Visiting Scholars

Website: Berkeley Law Visiting Scholars Program

Senior Visiting Scholars	Research Focus
Hillary Greene (Fall 2013 – Spring 2014) Professor of Law University of Connecticut, School of Law	Antitrust / competition policy, intellectual property (patent law emphasis), and First Amendment law.
Dr. Ao (Allan) Yu (Spring 2013 – Fall 2013) Senior Researcher and Lecturer School of Economics, Sichuan University Sichuan, China	Corporate governance and law & economics
Toshiaki Takigawa (Fall 2012 – Spring 2013) Professor School of Law, Kansai University Osaka, Japan	Antitrust law and international economic law
Andrés Roemer (Spring 2012 – Spring 2013) Ph.D. in Public Policy University of California, Berkeley President of Poder Cívico A.C. Mexican journalist/writer, TV host and media consultant, political analyst, and philanthropist	Mexico public policy analysis, public sectors performance assessment, and media impact on politics.
Iraj Babaei (Fall 2010 – Spring 2012) Professor of Law and Political Sciences Allameh Tabatabaii University Tehran, Iran	Law and economic development, tort law, Islamic law, contract law, and insurance law.
Zhang Xiaoping (Fall 2010 – Spring 2011) Lecturer Law School, Central University of Finance and Economics Beijing, China	Economic analysis in civil law context, international environmental law.
Tim Friehe (Spring 2011) Assistant Professor, University of Konstanz, Germany PhD. in Economics, Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen MBA, Temple University, PA	Competition policy and law & economics
Osmar Lannes, Jr. (Fall 2010 – Spring 2011) Ph.D. in Economics Fundação Getúlio Vargas Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Specialist, Economic Policy Analysis, Office of the Legislative Counsel and Policy Guidance in Brazil	Analysis of economic impacts of legislative propositions.

Visiting Student Researcher	Research Focus
Luiz Marcelo Berger (Spring 2011 – Spring 2012) Lecturer / Attorney at Law Ph.D. candidate, UFRGS Management School Federal University Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil	Develops an agent based model to exam the emergent properties due to public enforcement of Criminal Law
Heiko Liesegang (Spring 2011) Ph.D. candidate, Ruhr University Bochum School of Law, Germany	Civil Law and Commercial Law; Antitrust – economics analysis of vertical price manintenance
Urska Petrovcic (Spring 2011 – Fall 2011) Ph.D. candidate, European University Institute	European Competition Law

Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Law and Economics – Visiting Researcher	Research Focus
Felice Simonelli (Spring 2011) Ph.D. student in Law and Economics Industrial and Financial Research Group (GRIF) “Fabio Gobbo” LUISS “Guido Carli” University, Italy	Industrial organizatioin, business economics, transportation economics, regulation, competition, management.
Anne-Marie Schoonbeek (Spring 2011) B.S. Economics, Financial Economics and Law Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.	Development economics
Siddhartha (Sid) Garg (Spring 2011) LLB, Amity Law School, India	Environmental Law