The Program Co-chairs


Jeremy T. Harrison
Professor of Law and Program Co-Director
B.S. 1957, University of San Francisco
J.D. 1960, University of San Francisco
LL.M. 1962, Harvard Law School

Professor Harrison has wide-ranging international credentials. He serves as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Commerce to the Kiev State University of Trade and Commerce in the Ukraine. He was a tenured professor of law at the University of San Francisco from 1966 to 1984. He served as dean and professor of law at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii from 1985 to 1994, as the ELIPS Distinguished Professor of Law at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia from 1995 to 1996 and as dean of MSU College of Law from 1996 to 1999. As Co-Director of the program, Professor Harrison would like potential students to know that members of the Law College’s faculty have studied and/or taught in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. In fact, more than half of the full-time faculty has taught abroad in nations across Africa, Asia and Eastern and Western Europe, giving the MSU Law considerable experience in meeting the academic needs of international students.

Catherine T. Dwyer
Professor in Residence and Program Co-Director
B.A. 1973, Barnard College, Columbia University
M.B.A. 1976, Columbia University
J.D. 1976, Boston University School of Law
LL.M. European Business Law 2000, Pallas Consortium, The Netherlands, consisting of various European universities

Professor Dwyer has extensive international experience and remains very active in global development. As a representative of the ABA’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI), she helped develop Moldavian banking regulations and stock exchange rules for Bulgaria. Professor Dwyer assisted in developing an undergraduate school of management at Odessa State University in the Ukraine and a school of diplomacy at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. She was a visiting faculty member at Odessa State University Institute of International Economics; at the Foreign Affairs College; and at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China. In 2003, Professor Dwyer represented CEELI in the former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Kyrgystan. She initiated the process of analyzing their legal education systems and suggesting changes and additions. Professor Dwyer, in 2004, taught European Competition Law at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania, followed by another CEELI project—performing the final assessment of the legal education program at Adilet University in Almaty, Kazakhstan.