With Harvard B.A. (1970) and University of Michigan J.D. (1975). Reitz is currently the Edward L. Carmody Professor of  Law and Director of the Masters (LLM) and Doctoral (SJD) Degree Programs at the College of Law and the Director of the Visiting Scholars Program. At Iowa since 1983 (full professor since 1988), Reitz teaches comparative law, introduction to U.S. law for foreign-trained lawyers, and administrative law and focuses his scholarship especially on (1) the way in which differences in countries’ political economies are correlated with differences in their legal systems, (2) the development of the rule of law, especially after communism or other authoritarian forms of government, and (3) comparative administrative law.  Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law; Past President of American Society of Comparative Law, 2010-2012.  Permanent Visiting Professor, Zhejiang University Law School in Hangzhou, China (since 2008); Visiting Professor, Universities of Muenster (1994) and Freiburg (1996), Germany; and the Victoria University in Wellington (2002), New Zealand.   Has lectured on U.S. and comparative law topics in China, Hungary, India, Nigeria, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Vietnam.