Summer Law Program in Madrid Faculty

Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta, J.D
Professor
ignacio.borrajoiniesta@slu.edu

Professor Borrajo Iniesta was an associate professor of law at the Complutense University in Madrid from 1984 - 1989 and was appointed a full professor of law at the University of Navarra, where he taught from 1993 - 1995. He has also lectured at the Sorbonne in Paris, the European University in Florence, Italy, the Academy of European Public Law in Spetses, Greece and at the College of William and Mary, both in Virginia and at their summer program. He is currently senior staff attorney at the Constitutional Court of Spain in Madrid, where he also teaches at the University Institute Ortega y Gasset.

He has collaborated as an expert with the Council of Europe in the fields of human rights and the rule of law, and he has published widely in the areas of constitutional and administrative law, European Community law, due process and other public law subjects. He has a J.D. and a Doctor in Law from Complutense University of Madrid and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

Javier Martinez-Torron, J.D.
Professor
javier.martineztorron@slu.edu

Professor Martínez-Torrón has been a professor of law (Catedrático) at Complutense University of Madrid since 2000. Formerly a professor at the University of Granada (1993 - 2000), his teaching areas are comparative law, law and religion, marriage law and Canon Law. In these areas, he has published extensively in 28 countries and 13 languages, including 25 books as an author or editor. He has taught, lectured, spoken at international conferences, or done research at more than 100 universities on five continents, among them Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, Emory, Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Oxford, and Freiburg.

He is a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, vice president of the Canon Law and Law-and-Religion section of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, and honorary foreign member of the National Academy of Law and Social Sciences of Cordoba (Argentina). He was co-founder of the Spanish Association of Comparative Law and a member of its board of directors. He has been a member of international and Spanish advisory bodies in the area of freedom of religion and ethics; in particular, the OSCE/ODIHR Advisory Council on Freedom of Religion of Belief, the Advisory Commission on Religious Freedom of the Spanish Ministry of Justice, and the Committee of Bioethics of the Autonomous Region of Madrid, Spain. He has a J.D. from the University of Granada and a J.C.L., J.S.D., and a J.C.D. from the University of Navarra.

Constance Z. Wagner, J.D., LL.M.
Professor
constance.wagner@slu.edu

Professor Constance Wagner has taught at SLU Law since 1995. Her areas of specialization include the law of business associations, financial services regulation, international trade law, and international business transactions. She holds a secondary academic appointment in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.

Professor Wagner has often focused on international and comparative law in her legal career. Prior to entering the teaching of law, she practiced corporate law in New York City for 14 years, including advising domestic and foreign clients on cross-border transactions and regulatory matters. She teaches international law courses as a member of the Center for International and Comparative Law. She serves as co-director of the Center and as director of the SLU Law Madrid Summer Program. She has taught as a visiting law professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China, and at Washington University in Saint Louis.

Her scholarship includes articles on international trade law, women in international law, corporate social responsibility, and business and human rights. She is the publications chair for the International Human Rights Committee of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and is currently working on a book on the emerging area of business and human rights due diligence. She holds a J.D. and certificate in foreign and comparative law from Columbia University School of Law, an LL.M. from Universitaet Konstanz (Germany), an MBA from Saint Louis University School of Business, and a B.A. in economics and philosophy from Northwestern University College of Arts and Sciences.

Doug Williams, J.D.
Professor
doug.williams@slu.edu 

Doug Williams is a Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law. He joined the SLU Law faculty in 1991. Prior to joining SLU Law, he worked as an associate with the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. He also served as a law clerk to the Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg, Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

His areas of expertise include environmental law, administrative law, and constitutional law. He regularly offers courses and seminars in these areas, including a seminar on climate change law. His scholarship focuses primarily on environmental law, with a particular emphasis on the Clean Water Act. 

During his tenure at SLU, he has consulted on a variety of legal matters with environmental protection groups, including the Sierra Club. He has litigated on behalf of such groups in lawsuits involving Saint Louis air quality in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and in the United States Courts of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the Eighth Circuit. More recently he co-authored an amicus brief in a case before the Supreme Court of the United States involving the Endangered Species Act and protection of a small critter known as the Dusky Gopher frog.

He is a graduate of Duke University School of Law (J.D.) He holds an M.A. in History from Duke University Graduate School and a B.A. in political science from Augustana College.