President's Curriculum Vitae

DAVID W. LEEBRON

EMPLOYMENT

2004-Present		RICE UNIVERSITY President, July 2004-Present Professor, Department of Political Science, 2004-Present	HOUSTON, TEXAS
1989-2004		COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law (1996-2004) Subjects Taught (since 1983): Corporate Finance, International Corporate Finance, International Economic Law, International Trade, Human Rights, International Law, Privacy, Torts President, Columbia Community Services, a charitable organization at Columbia which raises funds from Columbia University faculty and employees for the benefit of neighborhood organizations which provide needed services.	NEW YORK, NEW YORK
1992-1993 (Winter)		UNIVERSITÄT BIELEFELD Jean Monnet Visiting Professor	BIELEFELD, GERMANY
1983-1989		NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW Professor of Law and Director, International Legal Studies Program
1981-1983		CLEARY, GOTTLIEB, STEEN & HAMILTON Associate specializing in corporate practice	NEW YORK, NEW YORK
1980		UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW Acting Assistant Professor of Law (Teaching Torts)	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1979		JUDGE SHIRLEY M. HUFSTEDLER Law clerk, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

EDUCATION

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL J.D. magna cum laude, 1979. Sears Prize (given to the two students receiving the highest averages in the first year class). President, Harvard Law Review (Volume 92).	CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
HARVARD COLLEGE B.A. summa cum laude, 1976. Major: History and Science. Thesis: “Hermann Kolbe and the Structural Theory of Organic Chemistry: A Case Study in Scientific Opposition”	CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Council on Foreign Relations
IMAX Corporation (Board of Directors)
Greater Houston Partnership (Board of Directors)
American Association of Universities
Houston Advanced Research Center Board
Houston Tech Center Board
Houston World Affairs
Houston Forum
BioHouston (Board of Directors)
American Society of International Law
American Law Deans Association (Board of Directors)
Association of the Bar of the City of New York (formerly on the Committee on International Affairs)
Bar admissions: Hawaii (inactive), New York, Pennsylvania (inactive)
ABA Standards Review Committee
Harvard Law School Visiting Committee
Consortium on Financing Higher Education
CUSA

PUBLICATIONS

Linkage, 96 Amer. J. Int'l Law 621 (2002).

Regulatory Discrimination in Domestic United States Law: A Model for the GATS? (OECD paper 2002).

The Philosophy of Legal Education, 19 Nihon Univ. J. Comp. L. 115 (2002).

Human Rights (Foundation Press 1999) (with Henkin, Neuman and Orentlicher).

Mutual Recognition: Structure, Problems and Prospects (OECD paper 1997).

Harmonization: A Theoretical Framework, Canadian Business Law Journal (1996).

Lying Down with Procrustes: An Analysis of Harmonization Claims, in Bhagwati and Hudec (eds.), Fair Trade and Harmonization (MIT Press 1996).

Implementing the Uruguay Round in the United States , in Jackson and Sykes (eds.), Implementing the Uruguay Round ( Oxford University Press, 1997).

An Overview of the Uruguay Round Results, Aktuelle Juristische Praxis, 9/95, p. 1137 (1995), and 34 Columbia J. Transnational Law 11 (1995).

Non-tariff Trade Barriers: Technical Barriers to Trade, in Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, Conference Series No. Workshop on the Multilateral Trade Negotiations of GATT (1992).

“Computers”, in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (1992) (with Rochelle Dreyfuss).

Limited Liability, Tort Victims and Creditors, 91 Colum. L. Rev. 1565 (1991).

A Game Theoretic Approach to the Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Corporation, 60 Univ. Cincinnati L. Rev. 305 (1991).

The Right to Privacy's Place in the Intellectual History of Tort Law, 41 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 769 (1991).

An Introduction to Products Liability Law: Issues and Trends, 1990 Annual Survey of American Law 395 (1991).

First Things First: A Comment on Securitizing Third World Debt, 1989 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 173.

Final Moments: Damages for Pain and Suffering Prior to Death, 64 N.Y.U. Rev. 256 (1989).

An Introduction to Products Liability: Origins, Theory, Issues and Trends, in R. Zäch , US and EEC Product Liability: Issues and Trends (1989).

Foreword: Privacy and Information Technology, 1986 Ann. Surv. Am. L. 495 (with Rochelle Dreyfuss).

Games Corporations Play: A Theory of Tender Offers, 61 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 153 (1986).

Defense Strategies in Proxy Contests, in D. Blotch & H. Pitt, Hostile Battles for Corporate Control, Vol. 1 (with C. Nathan and B. Steinfeld).

Comment, Double Deductions in the Context of Affiliated Corporations: Textron, Inc. v. United States , 91 Harv. L. Rev. 692 (1978).

Book reviews: Asian Wall Street Journal, American Journal of International Law.

INVITED SPEAKER

Invited speaker at symposia and conferences on international trade law, foreign investment, harmonization, product liability, privacy, corporate law, tort law, and legal education.

TRANSACTIONAL EXPERIENCE

Leveraged Leasing, Aircraft Financing, Tender Offers, Private Placements, Asset Backed Financing, Corporate Debt Restructuring, International Debt Restructuring, Project Finance. Litigation experience in financial fraud. Arbitrator in securities fraud case.

LANGUAGES   

Excellent German and fair French.

FAMILY    

Married to Y. Ping Sun; two children, Daniel (9 years) and Merissa (6 years).