on competition law, industrial organization and company law.

Raymond Cox QC
Fountain Court Chambers

Raymond Cox graduated in 1984 at Mansfield College, Oxford University (BA Hons. Jurisprudence, First Class). He was granted Eldon Scholar (Oxford University) and Arden Scholar (Gray’s Inn).
Raymond Cox has a wide practice focused on commercial disputes and regulation, with an emphasis on banking and financial services, reinsurance and insurance, regulation relating to insurance and financial services, professional negligence.

Publications include Law of Bank Payments (2004, 3rd ed.) joint editor with Michael Brindle QC, (Sweet & Maxwell), Private International Law of Reinsurance and Insurance, December 2006, Informa (LLP) with Louise Merrett and Marcus Smith, Commercial Court Procedure 2001, general editor with Stephen Moriarty QC, (2000, Sweet & Maxwell), Contributor to Professional Negligence and Liability (LLP 2000), edited by Mark Simpson QC, and Joint editor of Regulatory part of Encyclopaedia of Insurance Law (ed. Prof John Birds, Sweet and Maxwell, 2006)

Prof. Keith Hawkins
Oriel College
University of Oxford (UK)

Keith Hawkins is Professor Emeritus of Law and Society at Oxford University, Fellow Emeritus of Oriel College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics.His research is concerned with the sociology of legal processes, and specifically with legal decision-making.

His work has mostly been conducted in areas of criminal justice and in governmental regulation, especially in environmental protection and occupational health and safety.

His book Law as Last Resort: Prosecution Decision-making in a Regulatory Agency (Oxford University Press, 2002) won the Herbert Jacob Prize of the American Law and Society Association in 2003.

Dr Christopher Bowdler
University Lecturer in Economics and Fellow of Oriel College
University of Oxford (UK)

Dr. Christopher Bowdler is a University Lecturer in Economics and Fellow of Oriel College, University of Oxford, where he teaches a range of undergraduate courses in macroeconomic theory, monetary economics and global economic policy issues. Previously he was a British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. Bowdler did is doctoral work in Oxford after reading for the Economics Trips at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on research topics such as the monetary policy transmission mechanism, testing models of the output-inflation tradeoff and the macroeconomic consequences of international differences in labour market institutions, and writes a

blog offering commentary on developments in the world economy and macroeconomic policy issues. Bowdler has been a research consultant to the European Central Bank and has worked on a range of projects for private sector organisations. He is married with one daughter.

Dr Catherine Mackenzie
Faculty of Law
Cambridge University

Dr Catherine MacKenzie is a lawyer with particular interests in international law and international environmental law. Formerly as Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, she graduated from Oxford, the Inns of Court School of Law, Sydney, and the Australian National University, at which she completed her PhD in law as a Commonwealth Scholar. She is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and of the High Court of Australia and before being appointed to Oxford, was employed by Allen & Overy, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.

She is currently working on the relationship between international law, the rule of law and environmental protection. She has particular interests in international forest law, the implementation and enforcement of environmental obligations by international courts and tribunals and the relationship between international environmental law and international humanitarian law. She also enjoys implementing the fruits of her research in challenging areas: she has served as a rule of law monitor with the United Nations Mission in Liberia and she now advises on the establishment of the first law school for women in Saudi Arabia.”

Glen Loutzenhiser
McGrigors Lecturer in Tax Law

Glen Loutzenhiser is McGrigors University Lecturer in Tax Law and Fellow of St Hugh’s College. Glen previously worked as a solicitor in the corporate tax department of the Toronto law firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, and as an accountant in public practice and industry. Glen is qualified as a barrister & solicitor as well as a Chartered Accountant in Canada. He teaches undergraduate courses on EU Law and Taxation Law and on the BCL/MJur Corporate and Business Taxation and Personal Taxation courses.

Dr. Georg Ringe
Christ Church College
Faculty of Law, The University of Oxford

Dr Wolf-Georg Ringe  is DAAD Lecturer in Law at the Institute of European and Comparative Law and Fellow at Christ Church. He is an associate member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. In Spring 2010, he was a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, New York. As part of a European-wide consortium, he regularly advises the European Parliament on issues of European company law. ?Georg teaches Comparative and European Corporate Law, European Business Regulation, Company Law, European Union Law and German Law. His current research interests are in the general area of Law and Finance, (Comparative) Corporate Governance, Securities Law and the Conflict of Laws.

Dr. Robert Pitkethley
St. Peter’s College
Faculty of Law, The University of Oxford

Dr. Robert Pitkethly is a fellow and tutor in management at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, a committee member of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, a member of Oxford University’s Intellectual Property Advisory Group and also of the faculty of management of Oxford University. His teaching and research interests are centred around strategic management, the management of intellectual property and related intellectual property policy issues. He has worked as a management consultant in connection with a wide variety of technology based and general management issues. He originally qualified and worked as a UK and European Patent Attorney in both private practice and industry and holds degrees in chemistry, business administration, and Japanese studies. Prior to moving to Oxford he was a Research Fellow at the Judge Institute in Cambridge University, where he co-authored The Management of International Acquisitions (OUP, 2001). He has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP) and the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy in Tokyo. He has been involved in numerous research and education projects involving organisations such as the UK government’s Intellectual Property Office and Strategic Advisory Board for IP Policy (SABIP), as well as the EPO, WIPO and others. Research projects he is currently involved in concern Intellectual Property awareness and Intellectual Property enforcement, especially by SMEs.

Dominik Wanner
Center for International
Business and Commercial Law
Shanghai (China)

*The walking tour in Oxford and the visit to Blenheim Palace will be done by Mr. John Whitehead an his colleagues.