 | Professor Petros C. Mavroidis is born in Thessaloniki, in the north of Greece. He is Edwin B. Parker Professor of Foreign and Comparative Law at the Columbia Law School, Columbia University, and teaches at the Faculty of Law of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Professor Mavroidis, who earned his law degree at the University of Thessaloniki and has an LL.M. from Berkeley, originally focused his work on antitrust and public international law. He worked in the Legal Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the 1990s, and has written extensively on the organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Professor Mavroidis is one of the world’s leading experts on the WTO and its dispute settlement mechanism. Since 1996, he serves as the Legal Advisor to the WTO in the Technical Cooperation Division, where he assists developing countries in WTO dispute settlement proceedings. He is also the Chief Co-Reporter of the American Law Institute project “Principles of International Trade: The WTO,” and a member of the board of the Council of the World Trade Law Association. His most recent work includes “The Genesis of the GATT”, (2008, with Prof. Dr. Douglas Irwin and Prof. Dr. Alan Sykes) and “WTO Law and Developing Countries” (2007, with George Bermann). |
