Ethan Svirsky-Burger

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Имя: Ethan Svirsky-Burger

Город: Албури, Австралия

Профессия: Профессор

Web: www.jurispro.com/EthanBurger

О себе: After 18 years of the private practice of law specializing in Russian legal, international economic crime, and legal malpractice/professional responsibility matters, Ethan Burger has entered academia on a full-time basis. He has been a member of the faculties of the Georgetown University Law Centre, Universidad Sergio Arboleda, and American University’s School of International Service & Washington College of Law. He has lectured or given presentations before numerous academic and professional organizations, including: the American Bar Association, Harvard University's Davis Center, Columbia University's Harriman Center, the International Bar Association, the International Law Institute, the International Monetary Fund, the Johns Hopkins University’s School for International Studies, the Institute for State & Law (Moscow), the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law, the National Law School, University of India (Bangalore), New York University School of Law, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), St. Petersburg University’s Faculty of Law, University of Toronto's Center for Criminology, the U.S. Department of State, the World Bank, and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholar’s Kennan Institute. His principal academic interests are arms control, international economic crime & corruption; comparative corporate governance and regulation (India, Russian and the U.S.), comparative/international legal ethics, corporate criminal liability, international human rights/humanitarian law, international terrorism (particularly, terrorist financing), law & politics of the Soviet Union’s successor states, and transnational organized crime. He closely monitors developments related to corruption and human rights abuses in the Russian judiciary and law enforcement bodies. While with the Transnational Crime & Corruption Center, he managed overseas research centers in Russia and Ukraine studying issues such as money laundering, economic crime, human rights and illegal weapons exports as well as co-edited a journal focused on such subjects. He served as an arbitrator for the District of Columbia’s Attorney/Client Arbitration Board for more than a decade. He is also a regular contributor to Russia Profile’s Expert Panel. He serves as a peer reviewer for several academic journals. He has been active in the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the American Bar Association, and the Association for Professional Responsibility Lawyers. He was Special Counsel for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights on Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Activities, for whom he help organized a conference on internally-displaced persons and represented the Lawyers Committee at International Conferences. Mr. Burger has been an expert witness or consulting counsel in administrative proceedings, arbitrations, and judicial matters in matters involving international economic crime, legal malpractice, and country conditions in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine. He has also been an election observer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as well as an author or reviewer of publications for numerous professional and non-governmental organizations such as the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund, Global Integrity, and the Henry L. Stimson Center. Recent Publications: The Russian Anti-Corruption Campaign: Public Relations, Politics or Substantive Change?, New Journal of European Criminal Law, May 2010 (with Rosalia Gitau). Only Following Some of the Money in Russia, Demokratizatsia, Vol. 17, No. 1, at 41–70, (Winter 2009). Law as Politics: The Russian Procuracy and its Investigative Committee, 8 Col. J. East. European L., Vol. 2, No. 2, at 143-94, (2008) (with Mary Holland). Private Sector Incentives for Fighting International Corruption, in Sharon Eicher, ed., Corruption in International Business, The Challenge of Cultural and Legal Diversity, at 163-74 (2008) (with Mary Holland). Who Owns [Will Own] British Petroleum?, Oil Gas & Energy Intelligence (OGEL) On-Line, No. 3, 2008. The Duty to Investigate Possible War Crimes, International Bar Association, Academic and Professional Development Committee’s Annual Newsletter (2008) (with R. William Peters). Not Only Will the Dog Eventually Bark, It Will Also Bite, 38 St. Mary’s L. J. 125 (2007). Aleksandr Lukashenka’s Consolidation of Power, in Joerg Forbrig, et al. Prospects for Democracy in Belarus, (German Marshal Fund/Heinrich Boll Foundation 2006)(with Viktar Minchuk). Why the Private Sector is Likely to Lead the Next Stage in the Global Fight Against Corruption, 30 FORDHAM INT’L L. J. 45 (2006) (with Mary Holland). KPMG and “Abusive” Tax Shelters: Ethical Implications for Legal and Accounting Professionals, 11 J. Legal Prof. 1 (2006)(with Donald Mayer and Peter Bowal). The Future of Legal Ethics: Some Potential Effects of Globalization and Technological Change on Law Practice Management in the Twenty-First Century, 15 WIDENER L. J. 169 (2006)(with Carol Langford). Who is the Corporation’s Lawyer?, 107 W. VA. L. REV. 711 (2005). Regulating Large International Accounting Firms: Should the Scope for Liability of Outside Accountants Be Expanded to Strengthen Corporate Governance and Lessen the Risk of Securities Law Violations?, 28 HAMLINE L. REV. 1 (2005). The Use of Limited Liability Entities for the Practice of Law: Have Lawyers Been Lulled into a False Sense of Security?, 40 TEX. J. BUS. L. 175 (2004). Corruption in the Russian Arbitrazh Court System: Will There be Progress in the Near-Term?, 38 INT’L. LAW. 15 (2004). The Recognition of Governments under International Law: The Challenge of the Belarusian Presidential Election of September 9, 2001 for the United States, 35 GEO. WASH. INT’L. L. REV. 107 (2003).

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