Mark Sidel Visiting Spring 2010 Professor of Law and Faculty Scholar University of Iowa College of Law Email: mark-sidel@uiowa.edu Telephone & Office Publications

Mark Sidel is a professor of law, faculty scholar, and The Lauridsen Family Fellow at the University of Iowa, where he teaches courses in philanthropy and nonprofit institutions, contracts, and comparative and international law. He has held visiting posts at Harvard Law School, the University of London, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and the University of Melbourne Law.

Professor Sidel has published extensively on comparative law in Asia, and on philanthropy, the nonprofit sector, and civil society, including a volume on anti-terrorism policy in comparative perspective, and a co-edited volume on philanthropy and law in South Asia. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review, Tulane Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Chicago-Kent Law Review, Pittsburgh Law Review, Michigan Journal of International Law, Texas International Law Journal, UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal, Critique Internationale (Paris), Voluntas, International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, SAIS Review, Signs, Vietnam Forum and other journals, as well as in a number of edited volumes. His research guide to Vietnamese law was published by Harvard Law School and his monograph Old Hanoi was published by Oxford University Press in 1998.

Professor Sidel holds a JD from Columbia University School of Law, a Master’s degree from Yale University, and a Bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. His research focuses on law, philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, and on comparative law in Asia with a focus on Vietnam, China, and India and South Asia.