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.
Jeffrey
Golden (Jeffrey.golden@allenovery.com)
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 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.
Chair-Elect.
Aaron
Schildhaus ( aaron@schildhaus.com )
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
Vice Chair.
Glenn
Hendrix ( glenn.hendrix@agg.com )
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.
Finance Officer.
Salli
Anne Swartz (sswartz@pgparis.com)
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.
Secretary.
Gabrielle
Buckley (gbuckley@vedderprice.com)
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.
Liaison 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.Policy/Government Affairs Officer.
John
Magnus (john.magnus@starpower.net)
is a trade lawyer in Washington,
DC and serves as an Adjunct Professor
at the University of Baltimore
School of Law. Within the SIL,
John has spent several years in
the leadership of the Int
ernational Trade Committee, including as Co-Chair from 2000-02; he currently serves as the Section’s liaison to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and represented the Section at the 2004 Cancun WTO Ministerial. John has also served on numerous Section task forces and working groups focused on international antitrust issues, been a frequent program chair for trade-related programs, and helped plan several Section Spring Meetings.
Programs Officer.
Barton Legum (blegum@debevoise.com) is Counsel with Debevoise & Plimpton 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.
Membership Officer.
Lisa J. Savitt (lisa.savitt@akerman.com) is Of Counsel in Akerman Senterfitt's Washington, D.C. office and is a member of the Litigation and Global Practice Groups. 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.
Lisa is a former President and founding member of the International Aviation Womens Association. Lisa has published widely including the following articles: An Inconvenient Forum? Practice Tips for Foreign Defendants Who Find Themselves in U.S. Courts – 36 International Law News 24 (Summer 2007); Personal Jurisdiction and the Foreign Defendant – 34 International Law News 17 (Fall 2005) and Update on the Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters – 34 Tort & Insurance Practice L.J. 519 (Winter 1999).
Diversity Officer.
Magda Theodate bio coming soon.
Rule of Law Officer.
Steven E. Hendrix (shendrix@usaid.gov) serves on the Mexico and Central America Desk with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, DC. Steve holds a fellowship with the DePaul College of Law International Human Rights Law Institute. A licensed attorney in Bolivia, Guatemala, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, with over 60 professional journal publications and an award-winning book, he has been an active Section member since 1987, and since 2002, has served as the Section’s Rule of Law Officer (which includes the Technical Legal Assistance Board - TLAB, ABA/United Nations Development Program (UNDP) International Legal Resource Center Board - ILRC, Francis Shattuck Security and Peace Institute and International Legal Exchange Committee - ILEX). He is on the Section Administration Committee and Section Council. Previously, Steve was an ABA Presidential representative to help explore mediation settlement options on certain high profile property conflicts in Nicaragua, served on the ABA Latin America Legal Initiatives Council (by ABA Presidential appointment), and participated as an organizer for the Central America ILEX trip. He was a co-chair of the Section's 2005 Spring Meeting and the Chair of the Rule of Law Day for the Section 2007 Spring Meeting.
Technology Officer.
Jason Matechak. Biography soon to follow.
Publications Officer.
Mark E. Wojcik (7wojcik@jmls.edu) 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 ( jmarkus@carltonfields.com )
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 ( mhbyowitz@wlrk.com )
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.
Deborah
Enix-Ross ( denixross@debevoise.com )
is the Litigation
Practice Group Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton
LLP, New York. She is a Council
Member and Chair of the Section’s
Strategic Communications Task
Force. Deborah has served the
Section as a Member of the Governance
Task Force, and as Division Chair
of the General, Public International
Law, Business Regulation, and
Comparative Law Divisions. She
was a Co-Founder and Co-Chair
of the Women’s Interest
Network, a Member of the Long
Range Planning Committee and Section
Secretary. Deborah also has served
as Vice-Chair of the International
Commercial Arbitration Committee
and Chair of the Goal IX Committee.
ABA Board of Governors Liaison.
Alison
R. Nelson is managing counsel
of Ford Motor Company's Consumer
Litigation. Nelson is Ford's
chief counsel on all consumer
affair issues, and has responsibility
for several thousand lawsuits.
In addition, she handles some
commercial litigation matters,
including antitrust and contract
disputes. Nelson also serves
as chair of Ford's Outside Minority
Counsel and Charitable Contributions
committees. Nelson has served
on various American Bar Association,
National Bar Association and
State Bar of Michigan committees.
Within the ABA, she took office
in 2005 for a three-year term
as a member of the Board of
Governors, has chaired the Commission
on Homelessness and Poverty,
and served in the House of Delegates
and as a member on the Commission
on Racial and Ethnic Diversity
in the Profession. She also
is a member of the ABA Gavel
Awards Committee. In other legal
organizations she is a member
of the Legal Aid and Defenders
Association of Michigan, the
National Bar Institute Board
of Directors (Grants Committee
Chair) and the State Bar of
Michigan Access to Justice -
Corporate Committee. From 2000
to 2001 she served as president
of the Wolverine Bar Association.
Active in her community, Nelson
served as Assistant General
Counsel for the Michigan State
Council of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People. She has received several
awards for her commitment to
diversity, including the Wolverine
Bar Association Trailblazer
Award and the National Bar Association
Presidential Award. Nelson is
also an active member of the
Word of Faith International
Christian Center. Nelson received
her Juris Doctor from Michigan
State University College of
Law and her Bachelor of Arts
degree from Michigan State University.
