The Faculty

Dapo Akande is a University Lecturer in Public International and a Fellow of St. Peter's College, University of Oxford.  He holds law degrees from the University of Ife (in Nigeria) and the London School of Economics. He was previously a faculty member at the Universities of Nottingham and of Durham (in England) and has also taught law at the London School of Economics, the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh. He was recently a Visiting Professor at the University of Miami School of Law. In addition, he has assisted and advised counsel in several international law cases before international and national courts. He has published articles on different aspects of international law in leading journals such as the American Journal of International Law, the British Yearbook of International Law and the European Journal of International Law. His research interests include international dispute settlement, international organizations, international criminal law and international economic law.

Mary I. Coombs, Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law received her B.A., M.A. and J.D. from the University of Michigan and clerked for Judge Henry Friendly of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.  She has visited at Boston and St. John’s University’s law schools.  Professor Coombs teaches at the University of Miami School of Law in the areas of family law, criminal law, torts, law and medicine and, in the Barcelona summer program in 2004, transnational family law. She has published most recently in the areas of law and medicine, public international law, and family law.

John Flood, Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Westminster School of Law, is both a lawyer and a sociologist with law degrees from the U.K. (LL.B., London School of Economics; LL.M., Warwick University) and the U.S. (LL.M., Yale Law School) and a sociology Ph.D. from Northwestern University.  He has researched and taught at the American Bar Foundation (Chicago), Indiana University (Bloomington), European University Institute (Florence).  His research and numerous publications has focused on two themes, the legal profession and the globalization of law.  He is currently Visiting Professor at Institute for the Study of the Transformation of the State, Bremen University, Germany.

Michael H. Graham, Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law, received a B.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964 and a J.D. in 1967 from Columbia Law School.  Professor Graham has taught evidence, civil procedure, conflict of laws, trial advocacy,and transnational litigation.  He has written eleven books and numerous articles in the field of evidence including a textbook and nutshell for students.

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is a Reader in law at the University of Westminster.  He holds an LL.B from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in conjunction with Universidad Central, Barcelona; an LL.M in environmental law from King’s College, University of London; and a Ph.D. in law from Birkbeck College, University of London. He has taught at Birkbeck and University College London, at the Centre for Politics, Management and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, and in the US at the Cleveland State University. He has published two books, "Law and the City", and "Absent Environments: Theorising Environmental Law and the City", both with Routledge, as well as various articles on the topics of risk, gender, phenomenology, art, human rights, urban theory, and environmental law. His research interests include critical legal theory, geography, psychoanalysis, and European Union law.