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Trade, Investment and Development Program

Trade Law Faculty

Padideh Ala'i

Professor of Law
Director, International and Comparative Legal Studies
Director, Trade, Investment and Development Program (TID)

Areas of Specialization:

  • International Trade Law
  • US & International Trade
  • Trade Linkages; Anti-Corruption; Labor Rights; Environment
  • WTO Dispute Settlement
  • Comparative Law
  • International Economic Law

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Adjunct Professor

co-Director Certificate Program on WTO and US Trade Law and Policy

Founder of

Vice-Chair of

Ares of Specialization:

  • International Trade Law
  • WTO Dispute Settlement
  • Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade
  • Good Regulatory Practices and trade
  • Trade Policy
  • Trade and Gender

Managing Partner, Jacobson, Burton & Kelly, PLLC
Adjunct Professor

Areas of Specialization:

  • International Trade Compliance
  • Sanctions and Export Controls
  • U.S. Foreign Corruption Practices Act

Associate
Hogan Lovells, International Trade and Investment and International Arbitration Practices

Areas of Specialization:

  • International Dispute Settlement
  • Public International Law,
  • U.S. Trade Litigation,
  • International Trade and Investment Policy
  • International Trade Compliance

JESSE KREIER

Former Counsellor and Chief Legal Officer,
Rules Division, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Areas of Specialization:

  • International Trade Regulation
  • WTO Law and Dispute Settlement

Aluisio De Lima-Campos

TID Trade Policy Expert
Chairman,

Areas of Specialization:

  • US & International Trade
  • Trade Remedies and Policy
  • Policy Formulation and Capacity Building

John Magnus

Adjunct Professor
President of TradeWins LLC - Trade Law and Policy Consultancy

Areas of Specialization:

  • US & International Trade
  • WTO Dispute Settlement
  • Anti-trust
  • Customs and Compliance Issues
  • Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements

Sheridan McKinney

Partner, GMI Counsel LLC; Consultant, Akin Gump; Adjunct Professor, 51²è¹Ý Washington College of Law; Visiting Professor, Université Catholique de Lyon, France; Board Member, Emerging Democracies Institute. 

Areas of Specialization:

  • International Dispute Settlement and Resolution
  • Trade Remedy Investigations and Litigation
  • International Trade and Investment Policy
  • U.S.-Cuba Policy
  • Negotiations
  • International Trade and Labor

Kaveh Miremadi

Enforcement Section Chief, Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Treasury Department
Adjunct Professor       

Areas of Specialization:

  • U.S. Economic Sanctions & Trade Regulations
  • Export Controls; National Security Law
  • White Collar Criminal Defense & Investigation

Adjunct Professor
Consultant, World Bank Group Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice

Areas of Specialization:

  • International Trade in Services
  • Trade Agreements and Regulation
  • Foreign Investment
  • Dispute Settlement

Matthew Nicely

Adjunct Professor
Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Areas of Specialization:

  • International Trade and Customs
  • Trade Remedies and Policy
  • WTO Dispute Settlement
  • Anti-Corruption Law

Hal Shapiro

Adjunct Professor
Partner, Head of International Trade Practice at Akin Gump

Areas of Specialization:

  • Litigation and Resolution of International Trade Disputes
  • US Trade Policy

Investment Law Faculty

Adjunct Professor
Partner, Global Arbitration Group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Areas of Specialization:

International Investment Law
Bilateral Investment Treaties
Investor-State arbitration

Adjunct Professor
Partner, Sidley Austin LLP

Areas of Specialization

  • International Dispute Settlement
  • Investor-State Arbitration
  • International Commercial Arbitration

Susan Frank

Professor of Law

Areas of Specialization

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • International Investment Law and Arbitration
  • International Business Law
  • International Economic Law and Empirical-Based Research
  • Professional Responsibility

Claudia Frutos-Peterson

Adjunct Professor
Partner, International Arbitration Group at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP

Areas of Specialization:

  • International Investment Law
  • Bilateral Investment Treaties
  • International Investment Arbitration

Horacio Grigera Naón

Distinguished Practitioner in Residence
Director of the Center on International Commercial Arbitration at WCL

Areas of Specialization:

  • International Commercial Arbitration
  • International Organizations

Senior Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Related Faculty

Kenneth Anderson

Professor of Law

Areas of Specialization:

  • Business Associations / Corporations
  • International Business Law
  • Public international law and Governance;
  • Law of War and Armed Conflict;
  • National Security Law
  • Law and Regulation of Emerging Technologies (particularly automation, robotics, and AI)

Nancy Boswell

Director, Anti-corruption Law Summer Program at WCL

Areas of Specialization:

  • Transnational Business and Anti-Corruption
  • US & International Anti-Corruption
  • Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Michael Carroll

Professor of Law
 Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at WCL

Areas of Specialization:

  • Copyright Law
  • Intellectual Property
  • Information Law and Privacy
  • International Intellectual Property
  • Internet and Computer Law

Adjunct Professor; Partner, Holland & Knight LLP

Areas of Specialization:

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Corporate Services
  • Maritime
  • Energy
  • Project Finance

Gerard Comizio

Adjunct Professor; Partner & Chair of the Banking Practice, Fried Frank, D.C. office

Areas of specialization:

  • Corporate
  • Financial Services
  • International Banking

Christine Farley

Professor of Law

Areas of Specialization:

  • Intellectual Property Law
  • International Intellectual Property
  • Computers and Internet
  • Trademark Law
  • Art Law

Sean Flynn

Professorial Lecturer in Residence
Associate Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at WCL

Areas of Specialization:

  • International Intellectual Property
  • Intellectual Property

David Hunter

Professor of Law
Director of the Program on Environmental and Energy Law

Areas of Specialization:

  • Environmental Law
  • International Environmental Law

Robert Lawrence

Adjunct Professor
Partner, Orrick

Areas of Specialization:

  • International Business Negotiations
  • Environmental Law
  • Energy Project Financing

William Snape

Professor and Pracitioner in Residence
Director of Adjunct Faculty Development

Areas of Specialization:

  • International Environmental Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Litigation Against the Federal Government
  • Administrative Law
  • Public Interest Law
  • Appellate Advocacy

David Snyder

Professor of Law
Director, Business Law Program at WCL

Areas of Specialization:

  • International Business Law
  • Contracts
  • Commercial and Related Consumer Law
  • Comparative Law
  • Secured Transactions
  • International Commercial Arbitration
  • Legal History