Class Note 1952
Issue
A somewhat cryptic e-mail from Dan Gutterman noting that he had spent several weeks last spring lecturing on business law and related topics at the Innovative University of Eurasia in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, cried out for further inquiry, and in a subsequent exchange of e-mails and telephone conversations I learned that this trip had been Dan’s 16th excursion behind the former Iron Curtain since his retirement from the active practice of law in the early 1990s.
These visits, mostly to former Soviet Republics, but also including Albania and Hungary, were made under the auspices of the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Fulbright Program, U.S. non-governmental organizations promoting international cooperation and also occasionally by sponsorship of the country or institution visited. Dan has been visiting lecturer of business law at universities in Hungary, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan; commentator on drafts of the Russian Civil Code; legal advisor to the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Cooperation of Albania in free-market development and analysis of proposals for foreign investment into Albania; and advisor to the government of Ukraine in a pilot program to restructure collective farms. In several countries he has been a speaker and discussion leader in international business forums. He is a judge in international moot court competitions and in the New York City interscholastic moot court competition.
In his teaching (in English or in Russian, depending on the students’ language abilities) Dan seeks to familiarize the students with Western (i.e., free-market) legal concepts and practices, but his salient thrust is more general—to introduce his students to the analytical tools necessary to discern legal issues in situations they might later face, a universal skill he believes will aid them no matter what fields they might enter or what economic or political circumstances might prevail.
Dan may return to Pavlodar in 2011 or lecture at a university in Lviv, Ukraine. He and his wife, Sue, plan to take a 2011 vacation on the Black Sea.
—Dave Drexler, 1706 N. Park Dr., Apt. 8, Wilmington, DE 19806; (302) 428-0398; dave@drexler.com
Sept - Oct 2010
A somewhat cryptic e-mail from Dan Gutterman noting that he had spent several weeks last spring lecturing on business law and related topics at the Innovative University of Eurasia in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, cried out for further inquiry, and in a subsequent exchange of e-mails and telephone conversations I learned that this trip had been Dan’s 16th excursion behind the former Iron Curtain since his retirement from the active practice of law in the early 1990s.
These visits, mostly to former Soviet Republics, but also including Albania and Hungary, were made under the auspices of the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Fulbright Program, U.S. non-governmental organizations promoting international cooperation and also occasionally by sponsorship of the country or institution visited. Dan has been visiting lecturer of business law at universities in Hungary, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan; commentator on drafts of the Russian Civil Code; legal advisor to the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Cooperation of Albania in free-market development and analysis of proposals for foreign investment into Albania; and advisor to the government of Ukraine in a pilot program to restructure collective farms. In several countries he has been a speaker and discussion leader in international business forums. He is a judge in international moot court competitions and in the New York City interscholastic moot court competition.
In his teaching (in English or in Russian, depending on the students’ language abilities) Dan seeks to familiarize the students with Western (i.e., free-market) legal concepts and practices, but his salient thrust is more general—to introduce his students to the analytical tools necessary to discern legal issues in situations they might later face, a universal skill he believes will aid them no matter what fields they might enter or what economic or political circumstances might prevail.
Dan may return to Pavlodar in 2011 or lecture at a university in Lviv, Ukraine. He and his wife, Sue, plan to take a 2011 vacation on the Black Sea.
—Dave Drexler, 1706 N. Park Dr., Apt. 8, Wilmington, DE 19806; (302) 428-0398; dave@drexler.com