CURRENT FACULTY

Dennis Campbell is Director of the Center for International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria, and teaches as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School. He is a member of the New York State Bar and the Iowa State Bar. He has lectured at Stockholm University, Helsinki University, Salzburg University, National University of Taiwan, Warsaw University, and Jagiellonian University. He is the former Director of International Programs and Professor of Law at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. Over several years of private practice, he focused on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. He serves as the editor of a number of international treatises published by Oxford University Press, Kluwer Law Publishing, and Yorkhill Law Publishing. He is a former Assistant Secretary of the California State Senate.

Joseph A. Franco is Professor of Law and Director of the Business Law and Financial Services Concentration at Suffolk University Law School. He teaches securities regulation, regulation of investment companies, corporations and corporate finance.Prior to joining the faculty of Suffolk University Law School, he was an assistant general counsel for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., where he worked on legal policy and appellate litigation. His work has been published in several leading journals on a variety of securities law topics.  Prof. Franco holds both an MA (in economics) and JD from Yale University, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame.  Prior to joining the staff of the SEC, he was engaged in mergers and acquisitions litigation as an associate with a large law firm in New York City.  He has served from time to time as an expert in major criminal and civil litigation securities matters both in the United States and the City of London Commercial Court. 

Christopher Gibson is an associate professor of law at Suffolk University Law School; he teaches and writes in the areas of international dispute resolution, international business transactions, Internet law, technology and intellectual property. Before joining Suffolk University Law School, he was a partner in the London office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he specialized in the areas of international dispute resolution, technology and intellectual property. Following law school graduation, Professor Gibson was a law clerk to a federal district judge in the Northern District of California, then served as a Legal Assistant at the Iran-United States Claim Tribunal in The Hague and was later engaged in legal practice in San Francisco. Professor Gibson also served for four years as Senior Legal Officer for the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva (Head of the "C" Claims Division), followed by a four year period as Head of the Electronic Commerce Law Section and Senior Legal Officer in the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. He was a principal officer involved in WIPO's domain name work, including design of the dispute resolution procedures which ICANN adopted as the Uniform Domain Name Policy (UDRP). Professor Gibson has lectured extensively on international dispute resolution, international business transactions, technology and intellectual property. He received his law degree from University of California at Berkeley, a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School at Harvard University, and his undergraduate B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Virginia A. Greiman served as Deputy Chief Legal Counsel and Risk Manager to Boston’s $14.6 billion Central Artery/Tunnel Project and several international infrastructure mega projects. Her prior experience includes appointments by the U.S. Attorney General as United States Trustee to the U.S. Department of Justice where she managed the successful reorganizations of Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, the first nuclear power plant to file in the country, and the Bank of New England, the first bank holding company in the United States to seek chapter 11 relief.  She served as international legal counsel to the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the World Bank in Eastern and Central Europe and Asia on privatization, infrastructure development, and legal reform projects. She presently serves as Deputy Director and Chief Legal Counsel to the Department of Economic Development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts where she counsels on foreign direct investment, international trade and business development, and has teaching appointments at Harvard University Law School in trial advocacy and international public interest law and Boston University School of Law in International Business Agreements, Comparative Law, and International Project Finance.  She has lectured internationally and published extensively in the areas of corporate reorganization, international law and project finance.

Richard P. Vacco graduated from Colby College in 1962 and Suffolk University Law School in 1967. Upon graduation from law school, he clerked in the Massachusetts Superior Court during the 1967 - 1968 term. Upon completion of the clerkship, he joined the full-time faculty at Suffolk University Law School. He was an Assistant Professor from 1968 through 1972, an Associate Professor from 1972 through 1975, and has been a tenured Professor of Law since 1976. While on the faculty, he served on the Board of Editors of the New Hampshire Bar Journal from 1973 through 1980, serving as its chair from 1975 through 1978. His courses include Corporations, Business Associations, and Business Planning. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1967, the New Hampshire Bar in 1968, and to the United States Supreme Court Bar in 1980. In addition to his teaching experience, Professor Vacco has years of experience representing closely-held businesses in many areas including, but not limited to, mergers and acquisitions and federal and state security law compliance.

Jeffrey Wittenberg is a graduate of the Hastings College of the Law and a Full Professor at Suffolk University Law School.  In addition to being a featured speaker at numerous seminars on a variety of subjects, Professor Wittenberg has accumulated over thirty years of experience in teaching courses in Contracts, Sales Law and Products Liability. He is the author of three editions of Contracts: Contemporary Cases, Comments and Problems (with Closen and Perlmutter); Products Liability: Recreation and Sports Equipment; Products Liability: The Law in Mississippi; and Judges’ Guide to Damages (Massachusetts Law). Professor Wittenberg’s most recent book, Commercial Contracting: Sales under the UCC was published in the spring of 2009.