John Linarelli is Vice Dean, Professor of Law, and John E. Murray Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is Associated Faculty with the Department of Philosophy. His scholarship spans international law, commercial law, private law, and philosophy of law. His research is markedly interdisciplinary, drawing on moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and economics.
Vice Dean Linarelli has been described as one of the world’s most influential comparative commercial law scholars. Many of his scholarly contributions center on transnational commercial law, the international conventions, model laws, general principles of law, and norms governing cross-border trade, commerce, and finance. His work engages with the work of intergovernmental organizations creating and maintaining this legal architecture for the global economy, including UNIDROIT (the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law) and UNCITRAL (the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law). His scholarship has addressed topics ranging from transnational contract law and the law of digital assets to the philosophical foundations of commercial law.
Vice Dean Linarelli’s book, The Misery of International Law: Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy(Oxford University Press, 2018) won the European Society of International Law book prize in 2019. The book is co-authored with Margot E. Salomon, at the London School of Economics and Director of the interdisciplinary Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy at LSE Human Rights, and Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, at the National University of Singapore. The book was received as a major intervention and attracted endorsements from some of the field's most prominent scholars. One reviewer described it as "a thoughtful, passionate and deeply engaging book that successfully unites radical and liberal critiques of international law into a powerful and unified call for economic justice," noting that the authors "pull no punches and deliver a sharply critical yet ultimately constructive account of international economic law, while embodying the kind of pluralist approach essential in any 21st century treatment of global justice." Hilary Charlesworth AM, Melbourne Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School and currently judge on the International Court of Justice, described it as changing "the terms of debates about international economic law." One reviewer describes it as “a work for the ages” that “will become a standard by which critical international legal scholarship will be measured.” Another reviewer endorsed it as "essential reading for scholars of international law and for everyone else who wants to understand international law's long engagement with the projects of Western capitalism," praising how it "breaks new ground in critical international law scholarship" by "resisting the artificial division between the political and the economic in the international legal order."
Vice Dean Linarelli has written extensively on the philosophy of international and comparative law and international legal theory. His recent research demarcates an emerging school of thought at the intersection of comparative law and the philosophy of mind. His article, The Cognitive Science of Comparative Law, forthcoming in a special issue for the Study and Analysis of International Law Scholarship (SAILS) Consortium in the Georgetown Journal of International Law, takes up an important question in legal epistemology: whether the concepts and categories through which lawyers understand and evaluate law not their own are artifacts of cognition rather than neutral instruments of description. This work extends from Vice Dean Linarelli's broader project of naturalizing the jurisprudence of international law, developed in his article Naturalizing Jurisprudence for International Law: Implications for Justice in the Global Economy, published in the George Washington International Law Review.
Edward Elgar Publishers invited Vice Dean Linarelli to edit Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory and Philosophy, forthcoming in December 2026. His affiliations across Europe, the UK, Asia, and the USA, positioned him to commission and evaluate work across the broad spectrum of legal theory and philosophy of law.
Vice Dean Linarelli’s research on artificial intelligence and contract law draws on analytical philosophy and philosophy of mind. His article, Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Contract, published in the Uniform Law Review, the official publication of UNIDROIT, asks whether contract law can accommodate an artificial general intelligence acting as a contracting principal in its own right. His book chapter, A Philosophy of Contract Law for Artificial Intelligence: Shared Intentionality, develops a shared intentionality thesis, locating the distinctiveness of contractual obligation in the psychological capacity to form and pursue joint goals, whether the agents involved are human or artificial. His book chapter, "Artificial Intelligence and Contract Formation: Back to Contract as Bargain?", in the Cambridge Handbook at the Intersection of Commercial Law and Technology, examines the cognitive properties an AI system would need to participate in contract formation and reconsiders contract formation doctrine in light of them. Finally, Contract Law and Advances in Artificial Intelligence, in the Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence: Current and Future Directions (2nd ed., Edward Elgar), extends this analysis in an investigation of AI's implications across contract doctrine.
Vice Dean Linarelli is inaugural editor of the book series, Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law, a monograph series published by Hart Publishing (an imprint of Bloomsbury), which he now co-edits with Professor Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell. The series, currently at 22 books, sits at the intersection of commercial law and financial regulation, with a strongly comparative and transnational orientation. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of World Investment and Trade.
Vice Dean Linarelli has delivered more than 75 invited talks and papers worldwide. He has held senior faculty and leadership positions on both sides of the Atlantic and visitor positions in China and Europe. His last UK post was as Professor of Commercial Law at Durham University in the United Kingdom, one of Britain’s best law schools, where he co-directed Durham’s Institute for Commercial and Corporate Law.
- PhD, Philosophy, University of California Riverside
- PhD, Law, King's College London
- LLM, Georgetown University Law Center
- JD, American University Washington College of Law
- BA, Duquesne University
Education & Training
- European Society of International Law Book Prize (2019), for The Misery of International Law: Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy (Oxford University Press, 2018), with Margot Salomon & Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah
- Elected Member, American Law Institute (2018)
- Fellow, European Law Institute Fellow
- Fellow, American Bar Association
- Thomas Bradbury Chetwood, S.J. Prize, Georgetown University
- Dean’s Fellow, University of California Riverside
Books and Chapters
Books (authored)
- John Linarelli & Alveena Shah, Murray on Contracts: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press 8th ed. forthcoming 2025)
- Ron Brand & John Linarelli, International Business Transactions Fundamentals (West Academic Publishers 3rd ed. forthcoming 2026)
- JOHN LINARELLI, MARGOT SALOMON, MUTHUCUMARASWAMY SORNARAJAH, The Misery of International Law: Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy, Oxford University Press (2018)
- SUE ARROWSMITH, JOHN LINARELLI, & DON WALLACE, JR., Regulating Public Procurement: National and International Perspectives (Aspen/Kluwer, 2000)
Books (edited)
- Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory and Philosophy (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025)
- The Future of Commercial Law: Ways Forward for Change and Reform (John Linarelli & Orkun Akseli eds., Hart 2020)
- Awarded funding: British Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar Grant
- Research Handbook on Global Justice and International Economic Law (John Linarelli ed., Edward Elgar 2013)
- Global Justice and International Economic Law: Opportunities and Challenges (Chi Carmody, Frank Garcia, & John Linarelli eds., Cambridge University Press 2012)
Select Book Chapters
- Normative Jurisprudence, in Elgar Encyclopedia of Legal Theory and Philosophy (Edward Elgar forthcoming 2026)
- Contract Law and Advances in Artificial Intelligence in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE LAW OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: CURRENT AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS (Woodrow Barfield & Ugo Pagallo eds., Edward Elgar 2nd ed. 2025)
- Artificial Intelligence and Contact Formation: Back to Contract as Bargain?, in Emerging Issues at The Intersection of Commercial Law and Technology (Stacy-Ann Elvy & Nancy Kim eds., Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)
- Multilateral Rules in Government Procurement, in The International Law of Economic Integration (Julien Chaisse & Christoff Herrmann, Oxford University Press forthcoming)
- Globalizing Public Procurement Law and Policy: The Early Period, in TLiber Amicorum for Sue Arrowsmith: The Revolutionary of Procurement! (Annamaria La Chimia & Martin Trybus co-eds. Hart forthcoming 2024)
- A Philosophy of Contract Law for Artificial Intelligence: Shared Intentionality, in Contracting and Contract Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Martin Ebers, Cristina Poncibo, & Mimi Zhou eds. Hart 2022)
- Transatlantic Divisions in Methods of Inquiry About Law: What it Means for International Law, in Handbook on Research Methods in International Law 28 (Rossana Deplano & Nicholas Tsagourias eds., Edward Elgar 2021)
- Global Legal Pluralism and Commercial Law, in The Oxford Handbook on Global Legal Pluralism 689 (Paul Schiff Berman ed., Oxford University Press 2020)
- Featured in Oxford Business Law Blog, “Global Legal Pluralism and Commercial Law,” Feb. 13, 2019
- Behavioral Comparative Law: Its Relevance to Global Commercial Law Making, in The Future of Commercial Law: Ways Forward for Change and Reform 69 (Orkun Akseli & John Linarelli eds., Hart 2020)
- Legal Certainty: A Common Law View and a Critique, in The Shifting Meaning of Legal Certainty in Comparative and Transnational Law 159 (Mark Fenwick, Mathias Siems, & Stefan Wrbka eds., Hart 2017)
- Law, Rights, and Development, in Research Handbook on Global Justice and International Economic Law 301 (John Linarelli ed., Edward Elgar 2013)
- Global Procurement Law in Times of Crisis: New Buy American Policies and Options in the WTO Legal System, in The WTO Regime on Government Procurement: Challenge and Reform 773 (Sue Arrowsmith & Robert Anderson eds., Cambridge University Press 2011)
- The Limited Case for Permitting SME Procurement Preferences in the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, in The WTO Regime on Government Procurement: Challenge and Reform 444 (Sue Arrowsmith & Robert Anderson eds., Cambridge University Press 2011)
- TRIPS, Biotechnology and the Public Domain: What Role Will World Trade Law Play? in Agriculture and International Trade Law, Policy and the WTO 193 (Chris Rodgers & Michael Cardwell eds., CABI 2003)
- Informing the WTO’s Transparency Agenda: Law, Economics and International Relations Theory, in Public Procurement: The Continuing Revolution 235 (Sue Arrowsmith & Martin Trybus eds., Kluwer 2003)
Select Scholarly Articles
- Making Digital Assets Safer, J. L. & Com. (forthcoming 2026)
- A Naturalized Jurisprudence for International Law: Implications for Justice in the Global Economy, 58 Geo. Wash. Intl L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026)
- Reparations and the International Law Origin Story, 11 J. Race, Gender, & Ethnicity 102 (2022)
- Inequality and Access to Credit: A Social Contract Framework, 41 Law & Contemp. Probs. 165 (2021)
- Reviewed in Sabrina Minhas, Promoting Justice in Credit Markets, Regulatory Review (May 20, 2021)
- Artificial General Intelligence and Contract, 24 Uniform L. Rev. 330 (2019) (Special Issue on Transnational Commercial Law and the Technology/Digital Economy 2019)
- Reviewed by Nancy Kim, Bargaining with an AI, Jotwell, Mar. 19, 2021
- Debt in Just Societies: A General Framework for Regulating Credit, 14 Reg. & Governance 409 (2020)
- Guest blogger, The Finreg Blog, Duke Global Financial Markets Center, “Debt in Just Societies: Toward a General Framework for Regulating Credit," Jan. 18, 2019
- Featured on Oxford Business Law Blog, “Debt in Just Societies,” Oct. 4, 2016
- Luck, Justice, & Systemic Financial Risk, 34 J. Applied Phil. 331 (2017)
- Toward a Political Theory for Private International Law, 26 Duke J. Comp. & Int'l L. 299 (2016)
- Concept and Contract in the Future of International Law, 67 Rutgers L. Rev. 61 (2015)
- How Trade Law Changed: Why It Should Change Again, 66 Mercer L. Rev. 621 (2014)
- Reasonable Pluralism and International Law’, 105 AM. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 455 (2012)
- Redesigning Global Trade Institutions, 18 Sw. J. Int"l L. 75 (2011)
- Organizations Matter: They are Institutions, After All, 6 J. Institutional Econ. 83 (2010).
- Invited response to an article by Richard Posner
- Analytical Jurisprudence & The Concept of Commercial Law, 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 119 (2009)
- International Law: Practical Authority, Global Justice. 103 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 382 (2009)
- When Does Might Make Right?: Using Force for Regime Change, 40 J. Social Phil. 343 (2009)
- What do We Owe Each Other in the Global Economic Order?: Constructivist and Contractualist Accounts, 15 Fla. St. J. Transnat'l L. & Pol'y 181 (2006)
- The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement and the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law: A View from Outside the Region’, 1 Asian J. WTO & Health L. & Pol'y 317 (2006)
- Treaty Governance, Intellectual Property, and Biodiversity, 6 Envt'l L Rev. 21 (2004)
- The Economics of Uniform Laws & Uniform Law Making., 48 Wayne L. Rev. 1387 (2003)
- Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Biotechnology: European Aspects, 6 Singapore J. Int'l & Comp. L. 406 (2002)
- The Economics of Private Law Harmonization, 96 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 339 (2002)
- The Role of Dispute Settlement in World Trade Law: Some Lessons from the Kodak-Fuji Dispute, 31 Geo J. Int'l L. 263 (2000)
Keynotes
- Centre for the Study of European Contract Law Conference, "European Private Law at the Time of Growing Inequality," University of Amsterdam, Sept. 30, 2016. Topic: "Inequality and Financial Markets"
- Plenary Panel, 21st Annual Common Core of European Private Law: "Property and Inequality in the 2l51 Century," June 12-13, 2015, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Topic: "Property and Inequality: Two Paradigms
Select Presentations, Panels, and Conferences
- Digital and Sustainable Futures: What Role for Digital Assets and Private Law? Conference, University of Manchester, May 19-20, 2025, Financial Inclusion, Sustainable Futures, and Technology Panel, Presentation: On the Role of Technology and AI. Funding: Hallsworth Conference Fund
- Artificial Intelligence in Contracting Workshop, University of Vienna, Oct. 21-22 2024. Topic: “New Mechanisms of Attribution”
- 15th Annual Transnational Commercial Law Teachers Conference, University of Manchester, Paper (with Eric Schaffer): “Improving Sovereign Debt Workouts Through Creditor and Debtor Disclosures,” Oct. 5-6, 2024
- Jilin University School of Law, Changchun China, Legal Education Developments in the Digital and AI Age, Sept. 7-9, 2024
- Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference, Panel: Consumer Law, Commercial Law, and Bankruptcy Workshop: Current Issues in Consumer Debt, July 25, 2024
- Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference, Panel: Consumer Law, Commercial Law, and Bankruptcy Workshop: Pedagogy and Assessments in Consumer Law, Commercial Law, and Bankruptcy Courses, July 26, 2024
- Transnational Legal and Political Theory Workshop, University at Buffalo School of Law, Baldy Center for Law and Policy, May 17-18, 2024. Commentator on Paper by Charles Schultz, King’s College London, “Arbitration as Law Beyond the State”
- American Law Institute – European Law Institute Webinar, Feb. 8, 2024, “The Use of Automated Decision-Making and Consumer Law.”
- Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting 2024, Panel Chair, Defending Democracy in the Law School, Jan. 6, 2024
- Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting 2024, Panel Chair, New Voices on Methods of Defending Democracy Research and Scholarship, Jan. 5, 2024
- American Society of International Law Mid-Year Meeting, University of Pittsburgh, Nov. 9-11, 2023, Commentator on the Corporate Actors and International Law Panel. Two papers: Ji Ma, “The Privatization of Soft International Law” and Kish Parella, “Markets and Treaties”
- 14th Transnational Commercial Law Teachers Conference, Elon University, Oct. 6, 2023, “Chip Wars, Mandatory Rules, and Transnational Commercial Law”
- Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting 2023, The Comparative Law Classroom panel, January 4, 2023, Co-Sponsored by the Comparative Law and East Asian Law and Society Sections
- Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting 2023, Works in Progress Panel, Comparative Law Section, January 5, 2023, Paper: "Behavioral Comparative Law: An Emerging Field?"
- Law and Society Annual Meeting, May 27-30, 2021, Panel: Global Legal Pluralism: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives, Paper: "The History and Future of Plural Commercial Normative Orders: Fintech, Machine Learning, and the New Normative Order for Finance"
- Contracts and Contract Law in the Age of AI Conference, University of Turin, Feb. 12, 2021. Paper: "Artificial Intelligence and Contract Law: Rethinking Contract Theory"
- American Society of International Law Mid-Year Meeting, Oct. 29-30, 2020, Paper: "A Cognitive Turn for International Law: Implications for Understanding Global Justice"
- Co-Organizer, with Steven Schwarcz (Duke), Iris Chiu (UCL), and N. Orkun Akseli (Manchester), Financial Inclusion, Access to Credit, and Sustainable Finance Symposium, to be published in Law and Contemporary Problems, Spring 2021
- Fifth Global Procurement Conference, University of Rome Vor Tergata, July 6-8, 2020. Session (with Caroline Nicholas, UN Office of Legal Affairs): “Raising Public Procurement from Local to Global Standards: Worth It?’
- University of Luxembourg Faculty of Law Scholarship Workshop, "More Misery: Why it is Difficult for International Law to Address Inequality," Dec. 18, 2019
- Class Crits Conference XII, Nov. 15-16, 2019, Western New England University School of Law, Paper: “Inequality and Access to Credit: A Social Contract Framework”
- European Society of International Law Annual Conference 2019, “Conversation with the ESIL Book Prize Winners,” Athens, Greece, Sept. 14, 2019
- Private Law Consortium, “Artificial General Intelligence and Contract,” Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 3-4, 2019 (Consortium members: Bar Ilan, Durham, City Hong Kong, NUS, Penn, Rotterdam, Trento, Tromso, UCL, and Vanderbilt)
- Financial Inclusion and Access to Credit Symposium, Durham Castle, “Regulating Access to Credit: From Financial Stability to Distributive Justice, May 28, 2019. Co-organizer
- University of Liverpool London Workshop on International Law, the “Left Behinds” and the Populism Fatigue, “When Rights and Reasons Fail: How to Think About Populism and International Law,” May 2, 2019
- Boston College Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy Workshop on Consent, Coercion, and Democracy: Trade and Foreign Relations in the Trump Era, "Trade Agreements, Renegotiation, and the Structure of Coercion," March 14, 2019
- Tenth Annual Transnational Commercial Law Teacher's Conference, University Carlos III de Madrid, "The Law and Economics of Blockchain: Implications for Commercial Codes and Commercial Transactions," Oct. 18-19, 2018
- Symposium on Challenges and Cooperation Opportunities Amid the Globalization of Legal Education, Jilin University School of Law, “The History of Legal Education in the United States and England: Why it Matters Today,” Sept. 8. 2018
- Symposium Co-Organizer, When Corporate and International Law Meet: Corporate Agency in a Global Context, American Society of International Law, Washington DC, May 11, 2018. Co-sponsored by Durham and Jilin (China) University Law Schools. Paper: “Tribes, Corporations, and Harm”
- Lecture, Renmin University Law School, Chinese University of Political Science and Law, and Jilin University School of Law, “Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation and Distributive Justice,” Oct. 17, 2017
- UNCITRAL 50th Anniversary Congress Modernizing International Trade Law to Support Innovation and Sustainable Development. Invited to moderate panel, July 4-6, 2017
- Fairness in Law-making Conference, Queen’s University Belfast School of Law, Panel 1: The Concept of Fairness, May 19, 2017
- Panelist. Socio-Legal Studies Annual Conference, University of Lancaster UK, April 5-7, 2016, Topic: “Debt in Just Societies”
- Panelist, Institutions and Human Behavior Third Annual World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) conference, Sept. 2-5, 2016, Boston, MA, Topic: “Debt in Just Societies”
- Economic Assessment of International Commercial Law Reform Workshop, Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford., invited participant, Mar. 29-30, 2016, and various other dates, including at UNIDROIT (Rome) Oct. 8-9, 2018, April 10-11, 2019 (paper presented on cost-benefit analysis), September 15, 2022
- Panelist, Public Procurement Global Revolution VII, University of Nottingham, June 15-16, 2015, Topic: “Shareholder Derivative Litigation and Debarment: An Assessment and Future Prospects”
- International Law Association (ILA) British Branch Spring Conference: Foundations & Futures of International Law, May 23-24, 2014. Paper: “The Analytical and the Normative in the Philosophy of International Law”
- World Bank Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development, Second Colloquium on Suspension and Debarment, May 15, 2014, Washington DC. Panel: “Who Should be the Decision-maker?”
- Symposium on Socio-Legal and Theoretical Perspectives on International Economic Law, University College London Faculty of Laws, Nov. 14-15, 2013. Paper: “Luck, Justice, and Systemic Financial Risk”
- London School of Economics, Laboratory for the Advanced Research on the Global Economy in the LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights, Oct. 31, 2013. Event: Greed, Humanity and the Neoliberal Retreat in International Law. Commentator on paper by M. Sornarajah
- School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, Seminar Series on Transnationalism, Legal Theory and History Research Group, Oct. 23, 2013. Paper: “On the Philosophy of Transnational Law.”
- Public Procurement: Global Revolution VI, University of Nottingham, June 24-25, 2013, Paper: “Development Bank Procurement and Anti-Corruption Policies and the Rise of Global Administrative Law”
- Global Challenges – Global Law: A Symposium on the Future of International Law and Global Governance, Swansea University, June 6-7, 2013. Paper: “Concept and Contract in the Future of International Economic Law”
- American Society of International Law (ASIL) Private International Law Interest Group and Duke University School of Law Centre for Comparative and International Law Symposium, What is Private International Law, Nov. 1-2, 2012. Paper: “Private International Law, Obligation and Authority”
- American Society of International Law (ASIL) 105th Annual Meeting, Harmony and Dissonance in International Law, Mar. 23-26, 2011, Panel: International Legal Theory Interest Group Panel: Harmony and Dissonance in International Legal Theory. Paper: “Reasonable Pluralism and International Law”
- 2021: International Law: Ten Years from Now, Feb. 26, 2011, Symposium, Southwestern Journal of International Law and International Law Association (American Branch) International Law Weekend-West. International Trade Law Panel. Paper: “Redesigning Global Trade Institutions”
- Public Procurement: Global Revolution V, Sept. 9-10, 2010, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Paper: “Global Procurement Law in Times of Crisis: New Buy American Policies and Options in the WTO Legal System." Panel Chair: “Current Issues for the GPA”
- What Makes States Successful? Afghanistan and the Future of State Building, April 14-17, 2010, University of La Verne. Conference Co-Organizer with Vice Admiral (Ret.) Bruce MacDonald (former US Navy Judge Advocate General) and Robert C. O’Brien, former California Managing Partner, Arent Fox
- Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Conference on Business Associations, June 7-10, 2009, Long Beach, California. Paper: “Contractualism and Corporate Law”
- American Society of International Law (ASIL) 103rd Annual Meeting, International Law as Law, Mar. 25-28, 2009, Panel: “Visions from International Law: Insights from Normative Theories.” Paper: “International Law: Practical Authority, Global Justice”
- Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Mid-Year Meeting: What is Wrong with the Way We Teach and Write International Law?, June 17-20, 2007, Vancouver B.C. Paper: “Might Does Not Make Right: Thinking Through Stromseth, Wippman and Brooks”
- Rethinking the Social Contract: The Social Contract and the Modern Welfare State, April 18-20, 2007, Rhodes House, Oxford University. Paper: “Contractualism and the Moral Evaluation of International Institutions: The Case of Odious Debt.” Conference funded by the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, associated with Wolfson College Oxford.
- 2nd Annual International Conference on Asian and WTO Law and Policy: Rules, Practices and Policies in Government Procurement, July 27-28, 2006, National Taiwan University. Paper: “The New Law and Development Movement and the Revised UN Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services.” Sponsored by the National Taiwan University College of Law, Asian Centre for WTO, and International Health Law and Policy
- Public Procurement: Global Revolution III, June 19-20, 2006, University of Nottingham, UK. Paper: “Public Procurement in Times of Wars and Catastrophes: Iraq and Other Cases”
- American Society of International Law (ASIL) International Economic Law Annual Conference, Feb. 24-26, 2005, American University Washington College of Law, Washington DC. Conference Theme: “Does Free Trade Guarantee Peace, Liberty and Security?” Paper: “Principles of Fairness for International Economic Treaties: Constructivism and Contractualism”
- American Society of International Law (ASIL) 96th Annual Meeting, Mar. 13-16, 2002. Panel: Why (Not) Uniform Legal Solutions? Paper: “The Economics of Private Law Harmonization”
- Public Procurement: Global Revolution II, Sept. 6-7, 2001, University of Nottingham, UK. Paper: “Informing the WTO’s Transparency Agenda: Law, Economics and International Relations Theory”
- Conference sponsored by US Department of Agriculture and University of Arkansas Centre for Agricultural Law Research and Information, at the USDA’s National Agricultural Library, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, May 14-15, 2001. Paper: “TRIPS, Biotechnology and the Public Domain: What Role Will World Trade Law Play?” Funding provided by the US Department of Agriculture and the University of Arkansas
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