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About John Linarelli

Prior to joining the faculty at Touro Law,  John Linarelli has held senior faculty and leadership roles in both the United Kingdom and the United States. His prior position was as Professor of Commercial Law at Durham University Law School, one of Britain’s leading law schools. He has served as a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and Northeastern University School of Law. He has taught law and economics at the University of California Irvine and philosophy at the University of California Riverside.

Professor Linarelli is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He is on the ALI Members Consultative Group for Principles of the Law on Compliance, Risk Management & Enforcement, the Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance, Uniform Commercial Code Issues, and Principles for a Data Economy. He is also a Fellow in the European Law Institute.

Professor Linarelli has an MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of California Riverside, where he held a Dean’s Fellowship. He has a PhD in Law from King's College University of London. He earned an LLM in International and Comparative Law with distinction from Georgetown, graduating first in class, receiving the Thomas Bradbury Chetwood SJ Prize. His JD is from the American University Washington College of Law. He earned a BA in Economics and Political Science, magna cum laude, from Duquesne University.

Professor Linarelli brings substantial Washington DC law firm experience to Touro, having practiced at several major Washington DC law firms. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and a member of Maryland and Virginia Bars (inactive or associate status).

Professor Linarelli has served in various capacities for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, UNCITRAL, UNIDROIT and other intergovernmental organizations. He is currently involved in the Economic Assessment of International Commercial Law Reform project, co-sponsored by the University of Oxford, the University of Washington, and the UNIDROIT Foundation.

Positions

Present Professor of Law, Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
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