About the "French Trials" Project
Project Contributors
Claire Germain
Edward Cornell Law Librarian & Professor of Law
Director, Dual Degree Programs, Paris & Berlin, Cornell University Law
School
Claire is also the Director of the Dual Degree Programs, with the University
of Paris I and Humbolt University, in Berlin, Germany. It is a program
which is almost unique in the United States, whereby a highly selected
group of students can get a U.S. J.D. and a French law degree or a German
law degree.
She hold a Licence-es-Lettres (German) and LL.B. from the University of Paris, France, also a M.C.L. from Louisiana State University, and a M.L.L. from the University of Denver. Her teaching and scholarly interests include foreign and international law and legal research. She teaches a seminar in French law at Cornell. in Ithaca, and during the Cornell Paris Summer Institute, and she has taught many legal research courses to first-years and upper-class students. She also teaches classes on the use of the Internet for legal research, most recently in Paris, France, and Barcelona, Spain.
She is actively involved in all aspects of legal information, from rare books to cyberspace, particularly the digital law issues, and the preservation and long term access to born digital legal information. She is active in the American Association of Law Libraries, and serving as President for 2005-06. She frequently speaks on comparative law and legal research topics in the United States, Europe, and Canada. She is the author of two books, Germain's Transnational Law Research (Transnational, looseleaf, 1991- , winner of AALL’s 1992 Joseph L. Andrews Award) and Guide to Foreign Legal Materials: French (with Charles Szladits, Oceana, 2d ed., 1985), and numerous articles.
Antoine Garapon
Secrétaire Général de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes
sur la Justice
DIPLOMES
1971-1975: licence de droit privé (mention assez bien) l'université
de Paris-Sud.
1975-1976: D.E.A de droit privé général, option sociologie
du droit (mention assez bien).
1976-1982: th se de doctorat d'Etat, sous la direction de Monsieur le
Professeur Jean Carbonnier, intitulée: Le rituel judiciaire, étude
de sociologie juridique sur les formes symboliques du droit (prix de th
se de l'université Paris II en 1984).
DISCTINCTIONS
Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Université de Liverpool (Grande-Bretagne),
Juillet 1994.
ACTIVITES JUDICIAIRES
1977: Conseiller technique au Minist re de la Justice de l'Ile Maurice
au titre de la coopération (service national).
1978-1979: scolarité l'Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature Bordeaux,
puis stage en juridiction au T.G.I de Créteil (Val-de-Marne)
1980-1982: juge des enfants au T.G.I de Valenciennes (Nord).
1983-1991: juge des enfants au T.G.I de Créteil (Val-de-Marne).
1991- : Maître de conférence l'ENM, Secrétaire Général
de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice
Membre, depuis 1993, du Conseil d’administration de l’Association
Olga Spitzer, gérant des institutions pour l’enfance et l’adolescence
en difficulté.
Professor Barbara Villez
Chair of the Département d’études des pays anglophones
at the University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis.
Barbara has been responsible for a language reform project at the university
and heads the section of English for specific purposes, her own specialty
being in English for law and Anglo American case law. A major part of
her teaching is in the Law Department at University Paris 8. Prior to
this, she taught at the law faculty of University Paris II Panthéon-Assas.
Barbara Villez is a graduate of New York University (B.A.) and holds two master degrees, an M.A. from Middlebury College (the French school) and a French maîtrise (the French equivalent of an M.A) from the Université Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle, where she also obtained a PhD in teaching science. She recently obtained an «habilitation diriger des recherches» from Université Paris 8, which is the final step to full professorship in France.
Barbara Villez has taught an introductory seminar on the Common Law for
French students as well as classes on women and the law, numerous courses
on English and American case law, and courses in legal writing and tranlation.
Her research includes work on the image of justice and the legal professions
transmitted through television, especially through television fictions.
Barbara Villez has just published a book on the history of US television
lawyer series and their role in citizens’ acquisition of a legal
culture both in France and the U.S. (Séries télé:visions
de la justice, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, April 2005).
She is co-author of two textbooks on the common law system and legal language
for French law students, one on the English legal system the other on
the American federal system. She has published several articles on legal
language, on women and the law, and on the law and popular culture. Barbara
Villez has also translated numerous legal documents for law firms in Paris.
Mikael Nabati
Mikael completed a four-year degree program offered jointly by Cornell
Law School and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and
graduated in 2005 with J.D./Master in Law degrees. He is a graduate from
the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lyon, as well as the Institut de Droit
Comparé Edouard Lambert. Starting next fall, he will serve as a
law clerk for the Honorable Faith S. Hochberg, U.S. District Judge for
the District Court of New Jersey.
The web site was developed by staff from Academic Technologies & Media Services, Cornell Information Technologies.
Clare van den Blink, project manager
Roberta Militello, web site design and programming
Mike Tolomeo, web programming
Eric Gasteiger, video editing