Faculty and Partners
Martin Gelter
Martin Gelter is a Professor of Law at Fordham and Director of the Jean Monnet Center. He is an expert in comparative corporate law and corporate governance. He teaches Corporations, Partnership & LLC law, Comparative Corporate Law, and Accounting for Lawyers at Fordham. He joined Fordham in 2009 and studies corporate governance across the United States and Europe. He previously served as assistant professor at the Vienna University of Economics and visiting professor or fellow at universities in Bologna, Paris, Taiwan, Oxford, the European University Institute, and the Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute.
Aditi Bagchi is the Ignatius M. Wilkinson Chair and Professor of Law. She writes primarily about contract law, as well as legal philosophy and comparative political economy across private law. Bagchi previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She has also been a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute.
Susan Block‑Lieb
Cooper Family Chair in Urban Legal Issues and Professor of Law. She teaches Contracts, Bankruptcy, Secured Transactions, Consumer Protection, International Commercial Law and International Insolvency Law. Block‑Lieb co‑authored “Global Lawmakers: International Organizations and the Crafting of World Markets (Cambridge Univ Press 2017, with Terence C. Halliday)” and has served for nearly two decades as a delegate to UNCITRAL’s Insolvency Working Group. She is the president of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law, and a member of the American College of Bankruptcy and the International Insolvency Institute.
Doni Bloomfield
Associate Professor of Law who joined Fordham in 2024. Bloomfield teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, national security, biosecurity, antitrust, and health law. His research examines how law promotes technological progress while reducing risk, focusing on export controls, innovation law, and the intersection of AI and biosecurity, in the US and abroad. His work has been published in Science, the Washington University Law Review, Iowa Law Review, BMJ, and elsewhere. He previously worked as a biotechnology reporter, served as a senior research associate at Johns Hopkins, was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, and clerked for Judges Dyk and Millett. His 2024 article in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, written with Aaron S. Kesselheim, compared biosimilar competition and patent law in the US and EU.
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Harlan Grant Cohen
Professor of Law whose scholarship spans international law, international trade, international legal theory, global governance and U.S. foreign relations law. Starting in April 2026, he will be co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law. Previously, he held the Gabriel M. Wilner/UGA Foundation Professorship at the University of Georgia School of Law, where he co‑directed the Dean Rusk International Law Center.
Robin Effron
Professor of Law and expert on civil procedure, complex litigation, and international business law. Prior to joining Fordham, Effron was a professor and Dean’s Research Scholar at Brooklyn Law School, where she co‑directed the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law. Her scholarship focuses on civil procedure, domestic and international dispute resolution, and federal courts, and she is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Paolo Galizzi
Paolo Galizzi is a Clinical Professor of Law at Fordham Law School whose work focuses on international law, sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, human rights, and climate change law. He studied at the University of Milan and SOAS University of London and later received a European Union Marie Curie Fellowship to conduct research on climate change law and policy. His work connects international environmental governance with regulatory and corporate responsibility frameworks relevant to EU law. He has also carried out extensive projects in Africa and the Caribbean, collaborating with governments, judicial institutions, and organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme on legal reform, human rights, and sustainable development initiatives.
Jamie Grischkan
Legal scholar and historian of financial regulation and antimonopoly law. Her work explores the history of bank holding companies and examines the relationship between antitrust and financial regulation within the American antimonopoly tradition. Grischkan previously taught at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and has held fellowships at New York University and Harvard University.
Rebecca Kysar
Professor of Law whose research focuses on tax law and policy, international tax, and the legislative and budget processes. Kysar returned to Fordham after serving on the Biden–Harris transition team and as a political appointee in the U.S. Treasury Department, where she co‑led global tax negotiations and was awarded the Treasury Medal. She previously taught at Brooklyn Law School and has experience in private practice and judicial clerkships.
Adam Orford
Associate Professor of Law and expert on climate change, clean energy development, and environmental law. His research explores the effectiveness of legal strategies for deep decarbonization of the global industrial economy, from the local to the international level. Orford holds a J.D. from Columbia and an MPP and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and has extensive experience in environmental and regulatory litigation.
Olivier Sylvain
Professor of Law and Senior Policy Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute. Sylvain recently served as senior adviser to the chair of the Federal Trade Commission (2021–2023). His research focuses on information and communications law and policy, and he teaches courses on legislation, regulation and U.S. data‑protection law.
Barry Hawk
While Professor of Law at Fordham, Hawk was the first director of the EU Law Center. He also directed the Fordham Competition Law Institute for many decades and headed the EU and international antitrust practice at Skadden Arps. He has taught U.S. and international antitrust law at Fordham and universities worldwide, served as vice chair of the ABA Antitrust Section, and authored numerous books and articles on competition law and legal and economic history.
Mihaela Tofan
Jean Monnet Chair in European Financial Regulation at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania and senior researcher at the Institute of Legal Research at Romanian Academy. She coordinates student and research teams across bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels, and has extensive teaching experience throughout Europe. Tofan’s research and publications focus on EU law, European financial regulation and resilience.
Susanne Augenhofer
Susanne Augenhofer has been a full Professor of Law at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, since 2020. Prior to her appointment in Innsbruck, she was a Professor of Law in Germany (Humboldt University in Berlin, and University of Erfurt). She served as a Visiting Professor inter alia at Yale Law School, from which she also holds an LL.M. and was a Senior Research Fellow multiple times and NYU School of Law, where she is a fellow at the Civil Justice Center. She currently serves as a Co-Chair of the ELI Austrian Hub and has been a Council Member of the ELI since 2021 (re-elected 2025) and, also in 2021, she was elected to the Advisory Group on Consumer Policy of the European Commission. Her research focuses on (consumer) contract law, antitrust & fair trading law and questions of enforcement / A2J in these areas.
Pierre‑Henri Conac
Professor of Financial Markets Law at the University of Luxembourg. He was also previously acting director of the Luxembourg Centre for European Law (LCEL) and Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private and Public Law. He founded the Master 2 in European Banking and Financial Law program and formerly taught at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon‑Sorbonne). Conac holds degrees from the University of Paris 1, HEC School of Management, and the Institute of Political Studies of Paris, along with an LL.M. from Columbia University, and his research examines securities and company law. He has been an adviser to the European Commission on company law (Informal Company Law Expert Group, ICLEG) and to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) as a member of its Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG). He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of European Law (Trier).
Katja Langenbucher
Professor of Civil, Financial Regulation and Banking Law at Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability, Goethe University Frankfurt, and bridge professor at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE’s LawLab – FinTech & AI. She is also an affiliated professor at Sciences Po and a long‑term guest professor at Fordham. Langenbucher’s research focuses on corporate, banking and securities law, fintech, artificial intelligence and the corporate governance of banks. She serves on BaFin’s supervisory board and the German Ministry of Finance working groups on capital‑markets law.
Mathias Siems
Professor of Private Law and Market Regulation at the European University Institute since January 2019. He previously taught at Durham University, the University of East Anglia, the University of Edinburgh and the Riga Graduate School of Law. Siems has been a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI, and he holds degrees from the universities of Munich and Edinburgh.