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B.A. Yale, 1953 (high honors); LL.B. Harvard, 1957 (cum laude); Fulbright Fellow, Turkey, 1967; Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1973-74; Eisenhower Exchange Fellow, 1976.

Currently: Chairman, International Law Institute and Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; Counsel, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

Courses Taught: Public International Law; International Business and Economic Law; GATT/WTO; International Monetary, Finance and Investment Law; International and Comparative Procurement Law; Infrastructure Projects in Developing and Transition Countries; Investor-State Dispute Settlement; Constitutional Aspects of Foreign Affairs; Conservatism in Law in America; Property

Member, Legal Advisory Committee, National Legal Center for the Public Interest; member, Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law; US delegate to UNCITRAL; arbitrator; member panel of arbitrators of Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration; member, Board of Directors, Institute of Investment and Arbitration, Cairo; member, American Law Institute; member, Board of Governors, Republican National Lawyers Association; member, Board of Directors, Bulgarian American Society; member, advisory board, Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (CEELI); emeritus member, Board of Directors, International Development Law Institute, Rome; member,Board of Directors, International Law Students Association; member, advisory committee, ABA/UNDP International Legal Resource Center; liaison of American Bar Association to UNCITRAL; correspondent, UNIDROIT, and vice president, Board of Governors, Uniform Law Foundation(UNIDROIT foundation), Rome; member, Academic Council, European Center for Peace and Development, UN University for Peace, Belgrade; member, International Board of Advisors, The University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law; member, Board of Directors, Freud Foundation US, New York, New York.

Formerly: private practice in New York City; Deputy Assistant General Counsel, regional legal advisor Middle East, acting head Private Enterprise, Alliance for Progress, and consultant, AID; chairman, Section of International Law and Practice, and member of House of Delegates, American Bar Association; chairman, advisory committee on Technology and World Trade, Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress; member, United States Delegation, U.N. Conference on State Succession in Respect of Treaties; chief United States delegate to UNCITRAL on industrial works contracts, procurement law and BOT/privately financed infrastructure projects; member, executive committee, Commercial Law Association (UNCITRAL foundation); vice president, Shaybani Society of International Law; member, Research Council, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University; member, International Investment Committee, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; member, Board of Trustees, and Secretary, the Media Institute; alternate representative, Committee on Legal Aspects of NIEO, International Law Association; chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on the ALI Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, American Bar Association; co-chairman, joint committee with Canadian Bar Association on trade and investment, American Bar Association; chairman, Private International Law Coordinating Committee, Section of International Law and Practice, American Bar Association; member-at-large, Board, Harvard Law School Association, Washington, D.C.; member, visiting committee Harvard law School (sub-committee on graduate and international programs); member, advisory board, Indonesia Economic Law and Improved Procurement Systems (ELIPS); member, Board of Directors, Azerbaijan-American Educational, Cultural and Economic Center; president, consortium on privately financed infrastructure projects, European Center for Peace and Development, UN University for Peace, Belgrade; member, Board of Trustees, Middle East University of Science and Technology, Cairo; Legal Advisor, State of Qatar; co-director, economic and business law project with Russian (and formerly USSR) Academy of Sciences; visiting professor of law, People's University, Beijing, PRC; on roster of panelists of World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body; member, steering committee for law, National Association of Scholars; The Constitution Project(Guidelines for Constitutional Amendments; War Powers Initiative); member, Membership Committee, Cosmos Club; national chairman, Law Professors for Bush and Quayle, 1988, 1992; national co-chairman, Law Professors for Dole and Kemp, 1996.

Author, Dear Mr. President: The Needed Turnaround in America's International Economic Affairs; International Regulation of Multinational Corporations; co-author, International Economics and Business: Law and Policy; Regulating Public Procurement: National and International Perspectives; Transnational Corporations and Legal Issues; Commentaries on Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States; Introduction to Turkish Law; A Lawyer's Guide to International Business Transactions; member of editorial boards, author, editor, contributor articles, journals and books; Recipient: Harry Leroy Jones Award for outstanding achievement in foreign and international law, 1992, Leonard J. Theberge Award for distinguished and long-standing contributions to the development of private international law, 2005; Inaugural Aelex Annual Lecture, Lagos, Nigeria, 2005.

Member Cosmos and Metropolitan Clubs, Washington, D.C.; biography in WHO's WHO in America, and other biographical references.