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Biography
Gregory Shaffer is a leading scholar of the World Trade Organization, of law and globalization, and of transnational legal orders and legal ordering, working in the tradition of legal realism and socio-legal studies. He introduced the concept of public-private partnerships in the WTO dispute settlement system, examining how they work in practice in the United States, the European Union and Brazil. He also has written major books on the international law and politics governing genetically modified foods, transatlantic relations, and transnational legal orders. Shaffer is a Chancellor's Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. He has previously been the Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, held the first Chair at Loyola University Chicago School of Law (the Wing-Tat Lee Chair), and was a Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was Co-Director of the Center on World Affairs and the Global Economy. He serves as the Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) for its project on WTO Dispute Settlement and Developing Countries, and served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and his J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Selected writings
Books
- Transnational Legal Orders, Cambridge University Press (with Terence Halliday).
- Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change, Cambridge University Press.
- Dispute Settlement at the WTO: The Developing Country Experience, Cambridge University Press.
- When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods, Oxford University Press.
- Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation, Brookings Institution Press.
- Transatlantic Governance in the Global Economy, Rowman & Littlefield.
Articles
- The Empirical Turn in International Legal Scholarship, 106 American Journal of International Law 1(with Tom Ginsburg).
- Transnational Legal Process and State Change, 37 Law and Social Inquiry 229-264.
- Hard vs. Soft Law: Alternatives, Complements and Antagonists in International Governance, 94 Minnesota Law Review 706-799 (with Mark A. Pollack).
- Varieties of New Legal Realism: Can a New World Order Prompt a New Legal Theory?, 95 Cornell Law Review 61 (with Victoria Nourse).
- For other publications, see [SSRN http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=85914]