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| Name: | Susan Franck |
| Title: | Assistant Professor of Law |
| Address: | 263 LAW UNL 68583-0902 |
| Phone: | (402)472-1662 |
| E-Mail: | sfranck2@unl.edu |
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Curriculum Vitae SSRN Author Courses - Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Conflicts of Law
- International Litigation and Arbitration
- Investment Treaty Arbitration
- Mediation
Appointments - Assistant Professor of Law, 2005
- Visiting Associate Professor at Minnesota, 2004
Articles - Foreign Direct Investment, Investment Treaty Arbitration and the Rule of Law, 19 Pacific McGeorge Global Bus. & Dev. L.J. 337 (2007).
- ICSID Institutional Reform: The Evolution of Dispute Resolution and the Role of Structural Safeguards, in International Institutional Reform: Proceedings of the Hague Joint Cconference on Contemporary Issues in International Law (Ed. Agata Fijalkowsi) (2007).
- Transforming into an International Lawyer, ILSA Q., Dec. 2006, at 23.
- The Role of International Arbitrators, 12 ILSA J. Int'l & Comp. L. 499 (2006).
- "Borrowing" Help? Using Conflicts of Law to Aid Clients and Lawyers, Neb. Law., Jan. 2006, at 13.
- The Nature and Enforcement of Investor Rights Under Investment Treaties: Do Investment Treaties Have A Bright Future, 12 U.C. Davis J. Int’l L. & Pol’y 47 (2005).
- International Decisions: Occidental Exploration and Production Company v. The Republic of Ecuador, 99 AM. J. Int'l L. 675 (2005).
- The Legitimacy Crisis in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Privatizing Public International Law Through Inconsistent Decisions, 73 Fordham L. Rev. 1521 (2005).
- A Survival Guide for Small Businesses: Avoiding the Pitfalls in International Dispute Resolution, 3 Minn J. Bus. Law & Entrep. 19 (2004).
- The Liability of International Arbitrators: A Comparative Analysis and Proposal for Qualified Immunity, 20 New York Law Sch. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 1 (2000).
- Christians v. Crystal Evangelical Free Church: Interpreting RFRA In The Battle Among God, The Government, And The Bankruptcy Code, 81 Minn. L. Rev. 981 (1997).
Presentations - Invited Speaker, Faculty Colloquium George Washington University Law School, "Empirical Analysis of Investment Treaty Arbitration", Washington, DC, September 2007.
- Invited Speaker, University of Wisconsin Law School and the Global Legal Studies Center, "Empirically Evaluating Claims About Investment Treaty Arbitration", Madison, Wisconsin, May 2007.
- Invited Presenter, Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, "Foreign Investment and Investment Treaty Dispute Resolution: An Empirical Analysis", Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2007.
- Invited Speaker, American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution 9th Annual Spring Conference, "Beyond Cases: Teaching Arbitration Creatively", Washington, DC, April 2007.
- Invited Expert, United Nations Commission on Trade and Development, "Expert Meeting on the International Investment System", Geneva, Switzerland, March 2007.
- Invited Speaker and "New Voice", American Society of International Law 101st Annual Meeting, "Investment Law, Dispute Resolution and the Development Promise: Back to the Future", Washington, DC, March, 2007.
- Invited Participant, Junior International Law Scholars Roundtable at Yale Law School, "Empirical Legal Studies and Investment Treaty Conflict", New Haven, Connecticut, March 2007.
- Invited Speaker, University of Pennsylvania Law School, "International Investment and Transnational Litigation: The Challenges of Growing and Expanding Investor Disputes", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 2007.
- Invited Speaker, Faculty Colloquium Kansas University School of Law, "Investment Treaty Conflict", Lawrence, Kansas, February 2007.
- Invited Participant, University of California at Berkeley Boalt School of Law, "Investment Arbitration: Lessons from Practice and a Discussion among Experts", Berkeley, California, January 2007.
- Invited Speaker, Faculty Colloquium University of Missouri-Columbia, "Integrating Investment Treaty Conflict and Dispute Systems Design”, Columbia, Missouri, January 2007.
- Invited Speaker, Faculty Colloquium Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, "Integrating Dispute Systems Design and Investment Treaty Conflict", Washington, DC, October 2006.
- Invited Speaker, Hamline University School of Law and the International Law Student Association Annual Conference, "ADR at the Nation-State Level: Trade, Treaties, and Tribunals", St. Paul, Minnesota, October 2006.
- Invited Commentator, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, "Procedural Aspects of Investment Treaty Arbitration", London, United Kingdom, September 2006.
- Invited Moderator, South Eastern Association of Law Schools, "E-Commerce and Dispute Resolution", Palm Beach, Florida, July 2006.
- Invited Speaker, Columbia Law School Symposium on Transparency and Consistency in International Investment Law, "What are the Principal Challenges Arising From International Investment Disputes?", New York, New York, April 2006.
- Invited Speaker, Faculty Colloquium University of Missouri-Columbia, "Foreign Direct Investment, Investment Treaty Arbitration and the Rule of Law", Columbia, Missouri, January 2006.
- Invited Speaker, International Law Weekend, "International Arbitrators: Civil Servants? Sub Rosa Advocates? Men of Affairs?", New York, New York, October 2005.
- Invited Speaker, McGeorge School of Law University of the Pacific Symposium, "Judicial Independence and Legal Infrastructure: Essential Partners for Economic Development", Sacramento, California, October 2005.
- Invited Speaker, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Young Scholars Conference, "The Future of Investment Arbitration and the Legacy of Inconsistent Decisions", Hilton Head, South Carolina, July 2005.
- Panel Organizer and Speaker, American Society of International Law's 7th Hague Joint Conference on Contemporary Issues of International Law: International Institutional Reform, "ICSID and Other Investment Arbitration Tribunals: Is There a Need for Judicial Oversight or Other Reforms?", The Hague, Netherlands, July 2005.
- Invited Speaker, Institute for Transnational Arbitration and the American Society of International Law, "Arbitration and the Involvement of Non-Parties: Transparency, Intervention and Appeal", Washington, DC, March 2005.
- Invited Speaker, University of California-Davis School of Law Symposium, "Romancing the Foreign Investor BIT by BIT", Davis, California, March 2005.
- Invited Speaker, International Trade Consortium at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, "Legal Rights of Foreign Investors", Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2005.
- Invited Speaker, Faculty Works in Progress University of Minnesota, "The Legitimacy Crisis in Investment Treaty Arbitration", Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2004.
- Invited Speaker, Stockholm University Department of Law, "Investment Treaty Arbitration", Stockholm, Sweden, October 2003.
Education - LL.M., with merit, 1999, University of London
- J.D., magna cum laude, 1998, University of Minnesota
- B.A., summa cum laude, 1993, Macalester College
- A.A., with distinction, 1991, Simon's Rock College of Bard
Susan Franck joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2005. Professor Franck received her B.A., summa cum laude, in Psychology and Political Science from Macalester College in 1993 and her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota in 1998. Thereafter, Professor Franck received a U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Grant to study international dispute resolution at the University of London where she received an LL.M. with merit. Most recently, Professor Franck was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. Prior to returning to the academy, Professor Franck practiced in the area of international dispute resolution on both sides of the Atlantic. From 1999-2001, Professor Franck was an associate in Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering's International Group in Washington, D.C. where she was involved with various international proceedings, including litigation regarding defaulted sovereign debt and one of the first investment treaty arbitrations against the Czech Republic. From 2002-2004, Professor Franck was a senior associate in the International Arbitration Group at Allen & Overy in London, England, where she represented investors and sovereign states in arbitrations involving breaches of investment treaties and underlying commercial agreements. Professor Franck's scholarship relates to the resolution of international disputes, including issues related to alternative dispute resolution and claims made under investment treaties. She is the author of several articles published in journals such as the American Journal of International Law, Fordham Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, University of California-Davis Journal of International Law and Policy, and the New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law. Professor Franck teaches courses related to conflict of laws as well as domestic and international dispute resolution. Professor Franck is qualified to practice law in England and Wales, Minnesota and the District of Columbia. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the LCIA's Young International Arbitrator's Group and has been a frequent lecturer at law schools in the United States, the United Kingdom and Sweden.
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