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Who We Are IIEL Faculty DirectorJohn 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 DirectorMark E. Herlihy, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center Professor Herlihy earned his B.A. at Boston College and his J.D. at the University of Chicago Law School; in 2007 he earned his LL.M., with distinction, and the WTO Certificate from the Institute of International Economic Law, at the Georgetown University Law Center. A member of the New York bar, and the bars of the Supreme Court of the United States and of several federal courts, he was for several years a trial and appellate litigator with the firm of Skadden, Arps. Professor Herlihy spent much of his career as a litigator with Skadden specializing in complex civil cases, including corporate control contests, toxic tort litigation, and contract disputes in the oil and gas and pharmaceutical industries. While with Skadden, he served as cooperating counsel with the ACLU in the trial of McLean v. Arkansas, the Arkansas "Creation Science" case. Subsequently, he was principal author of a brief to the U. S. Supreme Court on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences as amicus in Edwards v. Aguillard, the Louisiana "Creation Science" case. After leaving Skadden, he has served as a litigation consultant, working on cases involving intellectual property, the Alien Tort Statute, banking regulation, and international money laundering. He is an active member of several learned societies, including the International Studies Association, the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, and the American Society of International Law; he is a member of the Executive Committee of ASIL's International Legal Theory Interest Group, and has acted as rapporteur regarding the activities of the OECD on behalf of ASIL's International Organizations Interest Group. His research projects include the relationship between WTO Jurisprudence and public international law, examination of recent claims that the origins of a legal system influence its ability to regulate economic activity, and the study of judicial or quasi-judicial interpretation in transnational and international dispute settlement processes. He has served as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown since 2009, and was appointed as Deputy Director of the Institute of International Economic Law in September 2010. Consulting Senior FellowsRosine M. Plank-Brumback, J.D. Rosine M. Plank-Brumback is a nonresident Consulting Senior Fellow and the principal interviewer in the IIEL’s history project on the world trading system. She works at the Organization of American States (OAS), where she serves as the senior advisor to the Director of the Department of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism, helping assure that its activities in the areas of trade, competitiveness, tourism, corporate social responsibility, science, technology and innovation are coherent with the department’s strategic vision and fulfill the mandates from the member states. She is the focal point for coordinating collaborative activities within the Tripartite Committee (OAS-IADB-ECLAC). Previously she worked in the Summits of the Americas Secretariat, and was Chief of the Ministerial Meetings Follow-up Section. From 1998 to 2006. she provided the lead substantive support to the FTAA Negotiating Group on Dispute Settlement and to the Technical Committee on Institutional Issues. She has participated in numerous trade capacity-building and training programs. Ms. Plank-Brumback has held positions in the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, at the U.S. Mission to the European Communities in Brussels, and at the GATT Secretariat in Geneva where she was a counsellor in the Agriculture Division during the Tokyo and Uruguay Rounds. She was panel secretary to three GATT panels. She has been an international trade consultant, including senior legal advisor in a USAID-sponsored project helping Nicaragua implement its obligations under DR-CAFTA. She is on the roster of arbitrators under the Chile-Central America Free Trade Agreement (FTA), the Chile-MERCOSUR FTA, the Costa-Rica Mexico FTA, and the Nicaragua-Mexico FTA. Ms. Plank-Brumback holds a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University and a J.D. degree magna cum laude from the University of Miami, where she was the Edward D. Berger scholar. Christine Q. Washington, J.D. Ms. Washington joins the Trade Policy Forum in September, 2011 to manage operations, events, Board matters and membership for this nonpartisan, networking group of women in senior trade policy leadership positions in Washington. Prior to that, she spent nine years at Georgetown Law, most recently as Director of Special International Programs responsible for special IIEL programs such as the annual Academy of WTO Law and Policy, programs for IIEL Fellows and Georgetown’s international law alumni advisory boards – organizing Global Georgetown conferences and events throughout Europe and Asia. She also has served as Director of Professional Development in the Law Center's then Office of International & 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 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’s Washington College of Law, and her B.S.F.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.
JIEL Editorial AssistantSean Kulkarni Mr. Kulkarni is a returning IIEL Fellow (2007-08), having previously earned his B.S. in Foreign Service (magna cum laude), Juris Doctorate (cum laude), and WTO Studies Certificate at Georgetown University. Mr. Kulkarni is currently pursuing an LL.M. in International Business & Economic Law at Georgetown, where he concurrently serves as Editorial Assistant to the Journal of International Economic Law, an Oxford University Press publication. He is also a co-editor and contributing author for India Law News, a quarterly publication of the American Bar Association’s India Committee.
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