William J. Davey

Bio

Academic Background

• University of Michigan Law School, J.D. magna cum laude, May 1974
  Honors: Class rank: 5/332, Order of the Coif, Henry M. Bates Award, Michigan Law Review (Article & Administrative Editor 1973 74, Associate Editor 1972 73)

• University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, B.A. with high distinction, May 1971 (major in economics)
  Honors: Phi Beta Kappa (junior year initiate), James B. Angell Scholar, Horace H. Rackham Undergraduate Scholar, National Merit Scholar, U.S. Presidential Scholar 1967 (one of 121 high school students selected nationwide by President Johnson)

Areas of Expertise

Present Position (s)

• Edwin M. Adams Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law. (teaching international trade law and European Community law)

Previous Position (s)

• 1995-1999 Director, Legal Affairs Division, World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (on leave from University of Illinois College of Law)

• 1989-1998 Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law (teaching international trade law, European Community law, business organizations and securities regulation)

• 1984 1989 Associate Professor of Law, University of Illinois (teaching international trade law, European Community law, business organizations and securities regulation)

• 1978 1984 Associate, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.  Brussels, Belgium & New York, New York

• 1975 1976 Law Clerk to Justice Potter Stewart.  United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C.

• 1974 1975 Law Clerk to Judge J. Edward Lumbard.  United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, N.Y., N.Y.

Other Activities and Memberships

Short-term appointments

• 2001 - Faculty, MILE Program, University of Bern

• Summer 1999 - Faculty, International Economic Law Dispute Settlement and International Organizations, Academy of International Economic Law and Dispute Settlement, University of Geneva (lecture on WTO nondiscrimination Rules)

• Summer 1998 - Faculty, Duke-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law, Geneva, Switzerland (co-teaching international trade law)

• 1994-1995 - Jean Monnet Professor, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

• (teaching international trade law of the European Community)

• Fall 1989 - Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University Law School. (teaching international trade and European Community law)

Professional associations

• Michigan State Bar (admitted 1974)

• New York Bar (admitted 1979)

• American Law Institute

• American Bar Association

• American Society of International Law

• Illinois State Bar Association

• International Law Association

• International Trade Law Committee

• The Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford), Editorial Board

• The Columbia Journal of European Law, Board of Advisors

• Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Faculty Editorial Board

Recent Publications

Books

• European Community Law: Cases and Materials (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co. 2d. edition 2002) (co-authors G. Bermann, E. Fox & R. Goebel).  2002 Documents Supplement (2002)

• Legal Problems of International Economic Relations (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 4th ed. 2002) (co authors John H. Jackson & Alan O. Sykes).  2002 Documents Supplement (forthcoming 2002)

• Pine & Swine: Canada-United States Trade Dispute Settlement: The FTA Experience and NAFTA Prospects (Ottawa: Centre for Trade Policy and Law 1996), reviewed in 31 J. World Trade, No. 3 (June 1997), page 169.

• Legal Problems of International Economic Relations (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 3rd ed. 1995) (co authors John H. Jackson & Alan O. Sykes).

Documents Supplement

• European Community Law: Cases and Materials (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co. 1993) (co-authors G. Bermann, E. Fox & R. Goebel). 1998,1995, 1998 Documents Supplement

• Handbook of WTO/GATT Dispute Settlement (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Transnational Juris Publications/Kluwer 1991)(co-authors P. Pescatore & A. Lowenfeld), awarded a Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law's Committee on Annual Awards ("a work of great distinction")(two volumes as of 1995; originally named: "Handbook of GATT Dispute Settlement"). 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 (two), 1996, 1997, 1998 & 2000 Supplements

• Legal Problems of International Economic Relations (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 2d ed. 1986) (co author John H. Jackson). 1989. 

• Annual Supplementary Memorandum to above (duplicated, West Publishing Co. 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994) (1987 memorandum with J. Jackson; 1992, 1993 & 1994 memoranda with J. Jackson & A. Sykes)

Invited Articles and Papers

• WTO Dispute Settlement relating to GATT 1994, in E.-U. Petersman et al (eds.), WTO Jurisprudence 1995-2001: Law and Dispute Settlement Practice of the World Trade Organization, Kluwer Studies in Transnational Economic Law (forthcoming 2002)

• Institutional Arrangements, in P. McCrory et al (eds.), The Kluwer Companion to the World Trade Organization (forthcoming 2002)

• Japan, WTO Dispute Settlement and the Millennium Round, in Robert M. Stern (ed.), Issues and Options for U.S.-Japan Trade Policies 129-138 (The University of Michigan Press 2002)

• A Permanent Panel Body for WTO Dispute Settlement: Desirable or Practical?, in Daniel L.M. Kennedy & James D. Southwick (eds.), The Political Economy of International Trade Law: Essays in Honor of Professor Robert E. Hudec 496-527 (Cambridge University Press 2002)

• Has the WTO Dispute Settlement System Exceeded Its Authority?: A Consideration of Deference Shown by the System to Member Government Decisions and Its Use of Issue-Avoidance Techniques, in 4 Journal of International Economic Law 79-110 (2001) and in T. Cottier & P. Mavroidis (eds.), The Role of the Judge: Lessons for the WTO (The University of Michigan Press forthcoming 2002)

• A Comment on Are the Judicial Organs of the World Trade Organization Overburdend?, in R. Porter, P. Sauvé, A. Subramanian & A.Beviglia Zampetti (eds.), Efficiency, Equity and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium 329-333 (Brookings 2001)

• WTO Dispute Settlement: Segregating the Useful Political Aspects and Avoiding “Over-legalization”, in Marco Bronckers & Reinhard Quick (eds.), New Directions in International Economic Law: Essays in Honor of Professor John H. Jackson 291-307 (Kluwer Law International 2000)

• The Triangle of TRIPS, GATT and GATS (with Werner Zdouc), in T. Cottier & P. Mavroidis (eds.), Intellectual Property: Trade, Competition and Sustainable Development (The University of Michigan Press forthcoming 2002)

• The WTO Dispute Settlement System, in Gary P. Sampson & W. Bradnee Chambers (eds.), Trade, Environment and the Millennium 119-142 (United Nations University Press 1999)(2d ed. 2002, pp. 145-174) (also published in revised form in The WTO Dispute Settlement System, in D. Ehlers, H.-M. Wolffgang & H. Pünder (eds.), Rechtsfragen des Handelsschutzes im globalen Wettbewerb 15-38 (Schriften zum Aussenwirtschaftsrecht no. 5, 2000))

• MFN Unconditionality: A Legal Analysis of the Concept in View of its Evolution in the GATT/WTO Jurisprudence with Particular Reference to the Issue of “Like Product” (with Joost Pauwelyn), in T. Cottier & P. Mavroidis (eds.), Regulatory Barriers and the Principle of Non-discrimination in World Trade Law: Past, Present and Future, ch.1, pp. 13-50 (The University of Michigan Press 2000)

• Article XVII GATT: An Overview, in T. Cottier, P. Mavroidis & K.N. Schefer (eds.), State Trading in the Twenty-First Century, ch.1, pp. 18-36 (The University of Michigan Press 1998).

• Issues of Dispute Settlement in the WTO System, in The Emerging WTO System and Perspectives from East Asia, Joint U.S. - Korea Academic Studies, vol. 7 (1997)(also published in Japanese)

• Undang-Undang Antidumping Amerika Serikat (a pamphlet on U.S. antidumping law published in Bahasa Indonesian in 1993 by the Indonesian Ministry of Trade)

• European Integration: Reflections on its Limits and Effects, 1 Indiana J. Global Legal Studies 185-217 (1993)

• The Rules for Agricultural Trade in GATT, in Masayoshi Honma, Akio Shimizu & Hidecki Funatsu (eds.), GATT and Trade Liberalization in Agriculture 3-60 (Otaru University of Commerce 1993)[chapter appears at pages 31-106 of the Japanese language edition]

• Antidumping Proceedings, in R. Folsom, R. Lake & V. Nanda (eds.), European Community Law After 1992: A Practical Guide for Lawyers Outside the Common Market 757-780 (Kluwer 1993) (revised 2d ed. 1996)

• The Appointments Clause and International Dispute Settlement Mechanisms: A False Conflict, 49 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1315-1328 (1992)

• The GATT Dispute Settlement System: Proposals for Reform in the Uruguay Round, in Workshop on the Multilateral Trade Negotiations of GATT: Issues and Policy Implications for the ROC on Taiwan, at 43-78 (Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, Conference Series No. 21, May 1992)

• The International Trading System: GATT in Theory and Practice, in Shu-Chin Yang, William J. Davey & Richard H. Snape, International Trading System and Developing Countries, 24-52 (in Chinese) & 53-98 (in English) (NanKai University Institute of International Economics, Special Studies, No. 3, 1992).

• The United States Court of International Trade and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in G. Jaenicke & E.U. Petersmann (eds.), Adjudication of International Trade Disputes in International and National Economic Law 297-322 (Fribourg University Press 1992)(Volume 7 of Progress and Undercurrents in Public International Law)

• Section 301 and its Effect on the Multilateral Trading System: A Brief Comment, in P. Demaret, J. Bourgeois & I. Van Bael (eds.), Trade Laws of the European Community and the United States in a Comparative Perspective, 165-171 (College of Europe, no. 47, Story Scientia 1992)

• U.S. Trade Law and Post-Uruguay Round GATT: An Enduring Coexistence?, in T. Oppermann & J. Molsberger (eds.), A New GATT for the Nineties and Europe '92, at 373-385 (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 1991)

• Reform of the Administrative Procedures Used in U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Cases (with J. Jackson), in Administrative Conference of the United States: Recommendations and Reports 909-972 (1991)

Reprinted in slightly revised form in 6 Admin. L. J. Am. U. 399-458 (1993)

• Reform of Procedures under U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws: A Study Prepared for the Administrative Conference of the United States (with J. Jackson) (preliminary draft of February 4, 1991, widely circulated by the Administrative Conference and Federal Circuit Judicial Conference)(considerably broader in scope than foregoing)

• Article XI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: A Legal Analysis of the Agricultural Exceptions (published without authorship attribution by the Permanent Secretariat of Sistema Economico Latinoamericano as Technical Paper on Uruguay Round No. 19 - 1989) (109 pp.)

• Antidumping Laws: A Time for Restriction in B. Hawk (ed.), 1988 Fordham Corporate Law Institute, at pages 8-1 to 8-41 (Matthew Bender 1989)

• Comment: Antidumping Laws in the GATT and the EC, in J. Jackson & E. Vermulst (eds.), Antidumping Law and Practice: A Comparative Approach, 295-301 (Univ. of Michigan Press 1989)

• GATT Dispute Settlement: The 1988 Montreal Reforms, in R. Dearden, M. Hart & D. Steger (eds.), Living with Free Trade: Canada, the Free Trade Agreement and the GATT, 167-185 (Institute for Research on Public Policy 1989)

• Dispute Settlement Under the Canada--United States Free Trade Agreement, in M. Gold & D. Leyton-Brown (eds.), Trade-Offs on Free Trade: The Canada--United States Free Trade Agreement, 173-181 (Carswell 1988)

• Dispute Settlement in GATT, 11 Fordham J. Intl. L. 51-109 (1987)

• GATT: Its Current Operation and Prospects for Its Future, in Southwestern Legal Foundation, Private Investors Abroad Problems and Solutions in International Business in 1986, at pages 2 1 to 2 87 (J. Moss ed., Matthew Bender 1986)

• An Analysis of European Communities Legislation and Practice Relating to Antidumping and Countervailing Duties, in B. Hawk (ed.), 1983 Fordham Corporate Law Institute, at pages 39 128 (Matthew Bender 1984)

• Comment, Disqualification for Interest of Lower Court Federal Judges: 28 U.S.C. 455, 71 Mich. L. Rev. 538 (1973), reviewed in 60 A.B.A.J. 125 (1974)

Unpublished Invited Papers

• The Role of Dispute-Settlement Mechanisms in Canada-U.S. Relations, a paper presented at a conference on "Managing Interdependence: Policy-Making in Canada-U.S. Relations," sponsored by the Centre for Trade Policy and Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, September 22, 1994)(conclusions summarized in 11 BNA Intl. Trade Rptr. 1504-1505 (Sept. 28, 1994))

• Escape Clauses and Exceptions in a Coherent Framework, a paper presented at a conference on "Uruguay Round Agreements from an Asia-Pacific Perspective", held August 1-3, 1994, at Dumbarton House, Georgetown, Washington D.C., sponsored by the Gaston Sigur Center for East Asian Studies, George Washington University

• The GATT Dispute Settlement System and the Uruguay Round Reforms, a paper presented at a conference on "The Future of the Trading System," sponsored by the Centre for Trade Policy and Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, on May 30-31, 1994)(revised version of item 16)

• Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws and Their Effect on the People's Republic of China, a paper presented at the GATT & China Symposium, November 10, 1992, Beijing, China (conference sponsored by the University of International Business and Economics and the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade)

• Book Reviews/Tributes/Short Pieces

• Book Review, The EU and the WTO: Legal and Constitutional Issues, edited by G. de Burca & J. Scott (Hart Publishing 2001), at www.europeanbooks.org (May 2002?)

• Introduction to Special Issue on European Union and International Trade, 7 Columbia J. Eur. L. 303-306 (Fall 2001)

• The WTO Dispute Settlement System, Journal of International Economic Law, vol. 3, no. 1, at 15-18 (March 2000) Supporting the WTO Dispute Settlement System, Journal of World Trade, vol. 34, no.1, at 167-170 (February 2000)

• Preface to Virgile Pace, L’Organisation Mondiale du Commerce et le renforcement de la reglementation juridique des echanges commerciaux internationaux (L’Harmattan 2000)

• The WTO Dispute Settlement System: An Agenda for Reform, in The World Trade Brief 43-44 (agenda publishing in association with the World Trade Organization), Nov. 1999

• Book Review, Rabels Zeitschrift (Band 59, Heft 1; January 1995), at 174 (Constitutional Functions and Constitutional Problems of International Economic Law, by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann).

• Book Review, 87 Am. J. Intl. L. 183-185 (1993)(United States Foreign Trade Law, by Bruce E. Clubb)

• Book Review, 85 Am. J. Intl. L. 579-581 (1991)(European Political Cooperation in the 1980s, edited by A. Pijpers, E. Regelsberger & W. Wessels)

• Book Review, 13 Fordham Intl. L. J. 254-258 (1989-1990) (Introduction to the Law of the European Communities, by P.J.G. Kapteyn & P. VerLoren van Themaat)

• Bill Painter: A Brief Tribute, 1990 Ill. L. Rev. 295-296

• Book Review, 10 Fordham Intl. L. J. 123 30 (1986) (International Trade Regulation, by Edmond McGovern)

• Book Review, 79 Am. J. Intl. L. 225 27 (1985) (Courts and Free Markets: Perspectives from the United States and Europe, edited by T. Sandalow & E. Stein, 2 vols.)

Book notes, International Journal of Legal Information

• L. Spedding, Transnational Legal Practice in the EEC and the United States (1987: volume 15, pp. 284-285)

• W. Lovett, World Trade Rivalry (1988: 16/49-50)

• J.-F. Beseler & A. Williams, Anti-dumping and Antidumping Law: The European Communities (1988: 16/139-141)

• B. Hawk (ed.), United States and Common Market Antitrust Policies (1988: 16/210-211)

• A. Dunkel, Trade Policies for a Better Future: The 'Leutwiler Report', the GATT and the Uruguay Round (1988: 16/248-250)

• K. Simmonds & B. Hill, Law and Practice Under the GATT (1988: 16/250-251)

• D. Lange & G. Born, The Extraterritorial Application of National Laws (1989: 17/53-55)

• S. Sherman & H, Glashoff, Customs Valuation (1989: 17/184-185)

• I. Shihata, MIGA and Foreign Investment (1989:17/271-272)

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