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David K. Linnan
| Title: | Associate Professor of Law |
| Joseph F. Rice School of Law | |
| Email: | dlinnan@law.sc.edu |
| Phone: | 803-777-7740 |
| Fax: | 803-777-8613 |
| Office: |
1525 Senate Street |
| Resources: |
Asian Law Centre of the University of Melbourne (Associate) Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (Senior Associate) |
Background
Professor David Linnan joined the USC School of Law faculty 1987 after serving as a research fellow at Max Planck Institute in West Germany (1979–81) and as an associate attorney with O'Melveny & Myers in L.A. and New York (1981–87). A specialist in Asian Law, he has focused much of his recent research and service on Indonesia where he has been a senior scholar with the Fulbright Southeast Asia Regional Research Program, in cooperation with the University of Indonesia, working out of the Jakarta Stock Exchange on capital markets regulation (12/94–1/95, 11/96–1/97); Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and Faculty of Law, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; visiting research fellow at the Indonesia Project, Department of Economics and the faculty of law (1/95–6/95); visiting professor, faculty of law, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2015); program director and principal investigator under the USAID Cooperation Agreement (2000–04) establishing the Law and Finance Institutional Partnership (LFIP), Jakarta, Indonesia (2000 to date); and lecturer in the International Undergraduate Program of the faculty of law, Gadjah Mada University (IUP FH-UGM, 2012 to date).
Linnan teaches courses in Comparative Law, Corporate Finance, Corporations, International Economic Law, International Environmental Law, Public International Law and Regulation of the Financial Sector. A frequent user of instructional technology, he has taught numerous courses linking students at USC with scholars and students overseas via videoconferencing, including a course on human trafficking taught synchronously at three institutions (USC, U. of Cologne, U. of Indonesia) in 2003; a course on Asian and Comparative Law course taught synchronously at three institutions (USC, U. of Washington, U. of Wisconsin) while serving as a visiting professor of Asian Law at the University of Washington in Seattle (2004); and various international trade law, corporate finance and project finance courses taught 2005 to date at three institutions (USC, U. of Indonesia, Gadjah Mada U.). Linnan has published a number of books and papers dealing with Asian Law, Legal Development, Public International Law, Muslim-Christian relations, and Distance Education/Instructional Technology. He also holds an appointment as an associated faculty member at the University of South Carolina School of the Environment (8/97 to date) and the International Undergraduate Program of the Faculty of Law, Gadjah Mada University (IUP FH-UGM, 2012 to date).
Education
- J.D. (1979) University of Chicago
- B.A. (1976) Emory
Teaching
- International Business Transactions (LAWS 614)
- International Trade Law (LAWS 665)
- International Environmental Law (LAWS 666)
- Regulation of the Financial Sector and Money (LAWS 819)
Scholarship
- Kata Bersama Antara Muslim dan Kristen: Teori dan Aplikasi (David K Linnan with Waleed El-Ansary, Harkristuti Harkrisnowo, Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin and Paripurna P Sugard eds, Gadjah Mada University Press, 2019 (including own chapter Pandangan Umum tentang Pembangunan: Lebih Kaya vs Lebih Baik, dan Siapa yang Menentukan?, id at 561, a jointly authored chapter Menggapai Sebuah Kata Bersama di Indonesia: Latar Belakang dan Pertanyaan Quo Vadis, id at 505, and jointly authored Pendahuluan, id at 23; total book 661 pages, softcover)
- Legitimacy, Legal Development & Change: Law & Modernization Reconsidered (David Linnan ed., Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012) (sole editor, including own “Introduction to Legal Development and Change” and chapter “The New, New Legal Development Model”; total book 474 pages, hard cover)
- Muslim and Christian Understanding: Theory and Application of a Common Word (David Linnan & Waleed El Ansary eds., New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (including own chapter “A Common View of Development: Richer Versus Better, and Who Decides?,” id. at 235 and jointly authored “Narrative Introduction," id. at 1; total book 297 pages, hard and soft cover)
- Enemy Combatants, Terrorism and Armed Conflict Law: A Guide to the Issues (David Linnan ed., Westport: Praeger Security, 2008) (sole editor, including own “Introduction: Legitimacy, Religion, Ethics and Armed Conflict Law in Context,” id. at 1, "Redefining Legitimacy: Legal Issues,” id. at 223, and "Individual Responsibility, Tribunals and Truth and Responsibility Commissions: Are We Asking the Right Questions,” id. at 327; total book 406 pages, hard cover)
- “Membangun Infrastruktur Negara” in Hukum Yang Berkeadilan dan Mensejahterakan: Sumbang Saran Pemikiran untuk Indonesia Baru (Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 2015), 18–24 (this is a chapter on infrastructure planning and finance in a circa 250 page book published as white paper for the newly elected Indonesian president)
- “Catatan terhadap Rekrutmen Hakim di Indonesia Periode 2002–2009”, in Mimbar Hukum (October 2011) (empirical investigation of where Indonesian judicial recruits come from, originally presented at the Sarasehan "Cita Negara Hukum" at Dies Natalis Universitas Gadjah Mada Faculty of Law 2011)