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The Center for International and Comparative Law

Advisory Board

The Emory University School of Law Center for International and Comparative Law’s mission is to support cutting-edge scholarship in international and comparative law, foster expertise, professionalism, and knowledge in our students, and cultivate the spirit of community grounded in curiosity, open mindedness and learning.

That mission is supported by the CICL Advisory Board, whose members are listed below.


Rich D Freer
Rich Freer – Honorary Member of the Advisory Board, Dean and Howard Candler Professor of Law


Mary Bartkus
Mary Bartkus – Special Counsel and Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, NY


John Parkerson
John Parkerson – International Business Attorney at Chalmers, Adams, Backer and Kauffman LLC, Atlanta


Livingstone Johnson
Livingstone Johnson – Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Coca Cola Co.


Sam Kaywood
Sam Kaywood – Senior Counsel, Alston & Bird


Stacie Strong
Stacie Strong – K.H. Gyr Professor of Private International Law, Emory Law


Laurie Blank
Laurie Blank – Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Emory’s International Humanitarian Law Clinic


John Witte
John Witte – Robert W Woodruff Professor of Law


Teemu Ruskola
Teemu Ruskola – Professor of Law and Professor of East Asian Civilizations, the University of Pennsylvania Law School


Christopher Hodges OBE
Christopher Hodges OBE - Emeritus Professor of Justice Systems, Oxford


Stefaan Voet
Stefaan Voet – Professor of Civil Procedure, KU Leuven


Martin Sybblis
Martin Sybblis – Associate Professor, Emory Law