LL.M. Faculty and Staff

The faculty and administrators of the LL.M. program have exceptional academic credentials, teaching experience in a variety of cultures, and a range of experiences with democracy and governance programs in transitional democracies. The following are brief biographies of those directly involved with the program.

Professor Howard N. Fenton is the Director of the LL.M. program. He received both his B.S. and J.D. with honors from the University of Texas. He has over 30 years of experience in administrative and legislative law, and public international and international trade law. For the past ten years he has consulted on law reform in developing democracies, focusing on reforms in administrative law and procedure, the legislative process, and public participation and awareness. He has authored numerous materials on law reform and served as chief of party for the USAID funded Rule of Law Project in Tbilisi, Georgia from 2001-2002.
   
Professor Jean-Marie Kamatali is the Assistant Director of the LL.M. program. He holds a law degree from the National University of Rwanda, M.A in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame and a Doctorate in law from Karl Franzens University-Graz in Austria. He has taught at Notre Dame Law School and different universities in US, Africa and Europe. He was Dean of the Law School at the National University of Rwanda from 1998- 2002 and contributed significantly to the legal and institutional rebuilding Rwanda after the 1994 Genocide. He has worked as consultant for numerous international organizations and has published multiple articles and book chapters in Africa, Europe and United States.
   
Professor Maximilian B. Torres, Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Law. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and Ph.D. from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. He has taught business and ethics related courses in both Spain and the United States and has worked as a financial consultant and account executive. Professor Torres has published multiple articles and book chapters and has presented at conferences in Germany, Mexico, Italy, Spain, Finland, Portugal and the United States.
   
Professor Elena V. Helmer is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. She received her law degree with honors from Kazakh State University School of Law and an LL.M. from Yale University Law School. She has taught in law schools in Russia, Kazakhstan, and the United States. Her numerous presentations, articles and books, include International Commercial Arbitration (in Russian), written under an International Policy Fellowship from the Open Society Institute.
   

Professor Bruce P. Frohnan is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. His research interests focus on the nature and development of human rights and their connections with differing views of the nature of human community and the person. Prior to coming to ONU he taught at Emory University, the Catholic University of America, and Ave Maria School of Law.  He holds a J.D. from the Emory University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.