Professor Andrew Mitchell

: Professor Andrew Mitchell
Melbourne Law School
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Andrew joined the faculty at Melbourne Law School in 2006, having been a Senior Fellow since 2002. Andrew graduated from the University of Melbourne with First Class Honours in his Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce degrees. He subsequently obtained a Graduate Diploma in International Law from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School. In 2005, he successfully defended his PhD thesis on "The Role of Principles in WTO Dispute Settlement" at the University of Cambridge, where he was a WM Tapp Scholar of Gonville & Caius College and a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholar.

During 2003-2004, Andrew was a Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University. Since 2004, he has been a Fellow of the Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade & Finance at Bond University. In 2006, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, in 2007 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and in 2008 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Law, London School of Economics and Scholar-in-Residence at the International Arbitration Group of WilmerHale in London. In 2007, following a nomination by the Australian government, the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body added him to the indicative list of governmental and non-governmental panelists to hear WTO disputes. In 2009 he was a visiting Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University.

Andrew was previously a Solicitor with Allens Arthur Robinson (formerly Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks) in Australia, and he worked briefly at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. He has also worked in the Trade Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Intellectual Property Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He was a Consultant to the IMF in Geneva from 2003 to 2005.

Education:

LLB (Hons)(Melb), BCom (Hons)(Melb), LLM (Harvard), PhD (Cambridge)

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