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 EU, 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 JD from University of Kansas.
FRANK L. FINE is a partner in the Brussels office of DLA, where he specializes in EU antitrust law. He received his JD from Loyola Law School (Los Angeles), where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Loyola International & Comparative Law Journal. Mr. Fine holds an LLM and PhD 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 two-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 BS from MIT, a JD 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 JD 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 a book entitled 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 BA cum laude from Macalester College in 1969, his MA from and his JD from Columbia University in 1973 and 1977.
MITSUO MATSUSHITA is a Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and Visiting Professor of Seikei University. He has been a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School (1977-78), Columbia Law School (1987-88), Michigan Law School (1990), Monash University (1980) and College of Europe (1991, '92, and '93). He was an original member of the WTO Appellate Body (1995-2000). Currently he is of-counsel to Nagashima Ohno and Tsunematsu, a leading international law firm in Tokyo.
KENNETH ROSH is a partner of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York, where he represents international and domestic clients in a broad range of corporate and securities transactions, including capital markets and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Rosh received his BA from Tufts University and his JD 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, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation and is 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 received his JD 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 Associate Director for Graduate Studies of Northwestern University's Center for Legal Studies. She received her BA from the University of Michigan and her JD, summa cum laude, from Indiana University-Bloomington, where she was Articles Editor of the Indiana Law Journal. She has served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jesse E. Eschbach, Senior Judge of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, an associate corporate lawyer at Sidley & Austin, and is currently Vice Chair of the Transnational Practice Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law and Practice. Ms Silver teaches International Securities Regulation and Comparative Corporate Governance, and Globalization and the Legal Profession, and has led an International Team Project to Singapore.
DAVID SMITH is former Vice-Dean at Harvard Law School where he taught for over 25 years in the areas of foreign investment, transnational companies and natural resource policy. For thirty years he has served as an advisor to governments of many developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He is the co-author of Negotiating Third World Mineral Agreements and co-editor of two recent books on China and WTO. Dean Smith served as Acting Dean of the School of Law (1998-2001) and the School of Creative Media (2001-2003) of City University of Hong Kong. Recently he has taught courses on law and creative media.
D. DANIEL SOKOL is the William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. His research interests are in international business, law and development, and antitrust. He received his AB from Amherst College, MSt from Oxford, and JD from the University of Chicago.
CHARLES S. STARK is a partner in the Brussels office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where he specializes in EU, U.S., and international antitrust matters. He previously served as Chief of the Foreign Commerce Section in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he was responsible for a broad range of enforcement and policy issues. Mr. Stark is an advisor to the International Competition Network, a member of the OECD's Business and Industry Advisory Committee, and a vice-chair of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section's International Antitrust Committee. He is a graduate of Princeton University and received his LLB from Yale Law School.
HANS VAN HOUTTE is a professor of international business law, arbitration, and conflict of laws at Louvain University Law School in Belgium, where he also serves as director 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.
DAVID G. T. WILLIAMS is President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge , where he is 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.