Every year, American Friends of Bucerius offers a visiting professorship funded by the Max Kade Foundation to a law professor to teach a seminar at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. The program puts a spin on the tradition of study abroad, by placing the educators into different cultures, instead of the students.
This fall, the Max Kade Professor will be Professor Colin Crawford, Robert C. Cudd Professor of Law and Executive Director, Payson Center for International Development at the Tulane University Law School, who will teach a course on “Comparative Environmental Law.”
Focus on comparative environmental and land use law and policy
Before coming to Tulane, Professor Crawford was on the faculty at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta, where he founded and co-directed the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth, which has developed new models for field-based education in comparative environmental and land use law. Professor Crawford has lectured and published widely in the US and abroad, concentrating his work especially in Latin America. As a scholar, his work concentrates on comparative environmental and land use law and policy, with a special focus on the social and urban implications of environmental and land use planning choices. He has a law degree from Harvard Law School and degrees in modern history from Cambridge and Columbia Universities.
"Bucerius Law School is a leader in international and comparative legal education"
Professor Crawford had this to say about his upcoming position: “I could not be more delighted to be coming to Bucerius Law School to teach Comparative Environmental Law. I have for many years been following the strong and ever-growing reputation of Bucerius as a leader in international and comparative legal education. As a result, I am terrifically honoured to be able to contribute to its important educational and academic project. Some of my best educational experiences have been in settings like Bucerius, with a diverse, truly global academic audience. I very much look forward to sharing my experience with its global student body, and to learn from them in the process.”
