SCHOOL OF LAW

International Programs

Visiting Faculty

Antonio H. Benjamin serves as Assistant Attorney General of the State of São Paulo in Brazil, and is responsible for consumer and environmental litigation. He has taught at the National School of Judges (Brazil), the University of São Paulo, and the Catholic University of São Paulo College of Law. He serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Brazilian Institute of Environmental Law and Policy. He is co-author or editor of several influential books in Portuguese including Environmental Damage: Prevention, Redress, and Repression (1994). At Texas, he teaches courses on comparative environmental law, biodiversity, Agenda 21, and the protection of the rainforests.

Dagmar Coester-Waltjen

Joerg Fedtke is from the Institute of Global Law, University College London. He was previously assistant to Professor Ulrich Magnus at the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law and Law of Procedure in Hamburg/Germany and DAAD/Clifford Chance Lecturer in German Law at University College London. He has published a book on the reception of German constitutional law in South Africa and, amongst other articles, a series of contributions to the Unification of Tort Law series of the European Group on Tort Law based in Vienna/Austria. In London, Dr Fedtke teaches comparative administrative law, constitutional law and tort law. He is Deputy Director of the Institute of Global Law. His current research interests include various comparative law projects (including the constitutional protection of the freedom of occupation), institutionalised approaches to the reform of law, and the development of a website of translated German and French legal material.

Francesco Francioni, a long time visitor of the UT Law Faculty, Professor Francioni was recently elected to the Chair of International Law and International Human Rights at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. He is responsible for promoting research and for teaching in the area of international law, European law, and human rights, and is co-director of the Academy of European Law and Human Rights. Francioni previously served as the professor of International Law at the University of Siena (Italy), where he directed Siena's International Peace Studies Center. A member of the American Law Institute, he has been a visiting professor at the European University Institute (Florence), Cornell, Toronto, and Cambridge. He is author, co-author or editor of nine books, including International Responsibility for Environmental Harm (1991) and Italy and EC Membership Evaluated (1992).

Anne Griffiths has been a Lecturer in the Faculty of law at Edinburgh University since 1980. She is a regular visitor to the Law School and has visited at other distinguished law schools such as Cornell and the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her major research interests include family law, alternative dispute processing, comparative law and anthropology of law, areas in which she has published extensively.

Horatia Muir Watt, visiting from the University of Paris I (Panthéon - Sorbonne), focuses on international litigation and international business transactions, and will teach a class in comparative conflict of laws. She is the author of many articles, including, "The Growing Importance of European Law"(Texas International Law Journal and Hart Publishing, London, 2001).

Manuel Gonzales Oropeza is a tenured law professor from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His specializations are on Constitutional Law and Comparative Law, as well as Legal History. He has published around 20 books in collaboration with many authors from Mexico, the United States and Canada. He was founding Dean of the Insttitute for Legal research at the Universidad de Guadalajara, the second largest public University of Mexico, and also from the Institute for Legal Studies of the State of Mexico Legislature.