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Bruce Broomhall is a professor of law as well as Director of the Centre for the Study of International Law and Globalization at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where he teaches international and transnational criminal law, public international law, and Canadian criminal law.
Prior to joining UQAM, Professor Broomhall was Associate Professor in the Legal Studies Department at Central European University (Budapest) as well as Senior Legal Officer for International Justice at the Open Society Justice Initiative. In the latter capacity he worked to promote the ratification and national implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the documentation of international crimes in support of the ICC Prosecutor's office, and the mobilization of civil society by coordinating advocacy, training, research and other collaboration in Cambodia, the Caucasus, Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He had previously participated as a civil society delegate in the Rome Diplomatic Conference that adopted the ICC Statute, and was Director of the International Justice Program at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (New York), where he was an active member of the Steering Committee of the NGO Coalition for the ICC, promoting universal jurisdiction, the entry into force of the Rome Statute, and respect for the Court's autonomy and effectiveness during negotiation of its Rules of Procedure and Evidence and Elements of Crime.
Dr. Broomhall has published widely on the role of criminal punishment in the enforcement of international norms, notably in his book
International Justice and the International Criminal Court: Between Sovereignty and the Rule of Law(Oxford University Press, 2003). He holds a Ph.D. from Kings College London and an LLB from the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law.
While based at Osgoode Hall Law from July to December 2008, Dr. Broomhall will be both a Nathanson Centre Visiting Scholar and a CLPE Fellow. He will participate in and/or present at various Nathanson Centre and CLPE events, including a three-part series of international law discussions with CLPE Fellow Dr. Achilles Skordas, to take place in September. Substantively, Professor Broomhall will be developing his
projection international legal responses to the phenomenon of ‘resource conflicts.'
Ms. Alexandra Flynn began her legal career at a New York law firm specializing in corporate finance. Both before and after law school she was the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the Concordia Medal, Osgoode Hall's Minkler Prize, and two New York Legal Aid Society awards for pro bono service. She has published a number of articles related to property and tax law. Following practice in a big firm, Alex has been in private practice as a First Nations lawyer, focusing on First Nation economic development, with a particular emphasis on corporate, contract and property law, and the drafting of land codes and other First Nation legislation. Prior to law school, Alex worked as a policy analyst, an Ombudsperson and was an intern at the United Nation headquarters in New York. Alex has volunteered extensively for urban-based policy and law organizations, and has most recently worked on strategies addressing homelessness. Alex's research focuses on land-based laws, both pertaining to First Nations and to traditionally marginalized communities within city boundaries. Outside of work, Alex enjoys travelling, snowboarding, running, enthusiastically attending film festivals, and spending time with her husband, Daniel, and small sons, Jonah and Simon.
Dr. Armin J. Kammel is an expert in (international) banking law and capital markets and is currently Head of Legal & International Affairs with the Austrian Association of Investment Fund Management Companies. Dr. Kammel studied law and economics at the universities in Graz, Vienna (Austria), Athens (Greece), Toronto (Canada) and Bangkok (Thailand). Apart from international banking law and capitals markets, Dr. Kammel researches and publishes in the fields of financial institutions and monetary economics with a special focus on the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas (OCA). Dr. Kammel had been a research assistant at the Institute of Austrian and International Commercial and Economic Law at the University of Graz with Prof. Jud. Dr. Kammel has published three books and numerous articles in these fields.
Jane Enid Nganzi Murungi is a LL.D candidate at the North-West University (Potcheftstroom campus) in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Her current research is on Sustainable development and environmental regulation through financial institutions: A South African perspective. She is also an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. Jane obtained her LL.B at University of Nairobi, her LL.M, cum laude, in (Import and Export) law at North-West University (Potchefstroom campus), and is pursuing her LL.D at the North-West University (Potchefstroom campus).