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.  He is also Visiting Scholar at University College Dublin.  He holds master=s degrees in law from University College Dublin and Columbia University Law School, New York, as well as a master=s degree in languages and linguistics from Trinity College Dublin and a doctoral degree in international and comparative law from Columbia.  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 and forthcoming second edition, 2007), 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 recently elected to the Board of the European Air Law Association.   Professor Havel is currently at work on a major global treatise/casebook on the global air transport industry which is scheduled for publication by the International Air Transport Association in 2008.