Corporate partner Patrick L. Ferriere has just returned from Maribor, Slovenia, where he lectured on business organizations in the United States to third year law students at the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor.  The students in Maribor were keen and motivated.

Patrick's lectures, as a Visiting Professor of Law during the Spring Term, covered the different forms of business entities used in the United States, their attributes, and the reasons for using one form rather than another for particular transactions, as well as issues relating to fiduciary duties.  Patrick's long experience in counseling non-US clients doing business in the United States and his knowledge of the laws governing business organizations in civil law  as well as common law jurisdictions enabled him to compare and contrast the two systems and to provide concrete, "real-world" examples to illustrate the points made in his lectures. This was particularly useful in a country which does not have a long-standing experience in liberal economic legal principles.

Patrick's Visiting Professorship was sponsored by the Centre for International Legal Studies.