Galway, Ireland — Faculty
Antonin Scalia is an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He received an A.B. from Georgetown University and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and was awarded a Sheldon Fellowship. He practiced commercial law in Cleveland, Ohio, before joining the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law. He left academia in 1971 to serve the federal government, first as general counsel in the Office of Telecommunications Policy, then as chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel. In 1977, he returned to full-time teaching at the law school of the University of Chicago, where he remained until 1982, with stints as a visiting law professor at Georgetown University and Stanford University and service as chairman of the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law and its Conference of Section Chairmen. In 1982, he was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1986.
Geoffrey S. Corn is a member of the faculty at South Texas College of Law, and a retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army. He teaches courses in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and National Security Law. Prior to joining South Texas in 2005, he served as the Special Assistant to the US Army Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, and Chief of the Law of War Branch, US Army Office of the Judge Advocate General International and Operational Law Division. From 1992-2004, he was a member of the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, serving as supervisory defense counsel for the Western United States, Chief of International Law for US Army Europe, and Professor of International and National Security Law at the US Army Judge Advocate General's School. Professor Corn is a graduate of Hartwick College. He received a J.D. from George Washington University and an LL.M.from the Judge Advocate General's School. He has published numerous articles on national security law.
Lawrence Friedman is a professor at New England School of Law, where he teaches courses in Constitutional Law, State Constitutional Law, Privacy Law, and Civil Procedure. Before joining the New England faculty in 2004, he was a visiting faculty member at Boston College Law School. Professor Friedman received a B.A. from Connecticut College, a J.D. from Boston College Law School and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He has published numerous articles on constitutional law, privacy law, and other topics and he is a co-author of a new treatise on the Massachusetts state constitution. He is a member of the Boston Bar Council and the board of directors of the Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice.
Philip K. Hamilton, director of the Galway program, is a professor of law at New England School of Law and currently teaches Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Legal History: The Development of Human Rights Law. He has also served as associate dean and as director of New England's clinical program. He received an A.B. in history from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Before attending law school, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil . Before joining the New England faculty, he was a legal services lawyer for eight years. In 2005, while on sabbatical in England, he was a reader in Oxford University's Bodleian Library, studying ancient Celtic law.
Dr. Vinodh Jaichand is college lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. He came to the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2002, after serving as national executive director of Lawyers for Human Rights, a legal, non-governmental organization in South Africa. During an 11-year teaching career at the Faculty of Law at the University of Durban-Westville, he served as associate professor and dean. Dr. Jaichand completed a doctorate and a master of laws degree cum laude at the University of Notre Dame Law School's Center for Civil and Human Rights. He has published a book on restitution of land rights in South Africa and numerous articles in local and international journals.
Nancy Kim teaches Contracts I & II, Licensing and Sales at California Western School of Law. She received a B.A in Rhetoric and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was an associate editor on the California Law Review and The Berkeley Women's Law Journal. After graduating from law school, she was a Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center and a Ford Foundation Fellow in public international law at U.C.L.A. law school, where she received an LLM. Prior to joining the faculty at California Western, Professor Kim was Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs of a multinational software and services company. She is also a published novelist, and the co-inventor on a pending patent. She has written in the areas of contracts, licensing, women and the law, culture and the law, and intellectual property.
Dr. Ray Murphy is a member of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, National University of Ireland in Galway. He is a graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway (B.A., 1979, LL.B., 1981); Kings Inns, Dublin (B.L., 1984); Dublin University, Trinity College (M. Litt. in international law, 1991); and the University of Nottingham, England (Ph.D. in international law, 2001). He is a former practicing barrister and captain in the Irish Defence Forces, and he served with UN forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in 1981-82 and 1989. He has worked for the OSCE, the European Union, Amnesty International, and the Irish government in human rights and election monitoring in Africa and Europe. His main teaching and research interests include international peace operations and international humanitarian law.
