Faculty

Colonel Matthew Bogdanos

United States Marine Corps

Senior Investigative Counsel, Assistant District Attorney, New York County District Attorney’s Office

B.A., Bucknell University

J.D., M.A. in Classics, Columbia University

Master’s Degree in Strategic Studies, Army War College

Colonel Matthew Bogdanos, now in reserve duty, has served the United States Marine Corps for more than two decades.  He is a visiting professor at the National Defense University, Army War College, Naval War College, and Joint Forces Staff College.  Colonel Bogdanos is currently Senior Investigative Counsel for the District Attorney’s Office of New York County.  He has served on military exercises and operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, South Korea, Lithuania, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kosovo.

During his first tour in Iraq in 2003, he led the investigation into the April 2003 looting of Iraq’s National Museum in Baghdad.  As of the end of 2008, more than 6000 stolen antiquities had been recovered in eight countries.  Exposing the link between the trafficking in stolen antiquities and terrorist financing, he has delivered speeches in more than 175 cities in sixteen countries throughout the world in venues ranging from universities, museums, and United Nations organizations to law-enforcement agencies, Interpol, the American Bar Association, and members of both houses of the British Parliament.  He urges a more active role for international organizations, private foundations, governments, and the art community in combating what he calls the global criminal enterprise that is pillaging the world’s cultural heritage.  Thieves of Baghdad, One Marine’s Passion to Recover the World’s Greatest Stolen Treasures, is his first-hand account of his largely successful efforts to recover Iraq’s lost treasures.  His royalties from the sale of the book go to the Iraq Museum. 

Holly Flora

Assistant Professor of Art History

Tulane University

B.A., William Jewell College

M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Professor Flora’s research explores the intersections of narrative, performativity, imagination, and gender in the devotional art of late medieval and early Renaissance Italy. She has received research fellowships from the American Association of University Women, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Her articles have appeared in Gesta, Bolletino Storico Pisano, and Studies in Iconography, as well as several edited volumes of essays. Dr. Flora is currently at work on a book on gender and illustrated manuscripts of the Meditationes Vitae Christi.

Before coming to Tulane, Dr. Flora worked in the museum world in New York, organizing exhibitions such as Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting at The Frick Collection, where she spent two years as a curatorial fellow, and exhibitions on Ethiopian art, Georges Rouault, illuminated Bibles, and images of the Prodigal Son for the Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan, where she is now a guest curator. Dr. Flora also spent eleven years on the paid lecturing staff of the The Cloisters and enjoys guest lecturing there when she is in New York.

Francesco Francioni

Professor of International Law and Human Rights 

Director of the Law Academy

European Institute University

J.D., University of Florence

LL.M., Harvard University

Professor Francioni’s current research deals with a multitude of topics including cultural diversity, cultural heritage and international law; sovereignty, globalization and the protection of human rights; the role of customary international law in human rights adjudication; institution building in the area of environmental protection; and access to justice as a human right.  Professor Francioni is currently Professor of International Law and Human Rights and Director of the Law Academy at the European University Institute in Florence.  Prior to moving to the European University Institute, he was the Director of the International Peace Studies Center and Jean Monnet Chair in European Law (Professore Ordinario) at the Faculty of Law, University of Siena.  He has is active in many professional organizations, such as the World Heritage Committee of the UNESCO and the Italian Society of International Law among others. 

He is editor of many books including Access to Justice as a Human Right; La Dimension pluridisciplinaire de la responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise (with M.A. Moreau); Biotechnologies and International Human Rights; and Biotechnology and International Law (Editor with T. Scovazzi).

Recent publications include “Au-delà des traités: l’émergence d’un nouveau droit coutumier pour la protection du patrimoine culturel, Revue Générale de droit international public” (2007), “From Cultural Property to Cultural Heritage: the Dynamic Evolution of  a Concept and Scope,” in  L’action normative de l’UNESCO (2007) and “Enforcing the international Responsibility for Human Rights Violations by Multinational Enterprises,”  in La Dimension Pluridisciplinaire de la responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise (2007).

James Gordley

W.R. Irby Professor of Law

Tulane University School of Law

B.A., The University of Chicago

M.B.A., The University of Chicago

J.D., Harvard University 

James Gordley comes to Tulane Law School in 2007 from Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, where he served on the faculty beginning in 1978.  He was a fellow at the Institute of Comparative Law at the University of Florence and an Ezra Ripley Thayer Fellow at Harvard before beginning his teaching career.

Professor Gordley has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, a Senior NATO Fellow and a fellow of the Deutscheforschungsgemeinshaft.  He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Fribourg, Regensburg, Munich, Milan, and Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi; a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law in Hamburg, the European University Institute in Fiesole, and the University of Cologne; and the Jean Monnet Distinguished Professor in Comparative Law at the University of Trent.  He was awarded the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award in 1984 and the Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction in 2001.  He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a titulary member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

He is the author of several books, including Foundations of Private Law; An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Private Law (with Arthur von Mehren); The Enforceability of Promises in European Contract Law; Gratian, The Treatise on Laws with the Ordinary Gloss (with Augustine Thompson); and The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine. 

Recent publications include “The State’s Private Law and Legal Academia,” 56 The American Journal of Comparative Law 641(2008); "When is the Use of Foreign Law Possible?  A Hard Case: The Protection of Privacy in Europe and the United States," published with the proceedings of the Louisiana State University Symposium on "Law Making in a Global World," 67 Louisiana Law Review 1073 (2007); "Morality and Contract: The Question of Paternalism," published with the proceedings of the conference "Law and Morality," held at the William and Mary School of Law, March, 2006, 48 William and Mary Law Review 1733 (2007); and "Comparative Law and Legal History," The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law 753 (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Herbert V. Larson, Jr.

Executive Director, International Legal Programs

Professor of Practice

Tulane University School of Law

B.A., Tulane University

J.D., Loyola University (New Orleans)

M.Phil., Cambridge University, England 

Herbert Larson is the director of international legal programs at Tulane University School of Law, where he teaches international criminal law, and federal criminal law.  He is also the director of the Tulane Center for International Criminal Law and International Human Rights in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Professor Larson was in private practice for 26 years, specializing in complex federal criminal cases, and federal criminal appeals.    

Federico Lenzerini

Adjunct Professor

Faculty of Law

University of Siena

J.D., University of Siena

Ph.D., Dottore di ricerca, in International Law, University of Bari

In 2003, Professor Lenzerini earned his Ph.D. in International Law, from the University of Bari, with a doctoral thesis on “Asylum and human rights: The evolution of the right to asylum in the contemporary international legal system.”  Since 1999, he has been a research and teaching assistant in International and European Union Law for the Faculty of Law of the University of Siena.  He is now a researcher and Adjunct Professor of public international law, private international law, and European Union law for the Faculty of Law of the University of Siena.  He is a consultant of UNESCO for the Department for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and the Legal Counsel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for international negotiations relative to the protection of cultural property.  He is a member of the “Italian International Law Society” and the “Biotechnology Committee” of the International Law Association.  His relevant areas of research are human rights protection, the right to asylum (under the double profile of general international law and of community law), rights of indigenous populations (according to comparative and international law), International Business and Trade Law, the International protection of Cultural Heritage, and cultural diversity.

Riccardo Pavoni

Faculty of Law

University of Siena

J.D., University of Siena

LL.M. in European and Comparative Law, Oxford University

Professor Pavoni is the associate editor of the Italian Yearbook of International Law.  He is also a member of the editorial board of "International Law in Domestic Courts" (www.oxfordlawreports.com).  He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam (2006) and a visiting scholar at Charles University in Prague (2004).  He was one of two to receive the SIDI Award (Italian Society of International Law) in 2004, with the article "Accesso alle risorse fitogenetiche e diritti di proprietà intellettuale dopo il Trattato della FAO del 2001", in La Comunità internazionale (2003).  Professor Pavoni is also a distinguished member of many professional organizations, including the Italian Society of International Law and the Board of the Interdepartmental Study Center of Bioethics and Biolaw of the University of Siena.  He has been a professor in English of the Summer School "Environmental Law: International and European Perspectives" (Graduate College S. Chiara, University of Siena) and of the Summer School of the "Tulane University School of Law" (Faculty of Law, University of Siena).  He was also the president of the association "Siena Erasmus Group" (1995-1996).