NEW YORK, NY, March 22, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world' s premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to name John Attanasio a Lifetime Achiever. An accomplished listee, John Attanasio celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Supported by nearly 40 years of industry experience, Attanasio is a lawyer, author, educator, and administrator. He is President of the International Academic Institute of Process and Procedure, a 501(c)(3) corporation focused on international legal education. Institute members include: a former Director-General of the German Chancellor's Office, a Justice on one the preeminent highest Courts, and a former President of the American Bar Association. Members have achieved national and international acclaim. Collectively, Institute members have vast experience in training judges, legislators, government officials, and lawyers from over 100 countries.
As an attorney, Attanasio has advised courts, legislatures, ministers, and constitutional commissions on democracy, economics, and rule of law for over 30 years. He also has mediated sensitive international disputes.
He has served as Director of the Rule of Law Forum. Under the State Department, the Forum brought 12 high-ranking delegations to the United States from various countries including Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, China, Brunei, Kyrgyz Republic, Oman, Bahrain, and Afghanistan. The delegations met with U.S. Supreme Court Justices, Senators, Attorneys General, USTRs, and Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the NYSE, NASDAQ, and Federal Reserve Banks, among many other top American leaders.
He organized or co-organized seven Summits between the U.S. Supreme Court and other highest courts including those of Europe, Russia, and Germany. Ten different U.S. Supreme Court Justices participated in at least one; some in all seven. He also moderated a panel for an eighth Summit.
A prolific author, his 2018 book, Politics and Capital: Auctioning the American Dream is published by Oxford University Press. The book jacket includes testimonials by renowned philosopher Michael Walzer and eminent law professors from NYU and Yale. It is also featured on OUP SoundCloud podcast.
Attanasio has recently co-authored essays widely-published in prominent newspapers and websites with faculty from NYU and Yale Law Schools. He has co-authored two books with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and many editions of Constitutional Law casebooks and treatises with LexisNexis. Co-authors included the Dean, a renowned comparative constitutionalist from NYU Law School, and two Rhodes Scholars. He has published numerous articles in premier law reviews. His writing and teaching focuses on constitutional law, litigation and dispute resolution, law and philosophy, comparative law, law and religion, and law and economics.
As a professor, he has team taught courses with three different Justices of the South African Constitutional Court; a Justice of the European Court of Justice; and an Estonian Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. He has lectured in over 30 countries, and to many highest Court Justices, Ministers, Ambassadors, CEOs, and MPs.
In 1990, he was the first Fulbright Lecturer to teach courses in American constitutional law in the Soviet Union. He helped to draft the founding documents of the Appellate Judges Educational Institute, now at Duke, and proposed their annual appellate summits. He held the Regan Chair at Notre Dame and the Judge Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law at SMU. He was distinguished visiting fellow at New York University Law School.
As an administrator, he has served as dean of SLU Law School, where he was the youngest law school dean in the U.S., and for three terms as dean of SMU Law School where he was the inaugural Judge Noel Dean. He served as director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and as Chair of the Institute for Civil and Human Rights at Notre Dame University. He has raised over $125 million. He chaired the ABA's Out-of-the-Box Committee on the Future of Legal Education.
A respected voice in the industry, Mr. Attanasio has been a leader in his community. He is a member of the Maryland and U.S. Supreme Court bars, the American Law Institute, and a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation among other organizations.
Attanasio holds an LL.M from Yale University; a Dipl. in Law from Oxford University (a one-year thesis examined by a viva committee); a J.D. from New York University, and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.
He has received many awards. In Winter 2014, the SMU Law Review published an issue entitled Celebration of the Rule of Law: A Tribute to John Attanasio. It features eleven articles including articles by a former U.S. Supreme Court Justice and two Justices of the European Court of Justice, and a dedication by Judge Guido Calabresi, former Dean, and Sterling Professor of Yale Law School. Attanasio has been featured in numerous volumes of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Who's Who in the Midwest, and Who's Who in American Law. In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, John Attanasio has been featured on the Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievers website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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