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On Friday March 27, 2009, Professor Frank Emmert gave a lecture entitled "Reflections on How To and How Not To Establish Antitrust Oversight in Emerging Markets and Transitional Economies" at the Spring Antitrust Meeting of the American Bar Association (ABA) in Washington D.C.

Emmert is the John S. Grimes Professor of Law, as well as the Director of the law school's Center for International and Comparative Law.   He joined the law school faculty in the summer of 2003. He is the founder and managing editor of the European Journal of Law Reform (since 1997).  Before his appointment at IU he was a visiting professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. He has also served as Dean of Concordia International University Estonia School of Law, Executive Director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute, Lecturer in European and International Law at the European institute of Basle University.  He has taught courses at the Universities of Strasbourg (France), Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Warsaw and Krakow (Poland), Ljubljana and Maribor (Slovenia), Prague (Czech Republic), St. Gall (Switzerland), the College of Europe (Poland), as well as Stanford Law School and Rutgers University School of Law.

Since the summer of 2007, Professor Emmert has served as the director and principal investigator of a multi-million dollar grant-funded project the law school is implementing in cooperation with the Faculty of Law of Alexandria University, Egypt and the Faculty of Law of Cairo University, Egypt. 

Professor Emmert is fluent in German and English, conversant in French and Italian, and speaks some Spanish and Estonian. He has advised various governments and multinational enterprises, and speaks frequently at conferences and seminars in Europe and the US. His publications include more than 10 books and 40 articles in the areas of European Union, international and comparative law.