Ruth Wedgwood, Director
Author of numerous articles on international law and organizations, as well as American policy in the Balkans, the use of force, operational problems of peacekeeping, international tribunals, post-conflict reconstruction and the constitutional foreign affairs power, published in the American Journal of International Law, Yale Law Journal, European Journal of International Law, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Die Zeit and International Herald Tribune. U.S. member, U.N. Human Rights Committee; member, Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee for International Law, the Defense Policy Board of the Department of Defense and the CIA Historical Review Panel. Independent expert for International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. U.S. public delegate to OSCE, Warsaw Human Dimension Meeting. Vice president of American Society of International Law and International Law Association’s American branch. Serves on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law, on the board of directors of Freedom House and as a member of the policy advisory group of the United Nations Association. Formerly Charles H. Stockton Professor at the U.S. Naval War College, professor of law at Yale Law School, director of studies at the Hague Academy for International Law in the Netherlands, visiting professor of law at University of Paris I (Sorbonne), member of the Hart-Rudman Commission, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and chairman of the committee on research for the American Society of International Law. Former chief of staff to the head of the criminal division in the Department of Justice and chaired the attorney general’s working group on FBI informant and undercover guidelines. Also served as federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Former executive editor of the Yale Law Journal and Supreme Court law clerk. Professor Wedgwood received her J.D. from Yale University. Adjunct Faculty Tomer Broude
Tomer Broude is Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Faculty of Law and Department of International Relations). His publications on WTO law and international law more generally include International Governance in the WTO: Judicial Boundaries and Political Capitulation (2004); The Shifting Allocation of Authority in International Law: Considering Sovereignty, Supremacy and Subsidiarity (2008, ed. With Yuval Shany), and articles and essays that have appeared in the Journal of World Trade, World Trade Review, Journal of International Economic Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, among other journals. He is currently Co-Chair of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, a member of the Founding Committee of the Society of International Economic Law and a member of the Committee on the Law of Sustainable Development of the International Law Association. He contributes regularly to the International Economic Law and Policy Blog. He is currently researching the implications of cognitive psychology for the design of international law; and an article on international labor migration as a collective action problem. Professor Broude is currently a Joel Davidow
Joel Davidow is a partner at Kile Goekjian Reed & McManu, PLLC. Following a long career with the US Government (Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Division), he has been in private practice since 1981 In addition, Mr. Davidow has been teaching at numerous universities and is currently teaching a course on US and Comparative Antitrust and Competition Law in addition to teaching at SAIS. He has written over fifty articles on antitrust, trade or IP topics, including articles on merger control, buyin cartels, Japanese competition, EU merger control and US Antitrusts Developments. He is author of "Antitrust Guide for International Business Activities" (BNA 3rd Ed. 2004). Mr. Davidow received his B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton Univeristy (1960) and his J.D. from Columbia Law School (1963). Mark Feldman
Mark Feldman practices international law and litigation with Garvey Schubert Barer and teaches foreign relations law at Georgetown University Law Center as well as at SAIS. He served the State Department as Deputy and Acting Legal Adviser for many years working on such matters as international claims, maritime boundaries, political-military affairs, foreign corrupt practices and the protection of U.S. investment abroad. He helped draft the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 and the Cuba Hijacking Agreement, and negotiated the 1970 UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property. He was deeply involved in the Iran Hostage Crisis and was the principal draftsman of the Claims Settlement Agreement with Iran. He is familiar with foreign legal systems, extraterritorial application of U.S. law and international judicial assistance. In private practice, Mr. Feldman serves as a consultant and expert witness on U.S. export controls, foreign sovereign immunity, public international law, international arbitration, including political risk and NAFTA Chapter 11 cases, and other claims against foreign states and government agencies. Mr. Feldman graduated from Wesleyan University with High Honors and Harvard Law School magna cum laude. Back to Top Kenneth Hansen
Professor Hansen is a partner in the Project Finance Group of the law firm of Chadbourne & Parke, specializing in bilateral and multilateral trade and project financings in emerging markets. He was previously General Counsel of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, and Associate General Counsel for Investment of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). He has taught economics at Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Harvard, and has taught law at Georgetown, Boston University and George Washington law schools. He received an M.A. from Yale, an M.P.A. from Harvard, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Back to Top Daoud Khairallah
Professor Khairallah is a member of the Middle East practice group of the law firm of White & Case, where he advises financial institutions, governments and commercial enterprises in connection with project financing, equity investments and international dispute resolution involving the Arab world. He was previously Deputy General Counsel at the World Bank, and worked in private legal practice in Lebanon. He also lectured in international law at the Lebanese University and the International Law Institute, and has taught at Georgetown law school. He received a Licence en Droit from the Lebanese University, and an M.C.L., LL.M. and Doctorate of Law from the University of Michigan. Back to Top Daniel Magraw
Daniel Magraw is Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). Located in Washington, DC, CIEL is a public interest law organization founded in 1989 to use principles of ecology and justice to strengthen international environmental law and protect the global environment and human health. In addition to being CIEL’s chief executive officer, he works on various substantive projects, including participating on the National Academy of Sciences Committee analyzing the biological confinement of genetically engineered organisms and the Trade and Environment Advisory Committee to the United States Trade Representative. From 1992-2001, Mr. Magraw was Director of the International Environmental Law Office at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. During that period, he served on scores of United States delegations to international negotiations and other meetings. He took leave to co-chair a White House assessment of how the United States regulates genetically engineered organisms (5/00-1/01) and to be the Acting Principal Deputy Administrator of the Office of International Activities at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (he was appointed to head that office after its previous officials had been accused of allowing it to become a hostile workplace towards women and minorities, until another person was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to head the office) (1/01-8/01). From 1983-92, he was Professor of International Law at the University of Colorado, where he taught Public International Law, International Environmental Law, International Business Transactions, and International Development Policy and the Law. He was a Visiting Scientist during 1989-90 at the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado. Mr. Magraw has a J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley (1976), where he was Editor-in-Chief of the California Law Review, and a B.A. in Economics (with high honors) from Harvard University (1968). He worked as an economist and business consultant in India with the Peace Corps (1968-72). He practiced international law, constitutional law, and bankruptcy law at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC from 1978-83, during which time he spent six months practicing poverty law at the Neighborhood Legal Services Program. Among other professional activities, he has been Chair of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and Practice, a member of the American Law Institute, a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Environmental Law, and a member of the U.S. Department of State's Study Group on International Business Transactions. He also was the Rapporteur for the American Society of International Law's Panel on State Responsibility, the Rapporteur on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution for the International Law Association, and on the Roster of Experts of the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations. Mr. Magraw has lectured in the United States and abroad on a variety of international law topics, ranging from the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice to international environmental law to nuclear war to international business law. He has written articles and books on many international law subjects; his most recent publications include a course book on international environmental law and books on the US-Iran Claims Tribunal, women’s human rights, and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the environment. Back to Top Mohamed Mattar
LL.B, with honors, D.P.L., with honors, Alexandria University, Egypt, M.C.L, University of Miami; LL.M, with distinction, S.J.D. Tulane University. Professor Mattar is Co-Director of the Protection Project of the Foreign Policy Institute at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Previously he served as the legal advisor for the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates and the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia’s Cultural Mission to the United States. Professor Mattar has taught Comparative and Civil law at various Arab universities. He also taught Islamic law and Investment and Trade Laws of the Middle East at Georgetown Law Center and American University, Washington College of Law. Back to Top Ambassador Herbert Okun
Ambassador Okun has been the US Member of the UN International Narcotics Control Board since 1991. He was the founding Executive Director from 1990 to 1997 of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, a non-profit organization providing assistance to help establish free-market financial systems in former communist countries. He received a BA with great distinction from Stanford in History, and a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Harvard. He also attended the Hochschule für Politische Wissenschaft in Münich, Germany, and is a graduate of the US Naval War College. From 1955 to 1991, he served in the US Foreign Service. He served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, Political Advisor to NATO, and was Vice Chairman of the US SALT II delegation and of the delegation to the Soviet Union and Great Britain on a Comprehensive Test Ban. From 1980 to 1983, he was US Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic, and from 1985 to 1989 was Deputy Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the United Nations. From 1991 to 1993, Ambassador Okun was Special Advisor on Yugoslavia to former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, and Deputy Co-Chairman of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia. From 1993 to 1997, he was a mediator of the Greek-Macedonia dispute. Ambassador Okun was awarded the Presidential Meritorious Service Award in 1983. Back to Top Amy Porges
Amelia Porges draws on her 20 years of experience with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to advise businesses, trade associations and governments on the use of WTO, NAFTA and other trade rules to solve market access problems and resolve disputes. As the Senior Counsel for Dispute Settlement and head of enforcement at USTR, Ms. Porges guided U.S. WTO litigation efforts in over 120 government-to-government disputes, negotiated on reform of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Understanding, and provided guidance on GATT and WTO law. Earlier in her career, Ms. Porges served as USTR's Director for antidumping and subsidies policy and was USTR's lawyer for government procurement, technical standards and trade negotiations with Japan. During the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, Ms. Porges served as Senior Legal Officer and Counsellor for Legal Affairs at the GATT Secretariat in Geneva, advising on trade disputes and negotiations. She has argued cases for the United States in the GATT and WTO, drafted trade agreements, negotiated and advised on U.S. trade legislation, and advised in many bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations. Ms. Porges has taught trade law at Sophia University in Tokyo and currently teaches WTO law at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She was principal author of the leading current work on GATT law, the Guide to GATT Law and Practice published by the WTO. Ms. Porges is fluent in French and Japanese. Ms. Porges serves on the International Trade Steering Committee of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and Practice, and co-chairs the ABA-sponsored annual International Trade Update program at Georgetown University. She also serves on the U.S. Roster of dispute settlement panelists for disputes under Chapter 19 of NAFTA. She is a member of the Trade Policy Forum, and of the Editorial Advisory Board for International Environmental Law Reports. She is Corresponding Editor (GATT/WTO) for International Legal Materials. She also served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and the Steering Committee of the District of Columbia Bar Association, and co-chaired the D.C. Bar’s International Trade Committee. ARTICLES/BOOKS
Guide to GATT Law and Practice (Analytical Index of the GATT): final edition updated to 1995, 1220 pp., pub. in French as Guide des Pratiques et Normes du GATT (Index Analytique), 1252 p., and in Spanish as Guía de las Normas y Usos del GATT (Indice Analítico), 1276 p. (WTO, 1995) "Performance of the System: Consultations & Deterrence," 32 Int’l Lawyer (1998) "The Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization", in WTO, The World Trade Organization: Multilateral Trade Framework For The 21st Century And U.S. Implementing Legislation (ABA, 1996) The New Dispute Settlement: from the GATT to the WTO, 8 Leiden J. Int’l Law (1995) Notes on the Final Act of the Uruguay Round , 33 International Legal Materials 1125 (1994 ) "U.S.-Japan Trade Negotiations: Paradigms Lost," in Krugman, ed. Trade With Japan Has The Door Opened Wider (NBER/U. of Chicago Press, 1994) "Beef and Citrus in Japan," in Bayard and Elliott, Reciprocity And Retaliation In U. S. Trade Policy (Institute For International Economics, 1994) Back to Top Steven Schneebaum
Professor Schneebaum is a partner with the law firm of Patton Boggs. He is a member of the firms' business law practice group, concentrating in dispute resolution, international law and trade, and the laws of the European Union. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Law Students Association, which is the sponsor of the Jessup International Law Moot Court competition, and Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University Law School. He has also taught at American University and Catholic University law schools. He has published extensively on international law topics. He received an M.C.L. from George Washington law school and an M.A. from Oberlin. Back to Top David Stewart
Professor Stewart is the Assistant Legal Adviser for Diplomatic Law and Litigation in the Office of the Legal Adviser in the U.S. State Department. Since Joining the State Department in 1976, he has served as Assistant Legal Adviser for Human Rights and Refugees, for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, for International Claims and Investment Disputes, and for African Affairs. He has taught at Georgetown, George Washington and the University of Virginia law schools. He has published a number of articles in various areas of international law, is co-author of the Nutshell on International Human Rights Law and co-editor of the current Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law. He recently published a major study of whether international economic and social rights should be enforced through an international complaints mechanism, in the American Journal of International Law. He also serves as a vice-president of the International Law Association, American Branch. He has been elected by the countries of the Organization of American States to the Inter-American Juridical Committee. The Committee, headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, advises the OAS on the development and codification of international law norms, and the harmonization of the domestic law of Western Hemisphere countries. Prof. Stewart received a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.A. in International Relations from Yale Graduate School, and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University, and an M.A. in International Relations from Yale. Back to Top Marcia Wiss
Ms. Wiss is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., and a member of the firm's Corporate, Securities and Finance and Project and International Finance Groups. Her practice concentrates on international project finance and business transactions, with a particular focus on the financial structuring of international projects in emerging markets. Ms. Wiss has been the lead counsel on numerous projects financed by the U.S. Export Import Bank, Overseas Private Investment Corporation and International Finance Corporation as well as commercial banks and the capital markets. She has represented clients in international business transactions on the Indian Subcontinent, Latin America, the Far East, the Caribbean, Africa, Eastern and Central Europe, and the Middle East. She represented the borrower in the aircraft acquisition financing and securitization transaction in India awarded the "Deal of the Year 2001" by Trade Finance Magazine. She has taught a course on international project finance and investment at Georgetown University Law Center for the past fifteen years, and is currently teaching a class on international investment law at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She served as vice president of the American Society of International Law, president of the Washington Foreign Law Society and received the annual community service award from the International Section of the D.C. Bar Association. Ms. Wiss received her B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an editor of Law & Policy in International Business.
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