Feb 05 Mon
2018

Paradigm Lost: US Trade Policy as an Instrument of Foreign Policy

05:30PM - 07:00PM Washington College of Law NT01

Ambassador Wolff serves as Deputy Director-General of the 164 member World Trade Organization (WTO).  For the six years prior to his appointment in 2017, he served as the Chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC), one of the principal U.S. organizations supporting international trade.  Ambassador Wolff served as United States Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations in the Carter Administration and was General Counsel of the Office in the Ford Administration. He was acting Head of the U.S. Delegation for the Tokyo Round of multilateral trade negotiations, and a principal draftsman of the basic U.S. law creating a mandate for international trade negotiations. As Deputy USTR he was a founder of the OECD Steel Committee and its first chairman. He has served as a senior trade negotiator in, and advisor to, both Republican and Democratic U.S. administrations.  After government service, he was a leading international trade lawyer dealing with international negotiations and litigation. Prior to his service at USTR, he served in the U.S. Treasury as staff attorney for the National Advisory Committee on International Monetary and Financial Policy, participating in the work of the OECD Development Assistance Committee, reviewing lending policies in the IMF and the World Bank, and participating in the drafting of the Articles of Agreement of the African Development Fund. He was director of the Treasury’s Office of Multilateral Trade Negotiations.  He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), is a lifetime National Associate of the National Academies, having served several terms on the Science, Technology and Economic Policy Board of the Academies and chairing its Committee on Comparative Innovation Policies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the E15 Initiative’s Experts Group (Innovation).   He has lectured and written extensively on trade topics including the need for a strong, open rules-based multilateral trading system. He holds a J.D. degree from Columbia University and an A.B. degree from Harvard College.

  • Lecture
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
  • CLE
Feb 06 Tue
2018

Domestic Violence Clinic Small Group Session

10:00AM - 11:00AM Washington College of Law YT16

This information session is for students interested in applying to the Domestic Violence Clinic for 2018-2019. All students applying to clinic must attend at least one small group session for one of our 11 live-client clinical offerings.

The Clinic application deadline is Friday, February 16th, at 5:00 p.m. EST. 

  • Information Session
  • Open To Students AND Faculty/Staff
Feb 06 Tue
2018

Accessibility in the 21st Century: Telecommunications as a Tool for Integration

12:00PM - 01:00PM Washington College of Law N102

Join the Disability Law Society and Program on Law and Government for Accessibility in the 21st Century: Telecommunications as a Tool for Integration on Tuesday, February 6 at noon in N102. The event will feature Jules Polonetsky, the chief executive officer of the Future of Privacy Forum; Karen Peltz Strauss, the deputy chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission; and Henry Claypool, policy director of the Community Living Policy Center at the University of California San Francisco. The panel will be moderated by Professor Fernando Laguarda. Panelists will discuss their respective positions; the history, future, and current state of accessibility in telecommunications; which statutes and regulations impact or discuss such accessibility; and how these statutes and regulations play a role in the accessibility or creation of such technology. 

  • Presentation
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Feb 06 Tue
2018

Immigrant Justice Clinic Small Group Session

12:00PM - 01:00PM Washington College of Law YT16

This information session is for students interested in applying to the Immigrant Justice Clinic for 2018-2019. All students applying to clinic must attend at least one small group session for one of our 11 live-client clinical offerings.


The Clinic application deadline is Friday, February 16th, at 5:00 p.m. EST. 

  • Information Session
  • Open To Students AND Faculty/Staff
Feb 06 Tue
2018

Community & Economic Development Law Clinic Small Group Session

05:00PM - 06:00PM Washington College of Law Y250

This information session is for students interested in applying to the Community & Economic Development Clinic for 2018-2019. All students applying to clinic must attend at least one small group session for one of our 11 live-client clinical offerings.

The Clinic application deadline is Friday, February 16th, at 5:00 p.m. EST. 

  • Information Session
  • Open To Students AND Faculty/Staff