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C.
Christopher
Parlin
Of Counsel
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Chris Parlin has 30 years of experience in the international trade field. Mr. Parlin represents and advises governments, companies and industry associations in trade negotiations, WTO and NAFTA dispute settlement proceedings, international trade policy matters and United States trade remedy proceedings. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities in WTO negotiations and dispute resolution. He was the first private counsel to prepare and argue a WTO member’s case before a WTO panel and appellate body.
Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Parlin served in the US government for 18 years in the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and previously in the Departments of Commerce and Treasury. He was a Deputy Assistant USTR for Multilateral Trade Negotiations, where he was a principal advisor to USTR Ambassador Mickey Kantor on the Uruguay Round WTO/GATT negotiations and the domestic implementing legislation. Mr. Parlin served as Legal Advisor to USTR’s Mission in Geneva, Switzerland at a critical juncture in the global trading system, from 1987 to 1993, when the Uruguay Round that formed the WTO was being negotiated. He litigated over 60 GATT dispute settlement proceedings in this role and served as the primary US negotiator for the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding and the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and as a key US negotiator for the Antidumping Agreement. Subsequently, he was the Deputy Assistant USTR for North American Affairs, responsible for NAFTA and Mexican bilateral issues.
Since 1995, Mr. Parlin has served as an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He teaches courses on WTO issues with the pre-eminent GATT/WTO scholar Professor John Jackson and with David Christy. Since 2006, when he was named as a founding faculty member he has taught at the Academy of WTO Law and Policy of Georgetown’s Institute for International Economic Law. He also is a frequent lecturer and instructor on WTO legal issues.
Mr. Parlin is consistently recognized for his work in the area of international trade in publications such as Who’s Who Legal, Best of the Best USA, The Guide to the World’s Best International Trade Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America. In 2009, he was honored as a Distinguished International Trade Law Alumnus by the International Trade Law Society of the American University Washington College of Law.
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Publications
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"Policy Perspectives: How WTO Disputes Could Hurt US Business," World Trade (May 2009)
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"Trade Disputes Will Mark 2008," Forbes.com Commentary (January 29, 2008)
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"Why Aren’t Services Getting the Attention They Deserve?" Focus on Trade Policy, Miller & Chevalier Chartered Volume 2, Issue 4 (March 14, 2008)
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"Imagining Doha: Outlook and Issues for the Doha Round at the End of Its Sixth Year," Global Business Dialogue (November 2007)
- Editor, WTO Decisions: A Comprehensive Topical Index, Cameron May, London (2004) (updated semi-annually)
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"Operation of Consultations, Deterrence and Mediation [in the WTO]," 31 Law and Policy in International Business 565 (Spring 2000)
Seminars
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Panelist, “Free Trade Endangered: Protectionism or Pragmatism,” speaking on international obligations of the US that impacted permissible actions under the stimulus package and the auto bailout bill, a joint event of the ABA's International Trade Committee and American University's Washington College of Law, Washington, DC (April 2009)
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"Capitals and the Global Economic Commons," WTO Public Forum, Geneva, Switzerland (October 2007)
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Lecturer, "WTO Legal Structure" and "MFN Treatment and Preferential Arrangements," IIEL Academy of WTO Law and Policy, Georgetown University Law Center (October 2007; October 2006)
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Speaker, "Saudi Arabia Beyond the WTO," Jeddah Economic Forum, Saudi Arabia (February 2006)
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Speaker, "Saudi Arabia’s Accession to the WTO: Is a 'Revolution' Brewing?," Middle East Policy Council (January 2006)
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Speaker, "Is There Such a Thing as WTO Practice?," Ontario [Canada] Bar Association (March 2005)
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Speaker, "Key WTO Decisions Affecting US Practice," International Trade Update 2004, Georgetown University Law Center (March 2005)
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Keynote Speaker, NAFTA 10th Anniversary Conference, San Antonio (May 2004)
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Speaker, "Subsidies – Recent Developments and Future Issues," American Enterprise Institute (March 2004)
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Speaker, "WTO Dispute Settlement," ABA Conference on Law of International Trade and Economic Relations, organized by Professor John Jackson (October 2003)
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Expert Instructor, WTO Legal Compliance Training Program (for Chinese government officials), organized by the Asia Foundation, Hong Kong (August 2003)
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Speaker, "WTO Trade Remedy Panel Decisions," International Trade Update 2002, Georgetown University Law Center (January 2003)
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Moderator, "Interplay of WTO/NAFTA Dispute Resolution and CIT Litigation," 12th Judicial Conference, United States Court of International Trade (November 2002)
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Speaker, "Current Developments Regarding the WTO Financial Services Agreement," IMF Institute (May 2002)
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Expert Instructor, WTO Case Study Course (for Chinese government officials), organized by Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Beijing (September 2001)
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Speaker, "Aerospace Trade Disputes," Annual Meeting, ABA Forum on Air and Space Law, Montreal (August 2000)
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Presenter, "Law and Practice of the WTO," Conference on New Frontiers of International Law, Lauterpacht Research Centre, Cambridge (April 1999)
EDUCATION
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J.D., American University, Washington College of Law 1975
cum laude
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Diploma, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna 1972
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B.A., Yale University 1971
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EDUCATION
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J.D.,
American University, Washington College of Law
1975
cum laude
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Diploma,
Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna
1972
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B.A.,
Yale University
1971
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