Paul Schiff Berman

Former Fellow, 2006-2007
University of Connecticut School of Law

Hosmer 122, University of Connecticut School of Law
PAUL.BERMAN@uconn.edu
phone: 860-570-5382
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Paul Schiff Berman is Jesse Root Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he has taught since 1997. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of international law, conflict of laws, cyberspace law, and the cultural analysis of law. His recent work, which discusses the multiple effects of globalization on legal systems, includes: A Pluralist Approach to International Law, 32 Yale J. Int'l L. ___ (2007, forthcoming); Seeing Beyond the Limits of International Law (reviewing Jack L. Goldsmith & Eric A. Posner, The Limits of International Law), 84 Tex. L. Rev. 1265 (2006); Towards a Cosmopolitan Vision of Conflict of Laws: Redefining Governmental Interests in a Global Era, 153 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1819 (2005); From International Law to Law and Globalization, 43 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 485 (2005); and The Globalization of Jurisdiction, 151 U. Pa. L. Rev. 311 (2002). He is also the author (with Patricia L. Bellia and David G. Post) of Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age (West Pub.) and the editor of two volumes of essays, The Globalization of International Law and Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace (Ashgate Pub.) and is currently at work on a monograph entitled Law Beyond Borders. Berman has previously served on the Organizing Committee of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.

Berman earned his A.B., summa cum laude, from Princeton University in 1988 and his J.D. in 1995 from New York University School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor of the NYU Law Review and received the University Graduation Prize for the graduating law student with the highest cumulative grade point average. He has served as law clerk to then Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards, of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and for Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of the United States Supreme Court. Prior to entering law school, Berman was a professional theater director in New York City and Artistic Director of Spin Theater. He was also Administrative Director of The Wooster Group and of Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theatre at St. Mark's Church.

Life after LAPA
Paul Schiff Berman is now Dean and Foundation Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. More information can be found on his ASU profile.

Publications
Law & Society Approaches to Cyberspace, (Ashgate Publishing, forthcoming 2007).

The Globalization of International Law, editor, (Ashgate Publishing, 2005).

"Conflict of Laws, Globalization and Cosmopolitan Pluralism," 51 Wayne Law Review 1105 (2005).

"Seeing Beyond the Limits of International Law," 84 Texas Law Review 1265 (2006).

"Towards A Cosmopolitan Vision of Conflict of Laws: Redefining Governmental Interests in a Global Era," 153 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1819 (2005).

"Dialectical Regulation, Territoriality, and Pluralism" 38 Connecticut Law Review 929 (2006).

"From International Law to Law and Globalization," 43 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 485 (2005).

"Conflict of Laws and the Legal Negotiation of Difference," in Law and the Stranger (Austin D. Sarat, Martha Umphrey & Lawrence Douglas eds., Stanford Univ. Press, 2007, forthcoming).

"Cyberspace and the State Action Debate: The Cultural Value of Applying Constitutional Norms to 'Private' Regulation," in Cyberlaw (Brian Fitzgerald ed., Ashgate Publishing, 2006).

"A Pluralist Approach to International Law," 32 Yale Journal of International Law ___ (forthcoming, 2007).