Director
William W. Berry III is the Montague Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law and Director of the Cambridge Summer Abroad Program. Professor Berry teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law and sports law. Before coming to Ole Miss, he received his Doctor of Philosophy (D. Phil.) in law from the University of Oxford (UK), where he also received a Master’s of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Criminology. Previously, Professor Berry received his law degree from Vanderbilt University and his undergraduate degree in English from the University of Virginia. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr. in the Middle District of Tennessee and the Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In addition, Professor Berry practiced law in Washington, D.C. with the firm of Shea & Gardner (now Goodwin Procter).
Faculty
Robert Anderson is Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. He has taught maritime law and corporate law at Arkansas and Pepperdine University, as well as in Pepperdine’s London Programme. He writes about maritime law and corporate law, and especially about the historical relationships between those two bodies of law. He earned his J.D. From New York University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Brad Finney joined the University of Tennessee College of Law faculty in 2024. Professor Finney teaches and writes in the areas of Environmental Law; Food Law; Energy Law; and Environmental Justice. His scholarship in these areas has been published in several journals, including the Boston College Law Review, the Alabama Law Review, the Wake Forest Law Review, and the Tulane Law Review. After graduating from the University of Tennessee College of Law, he joined Norton Rose Fulbright as an associate in the firm’s Houston office. He then clerked for Judge Pamela L. Reeves of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, as well as Judge J. Daniel Breen of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. Immediately prior to joining the UT Law faculty, Professor Finney was an associate at Steptoe & Johnson’s Washington, D.C. office where his practice focused on environmental matters.
Federica Paddeu is the John Tiley Fellow in Law at Queens’ College and a Fellow at Lauterpacht Centre for International Law Abogado (cum laude). She received her PhD (Yorke Prize) at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas – Venezuela; her LLM in international law (first class honours, Clive Parry Prize for International Law) at the University of Cambridge; and her Post-Graduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGDipLATHE) at the University of Oxford. Paddeu’s main research interests are general international law, the law of State responsibility and the law on the use of force. She is also interested in the history of international law, especially the ‘long’ 19th century. Her work has been published in the British Yearbook of International Law and in the Leiden Journal of International Law. A monograph based on her PhD dissertation on Justification and Excuse in International Law: Concept and Theory of General Defences was published by Cambridge University Press in January of 2018. She has also conducted research for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, as part of the activities of the Cambridge Pro Bono Project. In 2017, she was a member of the legal panel chaired by Shaheed Fatima QC tasked with producing a legal report as part of the Inquiry on Protecting Children in Conflict, launched by the UN Special Envoy for Global Education and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and supported by Save the Children and Theirworld. She is currently a Research Associate of the Following Grenfell: The Human Rights and Equality Dimension project of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Before arriving to Cambridge, she worked for Baker & McKenzie (Caracas office) as a law-clerk and a paralegal in the criminal law and labour law departments. Paddeu is admitted to practice in Venezuela, as a member of the Caracas (Distrito Federal) Bar.
Brendan Plant is Hopkins–Parry Fellow and Director of Studies in Law (LLM) at Downing College, Cambridge and Affiliated Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge. Having practised as a solicitor in leading commercial law firms in Sydney, Australia and London, Dr. Plant became a Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, where he co-authored the book ‘Evidence before the International Court of Justice.’ He has held research fellowships in Germany at the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, and he has acted as consultant to numerous international NGOs, including Amnesty International and Greenpeace. Dr. Plant holds undergraduate honours degrees in Economics and Law from the University of Sydney, a Master’s in Human Rights from the London School of Economics, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He lectures international human rights law, public international law and English private law, and he pursues research in international dispute settlement, territorial sovereignty, human rights and international legal theory.
Catherine Lee Wilson is an associate professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law. She teaches commercial law courses, bankruptcy, banking law, compliance and economic justice. Her research interests crisscross these subjects, focusing on barriers to economic opportunity for low and moderate income households and persons of color. She serves on the Board of Directors for Nebraska Appleseed. She has served on Consumer Advisory Council to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Professor Wilson is a graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law. She clerked for the Honorable Robert S. Vance on the 11th Circuit and worked as a litigator with Sutherland in Atlanta before returning to her home state of Nebraska.