Frederick M. Abbott
is Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of International Law at Florida State University College of Law, USA. He has served as an expert consultant and legal representative for numerous international and regional organizations, governments and non-governmental organizations, mainly in the fields of intellectual property, trade, technology transfer, public health, competition, and sustainable development. Professor Abbott is the author of many books and articles, including international intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy, 4th ed. 2019 and China in the World Trading System: Defining the Principles of Engagement (ed. 1998, Kluwer). He is Co-Chair of the ila committee on Global Health Law having served as Rappoteur for the 2014. He recently served as a member of the Expert Advisory Group to the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines. He regularly serves as panelist for the wipo Arbitration and Mediation Center.
Peter L.H. van den Bossche
is Director of Studies of the World Trade Institute and Professor of International Economic Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bern, Switzerland. Since 2018, he serves as President of the Society of International Economic Law. From 2009 to 2019, he was a Member of the Appellate body of the World Trade Organization and served as chairman of the Appellate Body in 2015. He is an honorary professor at Maastricht University, the Netherlands (since 2018), and a visiting professor at the luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy (since 2016), at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador (since 2016), and at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium (since 2010). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of World Investment and Trade, the Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Commercial Internacional and the wto Chairs Programme of the World Trade Organization.
From 2005 to 2009, van den Bossche was Head of the Department of International and European Law of Maastricht University. In 2007, he founded the Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation at Maastricht University and served as its first Academic Director until 2009.
Peter van den Bossche holds an LL.M. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1986) and a Ph.D. in law from the European University Institute, Florence (1990). He graduated magna cum laude from the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp (1982). He worked at the Court of Justice of the
Van den Bossche is the author of The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization, 4th edition (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 1077 pp. He is also the author of Essentials of wto Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016), 302pp.
Rachel Brewster
is a faculty member at Duke Law School where she holds the Jeffrey and Bettysue Hughes Chair. She is also the Co-Director of Duke’s Center for International and Comparative Law. Her scholarly research focuses on the areas of international economic law, particularly international trade law and international relations theory. Some of Brewster’s recent publications include: The Trump Administration and the Future of the wto in 44 Yale Journal of International Law Online (2018); Enforcing the fcpa: International Resonance and Domestic Strategy, 1013 Virginia Law Review (2017); Supplying Compliance: Why and When the United States Complies with wto Rulings, 39 Yale Journal of International Law 201 (2014); and Pricing Compliance: When Formal Remedies Displace Reputational Sanctions, Harvard International Law Journal (2013).
Brewster received her ba and jd from the University of Virginia and she received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as legal counsel in the Office of the United States Trade Representative in 2008. Brewster has taught at several universities including Harvard Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, the University of Saint Gallen, and the University of Hamburg’s Institute of Law and Economics.
Chia-Jui Cheng
is currently Professor of International Law at Soochow University School of Law, Taipei; The Secretary-General of the Curatorium of the Xiamen Academy of International Law; The Secretary-General of the Curatorium, Asia Academy of Comparative Law, Beijing; and President, Chinese Society of Comparative Law.
He received his LL.B. from Soochow University in 1960 and LL.D. from National University of Athens in 1968. He did his research works at Poitier University, France in 1964, at the City University of London in 1965, at The Hague Academy of International Law, in 1965, and at Leiden University in 1966. He was appointed as the legal specialist of the Department of Treaty and Legal Affaires, roc Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1070–1971. He was elected as the
From 1980 until 2019, he was invited to deliver lectures at Aix-Marseille University (twice); Leiden University Institute of Air and Space Law; University of Potsdam, University of Humbold; University of Belgrade; Tirana University; Central European University in Budapest; University of Kosovo; Cornell Law School; Yale Law School; nyu; Columbia University, Institute of Chinese Studies; Delhi University; Diplomatic Academy of Indian Society of International Law; Hindu University, Varanasi; Hyderabad University; Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla, National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam, India; University of Hong Kong, Macau University and many leading universities in China.
Cheng published more than fifteen English books and numerous articles on international law, international trade law and international air and space law.
Yuka Fukunaga
is Professor of Waseda University, where she teaches public international law and international economic law. She is the winner of the Waseda Research Award in 2017. She is also an Executive Council Member of the Japan Chapter of the Asian Society of International Law and a Council Member of the Japan Association of International Economic Law. Prof. Fukunaga was an assistant legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague, 2012–2013) and an intern at the Appellate body Secretariat, World Trade Organization, Geneva, 2002). She was also a government-appointed assistant to Mr. Shinya Murase, a Japanese member of the International Law Commission during the ilc 68th session, Geneva, 2016.
Fukunaga has published a number of articles and chapters in the field of international trade and investment law, including “Securing Compliance with International Economic Agreements and Dispute Settlement; The Role and Limits of the wto Dispute Settlement and Investment Arbitration” (Yuhikaku 2013).
Fukunaga holds LL.D. (2013) and LL.M. (1999) from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, and LL.M. (2000) from the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
Bernard Hoekman
is Professor and Director, Global Economics at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where he also serves as the Dean for International Relations. He is a cepr Research Fellow, where he co-directs the Trade Policy Research Network; a senior
Mariko Kawano
is Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan); Visiting Fellow, University of Paris ii (Pantheon-Assas); Member of the Executive Board of Japanese Association of International Law (2002–2012); Member of the Executive Board of the World Law Association (2004-), and Membre du Conseil et de la Comité scientifique international d’évaluation of the Association internationale du Droit de la Mer (1014-)
Kawano teaches and publishes in peaceful settlement of international dispute, law of the sea, state responsibility and international investment law. She gave a special course in the Hague Academy of International Law in 2009 on “The Role of Judicial Procedures in the Process of the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes” and the lecture was published in the Recueil des cours, Vol. 346 (2009). Her lectures are also provided in the Audio-visual Library of the United Nations.
Douglas Nelson
is Professor of Economics in the Murphy Institute and the Department of Economics at Tulane University in New Orleans and a CESifo Research Network Fellow. His research interests focus on the political economy of trade policy and the empirical links between globalization, migration and national labor markets. He has published widely in both economics and international political economy.
Alain Pellet
taught Public International Law (in particular International Economic Law) at the University Paris Ouest Nanterre Law Defense. Director of the Centre de Droit International (cedin) of the University between 1991 and 2001, he was the co-head of the Master 2 (research) Las of International Relations and of the European Union. He is the author of numerous books and articles. He has been nominated by the French Government to the list arbitrators under Annex vii of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and to the Panel
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
studies law and economics at the Universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, and Freiburg (Germany), Geneva and the London School of Economics before receiving his doctor juris utriusque from the Law Faculty of Heidelberg University (1976).
He taught constitutional law at the Universities of Hamburg and Heidelberg and was a Professor of international law and European at the Universities of St. Gallen, Fribourg, Geneva, the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Relations, the European University Institute (eui) at Florence and the eui’s Robert Schuman European Centre for Advanced Studies.
He published more than 30 books and 350 contributions to books and journals in German, English, French and other languages focusing on international law, European law and comparative constitutional law.
In parallel to his academic career, Prof. Petersmann worked as legal counsel for the German government representing Germany in European and UN institutions (1978–1980), as well as legal counsel in gatt and legal consultant for the wto (1981–2019). He was a Secretary, member or chairman of gatt and wto dispute settlement panels. He served as Head of the Law Department of the eui (2006–2009) and rapporteur (1993–1999) and chairman of the International Trade Law Committee of the International Law Association (2000–2014)