David A. Gantz teaches and writes in the areas of international trade and investment law, regional trade agreements, public international law and international environmental law. He is also a nonresident fellow for Rice University Baker Institute for Public Policy Mexico Center with a focus on international trade and economics. Previously, David was a visiting professor of law at American University and George Washington University Law School, a lecturer in law at the University of Pennsylvania and visiting assistant professor of law at the University of Costa Rica. David has also taught at Georgetown University, Loyola University, the University of San Diego Law School and Universidad Rafael Landívar. He served earlier in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State and practiced law in Washington, D.C., after earning AB (Harvard College), JD, JSM (Stanford Law School).

He has written extensively on World Trade Organization and NAFTA trade law and dispute resolution issues, as well as a range of other international trade matters. Gantz is the author or co-author of four books and more than 50 law review articles and book chapters, has served as a consultant for the UNDP, USAID and the World Bank, among others, and served as a panelist under Chapters 11, 19 and 20 of NAFTA. His most recent book is Liberalizing International Trade after Doha: Multilateral, Plurilateral, Regional and Unilateral Initiatives (Cambridge University Press, 2013, 2015).

Curriculum Vitae

SSRN Published Papers

Representative Publications

• The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement:  Its Substance and Impact on International Trade, NAFTA, and Other FTAs (co-editor, with Jorge Huerta Goldman, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020).
• USMCA Reports:  Available at https://www.bakerinstitute.org/experts/david-a-gantz/.
• The Risks and Rewards of Renegotiating the North American Trade Relationship, 33 Md. J. Int'l L. 127 (2018).
• Liberalizing International Trade after Doha:  Multilateral, Plurilateral, Regional, and Unilateral Initiatives (2013).
• GATT/WTO Rules Governing the Use of Safeguard Measures, in International Trade Law and the WTO 269 (Indira Carr, Shawkat Alam, & Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan eds., 2013).
• Resolution of Investor-State Controversies in Developing Countries, 5 Law & Dev. Rev. 83 (2012).
• WTO Case Reviews, Arizona J. Int'l & Comp. L. (annual reviews, 2000 - 2017) (co-author, with Raj Bhala et al.).
• Trade Remedies in North America:  Laws, Economic Analyses and Practice (2010) (co-author, with Gregory Bowman, Nick Covelli, & Ihn Ho Uhm).
• Regional Trade Agreements: Law, Policy & Practice (2009).
• Complete List of Publications

Education

• J.S.M. Stanford Law School
  1970
  Thesis topic:  "Industrial Encouragement Legislation in Central America: The Costa Rica Experience"
• J.D. Stanford Law School
  1967
  Ford Foundation International Legal Studies Fellowship; President, International Law Society; Editorial Board and co-founder, Stanford Journal of International Studies
• A.B. Harvard College
  1964
  Graduated cum laude in Government

Admitted to Practice

• Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• U.S. Court of International Trade
• U.S. Supreme Court
• District of Columbia
• Ohio

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