Lindsay Bernsen Wardlaw is an Adjunct Professor of Law. She teaches a seminar on U.S. Export Controls and Sanctions Laws. She is also the Vice President of Trade Advisory Services at Amalie Trade Compliance Consulting. Prior to joining Amalie, Professor Wardlaw was an international trade attorney at Sidley Austin LLP and at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Before attending law school, she worked as a trade compliance program analyst, then manager, at two fortune 500 companies. Professor Wardlaw is passionate about developing, implementing, testing, and improving export controls, sanctions, antiboycott, customs, and anti-corruption compliance programs. She regularly helps her clients with trade classification, licensing, disclosures, and remedial measures, and her expertise spans all major U.S. trade regulators: OFAC, BIS, DDTC, Census, CBP, and DOJ. She holds a B.A., cum laude, in International Political Economy with a minor in Political Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. She earned her J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Michigan School of Law, where she was also the editor-in-chief of the Michigan Journal of International Law and the student coach of the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. Professor Wardlaw is a Licensed U.S. Customs Broker and passed the April 2016 CBE with the highest score in the nation. She is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and before the U.S. Court of International Trade.
