Profile of Lecturers
Marie Beyrich (Germany)
Marie Beyrich is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Regensburg, specialising in German constitutional law, administrative law and European law. She has recently completed her dissertation and is currently habilitating. Her research focuses on pressing issues within the EU, as exemplified by her empirical, sociological study on the practical implementation of the right to family reunification.
Jürgen Busch (Austria)
Studies of history, political science, law, and legal theory in Vienna, Leuven, Brussels, and Florence (Mag. phil. in 2000, LL.M. and D.E.A. in 2005); since 2016 head of social sciences, humanities and health sciences at the Ludwig Boltzmann Society in Vienna; besides regular teaching assignments at the Universities of Vienna and Brno (in the past also at the Paneuropean University Bratislava and the University of Applied Sciences bfi Vienna); before various positions as a pre-doc researcher and teaching assistant, study programme coordinator, and project director at the Universities of Vienna (legal history and comparative law) and Lucerne (public law and legal philosophy), as well as in research management at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at the Austrian Agency for International Mobility and Cooperation in Education, Science and Research (OeAD, Erasmus office); since 2011 member of the board of the European Academy of Legal Theory (2011–18 secretary general) and tutor in its international LL.M.-programme in legal theory at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main; ongoing research, teaching and publication activities in the field of interdisciplinary legal studies (legal history and jurisprudence with a focus on the work of Hans Kelsen and the Vienna School of Legal Theory) and legal research and writing skills.
He is co-founder, co-author and former co-editor of the “SchreibGuide Jus”, a leading legal writing guide in Austria.
Lurene Contento (USA)
Lurene Contento is a Visiting Professor of Legal Writing at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she teaches Legal English and Legal Skills for International Students. Before teaching at Chicago—Kent, Professor Contento was Assistant Professor and Director of the Writing Resource Center at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago where she taught skills-based courses for eighteen years. She also teaches skill-based courses abroad, including in China, Costa Rica, and the Czech Republic. She develops her courses around principles of interactive teaching and experiential education.
Professor Contento has presented widely to law faculties, both in the U.S. and abroad, on topics ranging from plagiarism to problem-solving to integrating foreign students into U.S. law communities.
Professor Contento serves on a number of national skills-related committees, including the Legal Writing Institute’s Global Legal Writing Skills Committee and the Global Legal Skills Program Committee. She is a 2017 recipient of the Global Legal Skills Award and the 2012 recipient of the Deborah Hecht Memorial Writing Award. She is also currently Chair of the Association of Legal Writing Specialists.
Professor Contento received her bachelor’s degree in English Literature summa cum laude from Loyola University. She received her Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from The John Marshall Law School. She is a licensed attorney in the State of Illinois and worked in a general practice law firm before beginning her teaching career.
Janet Dickson (USA)
Janet Dickson is an Associate Professor of Lawyering Skills at Seattle University School of Law, where she is Co-Director of this top-ranked program. Professor Dickson has taught for over twenty years, during which time she has presented at Legal Writing conferences regionally, nationally, and internationally. Her topics have consistently focused on reaching out to students to best prepare them for the practice of law. For example, she has presented on topics such as teaching to students with ADD, effective student conferencing, teaching to millennials, classroom interaction with local nonprofits, and gender bias. Professor Dickson has also presented to international audiences in Kenya, South Africa, Turkey, Italy, and Morocco. Additionally, as the former faculty advisor to the student organization Global Brigades, Professor Dickson accompanied groups of students to Costa Rica, Panama, and Honduras for week-long law-related service trips.
For six years, Professor Dickson has served on the Board for Legal Voice, a well-respected Northwest nonprofit organization that uses the law to better the lives of women and girls. Additionally, prior to joining the faculty at Seattle University School of Law, Professor Dickson practiced in the areas of estate planning and probate law at a boutique law firm, where she worked with large estates involving complicated tax issues. Professor Dickson holds a B.A. from the University of California, Davis; a J.D. from Seattle University School of Law; and an LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Washington.
Florian Heindler (Austria)
Florian Heindler is a lawyer (2009) and philologist (2011) by training. Since 2014Florian Heindler is working as a corporate lawyer for an Austrian Bank and regularly lectures at University of Vienna. From 2009 to 2013 he has been working as a researcher at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna and as a praciticing lawyer with Specht Böhm. He is the author of the monograph on Russian Law of Corporations and Partnerships in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws and of numerous articles in Austrian, German and Russian journals.
Kimberly Holst (USA)
Professor Kimberly Holst teaches writing and skills in both the 1L and upper level curriculum at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Professor Holst’s interests focus on pedagogy in legal education and global legal education. She has focused her efforts on projects that advance legal skills training in the U.S. and around the world. Her recent scholarship examines the importance of teaching reflective practices to law students so that they develop those skills in law school and transfer them to practice. She is a 2017 Winner of a Global Legal Skills Award. Professor Holst co-authors the 8th edition of Legal Method and Writing Volumes I & II with Charles Calleros.
Edvardas Juchnevicius (Poland)
Edvardas Juchnevicius is a Professor at Gdansk University, Poland, and an Attorney-at-Law. He is the author of over 90 scientific publications on issues of financial law and public finances as well as issues in the field of domestic and international tax law and e-commerce taxation; author of legal opinions in the field of company law, international tax law and public procurement law. He is a Professor in courses related to financial law and tax law at Gdansk University, and the Gdansk Bar Association. He has served as a Visiting professor at various foreign universities in Europe and Asia.
David Sehnálek (Czechia)
Doc. Sehnálek is associate professor of EU law and the Vice-dean for bachelor's degree study and two-year follow-up master's degree programme at MUNI LAW Brno.
Mauro Zamboni (Sweden)
Mauro Zamboni is Professor in Legal Theory at the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University (Sweden). He is also Visiting Professor at the Center of Law and Governance (Groningen, The Netherlands) and has been Guest Scholar at Stanford University (2003-2004), Harvard Law School (2008-2009) and at The Collaborative Research Center 597 "Transformations of the State", Bremen (2009-2011).
He has as his main topics the relations between law and politics (e.g. "The Policy of Law: a Theoretical Framework", Hart Publishing, 2008) and he is currently finishing a project on transnational corporate law ("The Idea of Corporation in Transnational Law: Setting the Legal Foundations"). He has among the others written about Rechtsstaat, Scandinavian legal realism, legal method and legal evolutionary theory.