Prof Paul R. Dubinsky

Professor of Comparative and International Law at the Wayne State University, USA, Paul R. Dubinsky has a distinguished academic career. He was an associate professor at New York Law School and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. From 1996-97, he served as associate director of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and associate director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. As an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Professor Dubinsky served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Hague Conference on Private International Law during negotiations that culminated in the Hague Choice-of-Court Convention. Before beginning his career in teaching and scholarship, he was an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and a law clerk to the Honorable Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a graduate of Yale College (summa cum laude), Harvard Law School (magna cum laude), and the Universiteit Katholieke of Leuven, Belgium (magna cum laude).

Professor Dubinsky serves on the Executive Committee of the American branch of the International Law Association, the Executive Editorial Board of the American Journal of Comparative Law, and the U.S. Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law. He is also a reporter for the 2010 International Congress of Comparative Law.

His work reflects a deep concern about the way advocacy for human rights is dealt with by courts, particularly when the spectre of transborder ‘terrorism’ leads to a governmental erosion of fundamental freedoms in the name of security. These concerns are of global relevance.