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Institute of International Economic Law ruler

Who We Are

IIEL Director

John H. Jackson, University Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Professor Jackson joined the Georgetown Faculty after a distinguished career as Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.  He has advised the United States and other governments and international organizations on international trade law and in 1973 and 1974, Professor Jackson was General Counsel of the Office of the US Trade Representative.

Professor Jackson has received numerous awards and commendations in recognition of his scholarship.  In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of international law, in April 2008, Professor Jackson was presented the Manley O. Hudson Medal by the American Society of International Law.  Established in 1956, the Manley O. Hudson Medal is awarded on an occasional basis for “pre-eminent scholarship and achievement in international law.”  In October 2008, Professor Jackson was awarded an honorary degree from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.  In June 2003, Professor Jackson was awarded the honorary degree, Doctor Juris Honoris Causa, by Hamburg University Faculty of Law.  Also in June 2003, he was appointed by WTO Director-General, Dr. Supachai Panitchpadki, to the WTO Consultative Board, composed of eight “eminent persons,” and chaired by Peter Sutherland, Dr. Supachai’s predecessor.  The Board released a report, “The Future of the WTO:  Addressing Institutional Challenges in the New Millennium,” in January 2005.

Professor Jackson regularly lectures within the United States and abroad.  In September 2008, he led a Georgetown Law faculty delegation to Seoul, Korea, where activities included serving as the keynote speaker at a seminar on Global Trade & Transnational Economic Issues – A Focus on Asia, jointly organized by Georgetown Law and the Korea International Trade Association, as well as speaking at a conference on the Present and Future of International Economic Law in Korea and the World, organized in his honor.  Professor Jackson has published widely in the area of international trade law.  Recent books include Sovereignty, the WTO, and Changing Fundamentals of International Law (2006), and The Jurisprudence of GATT and the WTO: Insights on Treaty Law and Economic Relations (2000).

 

IIEL Deputy Director

A. Jane Bradley, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Prior to joining Georgetown Law, Professor Bradley served in the Executive Office of the President of the United States for more than twenty years, primarily in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR).  She began her career at USTR in 1981 as a White House Fellow, after four years in private law practice.  While at USTR, Ms. Bradley was the lead U.S. negotiator on the agreement that created the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement procedures, and the chief U.S. lawyer for the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations.  She held various senior positions at USTR, including Deputy General Counsel, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Dispute Resolution, Legal Advisor to the USTR delegation in Geneva, and Chair of the interagency “Section 301” Committee.  After the creation of the WTO in 1995, she was tapped to establish and head a new office of Monitoring and Enforcement at USTR, to oversee litigation of trade disputes under the WTO and other trade agreements.  She was appointed as the first Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Monitoring and Enforcement in 1996, and served in that position until her retirement from government service in 2002.

 

IIEL Senior Fellow and Program Officer

Academy of WTO Law and Policy

Christine Q. Washington, J.D.

Ms. Washington previously was Director of Professional Development in the Law Center Office of Graduate Programs.  Prior to joining the Law Center in 2002, she spent four years in private practice.  Associated with the Washington, DC offices of Wiley, Rein & Fielding and Pepper Hamilton, she counseled clients in the areas of export controls, international trade and international telecommunications.  She earned her J.D. cum laude from American University, Washington College of Law, and her B.S. from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.  During law school, she clerked for the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State.  Before obtaining her law degree, Ms. Washington worked in the Client Development & Communications Department of the Washington, DC office of Shaw Pittman.  She also served as a speechwriter to former Egyptian First Lady Jehan Sadat and organized conflict management colloquia throughout the Middle East on behalf of non-profit and educational organizations. 

 

IIEL Research and Program Assistants

Christophe Larouer, Coordinator, IIEL Fellows Weekly Luncheon Seminar

Mr. Larouer is an S.J.D. candidate and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law.  He received his LL.M. in International Legal Studies with distinction from Georgetown Law in 2005.  The same year he also earned the WTO Certificate from the Institute of International Economic Law.  Mr. Larouer is a language and culture instructor at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State.  He also writes and edits legal documents and speeches in French/English for Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Prior to working in the U.S., he practiced with Deprez-Dian-Guignot & Associés in Paris, France, where he focused on intellectual property law and litigated before the World Intellectual Property Organization.  Mr. Larouer is admitted to the New York Bar.  His legal scholarship is in the area of international economic law and European law. In addition to his dissertation on international regulations and the WTO, Mr. Larouer is working on several publications on treaty interpretation and European environmental law.  He recently published WTO Non-Violation Complaints: A Misunderstood Remedy in the WTO Dispute Settlement System, 53 (1) Netherlands Intl. L. Rev. 97-126 (2006) Cambridge University Press.

 

Renato Gomes, Coordinator, IIEL Fellows Weekly Research Workshop

Mr. Gomes is an S.J.D. candidate at Georgetown Law.  He holds an LL.M. in International Business Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor of Laws from Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.  He is a member of the Bar in Brazil and Portugal, and in 2006 he worked as legal officer at the United Nations Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo in Vienna.  Prior to that he worked for Vortex International Businesses in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, consulting on trade-related issues.  In 2004 he was on the winning team in the final oral round of the ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law in Geneva, and he won the Best Oralist award in the United Kingdom’s national round of that competition.  He also won Best Oralist awards in the Brazilian rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in 2003, 2002 and 2001, and was on the winning team in 2003.  He spent the 2005-2006 academic year at the University of Helsinki, working toward a LL.Lic.

 

JIEL Editorial Assistants

Michelle Grando

Ms. Grando received her S.J.D. in November 2008 from the University of Toronto, where she wrote her dissertation on fact-finding in WTO dispute settlement.  She spent the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 academic years at Georgetown Law as the Editorial Assistant for the Journal of International Economic Law and as a Visiting IIEL Fellow.  In Summer 2005, she held a traineeship in the Legal Service of the European Commission in Brussels.  In 2003 she was a Legal Affairs Officer and Trainee in the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat and the Rules Division at the WTO.  Ms. Grando holds a Master of Laws from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Laws from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. 

Edna Ramirez Robles

Ms. Ramirez is a PhD candidate at the Instituto Ortega y Gasset of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, earning a D.E.A. in European Law.  A Mexican lawyer, she obtained her law degree from the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico.  Prior to coming to Georgetown Law in January 2008, she was a Visiting Scholar and Fellow at the WTO and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, respectively.  As an intern at the European Commission (DG Trade Dispute Settlement Unit), WTO Legal Affairs Division, and Mexican Permanent Mission to the WTO, she has assisted lawyers with WTO disputes. Ms. Ramirez has served as a judge at the ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law and as a Guest Lecturer at the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (Masters in European Law, WTO Law module).  She has presented and published in her research area, which is focused on flexible dispute settlement provisions in WTO and EU Free Trade Agreements.  Ms. Ramirez is at Georgetown Law as a Visiting Researcher and she serves as Editorial Assistant for the Journal of International Economic Law, edited by Professor John H. Jackson.