Leighanne Yuh, Executive Director
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Leighanne Yuh received her Ph.D. from the University of California in Los Angeles after completing her dissertation titled, "Education and the Struggle for Power in Korea, 1876-1910." Before moving to New York, she spent two years in Seoul, Korea (the second year on a Fulbright scholarship) conducting dissertation research and taking classes on Korean intellectual history. While in Korea, she taught at Korea University as well as at private academies and participated in panel discussions related to Korean history and diplomatic policy.
During her first four years at UCLA, Dr. Yuh was not only a teaching assistant for Korean history and language courses, but she spearheaded the Korean programs at Los Angeles City College and the Korean Cultural Center. Apart from her specialization on Korea, Dr. Yuh took and passed a Ph.D. qualifying exam in Chinese history and majored in Japanese history as an undergraduate.
Dr. Yuh received a B.A. in Japanese History and Economics from Wellesley College, an M.A. from Columbia University in Korean History, and received her Ph.D. in 2008 from UCLA (East Asian Studies, concentration Korean history).
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Leighanne Yuh
Executive Director, B.A. Wellesley, A.M. Columbia, Ph.D. in Korean History at UCLA
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Paolo Galizzi, Faculty Director
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Paolo Galizzi is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Sustainable Development Legal Initiative (SDLI) at the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School.
He joined Fordham from Imperial College, University of London, where he was Lecturer in Environmental Law and later Marie Curie Fellow in Law. He previously held academic positions at the University of Nottingham, at the University of Verona and at the University of Milan.
Professor Galizzi graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Milan in 1993 and continued his legal education at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he obtained an LLM in Public International Law in 1995. He later started his doctoral programme at the University of Milan, where he obtained a PhD in International Environmental Law in 1998 with a thesis on “Compliance with International Environmental Obligations”.
Professor Galizzi’s research interests lie in international law, environmental law and law of sustainable development and he has published extensively in these areas. His most recent publication include the forthcoming “People and the Environment: The Role of Environment in Poverty Alleviation” to be published by Fordham University Press, the second edition of “Documents in International Environmental Law” and of “Documents in EC Environmental Law”, co-edited with Philippe Sands and published by Cambridge University Press.
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Paolo Galizzi Institute Director,
Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Sustainable Development Legal Initiative (SDLI) at the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School.
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Ron Lazebnik
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Professor Lazebnik teaches the Samuelson-Glushko Intellectual Property and Information Law Clinic. Before joining Fordham Law School, he was an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. While at the firm, he assisted in representing clients in various intellectual property, trade secrets, and general commercial litigations, as well as counseled clients on U.S. and international intellectual property related issues. He has also assisted in the defense of corporations and government agencies being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and the United States Department of Justice.
Professor Lazebnik is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he spent a significant amount of time as a Massachusetts SJC Rule 3:03 student attorney and the Research and Technology Director of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. While in law school, he also worked for the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, and contributed to GartnerG2’s and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s 2005 white paper, “Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World.”
Prior to attending law school, Professor Lazebnik received a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University for his work in robotics and computational intelligence.
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Ron Lazebnik
Clinical Associate Professor of Law
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Martin Gelter
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Professor Gelter joined the faculty of Fordham University as Associate Professor of Law in fall 2009.
Born in Vienna in 1976, he studied law and business economics there and held an academic position at WU Vienna University of Economics from 1998 to 2009.
While taking several leaves from Vienna, Martin spent a total of about four years at Harvard Law School, where he was an Olin Fellow from 2003-2005 and a Considine Fellow in 2008/2009. He completed the requirements for an LL.M. degree in 2003 and for an SJD degree in 2008.
He also spent six months as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bologna in 2007/2008, where he taught in the European Master in Law and Economics and European Doctorate in Law and Economics programs.
In April 2013, he will be a visiting professor at the University of Paris-II (Panthéon-Assas).
Martin Gelter has published in various European and American journals, has taught in Austria, Italy, the United States, and Albania, and has presented papers at workshops and conferences in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the United States. His research focuses on (comparative) corporate governance, legal issues of accounting and auditing, corporate bankruptcy, and economic analysis of private law.
At Fordham, he teaches Corporations and Comparative Corporate Law.
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Martin Gelter
Associate Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
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