Webinar: U.S. Trade Law in the Age of Multipolarity

This webinar will provide an overview of US trade laws which have their roots in the United States Constitution. The main Tariff Acts will be examined as will be the various administrative authorities created by law. The presenters will discuss specific issues of importance in connection with American trade laws such as Rules of Origin Determination, Valuation Determination, Anti-Dumping Determination and Penalties, and Countervailing Duties Determination. There will be a brief discussion of regional initiatives, Bilateral Treaties, and Free Trade Agreements. Finally, the recent conflict in Ukraine has prompted the imposition of a number of trade and other sanctions. The authority for these actions will be examined and discussed.

Presented by the International Law Section

About the Presenters

David Wemhoff  is the Chair of the International Trade and Customs Law Committee of the International Law Section.  Mr. Wemhoff holds an LLM in International and Comparative Law from the McKinney School of Law, Indiana University, and a JD from the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific.  He is a lawyer and taught college level courses in Business Law and American Constitutional Law.

Professor Doctor Frank Emmert, LLM, FCIArb, John S. Grimes Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Frank Emmert became a professor of law and the Executive Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law beginning in the summer of 2003. He is the founder and managing editor of the European Journal of Law Reform (since 1997). Before his appointment at IU he was a visiting professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. He has also served as Dean of Concordia International University Estonia School of Law, Executive Director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute, Lecturer in European and International Law at the European institute of Basle University. He has taught courses at the Universities of Strasbourg (France), Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Warsaw and Krakow (Poland), Ljubljana and Maribor (Slovenia), Prague (Czech Republic), St. Gall (Switzerland), the College of Europe (Poland), as well as Stanford Law School and Rutgers University School of Law.

Prof. Emmert is fluent in German and English, conversant in French and Italian, and speaks some Spanish and Estonian. He has advised various governments and multinational enterprises, and speaks frequently at conferences and seminars in Europe and the US. His publications include more than 10 books and 40 articles in the areas of European Union, international and comparative law.

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