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Alexander Kopf will be joining the Florida International University College of Law as a visiting researcher from Feb. 20, until July 19, 2013. He will be working with Professor Hannibal Travis.

Mr. Kopf holds a first degree in law focusing on commercial and intellectual property law from Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.  He is currently a doctoral candidate at Martin-Luther-University in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany studying the cross-border enforcement of domain claims.  Mr. Kopf’s research will focus on the legal aspects of U.S. domain law, examining the different possibilities and requirements for jurisdiction and enforcement of claims.

The cross-border enforcement of domain-claims deals with the relation of national jurisdiction and international arbitration Systems for Domains (UDRP and ADR) for the enforcement of trademark and name right related claims against the infringing use of domains. Mr. Kopf will give special consideration to how the problems resulting from the territorial character of protection rights can be avoided by arbitration panels. The related issues of international jurisdiction the cross-border enforcement demand a detailed analysis of intellectual property and international procedural law.

The College of Law is delighted to welcome back J. Eloy Anzola.  Anzola joined our College as a Visiting Researcher from May to December 2010 and will be continuing his research with us again beginning August 15 until mid-February, 2013.  He is a Venezuelan trained lawyer (Universidad Católica Andres Bello) who completed his education in the University of Paris (Admissible au Doctorat de l’Université, Droit Civil), Cambridge University (Introduction to English Law) and Yale Law School (LL.M). Anzola worked as an associate in New York (Whitman, Ransom & Coulson) and in Caracas (Travieso, Evans, Ponte & Rosales). He participated in the foundation d’Empaire Reyna Anzola & Bermúdez and later in the foundation of Anzola Raffalli y Rodríguez, both law firms in Caracas, Venezuela.

Anzola is dedicated to national and international arbitration, as an arbitrator. He has been researching the origins and development of arbitration in Spanish America and now wants to focus his research on arbitration during the XIX Century.  He has participated as an arbitrator in proceedings under the Rules of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) of the AAA, the Centro Empresarial de Conciliación y Arbitraje (CEDCA) and the Centro de Arbitraje de la Cámara de Caracas (CACC). In several of those arbitrations he has been sole arbitrator or Chairman of the Arbitral Panel. He is member of the list of arbitrators of the ICDR, CEDCA, CACC and the Corte de Arbitraje de Madrid. He is fluent in Spanish, English and French.

Florida International University College of Law is delighted to announce Pablo Van Thienen’s arrival this week as a visiting researcher from Argentina.  Van Thienen has a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires Law School and a master’s degree in Corporate Law from Austral University, Argentina.  He has also completed two specialization programs, one in Corporate Accounting & Finance from Austral University, and the other in Management for Small & Medium Businesses from I.A.E. Business School, Argentina.  He is the Director of CEDEF, a law school in Buenos Aires.

Van Thienen plans to do research for one year on the legal, contractual and economic incentives behind the compensation package of top management as members of boards of directors and how these incentives may create serious conflicts between the individual interests of managers and shareholders.

Pablo Van Thienen’s office is in RDB 2063, email: cedef@educedef.com.ar

The FIU College of Law is excited to welcome Dr. María Elena Cobas Cobiella this summer as a visiting researcher from Spain.  She holds masters and research doctorate degrees in civil law from the Universidad de Valencia, Spain.  She was a professor for many years in the Universidad de Havana, Cuba, and now teaches civil law in the Universidad de Valencia.

During the month of July, Dr. Cobas Cobiella will be at the College of Law researching wills and trusts and will take advantage of the opportunity to learn more about property succession in the United States.

María Elena Cobas Cobiella’s office is in RDB 2063, email: macobas2002@yahoo.es