Faculty Profile
Hannah Buxbaum
Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law
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Background
- Hannah Buxbaum holds a BA cum laude from Cornell University and a JD magna cum laude from Cornell Law School, where she served as articles editor of the Cornell Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. She also received an LLM summa cum laude from the University of Heidelberg.
- Book Review Editor, American Journal of Comparative Law
- Member, American Law Institute
- Member, International Academy of Comparative Law
Biography
Professor Buxbaum joined the faculty at Indiana Law in 1997 after practicing as an associate in the New York and Frankfurt offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell.
She teaches Comparative Law, Contracts, International Business Transactions, International Litigation, and Secured Transactions. She is a recipient of the school's Leon H. Wallace Teaching Award and has twice won the Gavel Award for outstanding contribution to the graduating class. She has conducted research in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow and taught as a visiting professor at the universities of Cologne, Kiel, and Nurnberg-Erlangen as well as the San Diego Institute for International and Comparative Law in London.
Selected Works
- Hannah L. Buxbaum, Multinational Class Actions Under Federal Securities Law: Managing Jurisdictional Conflict, 46 COLUM. J. TRANSNAT'L L.14 (2007).
- Hannah L. Buxbaum, Transnational Regulatory Litigation, 46 VA. J. INT'L L. 251 (2006).
- Hannah L. Buxbaum, German Legal Culture and the Globalization of Competition Law: A Historical Perspective on the Expansion of Private Antitrust Enforcement, 23 BERKELEY. J. INT'L L. 474 (2005).
- Hannah L. Buxbaum, Conflict of Economic Laws: From Sovereignty to Substance, 42 VA. J. INT'L L. 931 (2002).
- Hannah L. Buxbaum, The Private Attorney General in a Global Age: Public Interests in Private International Antitrust Litigation, 26 YALE J. INT'L L. 219 (2001).
- Hannah L. Buxbaum, Rethinking International Insolvency: The Neglected Role of Choice-of-Law Rules and Theory, 36 STAN. J. INT'L L. 23 (2000).
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