Joel Richard Paul
Joel Richard Paul
University of California
Hastings College of the Law
ph: 415-565-4638 fax: 415-565-4865
e-mail: paulj@uchastings.edu
September 2020
Academic Employment
University of California Hastings College of the Law
Albert Abramson ’54 Professor
Harry & Lillian Hastings Chair, 2005-2006; Director of International & LL.M. Programs, 2001-2004, 2007-2008; Professor, July, 2000 to present; Visiting Professor, 1999-2000.
Associate Academic Dean for Global Programs, 2011-2013; Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs, 2008-2011;
Established LL.M. for international students, visiting foreign scholars program, Summer Law Institute, international internships, and 20 foreign exchange, study abroad, and joint degree programs;
Responsible for overseeing undergraduate international students and advising international law concentration;
Responsible for designing proposal for enhanced revenues, new campus, and 3+3 program with U.C. Santa Cruz;
Faculty advisor to International and Comparative Law Review, Comparative and International Law Society, and Outlaw (LGBT student organization);
Worked on major gifts for international programs, proposed East Asian Law Center and student internships;
Member, Faculty Appointments Committee, 2020-2021; Chair, Student Disqualification Committee, 2019-2021; Chair, Special Review Committee for Long-Term Contract Faculty, 2020-2021; Member, Faculty Finance Committee, 2012-2014, and 2018-2019; Chair, International Programs Committee, 2007-2013; Special Committee on Revenue Enhancement, 2010; Moderator, Faculty Workshop Series, 2000-2002, 2007; Chair, International Law Concentration, 2006-2007; Admissions Committee, 2004-2005; Faculty Executive Committee 2002-2003; Chair, Graduate and Exchange Programs Committee, 2001-2004.
Courses: international trade, international business transactions, constitutional law 1 and 2, foreign relations, national security, public international law, and international law in U.S. courts.
Leiden University Law Faculty
Visiting professor, Spring, 2019.
Course: U.S. Constitutional Law
University of California Berkeley Law School
Visiting Professor, 2015.
Course: International Trade Law
University of Connecticut School of Law
Professor and Director of International Legal Programs and Graduate Studies, 1996 - 2000; Visiting Professor and Acting Director, 1994-1995.
Responsible for establishing and overseeing programs for international students and foreign exchange programs and supervising foreign undergraduate students.
Chair, Faculty Appointments Committee, 1997-1998; Chair, International Programs Committee, 1996-1999.
Courses: international law, international economic law, foreign relations law, constitutional law, and international business transactions.
Yale Law School
Visiting Lecturer, 1995 for five-year appointment.
Courses: national security and foreign relations law.
Europa Institute, University of Leiden Law Faculty, The Netherlands
Visiting Professor, January, 1993-June, 1993.
Courses: international and European trade law.
The American University, Washington College of Law
Professor, 1992 - 1995; Associate Professor, 1990-1992; Assistant Professor, l986 - 1990.
Faculty liaison to American University School of International Service.
Faculty Appointments Committee, 1990-1991.
Courses: foreign relations law, international business transactions, international trade law, seminar on advanced trade policy, and law of the European Communities.
Other Employment
Graham & James, San Francisco, CA; Associate in international banking and corporate practice; l982 - 1986;
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts; Instructor, International Politics; 1981-1982;
Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Tutor, Quincy House; 1979-1982;
Graham & James, San Francisco, CA; Law Clerk; Summer, 1981;
Surrey & Morse, Washington, D.C.; Law Clerk; Summer, 1980;
Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, Illinois; Law Clerk; Summer, 1979;
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; Research Assistant for William Taubman, Stalin’s American Policy, (Norton 1979), 1977;
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.; Research Fellow and co-author of study on the U.S. involvement in the Iraqi-Kurdish War of 1974, 1976.
Education
Harvard Law School
Juris doctorate, June 1982.
Senior Editor, Harvard International Law Journal.
Fletcher School Of Law & Diplomacy
Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy, (Law and Economic Development) September, 1982.
Master's Thesis, "Problems of Dependency in the Welfare State."
Completed all course work for Ph.D. and qualified.
London School of Economics and Political Science
General Course, (International Economics and International Relations), 1975-1976.
Amherst College
Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude (History, Economics and Political Science),
January 1978. Phi Delta Sigma, member; Amherst Student, senior editor; International Relations Club, Chair and founder.
Books and scripts
Indivisible: The Rise of American Nationalism, 1812-1860 Penguin Random House (forthcoming);
Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times, Penguin Random House Press/Riverhead Books (2018);
Unlikely Allies the Musical, (2018), wrote book and lyrics;
Revolutionaries, (2012, stage play) first staged at the American Theatre Group, Rahway, New Jersey;
Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright and a Spy Saved the American Revolution, Penguin Press/Riverhead Books (2009); softcover (2010)
Es Realmente Libre el Libre Comercio? (“Is Free Trade Really Free?) (Helena Alviar García trans., Pontifícia Universidad Javeriana, Instituto Pensar 2006);
Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy, with Stephen Cohen and Robert Blecker, Westview Press, (1996).
Book Chapters
“The Isolation of Private International Law,” and “Comity in International Law,” in Private International Law and Public Law, (Horatia Muir Watt, ed.) Edward Elgar Publishing, (2016);
Books and chapters”Implementing Regulatory Cooperation Through Executive Agreements and the Problem of Democratic Accountability,” in Trans-Atlantic Regulatory Cooperation, (George Bermann, ed.) Oxford University Press, (2000);
“Executive Agreements,” Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, (Leonard Levy and Kenneth Karst, ed.) MacMillan Press, (second edition 2000);
“Political Corruption as an International Offense,” Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, (2000);
"Environmental Regulatory Competition in the E.C." in International Regulatory Competition and Coordination (William Bratton, Joseph McCahery, Sol Picciotto and Colin Scott, ed.) Clarendon Press Oxford, (1996);
"The New Inter-American Development Policy: EAI and its effects on U.S.- Latin American and Caribbean Trade Relations" in Le libre-échange dans les Amériques (Une perspective continentale)/Free Trade in the Americas (An Hemispheric Approach), N. Lacasse et L. Perret (dir.), Collection Bleue, Montréal, Wilson & Lafleur Ltée, (1994);
"The Effect of Economic Integration on Environmental Standards," Proceedings of the 87th Annual Meeting, The American Society of International Law, (1993);
"Financing Ocean Mineral Developments: Commentary," in The Developing Order of the Ocean, ed. Krueger & Riesenfeld, University Of Hawaii, (1984).
Articles
“Trading Up: Reversing the Race to the Bottom,” (forthcoming 2020);
“Past Forward: Speaking With One Voice,” Colonial Williamsburg Journal Trend & Tradition, Summer, 2019;
“If Trump causes a constitutional crisis, will Roberts court show the courage of John Marshall?,” Los Angeles Times, March 29, 2018;
“The Cost of Free Trade,” Brown University Journal of World Affairs (Winter 2015-2016);
“The Myth of Economic Interdependence,” 11 Waseda Proceedings of Comparative Law 293 (Spring 2009);
“The Transformation of International Comity,” 71 Duke Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems 19 (Summer 2008);
“Do International Trade Institutions Promote Economic Growth?” 9 Hong Fan Pinglun 220 (2007) (republished in Chinese by the Hong Fan Law and Economics Research Institute, Shanghai);
“The Rule of Law is Not for Everyone,” 24 Berkeley Journal of International Law 221 (2006);
“The Bush Doctrine: Breaking or Making Customary International Law?” Hastings Comparative and International Law Journal (Spring 2004);
“Do International Trade Institutions Promote Economic Growth?” 44 Virginia Journal of International Law 285 (Fall 2003);Journal articles
“Resisting Culture,” 16 Leiden Journal of International Law 919 (2003);
“Holding Multinational Corporations Responsible Under International Law,” 24 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 285, (Spring 2001);
“Cultural Resistance to Global Governance,” 22 Michigan Journal of International Law, 1, (Fall 2000);
“Political Corruption as an International Offense,” 94 American Society of International Law 56 (2000);
“Is Global Governance Safe for Democracy?” 1 University of Chicago Journal of International Law 263, (Fall 2000);
“Essays on the Nature of International Trade Law,” (Book Review) 94 American Journal of International Law 206, (January 2000);
"The Geopolitical Constitution: Executive Expediency and Executive Agreements," 86 California Law Review 671, (July 1998);
"Free Trade, Regulatory Competition and the Autonomous Market Fallacy," 1 Columbia Journal of European Law 29, (Fall/Winter 1994/95);
"The New Movements in International Economic Law," 10 The American University Journal of International Law and Policy 607, (Winter 1995);
"The Argument Against International Abduction of Criminal Defendants,” 6 American University Journal of International Law & Policy 527, (Summer 1991);
"Comity in International Law," 32 Harvard International Law Journal 1, (Winter 1991);
"Time ripe for Japan to pressure U.S.," The Japan Times, (May 27, 1990);
“The Isolation of Private International Law," 7 Wisconsin Journal of International Law 149, (Fall 1988);
"Images From Abroad: Making Direct Broadcasting by Satellite Safe for Sovereignty," 9 Hastings International & Comparative Law Review 329, (Winter 1986);
"International Adjudication: Embassy Seizure - U.S. v. Iran," 21 Harvard International Law Journal, (Winter 1980);
"Economic Sanctions Against South Africa? - Lessons from Rhodesia," 3 Fletcher Forum, (1979).
Awards and fellowships
Albert Abramson Chair, 2018-;
Harry & Lillian Hastings Chair, 2005-2006;
Shulman Distinguished Lecturer, “De-Globalizing Poverty: International Economic Regulation and the World's Poor,” George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C., November 2005;
Fulbright Research Award, The Netherlands, 1992-1993,
researched effect of E.C. harmonization on recycling waste packaging.
Selected unpublished papers
“Trading Up: Reversing the Race to the Bottom,” Center for American Progress, Sep. 2019;
“Without Precedent,” San Francisco Commonwealth Club, April, 2018;
“The Power of History,” Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley Osher Theatre, April, 2018;
“John Marshall and the Supreme Court,” Federal Bar Association, Washington, D.C., April, 2018;
“Without Precedent,” Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C., April, 2018;
“John Marshall and American Exceptionalism,” Boston Athenaeum, March, 2018;
“Rival Cousins: John Marshall and Thomas Jefferson,” Fraunces Tavern, New York, New York, March, 2018;
“How the Revolutionary War Shaped John Marshall,” David Library of the American Revolution, March, 2018;
“The False Promise of Free Trade,” New York University Rubin International Law Symposium, November, 2016;
“Trading Up: How to Make Globalization Work for People,” University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Economics, Social Justice Speaker Series, May, 2015;
“A Global Race to the Top: Fair Wages for Free Trade,” Economic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., October, 2013;
“Fair Wages for Free Trade,” Law and Society Annual Meeting, Boston, May, 2013;
“Are We Becoming More Interdependent?” Law and Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, May, 2010;
“Globalization and Poverty,” George Washington University National Law Center, Washington, D.C., November, 2005;
“Resisting Culture,” in The International Legal Order, Institute for International Peace, Vienna, Austria, November, 2004;
“The Irrelevance of Comparative Advantage,” N.Y.U. Law School, New York, November, 2002;
“The Interface Between International Regulatory Initiatives and Domestic Legal and Institutional Environments: the U.S. Case,” Columbia Law School, April, 1999;
“Cultural Exceptions,” Harvard European Law Research Center, Writer=s Workshop, February, 1999;
"The State and the Market," Harvard Law School, February, 1995;
"Free Trade and International Environmental Regulatory Competition," University of Warwick, England, Conference on International Regulatory Competition, July, 1994;
"Economic Integration and the Race to the Bottom," University of Connecticut School of Law, November, 1993;
"Trade, Environment and the E.C. Packaging Waste Regulation," Community Law, Trade and Environmental Protection Conference, Institut d'Etudes Juridiques Européenes, University of Liege Law School, Belgium, June, 1993;
"Crossing Boundaries in the European Community," Law & Society 1992 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, May, 1992;
"The New Movement in International Law," Joint Luncheon of the School of International Service and the Washington College of Law, The American University, Washington, D.C., April, 1992;
"Harmonization in the European Community," International Conference of the Law and Society Association, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, June, 1991;
"Separation of Powers and the Debate about Treaty Interpretation under the Constitution," Conference sponsored by the A.B.A. Standing Committee on Law and National Security, Washington, D.C., May, 1990;
"Legal and Political Problems of Satellite Broadcasting," Lecturer, School of Business, San Francisco State University, February, 1985.
Presentations to Congress
“Leveling the Playing Field for U.S. Manufacturers,” Testimony to the Subcommittee on Economic Policy of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Washington, D.C., October, 2013;
"On the Constitutionality of the World Trade Organization," debate with Professor Bruce Ackerman, Congressional Constitutional Forum, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C., October, 1995;
Testimony on the Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Senate Judiciary Committee, October, 1991;
Testimony on the Constitutionality of HR 1587, U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, April, 1988.
Selected academic presentations
“The Rise of American Nationalism, 1812-1860,” U.C. Hastings Faculty Colloquium, Aug. 2020;
“The Imperial Presidency and the Constitution: Lecture Series,” Book Passage, Corte Madera, Jan. 2020;
“The Vanishing Wall: The Evolution of the Free Exercise Clause,” Book Passage, Corte Madera, Dec. 2019;
“The Relevance of John Marshall,” Southern Texas Federal Bar Association and Biennial South Texas Federal Judicial Conference Annual Dinner, Houston, Oct., 2019;
“New Trade Deal for a New Century,” Conference on a New Deal for a New Century, Stanford Rock Center-NYU Law School, Washington, Sep., 2019;
“John Marshall’s Defense of the Rule of Law,” Tommy G. Thompson Center for Leadership, University of Wisconsin, Sep., 2019;
“The Impeachment of Donald Trump,” Oct. 2019;
“Review of Supreme Court Decisions 2018-2019,” UC Hastings, Sep. 2019;
“America’s Constitutional Crisis,” Leiden University Law Faculty, May, 2019;
“Mueller Investigation,” UC Hastings, Mar. 2019;
“Without Precedent,” Cosmos Club, Washington, DC, October, 12 2018;
“Without Precedent,” Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA., October 11, 2018;
“John Marshall and the Rule of Law,” University of Richmond, John Marshall Center, October 11, 2018;
“John Marshall’s Defense of the Rule of Law,” University of Illinois John Marshall School of Law, Chicago, September 17, 2018;
“Without Precedent,” New York Historical Society, New York Public Library, Bryant Park, New York City, August 15, 2018;
“Defending the Constitution: John Marshall and the Present Constitutional Crisis,” Mill Valley Public Library, August 3, 2018;
“Constitutional Issues Raised by the Mueller Investigation,” University of California San Francisco Medical School, San Francisco, July, 2018;
“The Invention of John Marshall and His Defense of the Rule of Law,” Hearst Museum of Anthropology and Heyday Press speaker series, U.C. Berkeley, May, 2018;
“Wage Stagnation, Social Dumping and Reform of the WTO,” Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C., April, 2018;
“Without Precedent: How the American Revolution Shaped John Marshall’s Jurisprudence,” David Library of the American Revolution, March, 2018;
“U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East,” Stevens Lecture, conversation with Ambassadors Ryan Crocker and Anne Patterson, U.C. Hastings, January, 2018;
“Voting Access,” panel symposium, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, January, 2018;
“Presidential Authority to Cancel Trade Agreements,” What Just Happened lecture series, UC Hastings, October, 2017;
“If Men Were Angels,” Book Passage series on U.S. Constitutional Law, October, 2017;
“When is a Cake Just a Cake? Masterpiece Bakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, What Just Happened lecture series, UC Hastings, September, 2017;
“Strengthening the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” Keynote address, Symposium on the TPP, NYU Law School, November, 2017;
“The Cost of Free Trade,” Hastings Faculty lunch, February, 2016;
“The Problem of Social Dumping,” with Alan Sykes, International Law Colloquium, Hastings, February, 2016;
“Leveling the Playing Field in Trade,” Presidio Graduate School, October, 2014;
“The Myth of American Exceptionalism,” Draper Early American Studies Conference, University of Connecticut Department of Early American Studies, October, 2014;
“Challenges to American Secondary Education,” Amherst College, May, 2012;
“The Persecution of the Roma in the E.U.,” Hastings Law School, March, 2011;
“The Secret Diplomacy of the American Revolution,” University of Connecticut, Nov. 2009;
“Gender, Violence and International Law,” U.C.S.F. Medical School, Oct. 2009;
“The International Roots of the Banking Crisis,” Hastings College of the Law, April, 2009;
“The Second Amendment,” Debate, Hastings College of the Law, March 2009;
“How to Save the Banks,” Hastings Faculty Colloquium, February 2009;
“The Financial Crisis,” Panel, Hastings Faculty Colloquium, October 2008;
“The Myth of Interdependence,” Waseda University Law School, Tokyo, Japan, July 2008;
“The Bush Doctrine,” Aoyama Gakuin Law School, Tokyo, Japan, July 2008;
“The Geopolitics of Private International Law,” American Association of Law Schools/American Society of International Law Mid-Year Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, June 2007;
“Globalization Myths,” University of Glasgow Faculty of Law, Glasgow, Scotland, November 2007;
“Colonialism and Globalization,” School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, November 2007;
“In the Embrace of the Market: Private International Law and Globalization,” Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, New York, April 2006;
“Freedom of the Press and Press Privileges,” Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly Symposium, San Francisco, March 2006;
“International Arbitration and Private International Law,” International Legal Theory Roundtable, Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, September 2005;
“Limits of International Law,” Roundtable, Boalt Hall Law School, University of California Berkeley, January 2005;
“Globalization and the Promise of the WTO,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 2004;
“The Bush Doctrine,” Symposium on Resort to Force, University of California, February 2004;
“The Irrelevance of Comparative Advantage,” Conference on Law and Development, Harvard Law School, April, 2003;
“The Ethics of Patient Safety,” SAFER Conference, University of California at Irvine, College of Medicine, September, 2002;
“Does the World Trade Organization Threaten Sovereignty?” Symposium on Sovereignty, Panel discussion, University of California, February, 2002;
“The Empowered Self: Culture and Globalization,” New York University School of Law, New York, December, 2001;
“The Impact of Globalization on Racial Minorities,” Faculty Workshop, University of California Hastings College of Law, October, 2001;
“The War on Terrorism,” University of California, September, 2001;
“Globalization and Culture,” Cultural Narratives in International Law, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, July, 2001;
“Globalization and Cultural Barriers to Trade,” Meyers Institute, Leiden University, The Netherlands, June, 2001;
“Scholarship in International Economic Law,” American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April, 2001;
“Corporate Accountability and International Law,” Symposium on Holding Multinational Corporations Responsible Under International Law, University of California, February, 2001;
“Cultural Resistance to Global Governance,” Colloquium on International Law and Politics, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, January, 2001;
“Whales, Women and Words: Forms of Cultural Exceptions to International Law,” Stanford Law School Faculty Colloquium, Palo Alto, California, April, 2000;
“Structural Bias in the W.T.O.,” Harvard Law School European Law Research Center, April, 2000;
“Political Corruption as an International Offense,” American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. March, 2000;
“Cultural Exceptions to International Legal Norms,” Ninth Regional Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Golden Gate University School of Law, March, 2000;
“The Cold War and the Rule of Law,” American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March, 1999;
"Arguing with Ricardo," New Approaches to International Law Conferences, Harvard Law School, May, 1997;
"Regulatory Harmonization," New Approaches to International Law Conference, University of Wisconsin Law School, July, 1996;
"The Constitutionality of Executive Agreements," International Economic Law Group, American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., June, 1996;
“Rethinking the Globalized Market,” Conference on Culture, The Sovereign and the Market, Harvard Law School European Law Research Center, University of Connecticut School of Law, April, 1995;
"Environmental Regulation," Conference on the Future of the North American Free Trade Agreement, University of Puerto Rico, March, 1995;
"Trade and the Environment," The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, Massachusetts, October, 1994;
"Views from the Margins," Public Law and Constitutional Theory, Workshop of the Institute of Hellenic Constitutional History and Constitutional Law at the University of Athens, May, 1994;
"Economic Integration in the E.C. and NAFTA," University of Tübingen, Faculty of Law, Tübingen, Germany, June, 1993;
"Economic Integration and Environmental Protection in the E.C.," Europa Institute, Faculty of Law, Leiden University, June, 1993;
"The Internationalization of Domestic Law," Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., April, 1993;
"NAFTA and the Environment," International Law Society, Washington, D.C., November, 1992;
"Sexual Minorities in Legal Education," Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October, 1992;
"Inter-American Trade Relations," Conference on Canada and Free Trade in the Americas, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Canada, October, 1992;
“Interdisciplinary Approaches to Economic Law,” American Society of International Law Workshop on New Approaches to Teaching International Economic Law, Washington, D.C., February, 1992;
“Reforms in U.S. Trade Law,” Second Annual Trade Law Conference, American University, Washington, D.C., October, 1989;
"Minorities in the Classroom," Sexual Orientation and the Law, Harvard Law, April, 1989;
“Omnibus Trade Act of 1988,” American University, Washington, D.C., November, 1988;
"U.S. Trade Laws and Developing Countries," American University, Washington, D.C., March,1988.
Selected presentations and speeches
“The Relevance of John Marshall,” Sausalito Rotary Club, Aug. 2020;
“The Constitution and the Imperial Presidency,” Book Passage, Jan.-Feb., 2020;
“The Relevance of John Marshall,” UC Hastings San Diego Alumni Chapter, January, 2020;
“The Freedom to Speak,” Book Passage, Jan.-Feb. 2019;
“The Trans-Pacific Partnership,” San Ramon Valley Democratic Club, May 2016;
“The Problem of Social Dumping,” Hastings International and Comparative Law Symposium on Sustainability and Globalization, March, 2016;
“Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership,”
UC Hastings International Law Seminar, October 2015;
“Unlikely Allies,” Calvary Presbyterian Church Seniors, April, 2014;
“Unlikely Allies,” Daughters of the American Revolution, San Francisco, September, 2013;
“Unlikely Allies,” Sausalito Rotary Club, June, 2013;
“American Federalism,” Consulate of the Netherlands, March, 2011;
“The Conservative Assault on the Constitution,” conversation with Erwin Chemerinsky,
Mechanics Institute Library, San Francisco, October, 2010;
“Cross Border Culture Challenges to Trade Law,” International Bar Association, Vancouver, Canada, October, 2010;
“Unlikely Allies,” Sausalito Public Library, September, 2010;
“Revolutionary War Diplomacy,” Mechanics Institute Library, San Francisco, July, 2010;
“Unlikely Allies,” Mill Valley Rotary Club, June, 2010;
“The Diplomacy of the Founding Generation,” Amherst College, May, 2007;
“Three Myths of Globalization,” World Affairs Council, San Francisco, April 21, 2006;
“The Argument for U.N. Intervention in Iraq,” Bay Area National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco, June, 2004;
“The Legality of Regime Change,” World Affairs Forum, San Francisco, April, 2003;
“War Against Terrorism: Civil Liberties v. National Security,” Amherst College, June, 2002;
“Combating Corruption in Market Economies,” Center for Citizen Initiatives, visiting attorneys from Russia, University of California, May, 2002;
“Globalization and Race,” presentation at International Law Association Meeting, Pepperdine University School of Law, January, 2001;
“Is Globalization Consistent with Democracy?” Conference on the Implications of Growing Global Governance for American Democracy, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. March, 2000;
"Is the World Trade Organization Constitutional?" Connecticut Bar Association, Section on International Law, New Haven, January, 1995;
“Political Corruption in Market Democracies,” Open Society Institute, University of Connecticut Law School, February, 1999;
“Women in a Transitional Market Economy and Globalization,” Conference on the Status of Women in New Market Economies, Center for East-West Women, Hartford, Connecticut, April, 1996;
"Why Clinton Won: the Politics of Meaning," Politics and Culture Festival, Wiardi Beckman Stichting, Wageningen University, Netherlands, May, 1993;
"Lessons from the Thomas Hearings," Amherst College, May, 1992;
"Reforming the Senate Confirmation Process," California Women Lawyers, San Francisco, January, 1992;
"Sexual Harassment and the Court," Jewish Community Center Public Affairs Forum, Washington, D.C., January, 1992;
"Lessons from the Confirmation Process," Harvard Club of Washington and National Press Club, (broadcast by C-Span), Washington, D.C., November, 1991;
"Sexual Harassment and the Media," The American Forum, Washington, D.C., November, 1991;
"Lessons from the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings," Amherst College, October, 1991;
"The Confirmation of Justice Thomas," Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, October, 1991;
“Contemporary Issues in World Trade Law,” Third Annual Trade Law Conference, American University, Washington, D.C., October, 1991;
Association of American Law Schools New Law Teachers Workshop, Seminar leader, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., July, 1991;
“Academic Careers for Sexual Minorities,” Academic Career Forum, Harvard Law School, April, 1990.
Selected Podcasts, Television, Radio and Newspaper Interviews
“Court Packing Plans,” Court TV, Sep. 22, 2020;
“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” Voice of America International Edition, Sep. 20, 2020;
“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” KTVU TV, Sep. 18, 2020;
“Supreme Court Decisions,” Voice of America International Edition, July 9, 2020;
“Supreme Court Decisions,” Voice of America International Edition, July 8, 2020;
“Supreme Court Decisions,” KTVU, July 8, 2020;
“Supreme Court and Racial Issues,” The San Francisco Chronicle, June 30, 2020;
“Reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act,” KTVU, May 28, 2020;
“Impact of coronavirus on world trading system,” Voice of America International Edition, Mar. 2, 2020;
“Brexit,” Voice of America International Edition, Jan. 2020;
“Trial of Donald Trump,” KPFA, Jan. 2020;
“Roberts’ views could still impact impeachment trial,” S.F. Chronicle, Jan. 2020;
“Impeachment of Donald Trump,” ongoing interviews, Voice of America International Edition, Nov., 2019-Jan. 2020;
“Impeachment,” KTVU Fox television, Jan. 2020;
“Trade War,” ongoing interviews, Voice of America International Edition, Jan. 2020;
“Trade Pact with China,” KTVU Fox television, Jan. 2020;
“In Deep with Angie Coiro,” KALW -- PLX radio syndication, March, 2019;
“Civics for Life Podcast,” Sandra Day O’Connor Institute, Arizona State University, March, 2019;
“Chief Justice John Marshall,” WNYC Public Radio, August, 15, 2018;
“Having Read That,” KSCJ-FM, Sioux City, Iowa, February, 2019;
“Good Books Radio,” Texas NPR, February, 2019;
“Conversations,” Kansas NPR, February, 2019;
“Speaking of Writers,” Albany, N.Y. syndicated, February, 2019;
“Morning Show,” WFLA-FM, Orlando, February, 2019;
“Morning Show,” WTYX-FM, Fort Mill, South Carolina, February, 2019;
“Morning with Warren Lawrence,” WKNY-AM, Kingston, NY, February, 2019;
“The Bill Newman Show,” WHMP-AM, Springfield, MA., February, 2019;
“Indiana in the Morning,” WDAD-AM, Indiana syndicated, February, 2019;
“Midwest Opinion,” KOGA-AM, Denver, February, 2019;
“Dean and Friends,” KMA-AM, Omaha, February, 2019;
“Morning News,” Kentucky News Network, February, 2019;
“Without Precedent,” Book TV talk, October, 2018;
Midday on WNYC National Public Radio, August 15, 2018
“Forum with Michael Krasny,” KQED, July, 2018;
Ben Franklin’s World podcast, Fall, 2018;
The Age of Jackson podcast, Spring, 2018;
Forum with Michael Krasny on KQED National Public Radio, March 19, 2018;
American Voices podcast, Winter, 2018;
Forum with Michael Krasny on KQED Radio, July 4, 2010;
West Coast Live with Sedge Thomson, KALW Public Radio, January 2, 2010;
Boards, professional and community activities
Federal Level the Playing Field in Trade Act (S.1801), principal author, co-sponsored by U.S. Senators Merkley, Baldwin, Brown and Warren;
Middle school tutor, 2012-2013, Willow Creek School, Sausalito, CA;
Appointed to City of Sausalito Housing Element Committee (for affordable housing), 2010 – 2011;
Organizer, Health as a Human Right Conference, U.C.S.F. /U.C. Hastings Consortium, March, 2010;
Chair, Surviving Climate Change: Adaptation & Innovation, symposium, U.C. Hastings, April, 2008;
Chair, Committee of Concerned Neighbors for Green Space, Sausalito, 2005;
Member, Academic Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on International Judicial Relations Task Force on Education, 2003;
Co-chair, Symposium on Holding Multinational Corporations Responsible Under International Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law, February, 2001;
Editorial board, Global Jurist, an online publication of Berkeley Electronics Press, 2001;
Member, Executive Council, American Society of International Law, 1998-2000;
Member, Nominating Committee, American Society of International Law, 1999-2000;
Incorporator, The Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, 1999-2001;
Chair, Conference on Political Corruption in Market Democracies, Sponsored by the Open Society Institute and the University of Connecticut Law School, February, 1999;
Trustee, The Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, 1998-1999;
Member, Planning Committee, American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, 1998-1999;
Member, Selection Committee for Ron Brown Fellowship, IREX, 1997-1998;
Board Member, Gay Lesbian & Straight Educators Network (CT.), 1998-2000;
Chair, Conference on the Status of Women in New Market Economies, Sponsored by the Center for East-West Women and the University of Connecticut, April, 1996;
Member, Coordinating Committee, New York Center for the American Society of International Law, 1995-1996;
Chair, American Society of International Law International Economic Law Group, 1993-1995;
Chair, Conference on Culture, the Sovereign and the Market, Sponsored by the Harvard Law School European Law Research Center and the University of Connecticut School of Law, April, 1995;
Co-chair, Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Economic Law, American Society of International Law, February, 1994;
Member, Planning Committee, American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, 1992-1993;
Clinton for President, contributor to trade policy issues, transition team and fund raising activities, Washington, D.C., March - November 1992;
Chair, American Society of International Law Workshop on New Approaches to Teaching International Economic Law, Washington, D.C., February, 1992;
Vice-Chair, American Society of International Law International Economic Law Group, 1991-1993;
Of Counsel, Woodward v. U.S., Petition for Writ of Certiorari, (challenging the exclusion of gay men and lesbians from the military), U.S. Supreme Court, October, 1989;
Member, Planning Committee, A.B.A. Section on International Law Annual Meeting, 1988-1989;
Board Member, Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, helped to establish a program providing free legal services to persons with AIDS and organized U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief in Bowers v. Hardwick, 1985-1986;
Executive Board, Amherst College Alumni Association of Northern California, 1985-1986;
Member, American Society of International Law, l985-2000;
Member, California Delegation, 1984 Democratic National Convention;
Hart Presidential Campaign, San Francisco Campaign Director, 1984;
Chair, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy N. CA. Alumni Association, 1983-1985;
Chair, Law Students Programs, Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom Legal Issues Conference, 1983-1984;
Participant, Lawyer's Committee for Urban Affairs Legal Clinic, 1982-1986.
Bar Memberships
Member, D.C. Bar Association, l987-present;
Member, U.S. Supreme Court Bar, l986-present;
Member, California Bar Association, l982-present.
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