Michael Asimow
UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW

Visiting Professor of Law Michael Asimow brings to Stanford Law decades of experience teaching Contracts. He is a professor of law emeritus at UCLA Law School, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1967. He is an expert
in the fields of administrative law 
and the portrayal of law in popular culture. Asimow holds a BS from UCLA and a JD from UC Berkeley.

Daphne Barak-Erez
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, THE BUCHMANN FACULTY OF LAW

Daphne Barak-Erez comes to Stanford Law this fall as the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Human Rights and will teach Law and Terrorism. She is a Stewart and Judy Colton professor of law at Tel Aviv University’s Buchmann Faculty of Law, where she specializes in administrative and constitutional 
law. She is a member of the 
Council of Higher Education in 
Israel, the American Law Institute, and the International Academy of Comparative Law. She has an LLB, LLM, and JSD from 
Tel Aviv University.

Jared R. Curhan
MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Jared R. Curhan is a visiting associate professor of law from MIT Sloan School of Management where he specializes in negotiation and conflict resolution. He is teaching an Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on Negotiation and Decision Making. Curhan’s current research uses
the subjective value inventory (a measure he developed) to examine precursors, processes, and long-term effects of subjective value in negotiation. He received degrees 
in psychology from Harvard (BA) 
and Stanford (MA ’99, PhD ’01).

Siegfried Fina
UNIVERSITY of VIENNA SCHOOL of LAW

Siegfried Fina is a visiting professor of law from the University of Vienna School of Law, where he is an associate professor of European Union law and technology law. He is teaching European Union Law. No stranger to Stanford, Fina is co-director of the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum at Stanford Law and a research affiliate with the Forum on Contemporary Europe of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is an expert in business-related and technology-related law and policy of the
 European Union as well as legal aspects of the EU-US trade and economic governance issues of the trans-Atlantic marketplace. Fina received his LLM and JD from the University of Vienna School of Law, where he also earned a postgraduate diploma in international law.

James L. Gibson
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

James L. Gibson comes to the law school from Washington University as the James B. McClatchy Visiting Professor. He is teaching Law and Society and Transitional Justice. Some of his current scholarship focuses on the consolidation of democratization in Russia; political tolerance, justice, and the initiation of democratic reform in South Africa; and the legitimacy of judicial and legal institutions throughout the world. He earned a BA from Emory University and an MA and PhD from the University of Iowa.

Robert W. Gordon
YALE LAW SCHOOL

Robert W. Gordon returns to Stanford Law from Yale Law School this year as an Edwin A. Heafey, Jr. Visiting Professor. He is teaching Modern American Legal Thought and the Legal Studies Workshop. Gordon’s areas of expertise include contracts, American legal history, evidence, the legal profession, and law and globalization. He was a member of Stanford Law School’s faculty from 1982 to 1995. He holds both a BA and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Adriaan Lanni
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Adriaan Lanni is at Stanford Law in the fall to teach Criminal Law. She is an assistant professor at Harvard Law School and holds a BA from Yale and JD from Yale Law School, a master of philosophy degree from Cambridge, and a PhD in history from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include ancient law, criminal law and procedure, and the jury.

Donald J. Lewis
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG FACULTY OF LAW

Donald J. Lewis will be a visiting associate professor of law this winter, teaching Trade and Investment in China. He is also an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong, convenor of the Chinese Law Research Group, and a fellow of the HKU Institute for China and Global Development. His research has focused on Chinese law, trade and investment law in the People’s Republic of China, international trade law, and Asian law and development. Lewis received his BA from the University of Southern California, his JD from Emory University, and his LLM from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.

Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo
UNIVERSIDAD METROPOLITANA IN CARACAS

Professor Pérez-Perdomo is a visiting faculty member from Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela, where he is dean of the Faculty of Juridical and Political Studies. He is teaching Law in Latin America and, in conjunction with Professor Lawrence M. Friedman, the SPILS Law and Society Seminar in the fall.

Leo M. Romero
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF LAW

Leo M. Romero is a Herman Phleger Visiting Professor, visiting from the University of New Mexico School of Law where he recently served as acting dean. He is teaching Evidence. Romero received a BA from Oberlin College, a JD from Washington University, and an LLM from Georgetown University. 
His scholarship focuses primarily on criminal law and judicial selection issues.

William Simon
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL

A Herman Phleger Visiting Professor this year, William Simon returns to Stanford Law as a visitor from Columbia Law School this autumn, teaching Professional Responsibility Issues in Business Practice and Reconstructing the Administrative State: Theory and Practice of Regulatory and Welfare Return. He was on Stanford Law’s faculty from 1981 to 2003, first as the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and then the William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law. His research interests include professional responsibility, corporations, and foundations of regulatory state. Simon holds a BA from Princeton and a JD from Harvard Law School.

George G. Triantis
HARVARD LAW School

Harvard Law School’s Eli Goldston Professor of Law George G. Triantis visits this year to teach Bankruptcy. His teaching and research have focused upon bankruptcy, commercial transactions, contracts, and corporate finance. He has degrees from the University of Toronto (JD and BA), University of Virginia School of Law (LLB), and Stanford Law School (JSD ’89).

Jonathan Zittrain
HARVARD LAW School

Jonathan Zittrain is also visiting from Harvard Law School, returning this year as an Edwin A. Heafey, Jr. Visiting Professor. He will teach Torts in the fall and an innovative joint course with Harvard Law students Cyberlaw: Difficult Problems in the winter. Zittrain’s research interests include digital property, electronic privacy, technology in education, cyberlaw, intellectual property, torts, trademark, privacy, electronic commerce, Internet governance, and the role played by private “middlepeople” in Internet architecture. He holds degrees from Yale (BS), Harvard Law School (JD), and the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government (MPA).