Gregory Shaffer

Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law

Gregory Shaffer

N230 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-625-2630

shaffer@umn.edu

Dartmouth College, B.A.
Stanford Law School, J.D.

Professor Gregory Shaffer is the Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, where he will begin teaching in 2008. He currently is Wing-Tat Lee Chair of International Law at Loyola University in Chicago. He was previously a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he directed the University of Wisconsin's European Union Center and co-directed its Center on World Affairs and the Global Economy.

He teaches courses in a number of subject areas, including international law, international trade law, European Union law, and international business transactions, and conducts a variety of research seminars. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1980 and his J.D., with distinction, from Stanford Law School in 1988. He earlier practiced law in Paris for seven years for Coudert Freres and Bredin Prat, where he was a member of the Paris bar.

Professor Shaffer's publications include Regulating Risk in the Global Economy, The Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (forthcoming, with Mark Pollack), Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation (Brookings Institution Press, 2003), Transatlantic Governance in the Global Economy (with Mark Pollack, Rowman & Littlefield 2001), and more than 50 articles and book chapters on international trade law, global governance, and globalization's impact on domestic regulation.

Professor Shaffer's work is cross-disciplinary and empirical, addressing such topics as public-private networks in international trade litigation; comparative institutional approaches to handling trade-social policy conflicts; and national regulation in global context. His articles have been published in the Yale Journal of International Law, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Law and Contemporary Problems, Journal of International Economic Law, American Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of European Law, World Trade Review, Journal of World Trade, European Law Journal, Journal of European Public Policy, and The Washington Quarterly, among others.

Professor Shaffer is a recipient of two U.S. National Science Foundation grants for his empirical work on developing country participation in WTO dispute settlement, and on conflicts involving international trade and environmental policies. In 2007 he was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Rome. He has also been designated a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation (2004) and at Columbia Law School (2002), and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at DePaul University College of Law (2003). Among his numerous presentations, he was a speaker at three of the five conferences organized by the WTO Appellate Body for its tenth anniversary in 2005, held in Tokyo, Cairo and Sao Paulo.

Professor Shaffer is the Senior Research Fellow in the program on developing countries and WTO dispute settlement at the International Centre on Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva (see http://www.ictsd.org/ issarea/dsu/index.htm and http://www.ictsd.org/pubs/ictsd_series/ resource_papers/DSU_2003.pdf). He is coordinating with Damian Chalmers of LSE an International Research Collaborative on Transnational Transformations of the State. Some of Professor Shaffer's papers can be downloaded from SSRN at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=85914.