Study Law Abroad: 2009 China Program

 

China Program Faculty

 

Catherine T. Dwyer

B.A., Columbia University; J.D., Boston University, 1976; M.B.A., Columbia University, 1976; LL.M. European Business Law, Pallas Consortium, 2000
Professor Dwyer's early legal career focused on corporate and securities law, specializing in corporate Development at Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Principal at New Venture Consulting, and Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at BISYS Group, Inc. Professor Dwyer has taught at Michigan State University College of Law and abroad in China, Ukraine, Canada, Lithuania, and Kyrgyzstan. From 1996 through 2007, she undertook rule of law and education reform projects in six if the former Soviet Republics. Her private international consulting has been in the areas of corporate and securities law and higher education reform. She is now a Visiting Professor of Law at Loyola.

Professor Catherine T. Dwyer

 

John D. Blum

B.A., Canisius, 1970; J.D., Notre Dame, 1973; M.H.S., Harvard School of Public Health, 1974
Professor Blum has taught at Penn State, Boston University, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the University of British Columbia. He served as a consultant to USAID in Indonesia where he worked on the development of a curriculum in public health law for use in schools of public health. He has many years of experience in health law and policy, and is very active in research in these areas, with a particular focus on legal issues in medical quality assurance. Professor Blum is also an adjunct professor of medical humanities in Loyola's Stritch School of Medicine.

Professor John D. Blum

 

 

Chunlin Leonhard

J.D., magna cum laude, Boston University, 1995
After receiving her juris doctorate degree, Professor Leonhard clerked for the Honorable Christopher J. Armstrong in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals and subsequently joined the law firm Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, LLP. Ms. Leonhard has represented multinational clients in complex commercial litigation matters and cross-border contract disputes involving Chinese companies. Ms. Leonhard is currently on a leave of absence from the Loyola faculty to work in Beijing as a Partner for Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, LLP in the Litigation and Business Regulation and the Asia Pacific Practice Groups.

Professor Chunlin Leonhard

 

 

Anne-Marie Rhodes

B.A., Albertus Magnus College, 1973; J.D., Harvard, 1976
After her graduation from Harvard, Professor Rhodes was associated with Schiff, Hardin & Waite in Chicago and Washington, D.C. She is currently Of Counsel with Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd., concentrating in estate planning. She has written and lectured extensively on estate planning, cultural property, and taxation issues here and abroad. She has been on the executive team of the Loyola Family Business Center at the Graduate School of Business and the Advisory Board of the Loyola University Museum of Art. She was elected an Academic Fellow to the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) in 1999. In 2005, she was named to a 3-year term as co-chair of the Legal Education Committee of ACTEC.

Professor Anne-Marie Rhodes

 

 

Allen S. Shoenberger
B.A., Swathmore, 1966; J.D., Columbia College, 1969; LL.M., New York University, 1972
After graduation from law school, Professor Shoenberger served as a visiting lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Kenya from 1969-1971; he was the assistant editor of the East African Law Reports and an International Legal Center Fellow during that period. He was also a Ford Urban Law Fellow in 1971-72, as well as a National Science Foundation Fellow to the Seminar in Social Science Methods in Legal Education in 1972. He has been a hearing officer for the Illinois Pollution Control Board. He has served as a consultant for the Administrative Conference of the United States on disability law, as well as for other agencies and groups, often in various areas regarding the rights of the disabled with particular attention to educational rights. He has also supervised the appellate practicum program, which represents prisoners on court appointment before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit as well as before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has received joint appointments with Loyola's Schools of Social Work and Medicine.

Professor Allen S. Shoenberger

 

 

 

 

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