STEVEN G. CALABRESI is a Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law, where he teaches Comparative Law, Constitutional Law and Federal Jurisdiction. He is a graduate of Yale University , and received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Notes and Topics Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He has served as a law clerk to the Honorable Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and as a Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs. In 1990, Mr. Calabresi acted as an official observer at the Budapest Conference on Democracy and Constitution-Making in Eastern Europe. In 1991 he participated in the Moscow Conference on the Environment, the Economy, and Federalism, sponsored by the Russian Republic and the Center for Democracy. He is also the National Co-Chair and Co-Founder of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy.
ARTHUR T. DOWNEY is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia. He has been a lawyer with the State Department, a Senior Staff member of the National Security Council (under Dr. Kissinger) and an Assistant Secretary of Commerce; he also was an officer in a major international company and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American University of Sharjah in the UAE.
ALFRED S. FARHA practices law in Zurich. He formerly was Director of Dow Chemical Europe, where he was responsible for establishing company policy on legislative and regulatory matters within the European Union, with special emphasis on the environmental, commercial, and financial issues leading to the 1992 unification of Europe. Mr. Farha previously also was General Manager of Dow Chemical Middle East. He holds an A.B. in International Relations and a J.D. from University of Kansas.
FRANK L. FINE has practiced EC competition law in Brussels since 1986. He received his J.D. from Loyola Law School (Los Angeles), where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Loyola International & Comparative Law Journal. Mr. Fine holds an LL.M. and Ph.D. from Cambridge University in EU antitrust law. He authored the treatise, Mergers and Joint Ventures in Europe: The Law and Policy of the EEC. He is currently General Editor of the three-volume loose-leaf treatise, European Competition Laws: A Guide to the EC and Its Member States, and is European Editor of the loose-leaf treatise, Antitrust Laws and Trade Regulation.
L. BATES LEA is the former Vice President and General Counsel of Amoco Corp. in Chicago, Illinois. He holds a B.S. from MIT, a J.D. from the University of Michigan, and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of Harvard University. Mr. Lea has been active in the American Petroleum Institute and was the first chairman of its General Committee on Law. He also served as Director of the American Arbitration Association.
TROLAND S. LINK is senior counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City, where he specializes in international securities law and banking transactions. Until 2001, Mr. Link worked as General Counsel Americas for Deutsche Bank AG. Before that, he was a partner in the Paris office of Davis Polk & Wardwell and advised many clients on sovereign debt restructuring problems. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and also attended the Freie Universitat in Berlin.
DAVID A. LIVDAHL is the Managing Partner and the Chief Representative of the Paul Hastings Beijing office. He has advised a wide range of European, North American and Japanese companies on structuring investments in China, as well as providing advice on operational issues and exit strategies. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1995. In 2000, he was appointed to serve on the official arbitrator panel of CIETAC. He was admitted to practice in Japan as a Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi from 1988–1993 and from 1999–2002. He is the author of "International Arbitration in Japan," published in 2002 in International Commercial Arbitration in Asia (Juris Press). He speaks and reads Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. He studied in both Taiwan and while on a Fulbright Scholarship, in Japan. Mr. Livdahl received his B.A. cum laude from Macalester College in 1969, his M.A. and his J.D. from Columbia University in 1973 and 1977.
MITSUO MATSUSHITA is a Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and Professor of Law at Seikei University. He also serves as an advisor to Nagashima Ohno and Tsunematsu, a leading international law firm in Tokyo. He has been a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Michigan Law School, and College of Europe. He was an original member of the WTO Appellate Body (1995–2000). Professor Matsushita received his B.A. from St. Paul’s University, his Ph.D. from Tulane University and his D. Jur. from the University of Tokyo.
KENNETH ROSH is a partner of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York, where he represents international and domestic clients in a broad range of corporate and securities transactions, including capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and private equity fund formation counseling. Mr. Rosh received his BA from Tufts University and his J.D. from the Boston University School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Banking Law.
DAVID S. RUDER is the William W. Gurley Memorial Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law, where he served as Dean from 1977 to 1985. He was Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1987 to 1989, and is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation, a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation and a former member of the Board of Governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mutual Fund Directors Forum. He received his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was Editor-In-Chief of the Wisconsin Law Review.
CAROLE SILVER is a Senior Lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law and the Director of the Executive LL.M. Program in Shanghai (under development). She earned her J.D., summa cum laude, from Indiana University-Bloomington, where she was Articles Editor of the Indiana Law Journal, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jesse E. Eschbach, Senior Judge of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Silver teaches International Securities Regulation and Comparative Corporate Governance, Globalization and the Legal Profession, and Business Associations and has led an International Team Project to Singapore. Ms. Silver also is Vice Chair of the Transnational Practice Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law and Practice and served on the Special Committee on GATS of the Illinois Bar Association.
DAVID N. SMITH is former Vice-Dean at Harvard Law School where he taught for over twenty five years in the areas of foreign investment, transnational companies, and natural resource policy. He is a Professor at Singapore Management University School of Law. Professor Smith also served as Vice-Rector and Dean of the Faculty of Law of Macau University of Science and Technology. For thirty years Professor Smith has served as an advisor to many countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East on foreign investment and related policies. He is the co-author of Negotiating Third World Mineral Agreements and co-editor of two recent books on China and WTO. Professor Smith served as Acting Dean of the School of Law (1998–2001) and School of Creative Media (2001–2003) at City University of Hong Kong where he taught courses on law and creative media. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
D. DANIEL SOKOL is a Professor of law at University of Florida Levin College of Law and was a Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He serves as a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network, and has presented to the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and International Competition Network. Professor Sokol received his B.A. from Amherst College, MSt. from Oxford and J.D. from the University of Chicago. He also holds a LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin.
HANS VAN HOUTTE is a Professor of law at Leuven University Law School in Belgium, where he serves as Chair of International Business Law and is a member of the school’s Institute for International Trade Law. He serves on the Boards of many journals, including Revue Belge de Droit International, Journal de Droit International et de Droit Compare and Revue de Droit Commercial. Professor Van Houtte formerly was a partner with Stibbe in Brussels and serves regularly as an arbitrator. He has been a member of the Commission for Real Property Claims in Bosnia Herzegovina, the United Nations Compensation Commission, and the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts, and he has served since 2001 as President of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission.
DAVID G. T. WILLIAMS is former President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, where he was also a Rouse Ball Professor of English Law. He previously was President of the National Society for Clean Air and has served on the Clean Air Council, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and the Marre Committee on the Future of the Legal Profession. Professor Williams’ publications include Not in the Public Interest and Keeping the Peace.