Name: JUTTA BIRMELE

Rank: Professor

Education:
Ph.D. in History, Claremont Graduate University
Juristisches Staatsexamen (J.D. equiv.) Freie Universität Berlin
M.A. German Literature, San Francisco State University

Contact Information:
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH
1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA. 90840
Tel. 562-985-4630 Fax 562-985-2406 email: jbirmele@csulb.edu

Research and Teaching Interests:
19th & 20th Century German Intellectual History
European Unification
Comparative Legal History, Comparative Constitutional Stdies

Selected Publications:
The Status of Staatsbürger is Gaining New Content in Germany. ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, July 22-27, 2002. Published on CD.
The Sanctions against Austria in the U.S. Press. Österreicht in der Europäischen Union, ed. Michael Gehler, Anton Pelinka, Günter Bischof, Vienna 2003, 479-486.
On the Threshold of the Adoption of Global Antibribery Legislation: A Critical Analysis of Current Domestic and International Efforts Toward the Reduction of Business Corruption. Co-authored with Barbara Crutchfield George, Kathleen A. Lacey. Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Jan. 1999, 1-48.
Ivan Bloch' Influence Among the German Anti-War Dissidents. In: The Future of War. Foundation for War Studies ed. Gwyn Prins, Hylke Tromp. Kluwer Law International, The Hague, Boston, London, 2000.
The Dilemma of the European Union: Balancing the Power of the Supranational EU Entity Against the Sovereignty of its Independent Member Nations. Co-authored with Barbara Crutchfield George and Paul L. Frantz. Pace International Law Review. Vol IX (1997), 111-146.
The 1998 OECD Convention: An Impetus for Worldwide Changes in Attitudes toward Corruption in Business Transactions. Co-authored with Barbara Crutchfield George and Kathleen A. Lacey. American Business Law Journal, Spring 2000, 485-525.
Book Review Article: David Armitage, ed. Theories of Empire, 1450-1800. An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450-1800, vol. 20 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998). P.J. Marshall, ed. The Eighteenth Century. The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2 (Oxford University Press, 1998). Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 33 (4) 2000, 605-607.
Across the Borders of Disciplines: Switzerland in Focus. Co-authored with Clorinda Donato. Creative Teaching/ACT 3, ed. Hans E. Klein, Boston 2000, 139-146.
A Call for New Approaches to German Colonial History. Modern Europe. Histories and Identities, eds. Peter Monteath, Frederic S. Zuckerman. Australian Humanities Press. Australia, 1998.

Awards and Honors:
Bundesverdienstkreuz (German Cross of Merit) 1993
Edward Blankenship Award 1992
4 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Awards
4 Scholarly and Creative Activities Awards at CSULB
Elected President of Friends of Goethe (non-profit organization)

Conference Presentations:
DuBois in Berlin. Opening Lecture for Black History Month in Heidelberg German-American Institute, February 1995.
The Role of Transparency International and Other Non-Governmental Organizations in Developing Initiatives to Counter Global Corruption. Co-authored with B.C. George and K.A. Lacey, presented at the Southwestern Federation of Academic Disciplines, San Antonio, Texas, March 2000.
Lecture on the German Bundestag Online Forum at the University of Freiburg, Switzerland, Jan. 2000.
United Germany Today, intensive workshop, June 5-9, 2000 at Qingdao University, German Studies Department, China.
The State of the European Union. Intensive workshop, June 12-16, 2000, Department of Finance, Qingdao University, China.
The Euro, economic and political background and implication for Europe's trade partners. Tsingtao Brewery, Qingdao, China, June 8, 2000.
The US Perspectives on the OECD Convention and the Process of Implementation. Co-authored with Barbara Crutchfield George and Kathleen A. Lacey, presented at The 9th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) October 1999 in Durban, South Africa.
An End in Sight to the Decline of French and German in U.S. Higher Education?
Presented at: Globalisation, Foreign Languages and Intercultural Learning, organized by Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) on Feb. 9 & 10, 2001 in London, UK (to be published).
Rolle der Medien in der multikulturellen Gesellschaft, Forum Ost-West, Berne, Switzerland, Aug. 23-30, 2002.
A Community of Outsiders: The FL Learner and the Voices of Minorities in the Culture of the Target Language. The German Case. 30th Annual Research Symposium. Royal Irish Academy. 7 & 8, 2003, Dublin, Ireland.

Courses Taught:
CLA 314 I & 315 I
GERM 301 & 302, 401, 410, 416, 480, 510, 511, 559B, 590.

Work in Progress:
The Evolution of the German Individual as Carrier of Rights in the
Jurisprudence of the Federal Constitutional Court. To be presented at ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas), IX. International Conference, August 2004 in Spain.

Biting the Hand That Feeds You: The Gamble of Whistleblowers in Germany. Manuscript for publication.