Teaching Interests: Contracts, Commercial Law, International and Comparative Law

International Business Transactions Syllabus - Spring 2013

Comparative Law Syllabus - Fall 2012

Contracts Law Syllabus - Fall 2011

Education: B.A., California State University (Fullerton), 2002; J.D., University of California (Hastings), 2005; Ph.D., University of Torino, Faculty of Law, 2011. 

Experience: 2011-present, Assistant Professor of Law; 2010-2011, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University; 2009-2010, Visiting Scholar, Cornell Law School; 2005-2007, Associate, Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP.

Admitted: California

Achievements/Publications:  Boris Mamlyuk joined the Memphis law faculty in 2011.  He teaches Contracts and Sales.  Professor Mamlyuk earned his J.D. from the University of California (Hastings) in 2005. After admission to the bar, Professor Mamlyuk practiced in the Irvine, CA office of Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, a leading nationwide litigation and construction law practice, representing clients in local complex commercial litigation. In 2007, Mamlyuk returned to academia to pursue doctoral work at the CLEI Centre, a research center founded by Cornell Law School and the University of Turin, Faculty of Law. During the course of his doctoral studies, Mamlyuk held a number of joint appointments, including as visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies, and as a visiting scholar at Cornell Law School. In 2008-09, served as a Fulbright Fellow, studying Russian law and transition at the Institute of State and Law in Moscow. While in Russia, Mamlyuk taught courses on Civil Society and Russian Law and Politics at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics.

Mamlyuk’s research interests include commercial law, international legal theory, law and development, and issues of legal transition and Rule of Law reforms in developing and post-socialist states. His current research project focuses on Russia’s attempts to harmonize domestic legal structures in anticipation of WTO accession. Mamlyuk has delivered numerous conference presentations on these topics in more than five countries. His work has been selected for presentation at the Yale Comparative Law Works-in-Progress Workshop and he has served as a participant at the annual Institute for Global Law and Policy workshop, hosted by Harvard Law School.

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Representative Publications:

Comparative International Law, 36 Brooklyn J. Int’l L. 385 (2011) (with Ugo Mattei).

Russia & Legal Harmonization: an Historical Inquiry into IP Reform as Global Convergence and Resistance, 10 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. (2011) (forthcoming).

Analyzing the Polluter Pays Principle Through Law and Economics, 18 Southeastern Env. L. J. 39 (2010) (forthcoming).

“Capitalism, Communism … And Colonialism? A Critical Colonial Reading of ‘Transitology’ in the Former Soviet Union”, 9(1) Global Jurist (2009), with John D. Haskell (SOAS) (reproduced at <http://www.bepress.com/gj/vol9/iss2/art7/>).

IUC Independent Policy Report, At the End of the End of History – Global Legal Standards: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem, 9:3 Global Jurist (2009) (collectively written by IUC Global Legal Standards Research Group chaired by Judge Guido Calabresi).

Email: bmamlyuk@memphis.edu
Phone: (901) 678-2202
Office: Law 362