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Patrick Del Duca
Adjunct Faculty
B.A. Harvard, 1978
D.E.A. Université de Lyon, 1979
J.D. Harvard, 1983
Ph.D. European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 1985
Laurea di giurisprudenza, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 1987
delduca@law.ucla.edu |
Professor Patrick Del Duca returns to the School of Law to teach International Finance in Spring 2009. Patrick Del Duca practices business law from Los Angeles as a partner of Zuber & Taillieu LLP, and serves as an adjunct professor at UCLA and Loyola Law Schools, most recently teaching courses in International Finance and European Union law. He is broadly experienced in legal structuring, negotiation and documentation of cross-border finance, infrastructure development, and commercial matters. He serves as Vice-Chair of the Mexico Law Committee of the American Bar Association’s International Law Section and is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the west coast counterpart of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a member of the Graduate Group for the International Commercial Law LL.M. at UC Davis.
He is a graduate of the European University Institute Law Department (Ph.D), Harvard Law School (JD), University of Bologna facultà di giurisprudenza (laurea), Université de Lyon II faculté de sciences économiques (DEA en économie publique des transports et de l'aménagement du territoire), and Harvard College (BA). Following law school, he clerked for Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then for Justice Antonio La Pergola of the Corte Costituzionale in Rome.
His recent publications include The Rule of Law: Mexico's Approach to Expropriation Disputes in the Face of Investment Globalization, 51 UCLA Law Review 35-141 (2003), with Alan Feld, and Cristián Vallejo, US capital market debt meets emerging market collateral, in LAW OF INTERNATIONAL INSOLVENCIES AND DEBT RESTRUCTURING (Oceana/Oxford University Press, 2006), and with Louis Del Duca, An Italian Federalism? – the State, its institutions and national culture as rule of law guarantor, 54 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW 799-841 (2006). A current project is a book manuscript, entitled CHOOSING THE LANGUAGE OF TRANSNATIONAL DEALS: PRACTICALTIES, POLICY AND LAW REFORM, that addresses the role of language in the success of efforts to harmonize commercial and financial law, as well as how requirements to use official languages in governmental interactions affect party structuring of cross-border transactions to preserve their contractual autonomy.
