Daniel Subotnik

Professor of Law, Touro Law Center received a B.A. M.B.A. and J.D. from Columbia University. A public speaker and author of a book and numerous articles on race, gender and law relating to sexuality. Professor Subotnik has taught at Northwestern, The University of California at Berkeley, Seton Hall, Santa Clara, Rutgers, and Brooklyn Law School and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is currently writing articles on critical race and feminist theory. Professor Subotnik was the Director of Touro’s summer program in Moscow in 2007.

Jayanth K. Krishnan

Research Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, MN., holds a J.D. from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. In 2005, Professor Krishnan held the British Academy Visiting Professorship at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for South Asian Studies, and in the spring of 2008, he will be a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the John Fleming Centre at the Australia National University (2008). Professor Krishnan has written extensively on the judicial process, the courts, civil liberties and the legal profession in India. His work has appeared in both highly reputed law reviews and peer-reviewed journals. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming book (2008) on law and Hinduism that will be published by Cambridge University Press.

Marianne Artusio

Associate Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Education, Touro Law Cemter,received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College and a J.D. from Cornell Law School. Professor Artusio directs the clinical programs at Touro Law Center, overseeing both the externship programs and in-house clinics. She supervises an Elderlaw Clinic and teaches courses in elderlaw, consumer law and professional responsibility. She taught in the Discover India program in the summer of 2007. Before joining faculty her practice concentrated on discrimination, civil rights, disability and poverty law.

Eric Blumenson

Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and J.D. from Harvard University. Professor Blumenson has worked as a criminal defense attorney for the Seattle public defender and the Boston criminal law firm of Zalkind and Zalkind. He has also served as a Fellow of the Open Society Institute, a visiting attorney in the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor’s office, a Fulbright scholar in Lahore, Pakistan, and a visiting professor at the University of Witswatersrand in South Africa. As Reporter to the Supreme Judicial Court’s criminal rules advisory committee, he was responsible for drafting the first major revision of the Massachusetts criminal rules. His scholarly works include a two volume criminal law treatise and numerous articles on criminal law, human rights, and moral philosophy.

Trisha Sharma

Coordinator of Summer Program in India, Trisha Sharma is a native of Chandigarh and was a distinguished law professor at Kurukshetra University. She now practices employment law before the Labor Tribunal in Shimla.