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Theodore Parnall

Chapman University School of Law
One University Drive, Orange, California 92866

Professor Theodore Parnall is the Bette and Wylie Aitken Distinguished Professor of Law for the Fall 2009. Professor Parnall comes to Chapman with vast experience in international law and legal education both in the United States and abroad. He has served as a resident legal advisor and law professor in eleven overseas posts, including in various Rule of Law Reform projects through the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Asian Development Bank, the Harvard Law School, the World Bank, the United Nations Center on Transnational Corporations, and the Ford Foundation. He most recently returned from a Rule of Law Project in Kabul, Afghanistan. Professor Parnall was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, the University of Michigan, and the University of New Mexico. He has had a distinguished career teaching at the University of New Mexico School of Law, where he served as Dean from 1986 to 1991. He has received numerous awards, including service awards from the governments of Egypt, Laos, Indonesia, and Madagascar. He has contributed to books on foreign law, and has authored numerous articles on corporate law, securities law, international and comparative law, as well as numerous official reports for various Rule of Law, poverty reduction, and development projects for multilateral institutions, the U.S. and foreign governments. At Chapman, Professor Parnall is teaching International Business Transactions and a seminar on Law in Developing Countries.