Faculty

 

Professor Jesse Goldner

John D. Valentine Professor of Law; A.B. in Political Science, Columbia University; M.A. in Psychology, Columbia University; J.D., Harvard Law School

Professor Goldner is the John D. Valentine Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law. He holds secondary faculty appointments at the University`s School of Meicine as Professor of Pediatrics, as well as in Uniersity`s School of Puiblic Halth an Center for Health Care Ethics. He has served as a visiting Professor at the University of Warschau in Poland, the University of Wawick in Engalnd, New York Law School an the University of San Diego. He has written extensievly in the areas of health law biothics. Together with three others, in 2005 he authored The Ethics an Regulation of Research with Human Subjects by LexisNexis press an the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Health Law, published by the AmericanHealth Lawyers Association. He is a member of the Council on Accreditation of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs and chaired the Council in 2005. He received the 2004 Jay Healey Distinguished Health Law Teacher of the Year Award from the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Prof. Jesse Goldner. 

 

Professor Dr. Andres Lohse

Law Studies, University of Kiel; Dr. iur., University of Kiel; Postdoctorate degree (Habilitation), Free University in Berlin

Professor Dr. Lohse was redently called to a Chair of Cevil Law, Commercial an Business Law at Ruhr University- Bochum. She held temporary Professorships at the University of Frankfurt an the Ruhr University-Bochum prior to accepting hercurrent position. She was a lawyer at the business law firm Hengeler Mueller in Frankfurt an practiced European and German competition law, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Dr. Lohse has been an Academic Assistant at the Free University of Berlin, a Lecturer at the Academic of the Savings Bank in Kiel and a Clerk (Referendarin) with the Court of Appeals Schleswig. Prof. Andrea Lohse.

 

Prof. Dr. Roman Seer

Prof. Dr. Seer occupies the chaired professorship in taxation and is the director of the master's degree program in taxation law and economics at the Ruhr Universität in Bochum, Germany. He is Director of the Summer Law Program. After passing the First State Bar Examination, he clerked with the court of appeals in Duesseldorf before the Second State Examination in 1990. Professor Seer did doctoral and post-doctoral studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. His doctoral dissertation won the Albert Hensel Prize from the German Society of Tax Law.

Following completion of post-doctoral studies, Ruhr Universität appointed him the chair in taxation. Professor Seer was a visiting scholar at SLU in 2001 and his research resulted in his well-received book comparing U.S. and German tax procedure. Among his many publications, Professor Seer is a co-author of the leading German tax treatise. In addition to his academic activities, he also serves as a bar examiner for the First State Examination for the appellate courts in Hamm and Duesseldorf, is the scientific adviser for the German Society of Tax Law, is a member of the board of directors of the Rhine Ruhr international Tax Law Group and a member of the Technical Institute of Tax Advisors, the European Association of Tax Law Professors, the International Fiscal Association and the Union of German Public Law Teachers. Prof. Dr. Roman Seer. 

 

Professor Hennry M. Ordower

Director, Summer Law Program in Berlin and Co-Director, Center for International and Comperative Law; A.B., Washington University; M.A., J.D.; The University of Chicago

Professor Ordower is the director of the Summer Law Program in Berlin. He has an extensive background in European languages, including several years of Ph.D. work in Germanic and Scandinavian languages at The Universtity of Chicago. He has taught taxation, business associations and corporate finance at Saint Louis University for over 25 years and has taught at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany and Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. He was the Recipient of a 2002 German Academic Exchange Service Followship. For articles published in 2003 and 1997 he received the Thompson Coburn Faculty Writing Award and was runner-u for 1999. And, in 1995 he received a Germann Marshall Fund Fellowship. Professor Ordower maintains an active consulting practice in the private sector emphasizing taxation and, more recently, hedge funds. An avid traveler, Ordower has lectured in parts of Europe, Asia and Africa and has visited over 100 countries.

 

Professor Dr. Adelheid Puttler

Law Studies, University of Augsburg; LL.M., University of Chicago; Doctor of Laws, University of Augsburg; Ecole National d'Administration, Paris, France (Diplôme International d'Administration, Publique); Postdoctoral degree (Habilitation), University of Jena

Professor Puttler has been a professor of Public Law, especially European Law, Public International Law and International Economic Law at Ruhr University-Bochum since 2001. Prior to that, she was a professor of Public Law and Law of European and International Relations at the University of Bielefeld. She was a legal officer at the Bavarian State Ministry of Economics in Munich, a professor of Public Law at the University of Heidelberg, a legal counsellor at the German Federal Consitiutional Court in Karlsruhe andAssistant Professor at the University of Augsburg. Her areas of research and teaching include Public International Law; German, European and International Economic Law; Constitutional Law; and Procedural Law. Prof. Adelheid Puttler. 

 

Professor Dr. Rolf Wank

Ph.D. and Habilitation; 1. and 2. State Examination Law; studies in Economics and in Law at the Universities of Marburg and Köln.

Professor Dr. Wank is a full Professor at teh Ruhr University-Bochum where he has been teaching Employment Law and Labor Law, Civil Law and Legal Theory since 1985. He taught at the University of Münster from 1983 to 1985. Professor Wank has published many books and articles, mainly in Employment Law and in Labor Law. He is co-author of a textbook on EC-Employment Law and Social Security Law. He teaches Comparative Employment Law in the European Union and the United States. Prof. Rolf Wank..

 

Professor Alan Weinberger

Associate Dean for Faculy; A.B., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; J.D., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor

Professor Weinberger is currently the Associate Dean for Faculty and supervises the Corporate Counsel Practicum at Saint Louis University School of Law. He has been at the School of Law since 1997 and teachers Property, Real Estate Transactions, Business Associations, Securities Regulation, Advanced Real Estate Transactions Seminar, Public/Private Partnerships in Land Development seminar, and Preventive Law in Corporate Practice seminar. He was the recipient of the Student Bar Association's Faculty Member of the Year Award in 1995, 1996, 1999 and 2000. Prior to coming the School of Law, Professor Weinberger practiced private transactional law for twelve years at a firm in the Detroit Metropolitan and the Washington D.C. areas. Professor Weinberger's areas of expertise include Business Associations, Land Finance Law, Land Use Law, Property and Real Estate Law.  Prof. Alan Weinberger.