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2009-2010 IIEL FellowsThe Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) at Georgetown University Law Center is pleased to announce its 2009-2010 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 13 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. See former fellows here. IIEL Distinguished Senior Fellows: 2009-2010
IIEL Student Fellows: 2009-2010IIEL Visiting Fellows: 2009-2010If you wish to contact any of the Fellows listed above, please send an email message to iiel@law.georgetown.edu.
BIOGRAPHIES: 2009-2010 FELLOWS OF THEINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW (IIEL)
IIEL Distinguished Senior Fellows: 2009-2010R. Michael GADBAW (USA), Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Law Mr. Gadbaw serves as Co-Chair of the U.S.-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 U.S.-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), WTO Appellate Body Member In December 2007, Jennifer Hillman was appointed as a member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) for a four-year term. Since February 2008, she has also been a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. 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: 2009-2010Charles BENOIT (Canada), J.D. candidate, Georgetown Law Mr. Benoit is a J.D. and WTO Certificate candidate at Georgetown Law. He was a 2009 summer associate in the Financial Services office of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLP in New York, NY. Previously, Mr. Benoit was part of an international team in the Legal, Economic and Regulatory Affairs practice area at Gerson Lehrman Group’s New Delhi and Austin, TX offices. He specialized in finding, engaging and managing attorneys and economists for the research purposes of buy-side investment firms, consultancies and corporations. Mr. Benoit received his B.A. from the University of Western Ontario.
Dominic Alexander BOUCSEIN (Germany), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law Mr. Boucsein earned his Master in International and European Law from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His master thesis focused on the trade of cultural products in the WTO, focusing on the interplay of international law and WTO law, e-commerce, and trade in audiovisuals. During his law studies he interned at the United Nations Conference of Trade and Development, where he worked for the Creative Economy Programme. Previously he interned for the German-Mexican and German-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. In 2007 he represented the Graduate Institute in Geneva at the ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition where he won the Best Orator Award in the European Regional Rounds.
Adriana Akiko de ANDRADE (Brazil), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law Mrs. Andrade is a Ph.D. researcher at the University of Leuven and has focused her dissertation on Biofuels under WTO rules. She holds a Master of Laws in European and International Economic Law from the Institute of European Studies of the University of Saarland, Germany, and a Bachelor of Laws from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Brazil. She is a member of the Brazilian and the Portuguese Bar Associations. From 2006 to 2007 she held a traineeship at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Trade (Trade Defense Instruments Unit) and at the Brazilian Mission to the European Communities in Brussels. After that, she worked in a law firm in Brussels dealing with trade matters and in the University of Leuven as a research assistant where she was also a coach of the winning team of the European round of the ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law. Before coming to Georgetown she worked as an attorney at a large Brazilian law firm in São Paulo dealing with corporate issues involving biofuels and trade matters, in particular anti-dumping proceedings.
Renato 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.
Koen HOORNAERT (Belgium), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law Mr. Hoornaert has a law degree from Ghent University, Belgium. He served for four years as an elected student representative on the law school faculty board and has been a member of the Ghent University Educational Board. He was selected to study as an exchange student at American University Washington College of Law in fall 2007, where he was as an international visiting scholar in spring 2009. He is a 2009 Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation (B.A.E.F.). He has been the President of the Ghent Association University Students’ Board. Last summer, he worked as a summer associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Brussels. He won various prizes in public speaking, business law and negotiating.
Elisabeth Sophia LANGE (Germany), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law Ms. Lange obtained her LL.B. from University College London and a Certificate in German Law from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Prior to attending Georgetown, she was completing her professional training as a commercial solicitor in London. Following an internship at an Israeli law firm in Tel-Aviv, Ms. Lange was selected for a placement at the European Parliament in Brussels where she monitored the 2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis. At Jones Day in Munich and Clifford Chance in Brussels, Ms. Lange’s work focused on European Patent Law and European Merger Control.
Christophe LAROUER (France), S.J.D. Candidate, Georgetown Law
Trevor McLEOD (Canada), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law
Joséphine NEVEUX (France), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law
Catherine PETERS (USA), J.D. candidate, Georgetown Law Ms. Peters is a J.D. and WTO Certificate candidate at Georgetown Law. She was a 2009 summer associate in Sidley Austin's International Trade and Dispute Resolution practice in Washington, DC. Previously, Ms. Peters worked on international claims and investment disputes as an extern in the Office of the Legal Advisor at the U.S. Department of State. From 2005-2008, Ms. Peters was a Presidential Management Fellow in the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, working primarily on international intellectual property issues. Ms. Peters earned a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a B.A. from Villanova University.
Rodrigo Luis PUPO (Brazil), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law Mr. Pupo earned both his LL.B and LL.M in International Law from the University of São Paulo in 2002 and 2005, respectively, with his final thesis on circumvention of anti-dumping duties. He then completed an internship with the Brazilian Mission to the WTO, followed by a practical training with the General Coordination of Disputes of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations. His research works include WTO dispute settlement and GATS. Since 2002, he has been an associate with the international trade practice of the Brazilian law firm Veirano Advogados.
Brendan RUDDY (USA), J.D. candidate, Georgetown Law Mr. Ruddy received his B.A. from Boston College, during which he studied in El Salvador and South Africa. Subsequently he worked for an NGO in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania which provides legal aid and human rights advocacy. At Georgetown Brendan is a J.D. candidate in the class of 2010 and is pursuing a Certificate in WTO Studies at the Institute of International Economic Law. He has worked on regional economic integration projects in Africa for the International Law Institute (ILI) in Kampala, Uganda, and as a summer associate for Mayer Brown, LLP.
Konstantinos SALONIDIS (Greece), LL.M Candidate, Georgetown Law
Manuel SÁNCHEZ MIRANDA (Mexico), LL.M. Candidate, Georgetown Law Mr. Sánchez Miranda earned his J.D. Degree from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in 2007. In 2006, he participated in ELSA’s WTO Moot Court Competition and won the Best Complainant Submission, Best Overall Submissions and the Runner-up Awards in the Latin-American Round. In 2006, he served an internship at the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the WTO in Geneva, in the intellectual property and dispute settlement division. Prior to attending Georgetown, he worked for the Mexican Government in the litigation of WTO cases, regarding the defense of trade remedies imposed by the Mexican investigating authority. His J.D. thesis on WTO legal remedies and countermeasures is to be published by Cameron May as a chapter in an edited book in Spanish. Mr. Sánchez Miranda’s experience also includes the publication of some other articles regarding diverse WTO issues.
Zhaojun SHEN (China), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law Before coming to Georgetown Law, Mr. Steven Shen was Legal Counsel of Philips China. He had been working as a legal professional in China for over five years, with experience in the area of corporate and commercial law and intellectual property with a focus on foreign investment and intellectual property in International Arbitration Group of WilmerHale in London China. He has represented clients from different countries in various industries with respect to their joint venture investments, corporation finance, merger and acquisition activities, labor, real estate and other foreign investment issues as well as their intellectual property matters. Steven received a LL.B. from the Law School of Shanghai International Studies University with a major in International Economic Law. He was admitted to the Chinese Bar in 2004 and holds the attorney license issued by the Ministry of Justice of the People’s Republic of China.
Nicholas M.A. SMITH (USA), J.D. candidate, Georgetown Law Nicholas Smith is completing his studies at Georgetown after earning a concurrent Master’s in Global Economic Law with the Paris Institute of Political Science and Paris I. Mr. Smith has an M.A. in international relations and economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He worked for the Peace Corps in Côte d’Ivoire and Washington, as well as the Institute of International Economic Law, the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and the international corporate section of Gide Loyrette Nouel.
Victor VAN HOORN (Netherlands/France), LL.M. candidate, Georgetown Law Mr. van Hoorn obtained an LL.B. and LL.M. cum laude from the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, in the field of Dutch and European law. He is now enrolled in the dual Master Degree between Sciences Po Paris and Georgetown in International Affairs and Law. His main fields of interest are energy law, WTO law and competition law. He interned in 2006 at the Netherlands Embassy in Kiev, focusing on energy issues and counseling Dutch businesses on opportunities in Ukraine. He has Dutch/French dual citizenship.
IIEL Visiting Fellows: 2009-2010Nicolas LAMP (Germany), Ph.D. candidate, London School of Economics and Political Science Mr. Lamp is a Ph.D. candidate in Public International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He holds a B.A. and M.A. in International Relations from Technical University Dresden and Jacobs University, Bremen, respectively, and an LL.M. in Public International Law from the LSE. His PhD research focuses on international lawmaking processes, in particular the lawmaking process in the WTO. Mr. Lamp is at Georgetown Law as a Visiting Researcher and serves as Editorial Assistant for the Journal of International Economic Law, edited by Professor John H. Jackson.
Jaemin LEE (Korea), Professor of Law, Hanyang University College of Law Professor Lee comes to Georgetown Law as a Fulbright Scholar, on sabbatical leave from Hanyang University in Seoul, where he teaches international law and international trade law. He earned his J.D. at Boston College Law School and his LL.M. in International Legal Studies at Georgetown Law. In 2006 he earned his Ph.D. in International Law at Seoul National University College of Law. Since September 2004 he also has provided legal advice to the WTO Trade Affairs Team at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea. Prior to attending Georgetown Law as an LL.M. candidate, he was an Associate in the international trade group in the Washington office of Wilkie Farr & Gallagher. Before that, he was a career foreign service officer in Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade for nine years.
Werner MENG (Germany), Professor of Law, 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 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 2009 semester, as he has done each fall since 2001.
Andrew MITCHELL (Australia), Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School Andrew Mitchell is a Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law for the fall 2009 semester, on leave from Melbourne Law School. His research focuses on public international law and international economic law. Professor Mitchell was previously a Solicitor with Allens Arthur Robinson in Australia, and he worked briefly at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. He has also worked in the Trade Directorate of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Intellectual Property Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Professor Mitchell has been an IIEL Visiting Fellow previously, as well as a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge; Visiting Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Visiting Fellow at the Department of Law, London School of Economics; and Scholar-in-Residence at the International Arbitration Group of WilmerHale in London. In 2007, following a nomination by the Australian government, the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body added him to the Indicative List of Governmental and Non-Governmental Panelists to hear WTO disputes. Professor Mitchell’s publications include Legal Principles in WTO Disputes (Cambridge University Press, UK, 2007), Challenges and Prospects for the WTO (ed., Cameron May, UK, 2005), and articles in leading journals including the European Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of World Trade, and World Trade Review.
Maria PAPANTONI (Greece), Professor of Law, Panteion University, Athens Maria Papantoni is an Assistant Professor of European Business Law in the Department of International and European Studies of Panteion University of Athens. She holds a Law degree from the Law Faculty of the National University of Athens and a Masters Degree in Business and Economic Law as well as a Ph.D. in law from the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris II). She is the author of numerous publications on European and national (Greek) company law, European and national (Greek) energy law and European and national (Greek) capital market law. She is an Attorney-at-Law in Athens and a lawyer at the National Bank of Greece.
Tania VOON (Australia), Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School Tania Voon is a Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law for the fall 2009 semester, on leave from Melbourne Law School where she began teaching in 2004. She is a former Legal Officer of the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and has previously practiced law with Mallesons Stephen Jaques and the Australian Government Solicitor, and taught law at Monash University, Bond University, and the University of Western Ontario. Tania undertook her Master of Laws at Harvard Law School, supported by scholarships from the Australian Federation of University Women, the Foundation for Young Australians, and the International Chapter PEO Sisterhood. She completed her Ph.D. in Law at the University of Cambridge, where she was an Honorary Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholar and a WM Tapp Scholar of Gonville & Caius College. Professor Voon’s research focuses on dispute settlement in the WTO, trade remedies in the WTO, preferential trade agreements, and the intersection between culture and international trade. Her work has been published in leading international journals such as Cambridge Law Journal, the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the Journal of International Economic Law, and the Journal of World Trade. In 2007, Professor Voon’s monograph Cultural Products and the World Trade Organization was published by Cambridge University Press (UK). In the same year, Australia nominated her for inclusion in the WTO’s Indicative List of Governmental and Non-Governmental Panelists for resolving disputes between WTO Members, and the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body approved this nomination.
Yitong WANG (China), Ph.D. candidate, Fudan University Law School Mr. Wang is a Ph.D. Candidate at Fudan University Law School, spending the fall 2009 semester at Georgetown Law as a Visiting Researcher. He majored in International Trade and Intellectual Property Law, and he received his bachelor’s degree in law (2007) from Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade. Because of his outstanding performance in legal studies, he was granted the O’Melveny & Myers Legal Scholarship (Shanghai) in 2006. Mr. Wang has participated and contributed his thoughts in several domestic and international legal fora, including the Academy of International Trade Law held by the IEEM (Institute of European Studies of Macao) in Macao (2008). He has also published articles in the fields of WTO law as well as intellectual property rights issues in Chinese legal journals.
Fei YU (China), Lecturer, 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 on which she has published several articles and contributed to certain books. She is the author of a monograph on “Legal Study of WTO’s Safeguard and its Exceptive Rules.” She received a Master of Laws and a Bachelor of Laws from China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, and a B.A. in Chinese literature and language from Wenzhou University. She completed her doctoral dissertation on “Rethinking of Trade Remedy System” and obtained her Ph.D. candidate in Economics of Law at SUFE in 2008.
Shengxing YU (China), Ph.D. candidate, Fudan University Shengxing “Steven” Yu is a Ph.D. candidate at Fudan University in Shanghai who is spending the 2009-2010 academic year at Georgetown Law as a Visiting Researcher. He is on leave from his law practice at Gaopeng & Partners PRC Lawyers, where he is a partner. Since 2003 he has been practicing law in China, focusing on trade remedy laws, foreign direct investment law and customs law, and he has represented many Chinese clients in antidumping proceedings. He also has served as a consultant at the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center (2001-2003). He earned a master’s degree in international law (2001) from Zhongnan University of Economics & Law and bachelor’s degree in English Education (1998) from Hubei College of Education, both in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Junqi ZHANG (China), Professor of Law, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics Zhang Junqi is a Professor of Law and a supervisor to doctoral students at the Law School of Shanghai University of Finance & Economics. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Shaanxi Normal University and Ph.D. in Law from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has concentrated his academic research on international trade law, especially GATT/WTO law, for more than 10 years. He has published books and articles mainly on the supervisory and dispute settlement mechanism of WTO, the relationship between WTO and sovereignty, and the international responsibility system in WTO. He currently focuses his research on the rules and practices on trade in civil aircraft in WTO. Professor Zhang will spend the 2009-2010 academic year at Georgetown Law as a Visiting Researcher.
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