Dr. Roger Blanpain

Dr. Roger Blanpain is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Laws of the University of Leuven in Belgium, where he was President of the Group of Behavior Sciences (1976-1981) and Dean of the Law School (1983-1987).  He presently teaches European and Comparative Labor Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands. He also teaches at the Belgian Universities of Hasselt and KU Brussels.  Additionally, Professor Blanpain has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Michigan State, Kentucky, Florida, Georgia (USA), Insead-Fontainebleau and the Sorbonne-Paris (France), Brussels (Belgium), Trier (Germany) and Sophia, Tokyo (Japan).  Professor Blanpain has served as President of the Belgian Association of Industrial Relations (1967-1997), President of the International Association of Industrial Relations (1986-1989), and Vice-President of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security (1994-1997).  He is presently President of the Association of Educational and Scientific Authors (1998-), and a member of the Belgian Royal Academy for Sciences (1992-). Professor Blanpain is also the General Editor of the International Encyclopedias of Laws and of the International Encyclopedia of Labour and Industrial Relations. He is a co-author of The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law – Cases and Materials (Cambridge University Press 2007). He has published numerous other books and articles on European and comparative labor and employment law, and industrial relations. Professor Blanpain has represented the Belgian Government, as head of its delegation, in the Committee for International Investment and Multinational Enterprises of the OECD (1977-1987). He has been a member of the Belgian Senate (1987-1989). He has acted as a consultant for the European Commission, the European Foundation of Living and Working Conditions, the OECD, and the International Labor Organization.

Susan Bisom-Rapp

Susan Bisom-Rapp is Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California. A widely cited expert on employment discrimination and international and comparative workplace law, Professor Bisom-Rapp's more recent writing on workplace globalization includes a pioneering study on the internationalization of American labor and employment law practice. Her co-authored casebook, The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law - Cases and Materials (Cambridge University Press 2007), is the first law school text on the subject. She is a contributor to the recently published anthology, Diversity, Equality and Integration: Beyond the Law – A Comparative Study (Roger Blanpain, ed., Vanden Broele Publishers 2008). Professor Bisom-Rapp, whose academic career began at Thomas Jefferson in 1996, served as Director of the law school's Center for Law and Social Justice from 2004-2008. She was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2007.

Professor Bisom-Rapp is a member of the teaching faculty of the Doctoral Research School in Labour and Industrial Relations at the Marco Biagi Foundation, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. In 2007, she taught in Thomas Jefferson's Study Abroad in China Program at Zhejiang University's Guanghua College of Law in Hangzhou, China. In 2003, Professor Bisom-Rapp was Visiting Associate Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and she has taught at Seton Hall University School of Law and Baruch College (City University of New York). During the summer of 2008, she will teach in Thomas Jefferson's Study Abroad in France Program at the University of Nice School of Law. Professor Bisom-Rapp holds J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from Columbia University, where she was a Lawrence A. Wien Fellow and received a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Dissertation Grant. She earned a J.D. from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, from which she graduated Order of the Coif, and a B.S. from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Before beginning her academic career, she practiced labor and employment law at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in New York City.

William R. Corbett

Professor Corbett teaches and writes primarily in the area of labor and employment law. He joined the law faculty of the LSU Law Center in 1991, after practicing in Birmingham, Alabama with Burr & Forman. Professor Corbett has been a visiting faculty member at two law schools: William & Mary spring semester 1996, and the University of Georgia fall semester 2004. He served as Interim Vice Chancellor and then Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the LSU Law Center May 1997 to January 2000. Professor Corbett served as Executive Director of the Louisiana Judicial College 1998-2000. He has served as Executive Director of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel since January 2001.

Hilary K. Josephs

Professor Josephs graduated from Radcliffe College summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Ph.D. in East Asian languages and civilizations with a specialization in Chinese history and literature. Prior to her law teaching career, she clerked for the Supreme Court of Hawaii and spent several years in private practice in New York City as a corporate attorney. She has published articles on labor law, international law, foreign investment, and comparative law. Her publications include the book Labor Law in China (2d ed. 2003). She co-authored The Global Workplace-International and Comparative Employment Law: Cases and Materials (2007). She has served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, American Society of Comparative Law; as Chair, Comparative Law Section, American Association of Law Schools; as External Examiner for the University of Hong Kong Law Department; and as External Reviewer, Hong Kong Research Grants Council. She was elected to membership in the International Academy of Comparative Law in 2000.

Michael J. Zimmer

Professor Michael J. Zimmer is a professor of law at Loyola University Chicago. He received his A.B. and J.D. from Marquette University, where he was Editor in Chief of the Marquette Law Review. He also holds an LL.M from Columbia University, where he was named a James Kent Fellow. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Thomas E. Fairchild of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then served as an associate at Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee.

He began his law school teaching career at the University of South Carolina and he has taught at a number of law schools, most recently as a visiting professor of law at Northwestern University. He joined the Seton Hall University School of Law in 1978, served as Associate Dean from 1990 to 1994 and has been on the faculty until 2008. He is professor of law emeritus at Seton Hall.

He has taught in summer programs to American law students in Italy, France and England and to Chinese law students in Beijing.

A widely recognized scholar in the areas of employment discrimination law, labor and employment law and constitutional law, Professor Zimmer is co-author of Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination (1982; 2d ed. 1988; 3d ed. 1994; 4th ed. 1997, 5th ed. 2000; 6th ed. 2003; 7^th ed. 2008), The Global Workplace (2007), Employment Discrimination: Law & Practice (2002), Employment Discrimination (1988), Cases & Materials on Employment Law (1993), Federal Statutory Law of Employment Discrimination (1980) and author of Employment Discrimination Roadmap. He has also published articles in numerous leading law journals.

Professor Zimmer has taught employment discrimination law, employment law, international and comparative employment law and labor law and has also taught torts, contracts, constitutional law, administrative law and US foreign relations law.