Rafael Porrata Doria

Académico Correspondiente

Académico Correspondiente

Academia Puertorriqueña de Jurisprudencia y Legislación

EMPLOYMENT

  • TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Philadelphia, PA   [l983-Present]
  • LUISS GUIDO CARLI UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF JURISPRUDENCE, Rome, Italy   [May 2013, May 2014, May 2016, May 2018]
  • INTER-AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO-SCHOOL OF LAW Hato Rey, PR   [August 2011]
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROME-TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL,  Summer Session Abroad,   [Summer 1984, 2010]
  • RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL-CAMDEN, Camden, NJ   [January-May 1993]
  • UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHARTON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, LAUDER INSTITUTE OF
    INTERNATIONAL  MANAGEMENT, Philadelphia, PA   [Fall 1991, 1993, 1995]
  • UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS-TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, Summer Session Abroad,   [Summer 1987-89]
  • UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF LAW, Río Piedras, PR   [Summer 1986,1999]
  • VALDES-FAULI, RICHARDSON & COBB, Miami, FL   [l982-l983]
  • DILWORTH, PAXSON, KALISH & KAUFFMAN, Philadelphia, PA   [l977-l982]
  • MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS, Philadelphia, PA and Washington,   D.C.   [Summer 1976]
  • O’NEILL & BORGES, Hato Rey, PR   [Summer l975, Summer 1976]

Consultant

  • AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE, Philadelphia, PA   [l993-2003]
  • SENATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, LAW & JUSTICE COMMITTEE, Harrisburg, PA   [l985-l987]
  • INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT (WORLD BANK), Washington, DC    [1995-1998]
  • AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION   [1983-Present]
  • FINANCIAL INDUSTRY REGULATORY AUTHORITY.   [1985-Present]

ADMISSION TO THE BAR

  • Pennsylvania- 1977
  • Puerto Rico- 1977
  • Florida- 1982
  • New York-1984

EDUCATION

  • YALE LAW SCHOOL, New Haven, CT. Juris Doctor, (1977).
  • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, PA. Master of Arts in Political Science (1974).
  • COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, PA. Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, (1974). Majors: Political Science and History.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • MERCOSUR: The Common Market of the Southern Cone, Carolina Academic Press (2005)
    Awarded Second Prize, Best Book of the Year Competition, Inter-American Bar Association, El Salvador (2006)
  • Política Sobre La Competencia en MERCOSUR, (with  Rowat and Lubrano) World Bank Technical Paper No. 385 (Spanish Version) (1998).
  • Competition Policy and MERCOSUR, (with Rowat and Lubrano) World Bank Technical Papers #385 (1997)

Book Chapters

  • ‘Action to Declare Non-Compliance: Court of Justice of the Andean Community of Nations’ in Max Planck Encyclopaedia of International Procedural Law (2021)
  • ‘Nullity Action: Court of Justice of the Andean Community of Nations’ in Max Planck Encyclopaedia Of International Procedural Law (2019)
  • ‘Theories of Economic Development” in Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law (2018)
  • ‘Bush v. Gore’ in Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (2016)
  • ‘Andean Community,’(Update) in Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law. (2012)
  • ‘Andean Community Court of Justice’(Update) in Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law. (2012)
  • ‘Andean Community,’ in Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law. (2007)
  • ‘Andean Community Court of Justice’ in Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law. (2007)
  • ‘United States Regulation of International Trade: Selected Topics’ in Introduction to International Business Law: Legal Transactions in a Global Economy (Oceana) (1996)

Articles

  • ‘ALBA and UNASUE: Back to the Future?’20 Santa Clara Journal of International Law, (Vol.2)1 (2022).
  • ‘Resolving the Crowdfunding Conundrum: The Experience of the United States and Spain,9 American University Business Law Journal (Vol.2)219(2020).
  • Institutionalist and Populist Court Systems: A Comparative Assessment’, XVI Revista Académica de la Academia Puertorriqueña de Jurisprudencia y Legislación (2020).
  • ‘The Lawyer as Historian: Henry Richardson and The Origins of African-American Interests in International Law’ Temple International & Comparative Law Journal (2017)
  • ‘Book Review: Guido Calabresi’s The Future of Law and Economics’ 2 Italian Law Review 102 (2016)
  • ‘MERCOSUR at Twenty: From Adolescence to Adulthood?’ 27 Temple International & Comparative Law Journal 1 (2013)
  • ‘Economic Paradigms and Latin American Development Theory: The Search for Nirvana’17 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 51(2006)
  • ‘The Geneva Conventions and their Applicability to the ‘War on Terror’ 14 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 101 (2006)
  • ‘MERCOSUR: The Common Market of the Twenty-First Century?’32 Georgia International & Comparative Law Journal 1 (2004)
  • ‘John M. Lindsey, Professor Emeritus, 1932-1998’12 Temple International & Comparative Law Journal 1 (1998)
  • ‘The Gulf War and United Nations Actions with Respect    to Breaches of the Peace: Achieving the New World Order’ 11 Wisconsin International Law Journal 259(November 1994)
  • ‘Privatization of Public Enterprises in Latin America,’ (With Wegen) American Society of International Law Proc. 124 (1993)
  • ‘The Philippine Bases and Status of Forces Agreement: Lessons for the Future’ 137 Military Law Review 67 (1992)
  • ‘Estados Unidos: La Experiencia y Nuevas Tendencias Sobre El Arbitraje y los Métodos Alternos Para la Resolución de Controversias’ Seminario Arbitraje Comercial y Métodos Alternos para la Resolución de Controversias La Paz, Bolivia (1990)
  • ‘The Restructuring of the Relationship between Shareholders and the Corporate Entity: Reflections on Berle and Means’ 94 Dickinson Law Review 99 (1989)
  • ‘The New Pennsylvania Corporation Law-A Horse Designed by Committee’ 59 Temple Law Quarterly 437 (1986)
  • ‘Amending the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977: Repeating the Mistakes of the Past?’  38 Rutgers Law Review 29 (1985)

Other Publications

  • American Law Institute, Transnational Insolvency: Cooperation among the NAFTA Countries.
  • International Statement of United States Bankruptcy Law
  • International Statement of Canadian Bankruptcy Law
    Editor of Spanish Editions