About the Authors
R. Lea Brilmayer
Education
LL.M., Columbia, 1978
J.D., Boalt Hall, 1976
B.A., U.C. Berkeley, 1970
Background
Lea Brilmayer is the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. In addition to teaching Contracts to first-year students, she also teaches Conflict of Laws and International Courts and Tribunals, as well as seminars on the laws of war and on African current affairs. During her first decade of teaching, Professor Brilmayer’s writing interests mainly concerned conflict of laws (in particular, personal jurisdiction and choice of law); federal jurisdiction; and jurisprudence. Her interests have gradually turned to international law and international relations, which has led to two books: Justifying International Acts and American Hegemony: Political Morality in a One-Superpower World. Professor Brilmayer received a B.A. in mathematics, a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School.
Jack L. Goldsmith
Full bibliography at http://www.jackgoldsmith.org/
Education
B.A., Washington & Lee University Summa Cum Laude, 1984
B.A., Oxford University, 1986
J.D.,Yale Law School J.D. 1989
M.A., Oxford University, First Class Honors, 1991
Hague Academy of International Law Diploma in Private International Law, 1992
Background
Jack Goldsmith is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor at Harvard Law School, where he teaches and writes about national security law, presidential power, cybersecurity, international law, internet law, foreign relations law, and conflict of laws. Before coming to Harvard, Professor Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004, and Special Counsel to the Department of Defense from 2002-2003.
Erin O'Hara
Education
J.D., Georgetown University
B.A., University of Rochester
Background
Erin O'Hara's most recent work includes two books and a series of important articles on choice of law, as well as articles that examine the influence of law on apology in dispute resolution and address the influence of law on interpersonal trust in relationships. Professor O'Hara taught at George Mason University School of Law from 1995 until she joined the Vanderbilt University law faculty in 2001. In fall 2005, she was a Visiting Professor at Northwestern Law School. Prior to joining the George Mason faculty, Professor O'Hara clerked for Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School, as a Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the departments of Legal Studies, Economics and Finance at Clemson University. She served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from summer 2008 to summer 2010.
Books
- The Law Market, Oxford Publishing (2009) (with Larry Ribstein)
- The Economics of Conflict of Laws, 2 volumes, Elgar Publishing (2007)
Articles
- "A Cognitive Theory of Trust," 84 Washington University Law Quarterly 1717 (2007) (with Claire A. Hill)
- "How Neuroscience Might Advance the Law," 359 Philosophical Transactions 1677 (2004). Reprinted in Law & the Brain 21 (S. Zeki & O. Goodenough eds., Oxford University Press, 2006)
- "Choice of Law for Internet Transactions: The Uneasy Case for Online Consumer Protection," 153 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1883 (2005)
- "Apology and Thick Trust: What Spouse Abusers and Negligent Doctors Might Have in Common," 79 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1055 (2004)
- "Economics, Public Choice, and the Perennial Conflict of Laws," 90 Georgetown Law Journal 941 (2002)
- "On Apology and Consilience," 77 Washington Law Review 1121 (2002) (with Douglas Yarn)
- "From Politics to Efficiency in Choice of Law," 67 University of Chicago Law Review 1151 (2000) (with Larry Ribstein)
- "Opting Out of Regulation: A Public Choice Analysis of Contractual Choice of Law," 53 Vanderbilt Law Review 1551 (2000)
