2008-2009 IIEL FELLOWS

The Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) at Georgetown University Law Center is pleased to announce its 2008-2009 IIEL Fellows.  Each year, the IIEL invites a number of outstanding students, visiting scholars and visiting researchers to be IIEL Fellows.  This year's Fellows come from 16 different countries. (See biographies below.)  The goal of the IIEL Fellows Program is to encourage scholarly research in the field of international economic law and to create a forum for discussion of these issues. Fellows are involved in several activities, including a weekly luncheon speaker series, which attracts well-known scholars, current and former government officials, practitioners and other experts to discuss prominent issues in international economic law.

IIEL Distinguished Senior Fellows:  2008-2009

Mr. R. Michael GADBAW (USA), Visiting Researcher, Georgetown Law

Ms. Jennifer A. HILLMAN (USA), Member, WTO Appellate Body

IIEL Student Fellows:  2008-2009

Ms. Kristin BOHL (USA), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Mr. Luca BURMEISTER (Denmark), LL.M. Candidate, Georgetown Law

Ms. Katalin FRITZ (Hungary), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Mr. Renato Couto GOMES (Brazil), S.J.D. Candidate, Georgetown Law

Mr. Modest KWAPINSKI (USA/Poland), LL.M. Candidate, Georgetown Law

Mr. Christophe LAROUER (France), S.J.D. Candidate, Georgetown Law

Ms. Marianela LÓPEZ GALDOS (Spain), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Ms. Janet Wangu MAINA (Kenya), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Mr. Benn McGRADY (Australia), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Ms. Ahila SORNARAJAH (UK/Australia), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Mr. Hayato SUNAGA (Japan), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Mr. Reinout VAN TUYLL (Netherlands), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown

Mr. Mingliang WANG (China), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Ms. Gargi YADAV (India), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

IIEL Visiting Fellows:  2008-2009

Prof. Tomer BROUDE (Israel), Assistant Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ms. Michelle GRANDO (Brazil), S.J.D. candidate, University of Toronto

Prof. Liyu HAN (China), Associate Professor, Renmin University School of Law

Prof. Jiaxiang HU (China), Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Prof. Rafael LEAL-ARCAS (Spain), Lecturer, Queen Mary, University of London

Prof. Werner MENG (Germany), Professor, University of Saarbruecken

Ms. Edna RAMIREZ ROBLES (Mexico), PhD candidate, Universidad Complutense

Mr. Toyoki SHIBAYAMA (Japan). Visiting Researcher, Georgetown Law

Ms. Fei YU (China), Lecturer & Ph.D. candidate, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Prof. Lei ZHANG (China), Professor, Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade

Prof. Naigen ZHANG (China), Professor, Fudan University

Mr. Claus ZIMMERMANN (Germany), PhD candidate, University of Oxford

If you wish to contact any of the Fellows listed above, please send an email message to iiel@law.georgetown.edu.

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BIOGRAPHIES:  2008-2009 FELLOWS OF THE

INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW (IIEL)

IIEL Distinguished Senior Fellows:  2008-2009

R. Michael GADBAW (USA), Visiting Researcher, Georgetown Law

Gadbaw serves as Co-Chair of the US-China Legal Cooperation Fund, and he is a Board member of the National Bureau of Asia Research, Partners for Democratic Change, the World Affairs Council and the European Institute.  In February 2008, Mr. Gadbaw retired after seventeen years as Vice President and Senior Counsel for General Electric’s International Law & Policy group.  In that position, he was responsible for supporting the global operations of GE’s businesses, particularly in the areas of public policy, transaction advocacy, regulatory reform, global funding and compliance.  He served as Chairman of GE's International Practice Group and was the internal champion for GE policies on Improper Payments and International Trade Controls.  He continues to support GE’s corporate citizenship work and Public Policy Committee of the GE Foundation.  Mr. Gadbaw was founding Chairman of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy (1994-2008), Chairman of the US-Malaysia Business Committee of the US ASEAN Business Council, founding Chairman of the India Interest Group; a Trustee of the U.S. Council for International Business; and a member and former Chairman of the U.S.-Egypt Presidents’ Council.  Before joining GE, Mr. Gadbaw was in private practice (1980-1990), initially as a partner is Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand and then as a partner at Dewey Ballantine where he helped form that firm’s international trade group.   Mr. Gadbaw began his legal career as Counsel in the General Counsel’s office in the U.S. Treasury Department and later served as Assistant and then Deputy General Counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Jennifer A. HILLMAN (USA), Member, WTO Appellate Body

In December 2007, Jennifer Hillman was appointed as a member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization for a four-year term.  In March 2007, she completed nine years of service as a Commissioner on the U.S. International Trade Commission.  She was originally appointed to the Commission in 1998 by President Clinton, and from June 2002 to June 2004 she served as Vice Chairman of the Commission.  Prior to her appointment to the USITC, she served as General Counsel at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) from 1995-1997, and before that she served as USTR’s Chief Textile Negotiator with the rank of Ambassador.  Prior to joining USTR, Ambassador Hillman was the Legislative Director and Counsel to U.S. Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina, responsible for international trade and international finance issues. She began her professional career as an international trade attorney in the Washington firm of Patton, Boggs, LLP.   Ambassador Hillman taught at Georgetown Law as an adjunct professor from 2006-2008.

IIEL Student Fellows:  2008-2009

Kristin BOHL (USA), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Ms. Bohl earned her J.D. cum laude from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006.  As a member of the Wisconsin International Law Journal, she was awarded the Mary Kelly Quackenbush award for best student publication for her article on transitional justice in human rights.  She also participated in an exchange program with the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile.  During law school,  Ms. Bohl worked as a summer intern for Human Rights Watch and the Organization of American States, Commission on Human Rights.  Prior to starting the LL.M. program at Georgetown, she worked in the New York office of Thacher Proffitt & Wood in the Structured Finance department, representing various parties in public  and private offerings of securities.  While at Georgetown Law she is focusing her studies on issues of international trade and human rights.

Luca BURMEISTER (Denmark), LL.M. Candidate, Georgetown Law

Mr. Burmeister earned his law degree (LL.B. and LL.M) from the University of Copenhagen in 2007 focusing his final thesis on TRIPS-plus measures in U.S.bilateral Free Trade Agreements.  As part of an exchange programme in 2005,  Mr Burmeister spent one semester studying at the University of San Diego, and in 2006 he worked at the Danish Mission to the WTO in Geneva, where he engaged in negotiations of the Doha round as well as dispute settlement proceedings.  During his studies, Mr. Burmeister has also interned at the Competition Law section of the Law Firm Accura in Copenhagen.  Since graduating from law school he has worked as a legal advisor at the Danish Patent and Trademark Office.

Katalin FRITZ (Hungary), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Ms Fritz joined the European Commission’s Directorate General for Trade in 2005.  She has been in charge of development and implementation of certain aspects of the EC’s trade defence policy. Prior to taking up her duties at the EC, she worked in the corporate and project finance team of Allen & Overy LL.P’s office in Budapest, Hungary.  Ms Fritz studied at Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem in Budapest, Hungary. She also earned an LL.M degree on Magister Iuris Communis Program of Maastrich University, The Netherlands.

Renato Couto GOMES (Brazil), S.J.D. Candidate, Georgetown Law

Mr. Gomes is an S.J.D candidate (CAPES-Fulbright scholar) focusing on the democratic impacts of WTO rules in developing economies. He also serves as research assistant to Professor John H. Jackson and as director of the ABCI Institute (Brazilian International Trade Scholars).  Before coming to Georgetown he worked as legal officer for Nobel Peace laureate Martti Ahtisaari at the United Nations Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo in Vienna.  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 same competition.  Mr. Gomes 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.  Mr. Gomes holds an LL.M. from Georgetown University (Instituto Ling scholar), an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (Graduate Merit Award and AlBan scholar) 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.

Modest KWAPINSKI (USA/Poland), LL.M. Candidate, Georgetown Law

Modest Kwapinski received his JD cum laude from the University of Florida in 2006.  He currently works in the International Arbitration Group at White & Case, LLP in Washington, DC, where he has represented governments before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) at the World Bank.  Mr. Kwapinski has interned with the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia in the Hague, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and Justicia Para la Naturaleza, an environmental litigation N.G.O. in Costa Rica.  He has also studied law at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), the University of Leiden (Holland), the University of Costa Rica, and the University of Montpellier (France). 

Christophe LAROUER (France), S.J.D. Candidate, Georgetown Law
Mr. Larouer 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.

Marianela LÓPEZ GALDOS (Spain), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Mrs. López Galdos received her J.D. degree from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE) in Madrid, and holds a Master's degree of the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, where she specialized in European Competition & Trade Law.  Before starting the LL.M. program at Georgetown Law, Mrs. López Galdos worked as an attorney at Martinez-Lage & Asociados (Howrey LL.P.) and at Lovells LL.P., both in Madrid. Her professional experience also includes the publication of several articles on European Community Law.

Janet Wangu MAINA (Kenya), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Janet received her LLB from the University of Nairobi and a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law. She interned at Muriu, Mungai & Company Advocates in Nairobi. She later worked with the Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU), an NGO based in Nairobi, which provides legal and medical aid to victims and survivors of torture.  Prior to attending Georgetown, she worked as a Legal Officer with Victoria Commercial Bank Limited, Nairobi. Janet has particular interest in economic policies and their impact on human rights.  She is a member of the Kenyan bar and a Certified Public Accountant.

Benn McGRADY (Australia), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Benn is undertaking a Global Health Law Fellowship at Georgetown. He is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria (Australia) and has experience advising non-governmental organizations on questions of international law and policy, particularly in the fields of health and trade. Benn received BA and LLB degrees from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where he also recently submitted a PhD thesis (under examination) titled ‘Trade and Tobacco Control: The World Trade Organization and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’.

Ahila SORNARAJAH (UK and Australia), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Ahila received her degree (B.A and M.A in Law) from the University of Cambridge in 2000, and joined the English law firm, Lovells, in 2002 where she worked in both the London and Hong Kong offices. She represented the UK government as a consumer rights litigator for two and a half years from 2004, also representing government trustees on complex personal bankruptcy matters. She is currently on leave from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in London where she advised policy colleagues and Ministers on European Union Law relating to the Common Agricultural Policy, specifically animal disease outbreaks. During that time, Ahila drafted several rounds of legislation instituting export restrictions on England in the wake of the recent foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, and advised the government on the implementation of the Callaghan Review recommendations after it was found that the outbreak was likely to have been caused by the escape of the virus from a government regulated laboratory. She is a qualified solicitor of England & Wales.

Hayato SUNAGA (Japan), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law
Prior to attending Georgetown Law, Mr. Sunaga had served in the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) since 2000. He worked in the International Economic Affairs Bureau at Keidanren from 2000 to 2005, where he was in charge of trade and investment issues including WTO and Japan-US economic relations.  He also served at the Economic Policy Bureau from 2005 to 2008, dealing with legal affairs.  Mr. Sunaga earned his Bachelor of Law from the Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, where he studied International Law.

Reinout VAN TUYLL vanSerooskerken (Netherlands), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Since April 2005, Reinout van Tuyll has been an international trade analyst at Sidley Austin’s Geneva office and a member of the firm’s International Trade and Dispute Resolution Group, counseling governments and businesses on various stages of WTO dispute settlement.  During his studies in international and European Law at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, he interned at the Accessions Division of the WTO in Geneva, working on a wide variety of trade issues, and at Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch in Washington, D.C.

Mingliang WANG (China), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Mr. Wang earned his Bachelor degree from Hebei University of Technology. He earned his Juris Master degree from Peking University Law School.  As an undergraduate student, he won many English speaking contests as well as English debating contests.  At Peking University Law School, he majored in International Economic Law. He did an internship at the Joint Center for China-U.S Law and Policy Studies, headed by Jeffrey Lehman, former President of Cornell University. He was also in charge of press relations at the newly founded Peking University School of Transnational Law, which will provide the first American J.D style education in Mainland China. He is interested in international economic law, especially in WTO related areas.

Gargi YADAV (India), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law

Prior to attending Georgetown Law, Ms. Yadav was a student at National Law University, Jodhpur, where she opted for International Trade Law as her Honors Course, earning her B.A. LL.B. in 2008.  She researched on various International Trade and WTO related issues during her course of undergraduate studies, with special emphasis on developing countries’ perspectives.  Her research works include “Interface of WTO and Human Rights”; “Compulsory Licensing under TRIPS and Doha Declaration”; “GATS and Mode IV: Developing Country Perspective”; and “Transnational Corporations and Competition Laws”.  She has interned with the law firms of Thakker & Thakker Co. (Mumbai) and Little & Co. (Mumbai), and has served a Judicial Clerkship in the Bombay High Court.  Ms. Yadav has a special interest in promotion of primary education and to this end, has been an active member of NGO- Pratham, which deals with child welfare and education. 

IIEL Visiting Fellows:  2008-2009

Tomer BROUDE (Israel), Assistant Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

B.A. (Int. Rel.), LL.B., Hebrew University of Jerusalem; S.J.D., Toronto.  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.  Professor Broude is spending the 2008-2009 academic year at Georgetown Law as a Visiting Professor, teaching courses on international trade law.

Michelle GRANDO (Brazil), S.J.D. candidate, University of Toronto

Ms. Grando is an S.J.D. candidate at the University of Toronto, having focused her dissertation on fact-finding in WTO dispute settlement.  She has been at Georgetown Law since 2006 as an IIEL Visiting Fellow and has been serving as Editorial Assistant for the Journal of International Economic Law.  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 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.

Liyu HAN (China), Associate Professor, Renmin University School of Law

Jiaxiang HU (China), Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Jiaxiang Hu is Professor of Public International Law at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He holds a BA and MA from Hangzhou University; M Phil in Law from Zhejiang University; and PhD in Law from Edinburgh University.  Professor Hu is spending the 2008-2009 academic year at Georgetown Law as a Visiting Researcher.  His research interests include Public International Law, International Economic Law, and WTO Law.  Representative books and articles include The Role of International Law in the Development of WTO Law, 7 Journal of International Economic Law No.1, 2004; and WTO and Its Dispute Settlement Mechanism---From a Developing Country Perspective, Zhejiang University Press (2005). 

Rafael LEAL-ARCAS (Spain), Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary, University of London

Rafael Leal is a senior lecturer in international economic law and EU law at Queen Mary, University of London, where he acts as Deputy Director of Graduate Studies. He has been a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School, an Emile Noël Fellow at NYU School of Law, a Fellow at the Australian National University, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.  Rafael completed his graduate legal education at Stanford, Columbia, the London School of Economics, and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He has previously taught in India, Brazil, Austria, and Turkey. Rafael has acted as a consultant to the WTO's legal affairs division, has served in the U.S. Court of International Trade, and has clerked at the European Court of Justice as well as the Court of First Instance of the European Communities.  Rafael is the author of numerous publications on international trade law, international environmental law, and EU law, the most recent of which is the book Theory and Practice of EC External Trade Law and Policy (Cameron May, 2008). He is a qualified attorney in Madrid.  Professor Leal is spending the 2008-2009 academic year at Georgetown Law as a Visiting Researcher.

Werner MENG (Germany), Professor, University of Saarbruecken

Professor Meng teaches at the University of Saarbruecken, where he has been Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of European Studies since 1999. He has previously been a Visiting Professorial Fellow at IIEL, and has also been a visiting professor at Chicago Kent University, World Trade Institute Bern (Switzerland), Amsterdam Law School, University of Rijeka Law School (Croatia), Tulane Law School (New Orleans), and Louisiana State University Law School (Baton Rouge).  Professor Meng is returning to Georgetown Law as a Visiting Scholar for the first few weeks of the Fall 2008 semester, as he has done each Fall since 2001.

Edna RAMIREZ ROBLES (Mexico), PhD candidate, Universidad Complutense

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 World Trade Organization 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.

Toyoki SHIBAYAMA (Japan). Visiting Researcher, Georgetown Law

Mr. Shibayama earned his Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Tokyo and in May 2008 he earned his LL.M. in International Legal Studies, with the WTO Studies Certificate, at Georgetown University Law Center.  Before enrolling at Georgetown Law, he worked for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Government of Japan, as an assistant director in the Policy Planning and Coordination Division, Minister’s Secretariat.  After completing his research at IIEL, he plans to continue his work at METI in the area of trade policy.

Fei YU (China), Lecturer, Ph.D. candidate, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics

Ms. Yu has been a lecturer at the Law School of Shanghai University of Finance & Economics (SUFE) since 2000.  Her lectures focus on economics law, private international law and international economic law.  Her research currently concentrates on trade remedies, WTO rules, competition law and conflicts law with publications and several specialized articles on international trade issues and dispute settlement.  She is the author of a monograph on Legal Study of WTO’s Safeguard and its Exception Rules.  She received a Master of Laws and a Bachelor of Laws from China University of Political Science and Law, and a B.A. in Chinese literature and language from Wenzhou University.  She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in law economics at SUFE, writing her dissertation on the relationship between trade remedy and competition law.

Lei ZHANG (China), Professor, Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade (SIFT)

Prof. Zhang holds a B.S. and M.A. from Shanghai Donghua University and East China Normal University (Shanghai); and a Ph.D. in Economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE).  He worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the National Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Science, from 2003 to 2004 when he was a professor at East China University of Political Science and Law.  From 2005 to 2006, he went to the University of Lausanne and the WTO secretariat as a visiting scholar.  He is now the dean of the School of WTO Research and Education of SIFT, the director of the China WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism Research Center (with Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center), and the director of the China WTO Trade Policy Review Center.  He chaired the 2007 regional workshop for university professors and academics from China, the curriculum development of WTO oriented graduate majors, jointly with the WTO secretariat.  He is spending the spring 2009 semester at Georgetown Law as a Visiting Scholar.  His research interests include WTO Dispute Settlement and contingent measures.  Representative books and projects include The Regulation of Internet, SHUFE Press (2001), and Earnings Management during WTO Investigation (at WTO Secratatiat, 2006). He is the China Forensic Identification Practitioner.

Naigen ZHANG (China), Professor, Fudan University

Zhang Naigen has been a Professor of Law since 1995 and is supervisor to doctoral students, director of the Center for International Law at the Law School and director of the Center for Intellectual Property of Fudan University.  He also has been Commissioner of the Legal Education Commission under the Chinese Ministry of Education since 1997, a Member of the Standing Committee of the China Society of International Law, Vice Chairman of the Association of International Economic Law under the China Law Society, a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School (1996-1997), and Visiting Professor at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2000).  He was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown Law during the 2006-2007 academic year, and he returns to Georgetown Law for two weeks in November 2008 to conduct research on the TRIPS agreement and WTO dispute settlement.

Claus ZIMMERMANN (Germany), PhD candidate, University of Oxford

Claus Zimmermann is a doctoral candidate in public international law at the University of Oxford where he is also a teaching assistant.  In his research, he focuses on international trade and monetary law as well as competition law and policies.  Prior to his time at Oxford, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School and obtained an LL.M. from Yale Law School.  He also holds Masters Degrees in International Economic Law and Public Economics from the Sorbonne (University Paris 1 “Panthéon-Sorbonne”). He has previously worked for the IMF, UNCITRAL, the French Parliament and the German Ministry of Justice.