International Scholar in Residence
The Family Law & Policy Program periodically hosts international scholars, who lecture to law school classes on family law and children and the law, give public lectures, and do faculty workshops. Past scholars have come from the University of Padua, the second oldest university in the world (Professor Federica Giardini) and Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Professor Montserrat Gas). Spending time in residence opens our world class libraries to visiting faculty and has fostered countless professional interactions internationally. We hope that scholars spending time in the United States will reach out to Professor Robin Wilson, the director, about the possibility of spending time with the Family Law & Policy Program while they are in the United States.
The program is delighted to hosted Professor Xia Li from International Society of Family Law (ISFL) and China Society of Marriage and Family Law this September.
future & former visiting Scholars
Xia Li
Professor Xia Li is a prestigious family law expert and a leading authority on adult guardianship law in China and East Asia. She serves as a member of executive council of the International Society of Family Law (ISFL) and a standing director of China Society of Marriage and Family Law. Professor Xia Li will be visiting the College of Law this Fall.
Lei (David) Shi
Dr. Lei Shi is a researcher of the Foreign Family Law and Women Theory Research Center in the Civil and Commercial Law School, the Southwest University of Political Science and Law. He teaches Family Law and Chinese Civil Law as a lecturer in this university. He is member of the International Society of Family Law. He specializes in family law and medical law. His present research focus on reproductive law and surrogacy.
His has won Excellent Doctorate Dissertation in Chongqing, China in 2015. He was also awarded the Second Prize Scholarship in the Social Science Association’s second academic year in Chongqing recently.
Federica Giardini
Professor Federica Giardini, Dipartimento di Diritto Privato e Critica del Diritto – Scuola di Giurisprudenza, Universita degli Studi di Padova, April 2015.
Professor Giardini delivered lectures on assisted conception and children and violence.
Hiroko Ito
Hiroko Ito (S.J.D.) is an Academic Research Fellow and is a former Designated Associate Professor at Graduate School of Law of Nagoya University (Japan). She started teaching Asian Family Law and Comparative Law at Nagoya University in 2012. She specializes in South Asian Family Law, and the Chairperson of the Japanese Institute of Foreign Law Systems.
Montserrat Gas Aixendri
Professor Montserrat Gas-Aixendri, Director of the Institute of Advanced Family Studies and and the Chair IsFamily Santander, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2014.
Professor Gas-Aixendri spoke on Vestiges of Canon Law in Family Law.