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James Gordley specializes in comparative law, contract law and legal history. He has been a professor at Tulane Law School since 2007, which he joined from the University of California, Berkeley, where he had been a law faculty member since 1978. He was a fellow at the Institute of Comparative Law at the University of Florence, an associate with the Boston firm of Foley Hoag & Eliot and an Ezra Ripley Thayer Fellow at Harvard before beginning his teaching career. Gordley has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, a Senior NATO Fellow and a fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Fribourg, Regensburg, Munich, Milan and Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi; a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law in Hamburg, the European University Institute in Fiesole and the University of Cologne; and the Jean Monnet Distinguished Professor in Comparative Law at the University of Trent. He received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award in 1984 and the Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction in 2001. Tulane Law School’s graduating class of 2010 selected him for the Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the European Law Institute, a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of several books, including The Eclipse of Classical Thought in China and the West (Oxford, OUP, 2022), An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Private Law (Cambridge, CUP, 2021, with Hao Jiang and Arthur von Mehren); The Jurists: A Critical History (Oxford, OUP, 2013); Foundations of Private Law (Oxford, OUP, 2006), The Enforceability of Promises in European Contract Law (Cambridge, CUP, 2001), and The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine (Oxford, Clarendon, 1991). His next book, Foundations of American Contract Law, is forthcoming with OUP.
Agenda:
Mardi 23 mai 2023 de 14h à 15h (Salle Dabin) : Foundations of American Contract Law - Conférence Mardi 23 mai 2023 de 15h à 17h (Salle Dabin) : Private Law and Legal History - Masterclass Mercredi 24 mai 2023 de 14h30 à 15h30 (Salle Dabin) : The Eclipse of Classical Thought in China and the West - Conférence
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