John Linarelli

Associate Dean and Professor of Law
Ph.D. (Law), King's College University of
   London
J.D., American University Washington College    of Law
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center
M.A., University of California, Riverside
B.A., Duquesne University

John Linarelli is a Professor of Law at the University of La Verne College of Law. He joined the faculty in August 2002. Professor Linarelli has taught law school in three countries and law courses in many more. Prior to coming to La Verne, he was Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of Graduate Legal Studies at the University of East Anglia Law School in England, a leading British law school. He has served as Visiting Professor of the Common Law at the University of Trier, in Germany.

Professor Linarelli practiced law for over ten years before becoming a full-time academic. His practice experience was in Washington D.C., at several law firms including Dickstein Shapiro LLP, Spriggs & Hollingsworth and his own law firm, Braverman & Linarelli. He was also Senior Fellow at the International Law Institute in Washington D.C. When in private practice with his own firm, Professor Linarelli was lead counsel in the Matter of M- K-, one of the first cases in the United States and globally to grant political asylum to a woman on the basis of gender-related persecution. Professor Linarelli has served as a consultant to various international institutions, including the Inter-American Development Bank and International Trade Centre (UNCTAD/WTO). He has served as an observer for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) project on revising the Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services.

Professor Linarelli has a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Duquesne University, which he earned magna cum laude. He has a J.D. degree from the American University Washington College of Law, and he obtained an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center with distinction, having graduated with the best academic record in his graduating class, which earned him the Thomas Bradbury Chetwood S.J. Prize. He has a Ph.D. in Law from King's College, University of London.

Professor Linarelli is a member of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Bars (all inactive). He is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Philosophical Association, and the American Society of International Law.

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Business Organizations (Law 600A, B - 3 units, 2 units)
A two-semester course examining the laws governing modern business entities. The course covers agency, partnership, and limited liability companies. The second semester examines legal issues relevant to the control and management of a corporation, with a focus on public corporations.

Secured Transactions (Law 605 - 2 units)
This course examines the use of security in commercial and consumer transactions. It introduces the legal principles fundamental to the credit system in the contemporary economy, exploring the legal principles relating to secured credit financing. The focus of the course is on Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. It examines the revisions of Article 9 that became effective in all states on July 1, 2001. Topics include the role of secured credit financing sales, commercial and consumer transactions, creating and perfecting security interests, priorities and priority contests, Article 9 in bankruptcy, and creditor remedies and debtor protection including legal issues relating to defaults and foreclosures, cure, and self-help repossession.

Philosophy of Law: Selected Topics Seminar
This course is an advanced offering in philosophy of law. It offers students the opportunity to undertake a focused reading and discussion of a major original text or series of texts in philosophy of law. It may cover an aspect of contemporary philosophy in some detail, or it may focus on a major figure in the history of philosophy of law. With the guidance of the professor, students write a paper in the course. The professor may take a broad view of what constitutes eligible topics, to include such topics as philosophical ethics and moral philosophy as well as traditional analytical legal philosophy. There are no prerequisites or corequisites.

International Business Transactions (LAW 671 - 2 units)
A study of the broad scope of issues affecting international business. The course introduces students to analytical tools used by lawyers who advise on matters related to international business and examines law and practice relating to prevalent forms of international business transactions.

Law & Terrorism (Law 651 - 3 units)
This course covers the domestic and international law relevant to terrorism. It examines how domestic criminal law and procedure might apply to suspected terrorists. It covers responses to terrorism in the form of restrictions on the movement of people, goods, technology, and capital across borders. Legal issues involving use of military force against terrorism are examined. The course covers the legal issues associated with military detention, interrogation, trial, and punishment of suspected terrorists. Finally, the course covers civil law issues involving compensation of victims of terrorism and victims of responses to terrorism.

Regulating Public Procurement: National and International Perspectives. With Professors Sue Arrowsmith (University of Nottingham) and Don Wallace, Jr. (Georgetown University) (The Hague: Kluwer Law International 2000). Standard reference work in the field. Read the Amazon.com book description.

Small and Medium Size Enterprises and Export-Led Growth: Are There Roles for Public Procurement Programmes? (lead author) (Geneva: International Trade Centre (UNCTAD/WTO 1999)). Funded by the International Trade Centre (UNCTAD/WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Translated into Russian.

Principles of Fairness for International Economic Treaties: Construction and Contractualism, In Trade As The Guarantor of Peace, (PTO) Liberty and Security--Perspectives (Padideh Alai Tomer Broude and Colin Picker eds. American Society of International Law 2006)

TRIPS, Biotechnology and the Public Domain: What Role Will World Trade Law Play? in Agriculture and International Trade: Law, Policy and the WTO 193 (Chris Rodgers & Michael Cardwell eds. Oxford: CABI 2003)

Informing the WTO's Transparency Agenda: Law, Economics and International Relations Theory, in Public Procurement: The Continuing Revolution 235 (Sue Arrowsmith & Martin Trybus eds. The Hague: Kluwer Law International 2003)

Capitulo 1: Prácticas modelo en la reforma judicial: experiencias extraregionales, in La Justicia Mas Alla de Nuestras Fronteras: Experiencias de Reforma Útiles para América Latina y el Caribe 1 (Christina Biebesheimer & Carlos Cordovez eds. Washington D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank 1999). Co-authored with Carolyn Herzog. Funding provided by the Inter-American Development Bank Civil Society Unit. Translated into Spanish.

The Economics of Sovereignty, in Renegotiating Westphalia: Essays and Commentary on the European and Conceptual Foundations of Modern International Law 351 (Chris Harding & Chin Lim eds. The Hague: Kluwer Law International 1999)

Private Participation in Public Projects: Some Strategic Issues, in Public Procurement: Global Revolution 259 (Sue Arrowsmith & Arwel Davies eds. The Hague: Kluwer Law International 1998)

Corruption in Developing Countries and in Countries in Transition: Legal and Economic Perspectives, in Public Procurement: Global Revolution 125 (Sue Arrowsmith & Arwel Davies eds. The Hague: Kluwer Law International 1998)

Principles of Fairness for International Economic Treaties: Constructivism and Contractualism (forthcoming)

Nietzsche in Law's Cathedral: Beyond Reason and Postmodernism 53 Catholic University Law Review 413 (2004)

Treaty Governance, Intellectual Property and Biodiversity, 6 Environmental Law Review 21 (2004)

The Economics of Uniform Law and Uniform Law Making, 48 Wayne Law Review 1387 (2003)

The Economics of Private Law Harmonization, 96 American Society of International Law Proceedings 339 (2002)

Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Biotechnology: European Aspects, 6 Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law 406 (2002)

The Role of Dispute Settlement in World Trade Law: Some Lessons from the Kodak-Fuji Dispute, 31 Georgetown University Law and Policy in International Business 263 (2000)

United States Economic Sanctions Imposed by Sub-Central Governments: The Supreme Court Declares the Massachusetts Myanmar Law Unconstitutional, 2000 International Trade Law and Regulation 116 (2000)

Violence Against Women and the Asylum Process, 60 Albany Law Review 977 (1997)

Anglo-American Jurisprudence and Latin America, 20 Fordham International Law Journal 50 (1996). Cited in Worth Reading column of the National Law Journal, July 21, 1997. Used as teaching material by the American University Washington College of Law, program in Latin America.

Peace-Building, 24 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 253 (1996)

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Post Cold War Era, 16 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 373 (1995)

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: Legal and Policy Issues, 18 Boston College International and Comparative Law Review 361 (1995) Annual European Law issue

International Trade Relations and the Separation of Powers Under the United States Constitution, 13 Dickinson Journal of International Law 203 (1995)

An Examination of the Proposed Crime of Intervention in the Draft Code of Crimes Against the Peace and Security of Mankind, 18 Suffolk Transnational Law Review 1 (1995)

China and the GATT Agreement on Government Procurement, 8 Columbia University Journal of Asian Law 185 (1994)

Economic Sanctions and the US Supreme Court: Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council, 10 Public Procurement Law Review na91 (2001)

Internationalism in Legal Education: The United Kingdom Experience, in 93 American Society of International Law Proceedings 359 (Washington D.C.: American Society of International Law 2000)

Beyond the Millennium: The Legal Issues, Conference Report, 3 Journal of Information, Law and Technology (1998), http://www/law/warwick.ac.uk/jilt/98-3/linarelli.html. Published by the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

The Proposed Freedom from Government Competition Act of 1997, 5 Public Procurement Law Review CS208 (1997)

Changes to Bid Protest Jurisdiction of the United States Federal Courts, 6 Public Procurement Law Review CS117 (1997)

China and the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, 5 Public Procurement Law Review CS54 (1996)

Women, Just Implementation of Asylum Policy, and Our Commitment to Human Dignity and Freedom, 3 Human Rights Brief, Spring 1996, at 13

Review of Sue Arrowsmith & Keith Hartley, Public Procurement: (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series), 29 Local Government Studies 137 (2003)

Review of Jan Dalhuisen, International Commercial, Financial and Trade Law, 21 Legal Studies 526 (2001)

Review of Joseph Weiler, ed., The EU, the WTO and the NAFTA: Towards a Common Law of International Trade, 10 Public Procurement Law Review 325 (2001)

Review of Christer Ahlström, The Status of Multilateral Export Control Regimes - An Examination of Legal and Non-Legal Agreements in International Co-operation (Uppsala: Iustus Forlag 1999), 20 Australian Yearbook of International Law (2000)

Review of Richard A. Posner & Francesco Parisi eds., Law and Economics (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series 81), 17 Wisconsin International Law Journal 509 (1999)

Reporter for the 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law. Immigration and Sovereignty, National Responses to Bad Aliens, 88 American Society of International Law Proceedings 439 (1994)

The Social Contract in the Modern Welfare State: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives, April 18-20, 2007, University of Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Paper: "Contractualism and the Moral Evaluation of International Economic Institutions: The Case of Odious Debt." Funded by the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society.

The Second Annual International Conference on Asian and WTO Law and Policy: Rules, Practices and Policies in Government Procurement, July 27-28, 2006, National Taiwan University. Paper: "The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement and the United Nations Model Procurement Law: A View from Outside the Region." Funded by the National Taiwan University College of Law, Asian Center for WTO and International Health and Policy.

Public Procurement: Global Revolution III, June 19-20, 2006, University of Nottingham, UK. Paper: "Ethics and Public Procurement in Times of War and Catastrophe: Iraq and Other Cases." Funded by the University of Nottingham Public Procurement Research Group.

American Society of International Law International Economic Law Group (IELG) Meeting, February 24-26, 2004, entitled: "Trade as Guarantor of Peace, Liberty & Security?" Paper: "Principles of Fairness for International Economic Treaties: Constructivism and Contractualism."

American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, March 13-16, 2002. Panel: Why (Not) Uniform Legal Solutions? Paper: "The Economics of Private Law Harmonization." Funded by the British Society of Legal Scholars.

Public Procurement: Global Revolution II, September 6-7, 2001, University of Nottingham, England. Paper: "Informing the WTO's Transparency Agenda: Law, Economics and International Relations Theory." Funded by the University of Nottingham Public Procurement Research Group.

Conference sponsored by U.S. Department of Agriculture and University of Arkansas Center for Agricultural Law Research and Information, at the USDA's National Agricultural Library, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, May 14-15, 2001. Paper: "TRIPS, Biotechnology and the Public Domain: What Role Will World Trade Law Play?" Funded by the USDA and the University of Arkansas.

Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2001, April 4-6, 2001, University of Bristol, England, Cyberlaw panel. Paper: "Law and Norms in Cyberspace: Jurisprudence and Economics."

American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., March 1999. Panel: The Challenges and Methods of Integrating International and Comparative Law into Traditional Law School Classes.

American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Yale University, May 1998. Session: Positive Political Theory and Legislation II: Constructing Governmental Institutions. Paper, "The Constitutional Economics of Europe: Internal Exit and Strategic Interaction of National and European Institutions."

King's College, University of London, Constructing Constitutions Seminar, February 24, 1998. Paper: "The Constitutional Economics of Constitutional Law."

Public Procurement: Global Revolution, September 12, 1997, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Presented two papers.

Symposium, Conceptualizing Violence: Present and Future Developments in International Law, Albany Law School, Union University, November 7, 1996

John Linarelli
Professor of Law
University of La Verne College of Law
320 East D Street
Ontario, California 91764
USA

Tel: (909) 460-2046
Fax: (909) 460-2081
E-mail: jlinarelli@laverne.edu

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