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Hannah Buxbaum

Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Law, and Louis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow

Office: 314
Phone: 812-855-4350
E-mail: hbuxbaum@indiana.edu

Professor Buxbaum holds a BA cum laude from Cornell University and a JD magna cum laude from Cornell Law School, where she served as articles editor of the Cornell Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. She also received an LLM summa cum laude from the University of Heidelberg, where she studied private international law as a Jacob Gould-Schurman Fellow. Before joining the faculty at Indiana University, Professor Buxbaum was an associate in the New York and Frankfurt offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Professor Buxbaum teaches Comparative Law, Contracts, International Business Transactions, International Litigation, and Secured Transactions. She is a recipient of the school's Leon H. Wallace Teaching Award and has twice won the Gavel Award for outstanding contribution to the graduating class. She has conducted research in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow and taught as a visiting professor at the universities of Cologne, Kiel, and Nurnberg-Erlangen as well as the San Diego Institute for International and Comparative Law in London.

Professor Buxbaum's research is in the areas of private international law and international litigation and jurisdiction, and she publishes widely in both U.S. and European journals. She is a past member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and is active in that and other organizations, including the American Society of Comparative Law and the Association of American Law Schools. She has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute.

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View some of Professor Buxbaum's research at the Social Science Research Network.

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Fall 2008 - 2009