He has been Associate professor at St. Thomas University School of Law for 12 years, teaching courses such as Federal Income Tax; Corporations; Corporate Finance; and Wills and Trusts.

Charles Arthur Cain, MA FCIB TEP is an Economist and a Banker. Mr. Cain worked for various companies such as Barclays Bank DCO, this is an international bank in Africa, Caribbean and the Mediterranean, Alex Lawrie Factor limited, Slater Walter (Isle of Man) Ltd. where he was the Cheif Executive, and in 1975 he founded his own trust company Charles Cain & Co. Ltd. In 1995, Charles Cain became Editor of Offshore Investment, a widely read magazine catering for the practitionres in the offshore financial and fiduciary industry. Charles Cain has been active in Isle of Man politics, serving in the House of Keys, and playing an active part in Government, He is a well know figure on many politics, with forthright opinions, especially in economic matters and on the accountability of the need for training of Government officials with responsibility in economic and regulatory matters.

Charles Cain was appointed adjunct professor for St. Thomas University School of Law in 2000, teaching a course on International taxation. In 2001, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Isle of Man International Business School. Charles Cain is a frequent writer and speaker, His most recent publication was published by Jordan's in 2003, 'Guarantee and Hybrid Companies in the Isle os Man', which examines the usage of such mutual companies in a International context.

Beckett Gordon Cantley is an Assistant Professor of Law (tenure track) at St. Thomas University School of Law. He has taught four J.D. level courses, including Estate Planning, Property I, Property II and Agency & Partnership. Cantley has taught several courses in the Graduate Tax Program (LL.M.), including: Thesis Seminar I, Offshore Financial Centers, International Tax Planning, Tax I, Civil Tax Procedure, Tax II, and Partnership Tax. He also serves on the Faculty Technology Committee at St. Thomas.

Cantley is widely-published on various tax law subjects, including the following law review articles: "The Tax Shelter Disclosure Act: The Next Battle in the Tax Shelter War" (University of Virginia Tax Review), "United States v. KPMG: Does Section 6103 Allow the IRS to Put Taxpayer Names on the Front Page of the Wall Street Journal?" (Cleveland State Law Review), "Corporate Inversions: Will the REPO Act Keep Corporations from Moving to Bermuda?" (University of Houston Business and Tax Law Journal), "Taxation Expatriation: Will the Fast Act Stop Wealthy Americans from Leaving the United States?" (Akron Law Review), "How Long Must One Stay in the USVI to be Considered a 'Resident' to Qualify for the 90% Residency Tax Credit?" (Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy),"The New Congressional Attack on Offshore Rabbi Trusts" (Oregon Review of International Tax),"The New Tax Shelter Opinion Letter Regulations: Cutting Back a Client's Ability to Rely on the Advice of His Counsel" (Akron Tax Review), "The New Tax Information Exchange Agreement: What Effect Will the New Agreement Have" (University of Houston Business and Tax Law Journal) and "The New Dividend Tax Cut: Bush's Prescription for Rescuing the Economy" (Akron Tax Review).

Cantley received his B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Cantley received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, California. Graduating in the Top 10% of his class, he received the American Jurisprudence Award for Corporations and the book award for White Collar Crime. Cantley received his LL.M. degree in Taxation from the University of Florida, College of Law, graduating near the top of his class. He formerly served as a shareholder in the Miami office of a national boutique tax law firm. His practice focused on the fields of income tax planning, international taxation, estate planning, corporations, gift tax, partnerships, wills and trusts, probate and general federal and state taxation. Cantley is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Estate and Gift Tax Committee of the American Bar Association, the Committee on Financial Transactions of the American Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and has been admitted to the Supreme Court of Georgia and the U.S. Tax Court. He is a supporter of the arts and serves on the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, Florida.

Kithsiri L. De Silva is revenue official that specializes on the taxation of multinational enterprises. He commenced his tax career as an assessor in the Sri Lankan Department of Inland Revenue where he worked for eleven years specializing in tax intelligence. The Commonwealth Fund subsequently assigned him to the Technical Cooperation (CFTC) as a tax expert to the Department of Taxes, Kenya. After his stint in Kenya, he joined the Department of Taxes, Kenya. Then, he joined the Department of Taxes in Botswana where he worked for sixteen years and served as assistant commissioner in charge of the investigation and intelligence division. During this period he conducted and concluded several highly successful investigations of large multinational companies operating in South Africa. He emigrated with his family to New Zealand and is presently employed as an investigator at the Corporate Segment of the Department of Inland Revenue, New Zealand.
Kithsiri De Silva has devoted much of his time to the teaching of taxation. He has lectured at the Academy of Administrative studies in Sri Lanka, the Department of Taxes and Institute of Bankers in Botswana, and the Institute of International Taxation in Johannesburg, South Africa. At the invitation of the Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators in 1996, he presented a paper on the taxation of multinational enterprises at the 17th CATA technical conference held in Harare, Zimbabwe. He has trained Revenue officials in Botswana, Zambia and Swaziland on Tax intelligence and the investigation of multinational enterprises.

De Silva’s research papers on taxation have focused on developing countries and covered administrative and organizational aspects of tax intelligence and investigation work. His paper on Botswana’s Corporate Tax Intelligence System was published by the IBFD. He has presented papers on Sub Sharan Taxation, transfer pricing and the investigation of multinational companies in Africa at international seminars and conferences.

Between government contracts, De Silva has worked as a tax consultant to several companies in Sri Lanka. This has tempered his view of Taxation giving him an insight and an appreciation of the view of tax as seen from the taxpayer’s perspective. De Silva is an honors graduate of the university of Ceylon. Click here for Kithsiri L. De Silva's Complete Resume

A native Alabamian, J. Richard Duke is a Vestavia Hills (suburb of Birmingham) lawyer whose practice is unique to Alabama. Richard Duke, born and raised in Lineville, Alabama, is the Principal of Duke Law Firm, P.C., a small niche law firm that has, since 1992, developed an international practice, working with clients and other professionals around the world. Duke Law Firm represents private banking departments of foreign banks and foreign financial institutions in providing guidance for U.S. persons who want their money managed either directly or through established foreign structures (such as foreign trusts, foreign corporations, foreign limited liability companies or foreign insurance products). The firm ensures that clients and prospective clients, including foreign banks and foreign financial institutions, are compliant with the newly adopted USA Patriot Act, the withholding and qualified intermediary rules under U.S. regulations and "Know Your Customer" rules of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Duke Law Firm also represents clients on investments into the U.S. (inbound planning), in addition to representing U.S. private clients in international estate planning, foreign business tax planning, international asset protection planning, investing through foreign banks or foreign investment management institutions, and accessing the worldwide market and international insurance products. Duke Law Firm has also been engaged by professionals to represent clients who are being audited by the IRS with respect to international transactions.

He is member of the Committee of Academic Advisors and Visiting Professor of Law Graduate International Taxation (LL.M.) Program, Miami, Florida; Adjunct Professor of Law at the Cumberland School of Law of Samford University (International Tax and Asset Protection Planning). He was also member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the ASSET PROTECTION JOURNAL, A Panel Publication, Aspen Publishers, Inc., (New York, New York, 1999-2002); member of the Editorial Advisory Board of VAULT, O.F.C. Publications Inc., (Quebec, Canada); co-author of Offshore Tax Strategies newsletter; editorial advisor to Global Asset Protection, Global e- Commerce Monitor and Asset Protection Forum.

Prof. Duke is a member of the American Bar Association; Alabama State Bar; The Florida Bar; Auburn University Bar Association (member, Board of Directors); and Birmingham Bar Association; International Tax Planning Association; Member and Distinguished Fellow of The Royal Society Of Fellows (RSOF) (2002-); Member of the Faculty Advisory Board, Royal Society Of Fellows Law Review; Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; International Tax Planning Association; The Offshore Institute, 1994-1999; International Bar Association (Section on Business Law; Committee on Taxes); Inter-American Bar Association; Tax Section of the American Bar Association (Committee on Corporate Stockholders' Relationships, 1975-1977; Committee on Closely Held Corporations, 1977-1990; Committee on Individual Investments and Workouts, 1995-); Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section of the American Bar Association (Committee on Asset Protection Planning, 1997-; International Estate Planning Committee, 1999-); International Law and Practice Section of the American Bar Association (Committees on International Taxation, 1995-; and Committee of International Private Client Planning, 1995-); Tax Section of the Alabama State Bar and The Florida Bar; Samford University Professional Advisors Council (1996-).

Graduate Law: Master of Laws in Taxation, University of Miami School of Law; Law: Doctor of Jurisprudence, Cumberland School of Law of Samford University Undergraduate: Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Auburn University

He has published numerous law reviews and articles on Taxation, Compliance, Trusts and Estates, including: Chapters, Tax Compliance and Reporting For Offshore Trusts and Uses of Foreign Life Insurance in International Estate Planning, Asset Protection Strategies: Planning with Domestic and Offshore Entities (The American Bar Association, 2002); U.S. Tax Treatment of Low-Tax Jurisdictions, International Taxation of Low-Tax Transactions, Bureau of National Affairs International Inc. (London, England, 1996); chapter entitled Use of Trusts by U.S. Citizens in International Tax Planning, Trust in Prime Jurisdictions, Kluwer Law International (The Hague/London/Boston, 2000).

Larry C. Fedro is the Executive Director of the St. Thomas University School of Law Tax Clinic where he has been a Visiting Professor of Law for eight years. Prof. Fedro was an attorney with the Internal Revenue Service for 37 years before moving into private practice in 2001. While serving at the IRS, Mr. Fedro worked in the following capacities: Estate Tax Attorney (1963-1975), Estate Tax Attorney Manager (1975-1976), Appeals Officer (1976-1983), Appeals Manager (1983-1985, 1988-2000), and Tax Shelter Program Coordinator at the National Office (1985-1988).

Chaowu Jin (Horace King) was employment officer for the Bureau of Labor and Personnel, Hunan Province, PRC, from 1990 to 1994; and Assistant Attorney for the second major law firm in Hunan Province, PRC. He has been attorney at law and legal counselor for major law firms and companies in China. In 2000, he founded and was General Secretary of Peking University Institute of Legal Translation Studies (ILTS). Mr. King has been lecturer of International Business Law at the Guangzhou University, and the University of New South Wales.

He has written several law articles, and 5 books on Law and Economics, published in both English and Mandarin. He holds a J.S.D with major in Economic Law from Peking University School of Law; a M.A. with major in Translation Studies from the Changsha Railway University; and a B.A. from Changsha Railway University Department of Foreign Languages. He holds the LLM, Tax from University of Florida. He speaks Chinese and English fluently.

Alwyn de Koker is Professor of Taxation in the School of Accountancy in the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is a member of the Committee of Academic Advisors and Adjunct Professor at the St Thomas University School of Law and was formerly an Honorary Professor in the School of Law at Regent University, Virginia Beach, USA.
He is an Executive Board member of the Royal Society of Fellows and an Advisory Board member of the Foundation for Fiscal Studies. He is also an Advisory board member of the Royal Society of Fellows Law Review.

He obtained his Bachelors degree in accounting from the University of Cape Town and holds a Master of Commerce in Taxation and a Higher Diploma in Taxation from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Professor de Koker is a member of the Public Accountants’ and Auditors’ Board in South Africa and a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accounts. He is also a Vice-President of the Offshore Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.

Professor de Koker has received significant awards such as Distinguished Lecturer. He has delivered papers on international tax, which is his area of expertise, at various conferences worldwide. He has published extensively and is the author, amongst others, of the definitive tax work entitled Silke on South African Income Tax and the Silke Tax Yearbook as well as co-author of Value-Added Tax in South Africa published by LexisNexis.

Marshall J. Langer, is one of the top five known authors and speakers in the field of international financial services. He was an attorney for many years with Shutts & Bowen, though retired, is still of counsel. Mr. Langer's first book, HOW TO USE FOREIGN TAX HAVENS, was published by the Practising Law Institute (PLI), New York, in 1985. The third edition, PRACTICAL INTERNATIONAL TAX PLANNING, published by Practicing Law Institute in 1985, is in loose-leaf format and is updated every year. Mr. Langer is co-author (with Professor Rufus Rhoades) of the 6 volume set published by Matthew Bender, RHOADES & LANGER, U.S. INTERNATIONAL TAXATION AND TAX TREATIES. Mr. Langer and his co-author update this loose-leaf set four times per year.

For nearly a decade he served as a Diplomat for Trade and Investment for the Government of Grenada. He has previously served as President of the Greater Miami Tax Institute and Vice President of the U.S.A. Branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA). He has also served on the Executive Council of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and is currently on the advisory committees of the International Tax Planning Association (ITPA) and the American Tax Institute in Europe. In his nearly sixty year career, Mr. Langer has been one of the most prolific global speakers in the field.

At the University of Miami, Mr. Langer became the first summa cum laude graduate in the history of the law school, where he also went on to teach. He was also Comment Editor of the Law Review, Chief Justice of the Appellate Court, and a member of two honorary societies, Omicron Delta Kappa and Iron Arrow.

Prof. G. S. Mentz, JD, MBA, CWM™, CAM™, CTEP™, CPM™, MFP™, is the first person in the United States to achieve "Quad Designation Status" as a JD, MBA, licensed Master Financial Planner Professional, and Certified Financial Consultant. Mr. Mentz is presently serving as President and Professor for The American Academy of Financial Management Worldwide ™. Prof. Mentz and his companies have consulted with Wall Street firms, trained thousands of financial professionals, and instructed and presented strategies to several hundred thousand people internationally on wealth management, financial planning, e-commerce, and estate planning. Mr. Mentz is a Licensed Attorney and Counselor of Law (LA), and has researched, published, and presented worldwide in multiple venues such as television, radio, journals, magazines, websites, national conferences and more. Mr. Mentz also holds faculty appointments in California, Colorado, Chicago, Florida, Dubai, Singapore, UAE, and several others. In years past, Prof. Mentz was Editor and Faculty Advisor for the Orignial Tax and Estate Planning Law Review.

Prof. Mentz has recently received a national faculty award for online teaching, a distinguished faculty award for online teaching excellence, and a meritorious service medal from a charitable organization. Prof. Mentz is certified in online course instruction and certified in online course creation/development. Prof. Mentz is the author or editor for over 22 published books and training manuals, and Mentz has held board positions to the International Advisory Board of the Global Finance Forum in Switzerland, the World E-Commere Forum in London, The ERISA Fiduciary Guild, and the AML Committee for ICA USA. Mentz has also been accepted as an Expert in NASD Arbitration. Mentz is a member of the KGS Securities Law Firm in LA and New York.

Prof. Mentz has been quoted of featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Hindu National, El Norte Latin America, the Finanical Times, The China Daily, & The Arab Times. Mentz in 2009 has been quoted in Industry News such as: Forbes News, The Business Wire, Reuters Global News, EuroInvestor News UK, Yahoo Finance, Morningstar News, CNBC, Digital50 News, Direkt Broker Germany News, Ad Hoc News, Centre Daily News, Earth Times, Yahoo News, University of California News, ArabianBusiness.com , Express Computers Business News in India, College Education Weekly, and more. Mentz is also a member of the International Legal Fraternity Phi Delta Phi and the International Business Fraternity Pi Sigma Epsilon and the Business Educator's Society of: Delta Pi Epsilon.

Dr. Robert Munro is the Co-Director of the Center for International Financial Crimes Studies at the College of Law, University of Florida, and a Senior Research Fellow and Director of Research for North America of CIDOEC at Jesus College, Cambridge University.

He holds Masters degrees from the University of Iowa and LSU, a Juris Doctor from the College of Law of the University of Iowa, a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, and has done further graduate studies at Jesus College, Cambridge University, Oxford University and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London. He is the author of twenty-three published books including the five-volume MONEY LAUNDERING, ASSET FORFEITURE AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CRIMES and the three-volume CYBERCRIME AND SECURITY.

His expertise is concentrated on International Financial Crimes, Organized Crime and Intelligence Analysis and he has addressed audiences at Cambridge University, the University of Florida, the University of London, the CIA and the U.S. State Department. He has also created, organized and chaired over 20 conferences on these topics in Miami, Aruba, Curacao, the Bahamas, Washington, D.C., New York City and San Francisco. He is a Barrister and an Attorney at Law.

Basil Newton obtained his B. Procurationis (equivalent to the Juris Doctor degree in the United States) from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and his LL.M. in South African Taxation from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in Amsterdam conferred him a Research Fellowship in International Taxation. He is actually an adjunct professor to the Master of Laws Program in International Taxation at two United States Universities. Previously lectured on the OECD and United Nations Model Double Taxation Conventions and Transfer Pricing at Stellenbosch University. Submitted papers on International and South African aspects of transfer pricing, Thin capitalization and double taxation Conventions to the university of Cape Town and International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Amsterdam. Prepared diploma courses in international tax issues, which are to be published by Kluwer law publishers.
Currently lecturing in the field of double taxation conventions, international tax planning, and trust law and taxation aspects thereto as well as consulting in international tax structuring.

Fred Ongcapin is an Adjudications Officer (Policy) for the Policy and Regulation Management Division, Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Headquarters Office, Washington D.C. He serves as an adjunct professor in courses such as international taxation and business immigration as well as international migration. His current position has authored and led to the publishing of numerous national policy guidance memos and formal regulations as to immigration law for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He also provides regular statutory and policy guidance concerning immigration policy for Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices throughout the country due to his subject matter expertise in immigration law. On several occasions, Fred has represented Citizenship and Immigration Services before senior policy level liaison meetings with the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Justice, and certain Congressional Committees on Immigration. Prior to his work at Headquarters, he served as a Field Office Supervisor and Asylum Officer for U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Offices in San Diego and San Francisco, California.
He holds a Masters of Law degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law and a Juris Doctor from California Southern University School of Law, and has done further graduate studies in international relations at Rutgers University. His expertise is concentrated on Immigration Law and Public Policy, International Financial Aspects of Business Immigration, and Asylum-Refugee Law.

CEO and Executive Director of International Business Law Services , (IBLS), www.IBLS.com headquartered in Irvine, California. Designed to help business and legal professionals understand Internet laws and regulations. IBLS provides worldwide interactive source of information and counsel for legal issues relating to the Internet. Ms. Penn coordinates and directs IBLS’ legal and management teams, consisting of law professors, attorneys, finance, marketing and IT professionals. In addition, Ms. Penn is teaching law courses at St. Thomas University, School of Law, Miami, Florida, and Nova Southeastern University, Wayne Huizenga Graduate School of Business and entrepreneurship, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Professor Penn has a master of law in International Banking and Financial law from Boston University, School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts; a master of law in Taxation from Golden Gate University, School of Law, California and a Juris Doctor degree from Western State University, College of Law, California. She also studied European Community law at Cambridge University, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England. She frequently lectures at European Schools and conferences throughout the United States.

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Stephen Polak, MSA, CPA/PFS, CFE, CFF, started his career with the United States Government during the mid 1980s as a "Staff Auditor" with the Department of Defense - Defense Contract Auditing Agency and has spent the last twenty years with the U.S. Department of the Treasury – Internal Revenue Service as an "Internal Revenue Agent". Currently he is assigned to a LMSB Financial Products group as a "Financial Products and Transaction Examiner" where he is responsible for the examinations of Financial Products used by Multi National Entities.
Stephen Polak holds a B.S. Accounting (summa cum laude) from Johnson and Wales University, a M.S. Administration/Management (honors) from Saint Michael's College, and currently is working on his J.S.M. International Tax and Financial Services at Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
He is a licensed Certified Public Account, Insurance/Annuity Producer, Stock Broker/Registered Investment Advisor (NASD/FINRA Series 7 and 66) and is a credentialed, Certified Fraud Examiner, Personal Financial Specialist, and Certified in Financial Forensics.
His outside activities include reviewing manuscripts for the "Journal of Accountancy" and "The Tax Advisor" as an Editorial Advisor and participating in various professional organizations in the Memphis, TN area, such as, the Tennessee Chapter of Certified Public Accountants, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the Institute of Internal Auditors.
Professor Polak is a regular external/internal speaker for the Internal Revenue Service on advance tax topics and has taught financial/computer accounting and individual/corporate tax law at various colleges and universities.

Michael Preiss, CWM, CMA, RFS, MFP - Preiss is Founder & Chief Investment Strategist of African Asset Management Ltd. Previously he served in the Investment Advisory Group at HSBC Private Bank, serving clients in the Middle East and South Asia. He is also a Director and Economic Advisor to Ceylon Asset Mangement in Sri Lanka. Index Committee member, involved in launching the Celyon Index Fund, the 1st Index fund on the Colombo Stock Exchange. Advisor on Global Board of Standards on Wealth Management and Private Banking curriculum for the Middle-East and Asia with the American Academy of Financial Management (AAFM). He also served as Director and Research Fellow at The Asian Bond Market Forum, a Hong Kong based non-profit think-tank. The ABMF provides policy research on the development of Asian local currency bond markets and advises on bond-market issuance programs and infrastructure development. In this role, Mr. Preiss was working with Thailand’s Ministry of Finance, as one of the founding members of the Asian Bond Market Development Secretariat in Bangkok. Mr. Preiss is a graduate of the European Business School with a major in Finance and international economics, having studied at the schools centers in London, Paris and Bologna, Italy in the respective local languages. In addition he studied in Japan, Korea, and China.

A regular guest commentator on Bloomberg TV, CNBC Asia, and the BBC as well as India’s New Delhi Television, a columnist for finance magazine’s in Hong Kong and China, as well Singapore’s Business Times where he contributed the regular “Executive Money Matters” column. He has also been an guest lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he taught on Technical Analysis as well as a course on Banking & Financial Institutions with a focus on China’s Financial System. He also taught at the School of Finance – Renmin University in Beijing and has been invited to design a course curriculum on “Fixed Income Securities” for the Graduate School of The People’s Bank of China, China’s Central Bank.

Roy Rohatgi is a recognized attorney from Calcuta University in India. He holds a B.S.C with major in Economics from London University, England. Professor Rohatgi is a Fellow of both the Institute of Charter Accountant of England and Wales, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in India. He worked for Arthur Andersen & Co. in London, and founded and directed its Indian branch. He has built a solid reputation for his regular writings on international Taxation issues published in professional journals and conferences in India and abroad. He is currently writing a book on International Taxation to be published by Kluwer Law.

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Obtained his B.A. and LL.B from the Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, and his LL.M. and D.C.L (Doctor in Civil Law) from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. He holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, 1986. Thesis titled “In Quest of the Appropriate Code for the Ideal Form for the Proprietary Business.” Professor Ribbens has been Public Prosecutor for the Department of Justice in Hohannesburg; Commercial Law attorney for top law firms in Johannesburg for more than 20 years, and Legal Advisor for the Merchant Bank and Stockbrokers in Johannesburg. As legal advisor for the Merchant Bank, he acted as liaison between the Merchant Bank’s attorneys and the Listings Committee of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. From 1986 to 1994, he worked as Intellectual Property Attorney for a law firm in Pretoria. His expertise is concentrated in the areas of commercial law, corporate finance, company law, stock exchange listings, debentures, schemes of arrangements, takeover bids and share incentive schemes.

His successful law practice has been combined with a prominent teaching experience. From 1975 to 1985 he was Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Company, Partnership and Insolvency Law at the University of South Africa. From 1987 to 1992, he was part-time lecturer of Company and Partnership Law at the University of Cape Town. He was also part-time lecturer in Trust and Legal Entities, Derivatives Actions, Class and Public Interest Actions at the International Law and Tax Institute in Johannesburg.

Professor Ribbens has given numerous conferences in his areas of expertise world wide. He has published law reviews and a great number of other legal writings.

Obtained his J.D. from the University of New Mexico in 1994, his LL.B. from the University of Western Ontario (graduated in top 20 of his class) in 1987, and his M.L.S. from Brigham Young University in 1982. He graduated Cum Laude from Brigham Young University when obtaining his B.A. in History and Political Science in 1978.

Professor Russell was Associate Professor and Director of Library & Information Technology at Southern New England School of Law. During June 1995 and May 1996, he was Associate Professor and Associate Law Library Director of University of New Mexico Law Library. He was also Head of Public Services of the University of New Mexico Law Library for three years, and Head of Reference Department at the University of Miami Law Library for two years.

Professor Russell has extensive experience teaching advanced legal research; advance electronic research; interviewing, negotiation and Counseling; and legal research and writing.

Dr. George L. Salis is currently Principal Income Tax Analyst (International) at Vertex, Inc., which is one of the largest international tax software companies in the world. He is also Adjunct Professor of Economics at Webster University's MBA program, in Florida. Prior to his position at Vertex, he was engaged as international tax and economic advisor and consultant to various firms such as the St. Abbeys Group, (UK), The Quantum Group, LLC, JurisConsults International Group, LLC, The Scottish Rite Foundation, Inc., to name a few.

From 1996 - 2005, he served as the Program Director for the Legal Studies Department at Keiser University, having designed and revised the Department's curricula several times during his tenure. He also served as Dean of academic Affairs of the Lakeland Campus of Keiser University from 1999 until 2002. He has taught Economics, Law, Business and International Trade related courses at several colleges in the US and abroad at the graduate and undergraduate level, and he is frequently a guest lecturer at various colleges and universities in the US, UK, and Europe. He is the author of two books on international law and policy, as well as numerous articles related to international economic law, taxation, global investments, trade, and compliance for various professional journals and trade magazines. A frequent speaker in the international conference circuit in the areas of international trade, tax and economic law, Dr. Salis was the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award twice at Franklin Pierce College, in New Hampshire, with other nominations later at New England College, Rollins College, and at Keiser University, Florida. He is a Distinguished Fellow in the Royal Society of Fellows, an international society of lawyers, bankers, and investment, compliance and tax professionals from around the globe and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Financial Management (AAFM), where he is a member of its Board of Standards. From 2003- 2005, he also served as Director of the Global Wealth Commission for the AAFM.

Dr. Salis earned his Ph.D. in International & Comparative Law & Economic Policy, from The Union Institute & University, a Master of Laws in International Taxation from St. Thomas University School of Law, in Miami and a Post- Graduate Diploma in European & International Tax Law, from Robert Kennedy College's Graduate School of Law, in Zurich, Switzerland. He received his law degree with Honours, from the Honours Law programme at the University of Wolverhampton Law School in England, the Specialist Diploma in European Union Law from Holborn College London and Oxford University (UODLE). In 1988, he obtained a Master of Arts in Legal and Ethical Studies, from The University of Baltimore. He earned Bachelors degrees in Economics and Political Science (dual major) with Honors, from The University of the State of New York, Albany, and another in Philosophy and Humanities from Barry University, in Miami Shores. He is active in the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the London Court of International Arbitration, and the American Society of International Law, among other international organizations.

Is a practicing attorney at STADHEIM & GREAR, Chicago, Illinois since 2000. He is responsible for all phases of intellectual property licensing, litigation and appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. From 1998 to 2000 he worked as Intellectual Property attorney at HILL & SIMPSON PC, Chicago, Illinois. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as Intellectual Property attorney for RADER, FISHMAN & GRAUER, Chicago, Illinois. He worked for the Intellectual Property Department of PENNIE & EDMONDS, Washington, D.C., from 1991 to 1996. He completed a fulbright fellowship at the OFFICE FOR INVENTIONS AND TRADEMARKS, Bucharest, Rumania. He was an investigative attorney at the U.S. International Trade Commission from 1988 to 1990. From 1987 to 1988, he worked as Intellectual Property attorney for Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett.

Obtained his J.D. from Wayne State University Law School and is member of the following Bar Associations, U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Federal and Seventh Circuits; U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of California, the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, the District of Connecticut, the District of Arizona, the Northern District of Illinois, and the Northern District of Texas; the United States Court of Federal Claims; and the State of Michigan; American Bar Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association; International Federation of Intellectual Property Law Counselors (FICPI).