NEWS - Recent talks, presentations, publications

2024:

• Recognized, Lexology Index Thought Leaders USA 2025 in Trade & Customs Law

• Moderator/organizer, panel on regulation of outbound investment, Case Western Reserve University Ninth Fall Trade Law Update, November 21, Cleveland, Ohio (online)

• Speaker, panel on “New Dynamics of U.S. Trade Policymaking and Negotiations’, Yeutter Institute of International Trade & Finance, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, October 29

• Recognized, 2025 Best Lawyers in America

• Meeting co-chair, Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Public International Law, June 27, 81st Conference of the International Law Association, Athens, Greece

• Organizing committee, 45th Georgetown International Trade Update, May 21-22

• Became Co-Chair, International Law Association Committee on ADR in Public International Law, May 2024

• Speaker, Borderlex Academy: How the Global Subsidy Race is Shaping World Trade, Brussels, January 23-24.

• Speaker, New Year’s panel discussion, Global subsidies war: Can the EU and US forge a new WTO consensus? with Bernd Lange, Ignacio Garcia Bercero, David Henig, Iana Dreyer, January 23, Brussels

2023:

• Moderator/organizer, International Law Association American Branch International Law Weekend panel on “Geopolitics and the Emerging Investment Regime”, on new US regime for outbound FDI, October 21, Fordham University Law School, New York

• Moderator/organizer, panel on “Industrial Policy Comes to Ohio”, Case Western Reserve University Eighth Fall Trade Law Update, October 20, Cleveland, Ohio

• Recognized, Who’s Who Legal: Trade & Customs 2024

• Global Trade and Trade Policy, adjunct professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Masters in Global Policy Program, Washington DC, Fall 2023

• Moderator, opening roundtable on “Industrial Policy in the 21st Century”, 2023 Biennial Conference of the Society of International Economic Law, Universidad del Rosario/Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, July 12-14

• Roundtable speaker on “RTA Dispute Settlement - Wave of the Future?”, online SIEL Conversations series, July 6

• Speaker, Trade Experettes SkillsLab session on “Writing for Work: memos and more, including ChatGPT”, July 5

• Moderator, panel on “The Biden Administration’s Industrial Policy - What your clients need to know now”, 2023 Georgetown University Law Center International Trade Update, June 13-14

• Moderator, panel on “The Law and Policy of Digital Trade” and discussant, “US Approaches to Regulating the Data-Driven Economy”, Conference on Trade Law 4.0, Georgetown University Law Center, May 25-26

• International Trade Law, October 2021-September 2022: Geopolitics Redux: Article published in Jus Vini, Journal of Wine Law & Policy, No. 1/2023

• Guest lecturer, international trade law, McGill University, March 2023

• Planning Committee, 44th Annual Georgetown University Law Center International Trade Update

• Chapter on GATT Article V (Freedom of Transit) to be published in Brill Commentaries on WTO Law, Vol. 2 - Trade in Goods, 2023

• Recognized, Best Lawyers in America 2023

2022:

• Alternative dispute settlement in the GATT and WTO, chapter 40 in Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law (2d ed., December 2022).

• Panel moderator, “Unglobalizing Trade: Adapting to the Impact of Sanctions and Export Controls on the Russia-China-West Triangle”, Seventh Trade Law Fall Update conference, Case Western University School of Law, Cleveland, OH, November 18, 2022.

• Global Trade and Trade Policy, adjunct professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Masters in Global Policy Program, Washington DC, Fall 2022

• Chapter on GATT Article XXII published in Brill Commentaries on WTO Law, Vol. 1- Institutions and Dispute Settlement, August 2022.

• Appointed as Rapporteur, International Law Association Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Public International Law, July 2022.

• Planning Committee, 43d Annual International Trade Update, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, May 24-25, 2022.

2021:

• Trade Law and Wine 2020-21: The Clouds Begin to Lift - Jus Vini, Journal of Wine Law & Policy, No. 2/2021.

• Talk on USMCA Rapid Response Mechanism and USMCA dispute settlement, at Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Washington DC

• Recognized, Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” rankings 2022.

• Moderated the panel on Trade in 2020-21, Case Western Reserve University School of Law Sixth Trade Law Fall Update, Cleveland, October 22

• Global Trade and Trade Policy, adjunct professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Masters in Global Policy Program, Washington DC, Fall 2021

• Recognized, Best Lawyers in America 2021, August 19

• Moderator, High-Level Roundtable on OECD negotiations on global minimum tax and international corporate income tax harmonization, SIEL Global Conference online, July 7

• Conference Committee, Society of International Economic Law 2020 Global Conference, “Reshaping Global Economic Governance for the 21st Century”, virtual conference hosted by Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, July 7-9 - conference moved from 2020

• Moderator, panel on The Future of Trade Disputes, 18th annual DiCarlo Court of International Trade conference at UIC/JMLS Law School, (virtually) Chicago, IL, April 15

• Special advisor, Planning Committee, 42nd Annual International Trade Update, Georgetown University Law Center, (virtually) Washington, DC, March 9-12, 2021

2020:

• Moderator, panel on “Litigation under Trade Remedy Statutes and Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 in the Next Four Years”, Case Western Reserve University School of Law Trade Law Fall Update, (virtually) Cleveland November 13, 2021

• Taught module on Global Trade and Trade Policy at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Masters in Global Policy Program, Washington DC, Fall 2020

• Moderator, panel on “Trade and National Security: What Trade and Customs Practitioners Need to Know”, 41st Annual International Trade Update, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, March 5-6; Special advisor, Planning Committee

• Participant, Helms-Burton Act Roundtable, ASIL International Economic Law Interest Group Biennial Conference 2020, “Designing International Economic Law: Challenges and Opportunities”, University of Miami Law School, Coral Gables, Florida, February 14-15

• Discussant, ILA Committee on Sustainable Development and the Green Economy in International Trade Law, January 17.

2019:

• Recognized as “terrific lawyer” by market commentators who distinguished me among peers as a “WTO specialist’, Who’s Who Legal - Trade & Customs global rankings, November 2019

• Recognized, US New & World Report/Best Lawyers Best Law Firms rankings, November 1 (Washington DC International Trade & Finance Law)

• Chaired panel on trade law developments in 2019, at Case Western University Law School Fourth International Trade Law Fall Update: Year Three of US Trade and Supply Chain Restructuring, Cleveland, October 25

• Taught module on Global Trade and Trade Policy at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Masters in Global Policy Program, Washington DC, Fall 2019

• Spoke on trade war with China and trade in video games, at the Video Game Bar Association Summit 2019 game business and legal affairs conference, at UCLA Law School in Los Angeles, May 20-21

• Spoke on Digital Trade at NYU Law School Guarini Global Law & Tech conference on Global Data Law, New York, April 26-27

• Co-chaired Planning Committee, 2019 Georgetown International Trade Update, March 2019 - best program ever!

2018:

• Shout-out by Marc Busch in his Tradecraft podcast episode 12 on “Trade 101 for Business”, as “one of the fiercest trade lawyers I know”, helping small and large businesses going global

• Guest speaker on Trade in Services - WTO and FTAs, Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Washington DC, November 28

• Spoke on the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement at American University Washington College of Law, November 12.

• Chair, panel on “State of the Trade World: Policy, Implementation and Litigation Developments”, Case Western University School of Law Third International Trade Law Fall Update, October 26

• Moderator for panel on “The Demise of the Appellate Body?”, International Law Weekend, Fordham University School of Law, New York City, October 20.

• Blogpost, “Practical ideas for aiding regional trade dispute settlement now”, ICTSD RTA Exchange, September 11.

• Fall 2018: Adjunct lecturer, module on Global Trade and Trade Policy, Master of Arts in Global Policy program, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC

• Elected as a Corporate Secretary of the Society of International Economic Law, July 14.

• Conference Committee, Society of International Economic Law 2018 Global Conference, "International Economic Law in Unsettling Times", American University Washington College of Law, July 12-14. Spoke on “How Internet Technologies are Changing Trade”, July 14

• Published think piece for ICTSD/RTA Exchange on designing RTA dispute settlement mechanisms, "Designing Common but Differentiated Rules for Regional Trade Disputes", May 8

• Led the Planning Committee for the annual Georgetown University Law Center International Trade Update, March 8-9

• ICTSD/IDB RTA Exchange Policy Dialogue on Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in RTAs, Geneva, February 8: Presenter and discussant on dispute settlement in regional trade agreements

• Brookings Institution Center for East Asia Policy Studies, discussion on "Modernizing trade rules: The TPP and beyond", Washington DC, January 29: Spoke on the TPP negotiations on state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and their significance for international trade rule-making

2017:

• Trade and Sustainable Development Symposium, at Eleventh WTO Ministerial Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 11-13: spoke at two sessions, on "E-commerce: Maximizing benefits through regional and multilateral rules" (13 December, 10:45); "Enforceability of Trade and Investment Rules that Support Sustainability: the Case of Dispute Settlement Systems" (12 December, 15:15). Symposium organized by the Geneva-based International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) with the Bolsa de Cereales, CIPPEC, CARI and Inter-American Development Bank.

• Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Seminar on Digital Trade and Regulation: presented paper co-authored with Alice Enders on the future of digital trade policy, October 30

• Washington International Trade Association/George Washington University Fall Session Intensive Trade Seminar: Session on Digital Trade, Sept. 28

• Fall 2017: Adjunct lecturer, module on Global Trade and Trade Policy, Master of Arts in Global Policy program, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC

• ICTSD/IDB RTA Exchange Policy Dialogue on Digital trade-related provisions in regional trade agreements: Existing models and lessons for the multilateral trade system, Geneva, July 13: presented on trade barriers to internet-enabled trade in goods, and how to address them

• Fundação Getulio Vargas/EESP Sao Paulo, WTO Chair Annual Conference 2017 (CACI III), São Paulo, July 6: Keynote speaker on The New US Trade Policy: from the new NAFTA to Digital Economy

• Georgetown Law/Graduate Institute Geneva Annual Conference on WTO Law, Geneva, Switzerland, June 9-10: Chaired panel on "Making Trade Dispute Settlement More Effective and Inclusive: Informal Reforms at the WTO and Alternative Hard and Soft Law Systems in and outside of the WTO", June 9

• Conference on Dispute Settlement in Free Trade Agreements, Kings College London, May 26-27: presented on dispute settlement relationship to political bodies, chaired panel and presented on The Elephant in the Room & The Way Forward -- why there are so few formal disputes under FTAs, and what factors impede use of FTA dispute settlement

• Fletcher School Tufts University Capstone Retreat presenter, April 17, Trade Policy and Trade Law in 2017

• Organizer and principal trainer, training course on the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade -- history, law and practice, US Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service, May 2017

• Global Business Dialogue, talk on Border Taxes and the WTO, National Press Club, March 29

• Led the Planning Committee for the annual International Trade Update conference, Georgetown University Law Center, March 9-10; organized and chaired panel on WTO Global Analysis reviewing WTO jurisprudence on trade remedies in 2016-17.

2016:

• Chaired Panel II, Future Challenges for International Financial Law, at the Society of International Economic Law Biennial Global Conference at the University of the Witwatersrand Mandela Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa, July 7-9 on International Economic Law in a Diverse World

• Digital trade for beginners, talk at Washington International Trade Association/George Washington University One-Day Intensive Trade Seminar, May 13

• Talk on digital trade issues at Old Rules, New Problems: The WTO at 20, WTO Appellate Body 20th Anniversary Conference, Harvard Law School, April 27-29

• E15 Initiative published Data Moving Across Borders: The Future of Digital Trade Policy, think piece with Alice Enders, April 26

• Co-chaired International Trade Update conference, Georgetown University Law Center, February 25-26

2015:

• Data moving across borders: presentation on trade agreements, TPP and digital trade, pre-Davos working meeting, World Economic Forum Future of the Internet Initiative, December 2, New York

• "Cross-border dataflows and their governance", think piece with Alice Enders, presented at the July 30-31 E15 Initiative Second Expert Group Workshop on the Digital Economy, Columbia University, New York

• "Law in the Uruguay Round negotiations", talk at June 1 WTO book launch conference for A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO: The Development of the Rule of Law in the Multilateral Trading System, edited by Gabrielle Marceau (Cambridge U. Press, 2015).

• "Year in Review in WTO Law 2014-15", panel moderator, International Trade Update conference, Georgetown University Law Center, February 27. Here's the handout I did for the panel: WTO Panel + Appellate Body Reports 2014-15

2014:

• "Subsidies and Trade in Renewable Energy Products", talk at Society of International Economic Law 2014 Biennial Conference, World Trade Institute, Bern, Switzerland, July 12.

• "Clean Energy and Trade", International Centre for Trade & Sustainable Development (ICTSD) Dialogue July 8, 2014 at WTO Secretariat, celebrating the formal launch of negotiations on the WTO Environmental Goods Initiative.

• "WTO and SOEs", presentation at Second OECD Workshop on SOE Trade and Investment by State-Owned and State-Controlled Enterprises, Paris, June 19.

• "Climate-Related Trade Disputes: What Impact for Future Climate Policies?" at ICTSD Trade & Climate Change Day, Bonn (UNFCCC), June 11.

• British Institute of International & Comparative Law (BIICL), 14th Annual WTO Conference: chaired panel on WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement, May 15.

• Co-chair, International Trade Update conference, Georgetown University Law Center, February 27-28.

2013:

• Bali Trade & Development Symposium, at Ninth WTO Ministerial Conference, Bali, Indonesia, December 3-5, 2013. Symposium organized by the Geneva-based International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) with its Indonesian partner, the Centre for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS).

• BIICL 13th Annual WTO Conference, May 15-16: chaired panel on: "Post-Doha - Where do we go now?"

• Northwestern University Buffett Center on World Politics, February 13: talk on “Will FTAs Ever Break the WTO’s Monopoly on Trade Dispute Settlement?