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Michael P. Van Alstine
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and
Professor of Law
Phone: (410) 706-1055
Fax: (410) 706-0407
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Office: 260B
BA, 1983, St. Norbert College
JD, 1986, George Washington University
MJurComp, 1994, DrJur, 1995, University of Bonn, Germany
Professor Michael P. Van Alstine specializes in international and domestic private law. He has published widely in both English and German in the areas of contracts, commercial law, and international commercial transactions. His particular area of scholarly interest is the domestic law application of international law through the vehicle of treaties. Prior to joining the faculty in 2002, Professor Van Alstine spent seven years on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Law, during which he was a four-time recipient of the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Professor Van Alstine has earned law degrees in both the United States and Germany. He received both his Doctor of Laws and Masters of Comparative Law degrees summa cum laude from the University of Bonn, Germany. He obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the George Washington University. Before becoming a law professor, he also practiced domestic and international commercial and business law at law firms in the United States and Germany.
At the School of Law, Professor Van Alstine teaches International Business Transactions, Contracts, Sales and Sales Financing and Commercial Law. He was appointed Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development in 2006.
Books
United States Commercial and Economic Law (2d ed., 1999) (with S. Elsing) (in German).
Absence of Agreement upon Contract Formation under the United Nations Convention on International Sales Law (1995)(in German).
Articles
Taking Care of John Marshall’s Political Ghost, 52 St. Louis Univerity Law Journal (forthcoming 2008).
Summary and Conclusions, in The Role of Domestic Courts in Treaty Enforcement: A Comparative Study (D. Sloss & D. Jinks eds., forthcoming 2008).
Executive Aggrandizement in Foreign Affairs Lawmaking, 53 UCLA Law Review 309 (2006). [Full Text]
The Death of Good Faith in Treaty Jurisprudence and a Call for Resurrection, 93 Georgetown Law Journal 1 (2005). [Full Text]
Federal Common Law in an Age of Treaties, 89 Cornell Law Review 892 (2004).
Treaty Law and Legal Transition Costs, 76 Chicago-Kent Law Review 101 (2002).
The Costs of Legal Change, 49 UCLA Law Review 789 (2002) [Full Text]
The Judicial Power and Treaty Delegation, 90 California Law Review 1263 (2002) [Full Text]
Of Textualism, Party Autonomy, and Good Faith, 40 William & Mary Law Review 1223 (1999) [Full Text]
An Analysis of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and Its Significance for Latin America, 2 Derechos y Valores [Colombia] 116 (1999)(translated into Spanish). [Full Text]
Dynamic Treaty Interpretation, 146 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 687 (1998) [Full Text]
Consensus, Dissensus, and Contractual Obligation through the Prism of Uniform International Sales Law, 37 Virginia Journal of International Law 1 (1996) [Full Text]
Die EG-Uebernahme-Richtlinie im Lichte der Erfahrungen in den USA[=The EC Takeover Directive in the Light of Experience in the United States], 4 European Commercial and Tax Reporter 8 (1993) (in German). [Full Text]
