Prof. Brian F. Havel
DePaul University College of Law

Brian F. Havel is Professor of Law, Associate Dean, Director of the International Aviation Law Institute, and Director of the International and Comparative Law Program at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago. He is also Visiting Scholar at University College Dublin. He was the Wien Fellow in International and Comparative Law at Columbia and received the Inaugural Outstanding Achievement Award of the Parker School of International and Comparative Law at Columbia for his work on international air transport deregulation.

Before joining the DePaul faculty in 1994, he practiced transnational corporate and antitrust litigation at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. He was promoted to the rank of full professor at DePaul in 2003. His publications have had an interdisciplinary focus and include In Search of Open Skies: Law and Policy for a New Era in International Aviation (Kluwer, 1997), as well as a number of law review studies including The Constitution in an Era of Supranational Adjudication (North Carolina Law Review, 2000) and, most recently, In Search of a Theory of Public Memory: The State, the Individual, and Marcel Proust (Indiana Law Journal, 2005). His biography of his father, Miroslav Havel, former chief designer of Waterford Crystal, has just been published in Europe. Professor Havel has written numerous studies of the global air transport industry.

He is Editor-in-Chief of CCH Issues in Aviation Law and Policy, and a Member of the Panel of Contributing Advisors to Kluwer Law’s Air and Space Law. He is a past chair of the Global Transport and Tourism Governors Meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and has addressed air transport conferences and symposia throughout the world. He was elected to the Board of the European Air Law Association in 2005. Professor Havel is currently completing a new study of U.S./E.U. air transport liberalization entitled Beyond Open Skies. In addition, he held an appointment as the Fulbright Visiting Professor of Comparative Law and Legal Pluralism for 2007-08 at McGill University’s Institute of Air and Space Law.

Education
B.C.L., LL.M., Dip. Eur. L., National University of Ireland
LL.M., J.S.D., Columbia University
B. Mod., M.A., University of Dublin

Admitted to Practice
Barrister-at-Law (King's Inns, Dublin)