Don S. De Amicis is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and teaches lead courses in international business, international compliance and business entities.  He serves as the faculty director of the Center on Transnational Business and the Law and of the Executive Securities and Financial Regulation LL.M. program, and is on the faculty of the Institute for International Economic Law (IIEL) at Georgetown Law.  He has published articles on economic sanctions, private international law, and international rule of law issues

Professor De Amicis has had a distinguished career in both the private and public sectors.  He joined the faculty on a full-time basis in 2019 following a career as a partner at Ropes & Gray LLP, an international law firm, and as the Vice President and General Counsel of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (formerly the Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the U.S. government’s bilateral development finance institution. He currently serves on the World Bank Group Sanctions Board, following earlier service for ten years on the Inter-American Development Bank Sanctions Committee, and for nine years on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Enforcement Committee.

He has taught comparative law at the University of Arizona Law School, lectured at numerous foreign law schools, been a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and served as the Executive Director of the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade, a commercial law reform institute.

Long active in the American Bar Association, Professor De Amicis chaired the ABA Section of International Law, and on the governance bodies of the ABA’s international rule of law and human rights programs. He also has participated in many commercial law reform projects in foreign countries as an expert for the Commercial Law Development Program of the U.S. Commerce Department.

Professor De Amicis is a member of the Editorial Board of The Business Lawyer and the External Advisory Board of The International Lawyer.  He also currently serves on co-chair of the Business Law Education Committee of the ABA’s Section of Business Law and is a member of the American Law Institute and the International Insolvency Institute. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College.