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James M. Cooper is Assistant Dean, Mission Development at California Western School of Law in San Diego where he has taught International Trade Law, the Law of Armed Conflict and Peacekeeping, Globalization Law and Cross-Cultural Negotiation. He has his Bachelor of Arts degree and Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto and a Master of Laws degree from Cambridge University (U.K.). He is a Barrister and Solicitor, a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. He has won grants and contracts to develop legal technologies from the U.S. State Department, GTZ (the German government technical cooperation agency), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Weingart Foundation, the Organization of American States and the United Nations Development Program. He is co-founder and director of Proyecto ACCESO, a judicial reform and legal skills training project throughout Latin America. He has appeared on ABC News, Fox News, Warner Brothers News, CBC Newsworld, CityTV, Telemundo and Univision and his work has been published in Marie Claire, O Globo, American University International Law Review, the Globe and Mail, Corriere della Sera, National Law Journal, the San Diego Union Tribune, the American Bar Association Journal, and Behavioral Sciences and the Law.
James Cooper es un abogado canadiense con dos grados de la University of Toronto y un Master of Law degree de Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge University en United Kingdom. Un comentarista y el periodista, él ha aparecido en ABC News, Fox TV, Newsworld, Warner Brothers News, y Univision en U.S.A., CBC Newsworld y City TV en Canadá, Televisa en México, y en S. B. T. y Globo O en Brasil, Su trabajo se ha publicado en Marie Claire, Globo O, el Globo y Mail the American Bar Association Journal, the National Law Journal, the San Diego Union Tribune, and Behavioral Sciences and the Law. "Globoguy" como se le llama en Proyecto ACCESO ha escrito, ha producido y ha dirigido las películas para the B.B.C., Channel Four en U.K., y U.S. History Channel y su trabajo se han proyectado en festivales cinematográficos internacionales así como en Directors' Guild of America.
James Cooper Assistant Dean, Mission Development en California Western School of Law en San Diego donde él ha enseñado Comercio Internacional y la Ley, la Ley del Conflicto Armado y Conservador de paz, la Ley de la Globalización y la Negociación Transcultural. El es un Abogado Canadiense y Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust y mienbro de la Law Society of Upper Canada y la San Diego County Bar Association. El es cofundador y director de Proyecto ACCESO.
Selected Academic Papers and Presentations
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April 8, 2004
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Presented lecture on "Solución alternativa de conflictos en los tratados de libre comercio: los casos de NAFTA y el Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Chile y E.E.U.U." at Faculty of Law at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile.
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| May 17, 2003
| Discussant on "Civic Oversight and Participation in the Justice System" at "Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico" conference at Center for U.S. Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego
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| May 5, 2003
| Presented lecture on "Legal Reform in Latin America" at Faculty of Law of Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay.
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| March 4, 2003
| Presented lecture on "New Legal Technologies and the Legacy of Janeen Kerper" at Ley + Tec conference at the North American Chilean Cultural Institute, Santiago, Chile.
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| February 27, 2003
| Presented paper on "Voice in the Legal Profession" at Law Women conference "Paths to Success: The Diversification of Voice and Style in Law School and the Legal Profession" at New York University School of Law.
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| November 15, 2002
| Presented luncheon address "Anti-Globalization Protests: Proactive Strategies for Multinational Business" at "The Rule of Law: Creating an Effective Legal Environment for the Global Economy" Conference, San Diego, California.
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| November 6, 2002
| Commentator on Ph.D. dissertation "Resisting the Calls for Convergence: Institutional Constraints on Mexico's Commercial Law Reform Efforts" at Speaker Series of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego.
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| October 19, 2002
| Presented paper "Digitización y conflictos en la epoca del la Reforma", at Universidad La Republica, Santiago, Chile.
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| April 18, 2002
| Presented paper "Comunicación estratégica para abogados", at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile.
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| January 24, 2002
| Presented paper "La cooperación internacional en el campo de la democracia electrónica" at Conferencia Nacional de la Democracia 2002 ("Los desafíos de la democracia ecuatoriana en el tiempo de las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación e información") at CIESPAL, Quito, Ecuador.
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| January 10, 2002
| Presented paper "Demandas indígenas y su reconocimiento en el ámbito nacional e internaciónal," at regional conference ("El Derecho Indígena en las Américas") at Catholic University of Temuco, Chile.
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| October 26, 2001
| Presented paper "Diseno Legal: Nuevos Roles de los Abogados de las Américas" at the regional conference "Evaluación y desafíos futuros de la Reforma Procesal Penal" in Pucón, Chile.
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| July 17, 2001
| Presented paper "Judges as Designers" to Annual Conference of National Council for Juvenile and Family Court Judges in Monterey, California.
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| February 5, 2001
| Presented paper "Lawyer as Problem-Solver and Designer" to Lawyering Program at New York University Law School.
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| January 31, 2001
| Presented paper "Non-Places and the Architecture of Globalization" at Woodbury University School of Architecture Lecture Series, San Diego, California.
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| September 22, 23, 24, 1999
| Presented paper and facilitated workshops on arbitration and mediation to business and community leaders, law professors, judges, and Ministry of Justice officials at Catholic University of the North, La Serena, Judicial Academy, Santiago, and Catholic University of Temuco, Chile.
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| February 26, 1999
| Presented paper "An Agenda for Peace(keeping) II" to NATO officers, Russian foreign ministry officials, and European Union officials at The Future of War, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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| January 13, 1999
| Moderated panel "Using Media in Community Development - Building Bridges Across Nations, Generations and Cultures at Global Meeting of Generations, Washington D.C. (co-sponsored by UNDP, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank).
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Selected Academic Publications
- Se abre una nueva oportunidad: Importando sistemas horizontales de justicia durante una epocha de reforma judicial, 2 REVISTA CREA 96 (2001).
- Access to Justice 1.1, 30 CALIFORNIA WESTERN INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 429 (2000).
- State of the Nation: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Evolution of the Right of Self-Determination in International Law, 17 BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES & THE LAW 607 (1999).
- Spirits in the Material World: A Post-Modern Approach to United States Trade Policy, 14 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 957 (1999).
- Child Labour and the National and International Legal Responses, LI:6 THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL (Summer 1997).
- The Challenge to the State in International Law, MICHEL TROPER AND MIKAEL M. KARLSSON, EDS., LAW, JUSTICE AND THE STATE II 1 (1995).
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