Stephen C. Sieberson

Biography

Professor Sieberson received a bachelor's degree from Calvin College in 1970, an M.A. from Bowling Green State University in 1973 and a J.D. with distinction from the University of Iowa in 1975. In law school he was a member of the Board of Editors of the Iowa Law Review and a Founding Editor of the Journal of Corporation Law. In 2007 he earned a Ph.D. in European law from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with his dissertation focusing on the constitutional development of the European Union.

After a federal court clerkship, Professor Sieberson practiced international business law for 25 years in Seattle, with two years as an in-house legal advisor at a major bank in the Netherlands. His practice involved international financing and other transactions in Europe, Asia and South America. From 1987 to 2003 he served as Honorary Consul of the Netherlands for the states of Washington, Idaho and Montana, including a 3-year period when he led Seattle's consular community as President of the Consular Association of Washington.

Before joining the Creighton law faculty, Professor Sieberson taught a variety of international and comparative law courses, at the universities of Washington, Oregon and Tennessee, at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and at the University of the Netherlands Antilles in Curaçao. He has also lectured or delivered conference papers in Indonesia, Italy, Portugal and the Czech Republic. During the 2004-2005 academic year he was a Fulbright Scholar serving as a Visiting Professor on the law faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. His research and writing focuses on federalism and democracy in the European Union.

In spring of 2008 Professor Sieberson had a book published in on the latest treaty developments in the European Union. An outgrowth of his doctoral work, the book is entitled "Dividing Lines between the European Union and Its Member States -- the Impact of the Treaty of Lisbon." The book's publisher is T.M.C. Asser Press of The Hague, and its distributor is Cambridge University Press of the United Kingdom.

Professor Sieberson was named the Outstanding Professor of the Year by the Law School's 2008 graduating class. At Creighton, he teaches Business Associations, International Law, Comparative Law, International Business Transactions, International Human Rights, International Trade Regulation, and Professional Responsibility.