TEACHING RESOURCES

Teaching the EU

PANEL PARTICIPANTS

William G. Andrews
Dr. Andrews is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the State University of New York at Brockport. He received his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1959.

His fields of interest include European Union decision-making process simulations, and he is the founder of the New York Consortium for European Union Studies and Simulations. His courses include "Politics of European Integration" and "International Law and Organization."

Professor Andrews' recent publications include Simulating the European Union: A Leader's Guide, (New York Consortium for European Union Studies and Simulations, 1996).

Jeanie J. Bukowski
Dr. Bukowski is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Institute of International Studies at Bradley University and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Spain in 1993-94, and held the position of Research Associate at both the Institute for Regional Development at the University of Seville and the Juan March Institute in Madrid.

Her current research deals with multi-level governance in the European Union, and her publications include "Decentralization in Spain: A Re-examination of Causal Factors," South European Society and Politics (forthcoming Winter 1997). She has taught "European Nations inInternational Affairs: Past, Present and Future of the European Union" and has incorporated sections on the EU into "Introduction to International Relations."

Bill Burros
Mr. Burros is Academic Information Specialist, Office of Academic Affairs at the European Commission Delegation, Washington, DC. His responsibilities include the development of academic programs and internet resources. Before joining the Delegation, Mr. Burros served as Administrative Director of the European Community Studies Association (ECSA) from 1993 to January 1997. Prior to 1993, he was an instructor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the University of Pittsburgh.

Jonathan Davidson
Mr. Davidson has been Head of Academic Affairs and Foreign Policy Advisor at the EC Delegation in Washington, DC since 1991. He served in the British Diplomatic Service from 1963-1981 in London, India, Thailand, Senegal and the United States. In the British Embassy in Washington he was responsible for Congressional liaison, and head of information and press relations. He was Director of the Washington Office of the University of South Carolina from 1981-1991, serving also as Special Assistant to the President for International Programs, and Visiting Professor. He is an adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University and The American University.

His publications include Critical Needs in Education, U.S. International Education Advisory Board (1983); contributions to To Strengthen the Nation's Investment in Foreign Languages and International Studies, American Council on Education (1986); and After the Cold War: The Morality of Nuclear Deterrence, Westview, 1990; Europe Unifies its Economy, Forum for Applied Research and Technology, 1994; The European Union: A Guide (editor), EC Delegation, 1994. Mr. Davidson holds an M.A. in history from Cambridge University.

Desmond Dinan
Dr. Dinan is an Associate Professor of History at George Mason University, and a faculty member of the university's Institute for Public Policy. He has taught and written extensively on the European Union, and founded the university's Center for European Integration Studies. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam during the 1997-1998 academic year.

His recent publications include Ever Closer Union? An Introduction to the European Community (Lynne Rienner/Macmillan, 1994) and Historical Dictionary of the EC (Scarecrow Press, 1993).

Siegfried Fina
Dr. Fina is Director of the post-graduate European law study program EURO-JUS and Associate Director of the Department of European Integration at the Danube University of Krems, Austria. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the European Community Studies Association of Austria (ECSA-Austria).

Roy Ginsberg
Dr. Ginsberg is Visiting Professor at the Center for European Studies at New York University, Associate Professor of Government at Skidmore College, and the Director of the International Affairs Program at Skidmore College. He was a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1995-96) and a Fulbright Fellow at the Center for European Studies inBrussels (1993-94). He served as Chairman of the European Community Studies Association from 1990-92.

In 1987 Dr. Ginsberg received a grant from the European Commission Delegation, Washington, to introduce a new course on the EC at Skidmore. His courses, taught at Skidmore, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and New York University include: "Europe's Quest for Unity" (undergraduate level), "The Political Economy of European Integration" (graduate level), "Politics and Institutions of the European Union" (graduate and undergraduate level).

Professor Ginsberg's recent publications include The United States and the European Union in the 1990s: Partners in Transition, coauthored (New York: St. Martin's, 1996) and European Union-United States Foreign Policy Cooperation in the 1990s: The Elements of Partnership, coauthored (Brussels: Center or European Policy Studies, 1994).

Roger J. Goebel
Dr. Goebel is Director of the Fordham Center on European Law and International Antitrust and Professor at Fordham Law School. He was a Jean Monnet Visiting Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Bonn, Germany (1995) and he received a Fulbright European Union Research Grant to Brussels, Belgium (1995).

Professor Goebel's areas of teaching expertise include Agency and Partnership, Corporations, Corporate Finance, Corporate Tender Offers, European Union Law, EC-US Comparative Constitutional Law, EC Corporate and Finance Law, and International Business Contract Law.

His recent publications include Rights, Liability and Ethics in International Legal Practice, ed. with M. Daly (Transnational Juris, 1994), Cases and Materials on European Community Law, ed. With G. Bermann, W. Davey and E. Fox (West 1993, Supplement 1995), "EEC Rules on Employee Protection and Information Rights," in Seventh Annual Labor and Employment Law Institute (Volz, ed., Rothmans 1996), "The European Union Grows: The Constitutional Impact of the Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden," 18 Fordham International Law Journal 1094 (1995), "Employee Rights in the European Community: A Panorama from the 1974 Social Action Program to the Social Charter of 1989," 17 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 1 (1993), and "Implications of Widening the European Union," 60 International Practitioner's Notebook 52 (1995).

Beverly Springer
Dr. Springer is Professor Emeritus at the American Graduate School of International Management. She served as editor of The International Executive (1991-1996), and is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Human Resource Management. The EU courses that she has taught include "The Environment for International Business in Europe," "Management and Labor in Europe," and a Seminar on European Integration.

Professor Springer's recent publications include The European Union and its Citizens (Westport: Greenwood, 1994), The Social Dimension of 1992 (Westport: Greenwood, 1992), "The March Toward Monetary Integration," in International Political Economy, Goddard, Passe-Smither and Conklin, eds. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1996), and "EU Social Policy After Maastricht," with Robert Geyer, in The State of the European Union, Laurent and Maresceau, eds. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, forthcoming).

Manfred P. Straube
Dr. Straube is Jean Monnet Professor of European Law and Director of the Department of European Integration at the Danube University of Krems, Austria, Professor of Commercial and Insurance Law and Director of the Department of Law at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He is also Vice-President of the European Community Studies Association of Austria (ECSA-Austria).