Teaching Staff
Prof. Alan Miller is Professor at Western Law and Canada Research Chair in Law and Economics. His primary teaching interests are in corporate law and law and economics; his research has spanned several additional fields, including contract, tort, property, antitrust, patent, and election law. His work has appeared in journals in law, economics, and political science, including the New York University Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, Theoretical Economics, and the Journal of Economic Theory. In 2018, he was co-awarded the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship for his work with Michal Gal. Currently, he serves as an associate editor of the interdisciplinary journal Mathematical Social Sciences.
Prof. Roberto Giacobazzi received a PhD in Computer Science (CS) in 1993 from the University of Pisa. From 1993 to 1995, he was PostDoc at the Ecole Polytechnique in the equipe of Patrick and Radhia Cousot. Back to the University of Pisa as Assistant Professor in 1995, he moved to the University of Verona as Associate Professor in 1998. From May 2000 to Sept. 2023 he was Full Professor in CS at the University of Verona where he served as Provost for Education (2001–2004), Provost for Research (2004–2006 and 2022), Dean of the College of Science & Technology (2006–2012), and Head of the CS Department (2019–2021). From 2016 to 2023 he was Affiliate Faculty at the IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid (Spain) with a Cátedra de Excelencia of the Comunidad de Madrid, awarded in 2017. From October 2023 he is Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Arizona. His research interests include abstract interpretation, program analysis and verification, semantics of programming languages, program transformation and optimization, security, computability, history of CS, and lattice theory. He was co-founder of JuliaSoft, now part of GrammaTech Inc., USA. General Chair of the 40th ACM POPL2013 and member of the steering committee of POPL until 2015 and of major conferences in program analysis and program verification, he was PI of international projects in the area of Programming Languages. He received the Microsoft Research Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) Award in 2013, the Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award in 2020, the Amazon Research Award (ARA) in 2021, and the WhatsApp Research Awards on Privacy Aware Program Analysis in 2022. He is ACM Distinguished Member since 2023.
Prof. David Clark is a moral, legal, and political philosopher, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, and a core faculty member in the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in 2023, where his dissertation was chaired by Jonathan Quong and Mark Schroeder. David’s current research focuses primarily on the ethics of preventing, distributing, punishing, and compensating for harm. He is particularly interested in understanding the mechanisms by which our moral rights against harm can be modified or suspended — and applying these insights to important social and political institutions, including war, policing, immigration, criminal law, tort law, and contract law.