Background and Education

Before teaching at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, was associated with the Department of International Studies of the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates; taught philosophy and chaired the Department of Philosophy at Illinois State University; as a Fulbright Scholar, was a member of the University of Malaya law faculty and conducted research at the Centre for Civilization Dialogue; taught law at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and the University of Pristina in Kosovo; held the Distinguished Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Northern Colorado; helped establish an English-speaking Japanese university, Miyazaki International College; recipient of a Liberal Arts Fellowship from Harvard Law School; received awards for teaching excellence from the University of Florida and the University of Illinois; with research focusing on global injustices and minority issues, founded and edited the electronic journal Injustice Studies, consulted for the United Nations Working Group on Minorities and the American Bar Association Central/Eastern European Law Initiative and served on a drafting committee for Albania’s new constitution; has been admitted to the practice of law in the District of Columbia, Illinois and Maryland; as a practicing attorney, represented a diaspora Rwandan group in an extradition case to the Ad Hoc War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda and served locally as a court-appointed special advocate for child abuse cases; Ph.D., philosophy, Washington University and J.D., University of Illinois