About the Contributors

Jeffrey M. Aresty is the founder and a principal of Aresty International Law Offices, P.C. and co-editor of The ABA Guide to International Business Negotiations, 2d ed. Aresty is the president of LexUniversal.com, a virtual global network of independent law firms in 40 countries.

Andrew S. Breines is a principal and chief operating officer of Aresty International Law Offices, P.C. Breines is a former director of the New England Taiwan Business Council.

John P. Cogan, Jr., is an international corporate partner in the Houston office of King & Spalding, where he focuses his practice on international energy and financial and commercial transactions. He has authored numerous publications and serves as corresponding editor of International Legal Materials, published by the American Society of International Law.

Michael Marks Cohen is senior partner, Burlingham Underwood L.L.P., New York. He teaches the admiralty law course at Columbia Law School and is a member of the American Law Institute.

Steven M. Glick is senior vice president Business Affairs and general counsel of Paramount Home Entertainment International, a global leader in the distribution of filmed entertainment on videocassette and DVD. Glick spent the first eight years of his career in the New York, London, and Paris offices of Shearman & Sterling. Before joining Paramount in 1999, he served as director of business and legal affairs for Graseby plc (1992-1997) and as general counsel of Ladbroke Group plc (now known as Hilton Group plc) (1997-1999).

Marc J. Goldstein of Proskauer Rose L.L.P. in New York is co-chair of the International Commercial Arbitration Committee of the ABA Section of International Law and Practice and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He devotes most of his time to international arbitration and international litigation and has published several articles on those topics.

Clifford J. Hendel is a partner at Araoz & Rueda in Madrid, where he has practiced since 1997. Previously with White & Case in New York and Paris, he spent a year between such postings as visiting foreign lawyer with Gómez-Acebo & Pompo in Madrid.

Carolyn B. Herzog is senior corporate counsel for Symantec Corporation, formerly the acting general counsel of AXENT Technologies, Inc., prior to its acquisition by Symantec. She is a resident of Washington, D.C., and focuses her practice on international intellectual property is sues and technology transactions. Herzog is the co-chair of the Women's Interest Network (WIN), a committee that provides a forum within which members of the ABA Section of International Law and Practice can identify and discuss substantive issues of special interest to women involved in the practice of international law.

Nancy D. Israel practices law with Erickson Schaffer Peterson Israel & Silberman, P.C. in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Israel counsels clients on a variety of domestic and international business matters from start-up through expansion and exit. Her more specialized expertise includes foreign business arrangements, computer systems integration contracts, assessments of insurers' risks and insurance vehicles, general counsel services, and complex commercial negotiations.

Eleanor Roberts Lewis is chief counsel for International Commerce at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. Lewis acts as the U.S. Government Liaison for International Trade Law to the Section of International Law and Practice of the ABA.

Daniel B. Magraw is director of the International Environmental Law Office at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. From 1983 to 1992, he was professor of international law at the University of Colorado, where he taught public international law, international environmental law, international business transactions, and international development policy and the law. He was a visiting scientist during 1989-1990 at the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado.

Louis Maresca is a legal adviser in the Mines-Arms Unit of the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland.

Andrew J. Markus is a member of the Latin-American Practice Group of Hughes Hubbard & Reed L.L.P. in its Miami, Florida, office, and serves as General Division chair of ABA's Section of International Law and Practice.

Daryl A. Mundis is a legal officer with the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and is vice-chair of the ABA International Courts Committee. He may be contacted at thehague@wanadoo.nl.

Carole Silver is senior lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law and co-director of the Certificate Program in Law & Social Science of Northwestern University and the American Bar Foundation.