Oral History Project Advisory Committee

Ernest H. Preeg, Adjunct Fellow Hudson Institute, Senior Fellow Manufacturers Alli-ance/MAPI

Ernest Preeg is currently an Adjunct Fellow with the Hudson Institute and a Senior Fel-low in trade and productivity for Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI. Previously, he held the William M. Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and Interna-tional Studies in Washington, D.C. For more than 25 years, he was a career foreign ser-vice officer, serving as American ambassador to Haiti, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Finance and Development, Chief Economist at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Executive Director of the White House Economic Policy Group, and as a delegate to the Kennedy and Uruguay rounds of GATT negotiations. Ambassador Preeg formerly worked at several other public policy organizations, includ-ing the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, and the Center for Stra-tegic and International Studies. He is the author of fourteen books and numerous shorter works. His most recent books include Traders in a Brave New World: The Uruguay Round and the Future of the International Trading System (University of Chicago Press, 1995), From Here to Free Trade: Essays in Post-Uruguay Round Trade Strategy (Uni-versity of Chicago Press/CSIS, 1996), Feeling Good or Doing Good with Sanctions? Unilateral Economic Sanctions and the U.S. National Interests (CSIS, 1999), and The Trade Deficit, the Dollar, and the U.S. National Interest (Hudson, 2000).

Thomas Cottier, Professor, University of Bern, Director, World Trade Institute

Thomas Cottier a full-time Professor of European law and international economic law. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Bern and taught at the Universities of St.Gallen and Neuchâtel. He was previously with the Federal Office of External Eco-nomic Affairs of Switzerland, served as a Deputy Director General of the Swiss Intellec-tual Property Office, and represented Switzerland throughout the Uruguay Round GATT negotiations. He has published widely in the field of trade regulation and has extensive experience as a member and chairman of GATT and WTO dispute settlement panels. He is a member of the Council of the Swiss National Research Foundation and of the board of trustees of IPGRI (International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome). He is Of Counsel to the law firm of Baker & McKenzie, a member of the International Trade Law Committee of the International Law Association, of the editorial board of the Journal of International Economic Law, and an associate editor of the Journal of World Trade. He is one of the volunteers conducting oral history interviews.

I. M. Destler, Professor, University of Maryland, and Visiting Fellow, Institute for In-ternational Economics

I. M. (Mac) Destler is a Professor at the School of Public Affairs, University of Mary-land. He is co-director of the ongoing Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) study of the National Security Council. Professor Destler is also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics (IIE) in Washington, D.C., where he wrote American Trade Politics, (third edition, 1995), winner of the Gladys M. Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on U.S. national policy. His most recent works are The New Politics of American Trade (IIE, October 1999, co-authored) Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism (Brookings Institution Press for CISSM, 1999, co-authored); and Renewing Fast Track Legislation (IIE, September 1997). Formerly, he was Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and at the Brookings Institution, and Visiting Lec-turer at Princeton University and the International University of Japan. He is the recipi-ent of the University of Maryland’s Distinguished International Service Award for 1998. His current research includes work on U.S. trade policymaking at IIE, and studies of the National Security Council and governmental organization for homeland security in the aftermath of September 11th (both with Ivo H. Daalder).

Daniel R. Ernst, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (Georgetown Law)

Daniel Ernst is a Professor of Law at Georgetown Law where he teaches courses in American Legal History and Property. Professor Ernst is the author of Lawyers Against Labor (1995) and and coeditor of Total War and the Law (2002). He is coeditor of the book series, Studies in Legal History, which is sponsored by the American Society for Legal History and pub-lished by the University of North Carolina Press. He serves on the editorial committees of the journals Law and History Review and Labor History and has been a contributor to the oral history program of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit.

Lawrence O. Gostin, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law, and Director, Center for Law and Public Health, Johns Hopkins and Georgetown

Professor Gostin is also a Professor of Law and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Co-Director of the Georgetown/Johns Hopkins Joint Degree in Public Health and Law, and a Fellow of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the Steering and Executive Committees of the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy of Georgetown. Professor Gostin is an elected lifetime Member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences (IOM/NAS), an elected lifetime Fellow of the Hastings Center and is appointed by the Secretary for Health and Human Services to serve on the Advisory Council of the Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health. Professor Gostin also consults for the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Council of International Organizations for Medical Sciences. Previously, he was a member of the President's Task Force on National Health Care Re-form and served as Executive Director of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Eth-ics and as Adjunct Professor at Harvard Law School and School of Public Health. Profes-sor Gostin is the Editor of the Health Law and Ethics section of the Journal of the Ameri-can Medical Association (JAMA). He is also on the editorial board of scholarly journals including the Yale Journal on Regulation, Milbank Quarterly, International Journal of Bioethics, and the International Journal of Health & Human Rights. Professor Gostin’s latest book is Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (University of California Press and the Milbank Memorial Fund, 2000).

Douglas Lerley, former Program Director, Institute of International Economic Law

Mr. Lerley was the Program Director of the IIEL from 2001 to 2002 and was a Fellow at the IIEL from 2000 to 2002. Mr. Lerley holds an LL.M. degree from Georgetown Law and B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Oregon. Prior to coming to the Law Center, Mr. Lerley was the head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) governance program in the West Bank/Gaza. He also worked as a human rights researcher with the Gaza affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists, as a Justice Division Officer for the UN Opera-tion in Somalia, and he headed a technical assistance program for UNAIS in the West Bank. Mr. Ierley has also consulted for US NGOs, UNDP, and the World Bank, most re-cently completing a study on law reform in conflict situations. He is also one of the vol-unteers conducting oral history interviews.

Nicholas R. Lardy, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics

As of March 3, 2003, Nicholas Lardy will join the IIE as a Senior Fellow. Dr. Lardy is one of the world's leading experts on the economy of China and its role in the world economy, and on the economic policies of the United States and other countries toward China. His latest book, Integrating China Into the Global Economy (2002), explores how the reforms associated with the country's entry into the World Trade Organization will deepen its involvement in the world economy. Dr. Lardy has been a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution since 1995. He has taught at Yale University (1975-83, 1997-2000) and the University of Washington (1985-95), where he was chair of the China Program and became Dean of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies (1991-95). He serves on the Board of Directors and Ex-ecutive Committee of the National Committee on United States-China Relations and is a member of the Editorial Board of The China Quarterly, the Journal of Asian Business, and the China Economic Review. Dr. Lardy received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1975.

Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law

Professor Menkel-Meadow is a national expert in subjects such as alternative dispute resolution, the legal profession, legal ethics, clinical legal education, feminist legal theory, and women in the legal profession, in which she has written and lectured exten-sively. She is the Director of the Georgetown-Hewlett Program on Conflict Resolution and Legal Problem Solving, chairs the Center for Public Resources-Georgetown Com-mission on Ethics and Standards in Alternative Dispute Resolution, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Bar Foundation and on the Research Grants Committee of the Law School Admissions Council. She is also the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the American Bar Foundation and Chair of the Board's Research Committee. Professor Menkel-Meadow taught mediators, arbitrators, lawyers and judges in the United States, South America, United Kingdom, Europe (Norway, Switzerland, Italy) and Australia. Previously, Professor Menkel-Meadow was a Professor of Law at UCLA where she also served as Acting Director of the Center for the Study of Women and as Co-Director of UCLA's Center on Conflict Resolution. Profes-sor Menkel-Meadow often serves as a mediator and arbitrator and has trained lawyers and mediators in the United States and abroad. Her recent publications include Media-tion: Theory, Practice and Policy (Ashgate Press, 2000). She will soon publish Dispute Processing and Conflict Resolution: Theory, Practice and Policy (Ashgate Press, forth-coming in 2003).

Alfred Reifman, former Senior International Economist, U.S. Department of State

Mr.Reifman has been involved in the major international economic institutions of the post-war period, notably, the Marshall Plan, the OECD, and in trade policy, the GATT, the WTO, and NAFTA. He has been a senior international economist at the Department of State, the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, and the Council of Economic Advisers. He is also one of the volunteers conducting oral history inter-views.

Edith Brown Weiss, Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law, Georgetown Law

Professor Weiss is highly active in the areas of public international law, international environmental law, and water resources law. She is also the Co-Director of Georgetown University’s Joint Degree Program in Political Science and Law. In September 2002 she was appointed to the 3-member Inspection Panel of the World Bank. Her past profes-sional experience includes serving as Associate General Counsel for International Activi-ties at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where she established EPA’s international law division. Prof. Brown Weiss served as President of the American Soci-ety of International Law, chaired the Social Science Research Council's Committee on Research on Global Environmental Change, and has been a member of the National Academy of Science's Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, Water Science and Technology Board, and Panel on Sustainable Water Supplies in the Middle East. Professor Brown Weiss has published numerous articles on international and envi-ronmental law, and is the author of many books, including Reconciling Environment and Trade (co-author, 2001), Engaging Countries: Strengthening Compliance with Interna-tional Environmental Accords (co-author, 1998), International Environmental Law and Policy (co-author 1998), and In Fairness to Future Generations: International Law, Common Patrimony and Intergenerational Equity (1989), which has been published in five languages. She has received many awards for her work, including the Elizabeth Haub Prize from the IUCN and the Free University of Brussels.