Jose Alvarez is the Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and the executive director of the Center on Global Legal Problems at Columbia Law School. He was formerly a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School, an associate professor at the George Washington University's National Law Center, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center. At Columbia he teaches courses on international law, foreign investment, international legal theory, and global governance.
Prior to entering academia in 1989, Professor Alvarez was an attorney adviser with the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State where he worked on cases before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, served on the negotiation teams for bilateral investment treaties and the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and was legal adviser to the administration of justice program in Latin America coordinated by the Agency of International Development. Educated at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Oxford University, Professor Alvarez has also been in private practice and was a judicial clerk to the late Hon. Thomas Gibbs Gee of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. A former international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Professor Alvarez is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Law Institute, and has long been active in bar activities at both the local and national levels. He has served on a number of advisory bodies at the national level, including the ABA Task Force relating to the establishment of the ad hoc tribunal to adjudicate war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and the UN Association's National Advisory Committee on UN Financing. Prior to assuming the Presidency of the ASIL, Professor Alvarez was chair of the Society’s international organizations section, a member of its Executive Council, co-chair of the 1997 Annual Meeting, and Vice President . He is presently on the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of International Law and the Journal of International Criminal Justice. His recent book, International Organizations as Law-Makers (Oxford), was published in paperback in 2006.
Lucy F. Reed, partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, is a specialist in international commercial arbitration, particularly in investment treaty disputes. As an arbitrator, she has served on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and as co-director of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland (the Holocaust tribunal). Ms. Reed is one of five attorneys nationwide to be named a tier one international arbitration practitioner by Chambers USA (2006). In 2001, she lectured on private international law at The Hague Academy of International Law. Ms. Reed was the first general counsel of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization and, while with the U.S. State Department, was the U.S. agent to the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and deputy assistant legal adviser for international claims and investment disputes. She received her BA magna cum laude from Brown University and her JD from the University of Chicago Law School (1977), where she was a member of the Law Review.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Andersen is Executive Director and Executive Vice President of the American Society of International Law (www.asil.org), the United States’ premier institution for advancing the study and use of international law. ASIL was founded in 1906 by Elihu Root, who served as both Secretary of War and Secretary of State for President Theodore Roosevelt.
Ms. Andersen first joined the Society in 1995 and became its Executive Director in October 2006. Most recently she has served as the Executive Director of the American Bar Association’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA CEELI), where she had worked since 2003. Prior to her position at the ABA CEELI, Andersen was the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia Division, where she had also worked as a researcher and director of advocacy for a total of eight years. Before joining Human Rights Watch, she served as Legal Assistant to Judge Georges Abi-Saab of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and as a law clerk to Judge Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Andersen is a graduate of Yale Law School, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and Williams College. Her area of expertise is international humanitarian, human rights, and refugee law.
Thomas Buergenthal is currently a Judge on the International Court of Justice in The Hague, a position to which he was elected in March 2000. He is the Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence, Emeritus, George Washington University Law School. He served as Judge, Vice-President and President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (1979-91), and as Judge, Vice-President and President of the Administrative Tribunal of the Inter-American Development Bank (1989-94). He was a Member of the UN Human Rights Committee (1995-99) and served as Vice-Chairman of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland (1999-2000). He has served on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and as Vice-President of the Society. He is the recipient of the Society’s Goler T. Butcher and Manley O. Hudson Medals.
Bernard Oxman joined the faculty of the University of Miami Law School in 1977. He teaches conflict of laws, international law, law of the sea, and torts; is the director of the Law School's Master of Laws Program in Ocean and Coastal Law; and is Co-Editor in Chief of the American Journal of International Law. He previously was Assistant Legal Adviser for Oceans, Environment, and Scientific Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and served as U.S. Representative to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, chairing the English Language Group of the Conference Drafting Committee. He earned his JD from Columbia Law School in 1965.
Frederic L. (Rick) Kirgis, the Law Alumni Association Professor of Law Emeritus at Washington and Lee University, received his B.A. from Yale in 1957 and his J.D. from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1960. After a three-year tour of duty in the U.S. Air Force JAG, he became an associate at Covington & Burling, in Washington, D.C. He then taught at the law schools of the University of Colorado and UCLA before he joined the law faculty at Washington and Lee in 1978. While at Washington and Lee, he has served as the Director of the Frances Lewis Law Center and as the Dean of the School of Law. He is the author of International Organizations in Their Legal Setting (1st ed. 1977; 2d ed. 1993), Prior Consultation in International Law: A Study of State Practice (1983), and The American Society of International Law’s First Century: 1906-2006 (2006), as well as many articles and commentaries on international law. He has served on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law (currently as an Honorary Editor) for 20 years. He is the editor of, and frequent contributor to, the ASIL Insight series.
Nancy Perkins has a diverse international practice, including arbitration and trade litigation, regulatory counseling, and legislative work. She has litigated disputes before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (“ICSID”) and the GATT/World Trade Organization (“WTO”), including the first case ever brought under the WTO dispute settlement system. She also has worked on antidumping and countervailing duty cases, proceedings under the Generalized System of Preferences, and matters involving Sections 201 and 301 of the U.S. trade laws. She has assisted several foreign governments in the negotiation of treaty provisions, and has counseled numerous clients with respect to export control and customs regulations, the Exon-Florio statute, FOCI matters, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the NAFTA, and antitrust, tax, and other aspects of foreign direct investment in the United States.
Ms. Perkins is the Chair of the International Law Section of the D.C. Bar, Treasurer of the American Society of International Law (“ASIL”), and a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of International Legal Materials, published by the ASIL. She joined Arnold & Porter in 1988, following a clerkship with the Honorable Eugene H. Nickerson in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She is a member of the Bars of both Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, and is a member of the American Law Institute.
Miriam Sapiro is the President of Summit Strategies International, a firm
specializing in Internet policy, electronic commerce and other international
issues that demand strategic planning and solutions. Over the years her work
has included projects involving ICANN, WIPO, ITU, WTO and governments in
Europe and Asia. She currently holds faculty appointments at Georgetown
University Law Center and NYU School of Law, and is an arbitrator with WIPO'
s Arbitration and Mediation Center. From 1988 until 2000, she held several
positions in the U.S. Government. She served as the Special Assistant to
President Clinton and Counselor for Southeast European Stabilization, where
she was responsible for strengthening economic development, democracy and
security in the region. Previously, she was Director for European Affairs at
the National Security Council. At the State Department, she served on the
Policy Planning Staff and in the Legal Adviser's Office. She is a member of
the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications
and Information Policy, the Advisory Board for the Global Internet Policy
Initiative, and the Advisory Committee of the Congressional Internet Caucus.
She graduated from Williams College, where she was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa, and from NYU School of Law, where she was an editor of the Law
Review.
Adrien Wing is Bessie Dutton Murray Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the University of Iowa College of Law. Author of more than 90 publications, she is the editor of Critical Race Feminism -- A Reader (New York University Press, 2d edition 2003). Professor Wing has advised on three founding constitutions (in South Africa, Palestine, and Rwanda), organized an election-observer delegation to South Africa, and advised the Eritrean Ministry of Justice on human rights treaties. She received her BA from Princeton, her MA in African studies from UCLA, and her JD from Stanford Law School.
