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Dr Leonardo Raznovich
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Job title: Principal Lecturer
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Dept: Law and Criminal Justice Studies
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Tel: 01227 767700 ext 3259
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Campus: Canterbury

QUALIFICATIONS:
University College, Oxford, D.Phil., November 2004
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, LL.M., June 1997
Universidad de Buenos Aires, School of Law & Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina, LL.B., December 1993
ADR Group, UK, accredited 2007, Mediator since January 2008
Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), UK, accredited 2006, Mediator since January 2007
British Council Fellow, Antorchas Scholarship, 1999/2001
Fulbright Fellow, 1996/1997
Buenos Aires Bar Association, Argentina, called to the Bar on November 1995
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES:
Jurisprudence, Theory of Dispute Resolution, Principles of Evidence, Torts
DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Director of the Division for Law and Dispute Resolution
RESEARCH, CONSULTANCY & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
Dr Leonardo J Raznovich has practiced law in the private sector between his university degrees in the areas of litigation, international arbitration and corporate law. He is currently a practicing mediator accredited with CEDR and ADR in the U.K. He also undertook private research and consultancy work during his doctorate degree. He has been Lovells Visiting Lecturer in Anglo-American Law (2002-2003) at the School of Law of Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany and Visiting Professor (2007) of the Catholic University of Valparaiso in Chile. Currently, he is the head of Law and Dispute Resolution at Canterbury Christ Church University.
His research interests include comparative civil procedure and evidence law, being areas in which he has published a book and several articles in Spanish and English language refereed law journals. He has also developed a research interest in international private law and the recognition of same sex marriages across jurisdictions (a chapter on an edited book with Peter Lang is due on Winter 2009) and has served in the LGBT Action Group of the
Kent Police in the U.K. as its academic advisor. He is currently co-leading with Professor Robert Wintemute of King's College, University of London, a group of Human Rights professors and international experts who is to present an opinion on equal access to legal marriage for same-sex couples before the Supreme Court of Argentina as Amicus Curiae.
Address: Room Pf08, Dept. of Law and Criminal Justice Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road, Canterbury, CT1 1QU.
Telephone: 01227 767700 ext 3259
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