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International Law Section Leadership & Governance

The Officers for the Section of International Law are the Chair, Chair-Elect, Vice Chair, Finance Officer, Secretary, Liaison Officer, Policy/Government Affairs Officer, Programs Officer, Publications Officer, Membership Officer, Diversity Officer, Rule of Law Officer, Technology Officer, two (2) At Large Members, Immediate Past Chair, and the ABA Board of Governors Liaison.

Chair.

Aaron Schildhaus is Principal, Law Offices of Aaron Schildhaus, Washington, DC. His practice encompasses international contracts, joint ventures and other transactions, corporate and NGO representation world-wide, international corruption issues, off-shore and US clients, data protection, export controls and legal reform. Aaron specializes in matters involving Europe as well as developing countries. He has been an active member of the Section since 1986. In addition to active participation on numerous committees, delegations and task forces, Aaron was the ABA Delegate to the Union Internationale des Avocats for four years and was Deputy Chief of the ABA Mission to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. He chaired the International Service Industries Committee, the International Aviation and Aerospace Law Committee, the Law Student and New Lawyer Outreach Committee, and the International NGO and Not-for-Profit Organization Committee (NGO Committee), in each case, for multiple years. Since 2002, Aaron has served as Divisional Chair for the International and Comparative Law Division, 2003 Spring Meeting Chair, Secretary and External Relations Officer, and Finance Officer. In Spring, 2006, Aaron was honored with the Mayre Rasmussen Award for his achievements in helping to advance women in the field of international law

Chair-Elect.

Glenn Hendrix is a partner with Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Atlanta, Georgia. His practice is focused on commercial and administrative dispute resolution, including international litigation and arbitration. He has successfully represented clients from across the world in various courts and other tribunals throughout the United States and has also supervised the prosecution of foreign actions for American clients. Glenn has authored several articles and book chapters on international commercial dispute resolution topics and has also served as a private sector advisor to the US State Department on matters relating to international litigation, including service on US diplomatic delegations to Moscow and The Hague. He has been active in the Section of International Law of the ABA for several years and, among other positions, formerly co-chaired the International Litigation Committee, the ILEX Committee, a Task Force on the Alien Tort Statute, and the 2004 Annual Meeting.

Vice Chair.

Salli Anne Swartz is a name partner with the Paris, France firm Phillips Giraud Naud & Swartz and has over 25 years of experience representing French and foreign multinational companies in connection with their business activities in France, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Salli is the ABA delegate to the Union Internationale des Avocats, Section Council Member, past Editor-in-Chief of the International Law News, Chair of the Paris chapter of the Section’s Women’s Interest Network and Section Publications Officer. She is also the Co-Editor of and a chapter contributor to the Section books Careers in International Law 2nd Ed. and Joint Ventures in the International Arena and has contributed a chapter to the Section book Negotiating and Structuring International Commercial Transactions 2nd Ed.

Finance Officer.

Barton Legum is a partner and head of the investment treaty arbitration practice at Salans LLP in Paris, France, where his practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation. He has argued cases before numerous international arbitration tribunals, the International Court of Justice and state and federal trial and appeals courts in the United States. From 2000 to 2004, Legum served as Chief of the NAFTA Arbitration Division in the Office of the Legal Adviser, United States Department of State. In that capacity, he acted as lead counsel for the U.S. Government in defending over $2 billion in claims submitted to arbitration under the investment chapter of the NAFTA. The United States won every case decided under Legum's tenure.

Mr. Legum is the editor of International Litigation Strategies and Practice (2005), a book published by the American Bar Association. He often writes on international dispute resolution topics. His recent publications include Defining Investment and Investor: Who Is Entitled to Claim?, 22 Arb. Int’l 521 (2006); The Contribution of Investment Treaty Arbitration to International Commercial Arbitration, 60 Dispute Resolution J. 70 (2005); Lessons Learned from the NAFTA: The New Generation of US Investment Treaty Arbitration Provisions, 19 ICSID Rev.—Foreign Investment L.J. 344 (2004); Trends and Challenges in Investor-State Arbitration, 19 Arb. Int’l 143 (2003) and The Innovation of Investor-State Arbitration under NAFTA, 43 Harv. J. Int’l L. 531 (2002). Mr. Legum is a frequent speaker at conferences on international arbitration and litigation. He joined Debevoise after clerking for the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Secretary/Operations Officer.

Michael E. Burke is a Partner at Williams Mullen, PC, where he practices in the firm’s Washington, DC office. He focuses his practice on transaction involving China, as well as domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distributorships, and private equity and venture capital transactions. He also has experience in U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance, U.S. export controls and licensing, technology licensing, and privacy and information security matters. Mr. Burke also is an Honorary Fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at Hong Kong University’s Faculty of Law.

Mr. Burke is currently a Co-Chair of the China Committee of the American Bar Association Section of International Law. He was a Co-Chair of the Section’s 2006 Annual Meeting in Honolulu, a Co-Chair of the Section’s 2007 Spring Meeting in Washington, DC, and is a Co-Chair of the Dublin Module of the Section’s 2007 Fall Meeting in London. Mr. Burke also is a member of the American Bar Association team analyzing “Rule of Law and Economic Development” as part of the American Bar Association/International Bar Association Rule of Law Symposium.

Mr. Burke has written more than thirty-four journal articles, chapters, and law review articles on Chinese legal development.

Mr. Burke received his undergraduate degree with honors from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, where he was a selected for the School’s Scholars Program. He also earned a certificate in European Studies from the Catholic University of Antwerp, Belgium. Mr. Burke received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was on the editorial board of The Tax Lawyer. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, New York, United States Court of International Trade, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and United States Supreme Court.

Liaison Officer.

Gabrielle Buckley is a Shareholder in the Chicago office of Vedder Price, where she practices in the Corporate Practice Area. Gabrielle counsels U.S.- and foreign-based companies on employment-related immigration laws, on immigration law issues arising in corporate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other forms of corporate reorganization, and advises employers regarding hiring and compliance issues. She serves as a Commissioner on the American Bar Association’s 12-member Commission on Immigration Policy, Practice and Pro Bono, and has co-chaired this Section’s Immigration & Nationality Committee. She also serves as Chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s International and Foreign Law Committee. She is a frequent speaker on business immigration and international law matters, and is an Adjunct Professor at the John Marshall Law School.

Policy/Government Affairs Officer.

Honorable Ronald A. Cass is Chairman of the Center for the Rule of Law, an independent, non-profit center of international scholars analyzing rule of law issues, and President of Cass & Associates, PC, a legal consultancy in Great Falls, Virginia. He is Dean Emeritus of Boston University School of Law, where he was Dean from 1990-2004, after serving as Vice-Chairman and Commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission. Dean Cass has been a law professor at the University of Virginia and Boston University (where he was the Melville Madison Bigelow Professor of Law), visiting professor at the Université d’Aix-Marseille III, Aix-en-Provence, France, visiting professor of Comparative Law at the Université Lyon III, Lyon, France, and a lecturer at leading universities around the world. He also is a Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Economic Research in Torino, Italy. He has published more than 100 books, articles, and chapters in anthologies, and received the 2008 Robert B. McKay Law Professor award for his scholarship on the rule of law.

Dean Cass is an international arbitrator, having arbitrated commercial, trade, and intellectual property rights cases brought under NAFTA, UNCITRAL, ICSID, and the American Arbitration Association. He is affiliated with the London Court of International Arbitration and has consulted with or had fellowships at numerous international organizations, including the International Labor Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Dean Cass is a member of the American Law Institute and the Mont Pèlerin Society, among other organizations, and serves on the boards of educational institutions in the United States and Europe. He is Policy and Government Affairs Officer of the American Bar Association’s Section on International Law, former Chairman of the ABA’s Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy, former Delegate to the ABA’s House of Delegates, Chairman of the Federalist Society Practice Group on International Law and National Security Law, and a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Programs Officer.

Yee Wah Chin's practice encompasses all aspects of antitrust counseling and litigation, advising on all matters with antitrust exposure. She has defended clients before the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission in investigations over transactions and conduct as well as for criminal price fixing, and litigated antitrust matters in Federal courts in New York and other parts of the country.

Yee Wah has ensured antitrust compliance for transactions for Fortune 100 and smaller enterprises, particularly regarding Hart-Scott-Rodino issues, intellectual property licensing and standard setting activities. Yee Wah has provided antitrust counseling, analysis and oversight on over $3 billion in transactions, and antitrust advice on regulatory compliance, marketing, and relations with competitors, suppliers and customers, as well as on licenses and distribution relationships.

Yee Wah has also litigated securities, commodities, intellectual property, contracts, insurance coverage, constitutional, consumer protection, bankruptcy, and trusts and estates disputes. Yee Wah is a frequent writer and speaker on antitrust subjects. She is a leader at the American Bar Association in antitrust, particularly on the intellectual property - antitrust interface, China and other international antitrust areas, and active in OECD and U.S. Chamber of Commerce projects on China.

Membership Officer.

Lisa J. Savitt is Counsel in Crowell & Moring's Washington, D.C. office and is a member of the International Dispute Resolution Group. She has experience representing foreign and domestic companies in matters involving complex legal, regulatory and technical issues in state and federal courts including multi-party complex product liability, tort cases, intellectual property and trademark matters and commercial disputes. Lisa started her career at the Federal Aviation Administration, Regional Counsel's Office and worked for three years at Beaumont & Son in London. Lisa is currently the Membership Officer of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and is a member of the Section's Administration Committee and Council. Lisa previously served as the Section's Division Chair of the Industries Division and Co-chair of the Diversity Task Force.

Diversity Officer.

Ingrid Busson is Assistant General Counsel at Calyon Corporate Investment Bank, a member of the Credit Agricole Group. At Calyon, Ms. Busson is responsible for all federal and state regulatory matters for Calyon Americas. She regularly advises senior management and officers on the business of Calyon Americas with respect to the U.S. Bank Holding Company Act, transactions with affiliates, U.S. trade embargoes, anti-money laundering, and other matters. Ms. Busson counsels business units on the development of new activities and products and provides staff training in a variety of legal and compliance areas. In addition, Ms. Busson provides U.S. regulatory guidance to legal units throughout Credit Agricole's global network. Ms. Busson is an active member of the ABA Section of International Law and served as Co-Chair for the Section's 2008 Spring Meeting. Ms. Busson earned her J.D., cum laude, and a Master of Studies in Environmental Law, magna cum laude, from Vermont Law School in 1999. She received a B.A. in Government and Geography, summa cum laude, from Clark University in 1996. She is a member of the bar of the State of New York and the District of Columbia.

Rule of Law Officer.

Lelia Mooney is an Associate Director with the National Strategy Information Center where she works with the Culture of Lawfulness Initiative in Washington D.C. She has fifteen years of experience designing, implementing, managing and evaluating democracy, governance, justice sector and legal reform, anti-corruption, dispute resolution, rule of law and gender projects. She has worked with projects supported through different funding and contracting mechanisms by the U.S. Government, private foundations and multi-lateral organizations in the Americas, Africa and Asia. She has written on areas of democracy and governance, rule of law, gender, legal education reform and corporate social responsibility.

A trained attorney from Argentina where she graduated from the National Northeast University School of Law, she also holds an LL.M. in Law and Development Studies from the University of Warwick Law School (United Kingdom) and an LL.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center. She is a former International Research Fellow of the Kettering Foundation, a Chevening Scholar and a Salzburg Seminar Alumni. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and also speaks French and Portuguese.

Ms. Mooney has been the Section’s Deputy Rule of Law Officer since 2005. She was the Vice Co-Chair of the Rule of Law Day for the Section’s 2007 Spring Meeting and has coordinated a series of panels and activities on the Rule of Law in partnership with democracy and development practitioners, non profit organizations, donors and academic institutions. In addition to participating in numerous committees, she is also a Vice-Chair of the Latin America Committee and a Vice- Chair of the Young Lawyers Interest Network (YIN). She was also a Contributing Editor of the Section’s 130 Year Anniversary Book “ABA Section of International Law: Leading the World’s International Lawyers since 1878.”

Technology Officer.

Adam B. Farlow

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Publications Officer.

Mark E. Wojcik is a professor of law and the director of the Global Legal Studies Program at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, where the courses he has taught include Public International Law, International Human Rights, International Criminal Law, International Trade Law, Torts, Lawyering Skills, and Lawyering Skills for International Lawyers. He is also the Director of the Legal English Program at the International Law Institute in Washington, D.C., a permanent adjunct professor of Anglo-American and Comparative Law at the University of Lucerne Faculty of Law in Lucerne, Switzerland, and a regular visiting faculty member at the Facultad Libre de Derecho of Monterrey, Mexico.

Wojcik is the Publications Officer for the ABA Section of International Law and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Law News. He has previously served as Co-Chair or Vice Chair of the International Human Rights Committee, the International Health Law Committee, and the International Criminal Law Committee. He is also Co-Chair of a committee in the ABA Criminal Justice Section. In 2007, he was elected to the Board of Governors of the Illinois State Bar Association. He is a past-Chair of their Section on International and Immigration Law and has served on the ISBA Human Rights Section Council and on other special ISBA committees. He is the Chair of the International Human Rights Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and previously chaired the sections on North American Cooperation, International Legal Exchange, and Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers. He is a past Chair of the Chicago Bar Association's Committee on International and Foreign Law, and also served on the association's board of managers.

He clerked at the Nebraska Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of International Trade, and he served as Court Counsel to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Palau. He received his B.A. (cum laude) in International Studies and German from Bradley University in Peoria, his J.D. (with distinction) from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, and an LL.M. (in Trade Regulation) from New York University School of Law.

He is the author of numerous articles and other publications, including Illinois Legal Research, a book published by Carolina Academic Press. He is also the author of Introduction to Legal English, a guide for lawyers and law students who speak English as a second language, published (now in a second edition) by the International Law Institute in Washington D.C. His most recent book is The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Analysis of Treaty Provisions and Implications for U.S. Ratification, which he edited with Jonathan Todres and Cris R. Revaz.

Administration Committee At-Large Members.

Josh Markus is a Shareholder in the Miami office of Carlton Fields, P.A., where he is the Chair of the firm’s International Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Corporate, Securities, Taxation, and Asset-Based Financing Practice Group. Josh practices international and domestic corporate law including joint ventures, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and commercial practice in Latin America, Europe, and the U.S. In particular, he focuses on acquisitions and sales of businesses, joint ventures, distribution of goods and services, direct marketing, intellectual property licensing, entertainment oriented matters, sports event production (soccer tournaments in particular), wireless telecommunication and general corporate transactional and operational matters including cable television, television production, satellite television, and wholesale and retail consumer product and service distribution. Josh has served as the Section’s Chair (2003 - 2004), Chair-Elect (2002-2003), Vice Chair (2001-2002), and Budget Officer. He also has chaired the Section’s Long Range Planning Committee, General Division, Public International Law Division, Comparative Law Division, Membership Committee, and Inter American Law Committee. Josh also was the Project Director of the ABA’s Haitian Technical Assistance Project, and the ABA Spokesperson on Haitian Issues. He is presently the ABA’s Representative to the Council of the InterAmerican Bar Association , a member of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Membership and one of the Section's two delegates to the ABA House of Delegates.

Michael Byowitz heads the Antitrust Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, New York, focusing his practice on antitrust law and policy, and principally advising on major domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate takeovers. He represents many clients at the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and State Attorneys General in the United States and consults on investigations by foreign antitrust authorities in the European Union, Australia, Canada, Mexico, South America, the United Kingdom and many other jurisdictions. Mike has been a member of the SIL Council since 1994 and has served as the Section's Chair, Chair-Elect, and Vice Chair, and as Divisional Chair of SIL's General, Business Regulation, and Public International Law Divisions. Mike has also served as Chair of the Section’s International Antitrust Law Committee, Co-Chair of the Section’s Task Force on the use of the antitrust laws to enhance foreign market access, the Section’s liaison to the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, the Section’s representative on a tripartite bar group (Canadian, Mexican and U.S. bars) concerning the NAFTA Section 1504 working group on competition law, and was a member of the joint task force of SIL and the ABA Section of Antitrust Law on the interface of trade law and competition law. He has served several times on the Section's Long-Range Planning Committee and its Nominating Committee. Mike authored the competition law chapters of both editions of The International Lawyer’s Deskbook.

Immediate Past Chair.

Jeffrey Golden joined Allen & Overy LLP as a partner in the international capital markets department in 1994 after 15 years with the leading Wall Street practice of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He is co-head of Allen & Overy's US law and derivatives practices and has extensive experience of a wide range of capital markets matters including swaps and derivatives, international equity and debt offerings, US private placements and listings and mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He acts for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and a broad range of commercial and investment banks, borrowers, arrangers, underwriters and issuers.

He has appeared as an expert witness in several high profile derivatives cases and has served on the American Bar Association's working group on the rule of law and economic development (Chair), Financial Markets Law Committee's working groups on amicus briefs, emergency powers legislation and Enron v TXU (Chair), the Financial Law Panel's working groups on agency dealings by fund managers and other intermediaries and building societies legislation, on the Federal Trust's working group on European securities regulation and on the European Commission's study group, the City of London joint working group and ISDA task forces on the legal aspects of monetary union.

He is Immediate Past Chair of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law, and is a former co-chair of its International Securities and Capital Markets and U.S. Lawyers Practicing Abroad Committees and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He also serves on the Commission on the World Justice Project, the Board of the ABA Rule of Law Initiative and the Joint Editorial Board for International Law of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and ABA International.

He studied at Duke University, the London School of Economics and Political Science and Columbia University School of Law, from which he received his J.D. degree with honors in 1978. He is General Editor of the Capital Markets Law Journal (Oxford University Press) and a member of the Editorial Board of Derivatives Use, Trading & Regulation and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Columbia Law School and the Duke Global Capital Markets Center Advisory Board.

ABA Board of Governors Liaison.

Mitchell A. Orpett is a founding member and the managing director of the Chicago firm of Tribler Orpett & Meyer, P.C. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where he earned his bachelors and masters of arts degrees. He is a 1978 graduate of that institution's College of Law. Mr. Orpett's practice is devoted primarily to the defense of various professional and product liability claims and to the resolution of insurance and reinsurance disputes. He is an active member of the American Bar Association, holding numerous leadership positions and chairing several seminars. Mr. Orpett is currently the chair of the ABA's Section Officers Conference, which represents the approximately 240,000 members of the sections and divisions of the American Bar Association. Previously, he was the chair of the ABA's 25,000 member Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section and of the ABA's Standing Committee on Continuing Education of the Bar. Mr. Orpett is also a member of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel and the Defense Research Institute. He is the author of Reinsurance, a chapter in West Group's Law and Practice of Insurance Coverage Litigation, and a host of other publications dealing with litigation and insurance issues.

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