Faculty


Elizabeth Fisher
Fellow, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
Dr. Fisher has B.A./LL.B. degrees from the University of South Wales and a D.Phil. From Oxford. She has been teaching law at Corpus Christi College of Oxford University since 2000. Her areas of research expertise are European Union law, environmental law and risk regulation. She is particularly interested in the interface between risk regulation and administrative law and has studied this interface in a number of different jurisdictions including the UK, US, EU, WTO, and Australia. She has written widely on the precautionary principle, environmental and public health risk regulation, as well as upon issues of administrative and environmental law.

Jeffrey Hackney
 Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford University
Mr. Hackney holds M.A. and B.C.L. degrees from Oxford where he was a Vinerian Scholar. He is a member of Middle Temple and a senior Oxford faculty member, having served as Fellow and Tutor in Law at St. Edmund Hall from 1966 to 1976 and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Wadham College until his retirement in 2009. Now an Emeritus Fellow, he continues to teach as Lecturer at Wadham. Mr. Hackney's special interests are legal history, land law and equity.

Adam J. Hirsch
William & Catherine VanDercreek Professor, Florida State University

Professor Hirsch earned his J.D. from the Yale Law School and holds a Ph.D. in history from Yale. He joined the Florida State faculty in 1983. His teaching and research interests include bankruptcy policy, creditor’s rights, estate planning, gratuitous transfers and American Legal History.

Tahirih V. Lee
Associate Professor, Florida State University
Professor Lee has a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in history from Yale University. She is a leading U.S. scholar on Chinese law and legal history. Before coming to Florida State University, she taught at University of Minnesota Law School and Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Her teaching and research interests include Chinese law, international business transactions, comparative law and alternative dispute resolution.