Law School Professor Will Transfer To New York

Joseph H.H. Weiler, a prominent professor at Harvard Law School

(HLS) will leave Cambridge for New York University (NYU) Law School at the end of this academic year.

A source familiar with NYU's offer said Weiler was lured away from Harvard by a lucrative financial package.

Weiler is Hudson Professor of Law and Monnet Chair and serves as co-director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute. He has also been active in the European Parliament, where he co-drafted the European Parliament's "Declaration of Human Rights and Freedoms."

Neither NYU's press officer nor Weiler could be reached for comment yesterday.

But Todd D. Rakoff '68, a colleague of Weiler's at the law school, said yesterday that Weiler "liked it here. There was no quarrel, no animosity [involved in his leaving]."

"[But] it is always hard to lose a good teacher," Rakoff added.

Rakoff said Weiler's departure was not part of a larger trend at the law school.

"In any group of 80 people, occasionally people will want to leave," Rakoff said.

Law school spokesperson Mike Armini, said that "Professor

Weiler's departure is mostly for personal reasons, and people shouldn't

read into it beyond that."

"Everyone at the law school is deeply greatful to Profesor Weiler for his contributions and we wish him well," Armini said.

Weiler has been a visiting professor at many universities, including the University of Chicago, Yale, Stanford and NYU and he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

At Harvard, Weiler is a Faculty Associate of the Center for International Affairs and of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies.

He is author of articles and books in the fields of international, comparative and European law and is involved with the publication of several international law journals.