CUA Columbus School of Law

Antonio F. Perez
Professor pereza@law.edu

Since coming to The Catholic University of America in 1993, Professor Perez has taught public international law, international economic regulation, international regulation of telecommunications, national security and foreign relations law, a special seminar in homeland security issues, antitrust, contracts, torts, constitutional law, and conflict of laws. He has published widely in international law topics, including United Nations peacekeeping and use of force, nuclear non-proliferationinternational trade, the recognition and enforcement of judgments international judgments, and international human rights. His experience before coming to CUA included several years at the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, where his areas of responsibility included international civil and criminal mutual legal assistance, economic sanctions, peaceful nuclear cooperation and nuclear non-proliferation issues. Prior to that, he was as a corporate lawyer in the Antitrust Group of Shearman Sterling in New York. He is a former editor of the Columbia Law Review and has served as a faculty adviser to CUA Law Review, as well as an advisor to the Jessup Moot Court Team.

In 2006, Professor Perez accepted life membership on the Council on Foreign Relations. The independent, nonpartisan think-tank and research organization has become a widely-known and deeply influential voice in U.S. foreign policy since its founding in 1921. He is also a member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States, to which he was elected by the OAS General Assembly held in Quito, Ecuador in June 2004, after being nominated by the Bush Administration. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Committee of International Legal Materials, a publication of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), as chairman of the ASIL's International Security Interest Group, and a member of the amicus Committee of the Hispanic National Bar Association. In addition to serving on the Study Group on Judgments of the State Department's Private International Law Advisory Committee and the roster of arbitrators for NAFTA chapter 19 antidumping and countervailing duty disputes, Professor Perez regularly briefs international visitors from Latin America on the U.S. legal system and issues of international and constitutional law. He has appeared on "CNN International," Voice of America TV, and a number of radio news analysis shows. Professor Perez was also selected by the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia as one of its “Rising Legal Stars” for 2006.

EMPLOYMENT

The Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America

Assistant Professor: 1993 - 1997

Associate Professor: 1997 - 2002

Professor: 2002 - present

Courses: Contracts (1993-2003, 2005, and 2007), Public International Law (1994, 1995, and 1997), Antitrust (1996-1999, 2003, and 2005), International Economic Regulation (1996 and 1997), Foreign Relations and National Security (1996), International Regulation of Telecommunications (1998, 1999, and 2000), Constitutional Law (1999, 2002, and 2003), International Environmental Law (2000); Torts (2000, 2004, 2005, and 2007); Conflict of Laws (2000, 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2007), Homeland Security Law Seminar (2004), Comparative Law (2005); International Business Transactions (2005 and 2006); and Social Jurisprudence and the Law (2006).

Committee Work: Curriculum Committee (Chairman 2001-02); Admissions Committee, Academic Policy Committee, Law Review Advisor (1999-2003), Jessup Advisor (1993 - present)

Honors: “Mary, Mirror of Justice Lecture,” Selected by CUA Catholic Lawyers Guild (April 2002); Best First-Year Professor Award, Day Division (2002, 2003, and 2006); Best Evening Division Professor Award (2004); Rising Legal Star Award, Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Wash. DC, Nov. 1, 2006

Visiting Scholar, Universidade de la Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 2001

Office of the Legal Adviser, State Department

Attorney Adviser: Nuclear Non-proliferation (1991 - 1993)

African Affairs (1988 - 1991)

Law Enforcement and Intelligence (1987 - 1988)

Administrative: Attorney Recruitment Committee (1989 - 1990)

Sherman & Sterling, New York, N.Y.

Associate: Litigation Group (1986 - 1987)

Antitrust Group (1985 - 1986)

EDUCATION

Columbia Law School (J.D., 1985)

Columbia Law Review (staff, 1983 - 1984; editor, 1984 - 1985)

Harvard College (A.B. cum laude, 1982)

BAR ADMISSIONS

New York, 1986; District of Columbia, 1987

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Council on Foreign Relations, Term Member (1991 -- 1996), Life Member (elected 2006)

Inter-American Juridical Committee, Organization of American States (nominated by the U.S. and elected by OAS General Assembly to a four-year term, effective Jan. 1, 2005); private sector member of United States Delegation to the General Assembly of the OAS, Quito, Ecuador (June 5-8, 2004)

Member of Roster of Arbitrators, NAFTA Chapter 19, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Arbitration (2002- present)

American Society of International Law

Editorial Advisory Committee, International Legal Materials

(1996 -- 2004)

Chair, Arms Control Interest Group (1998-2004)

D.C. Bar, International Law Section

Co-Chair, Committee on Public International (2000 -- 2002)

Hispanic National Bar Association

Amicus Committee (1999-2001)

PUBLICATIONS

Major Articles and Book Chapters

1995

Survival of Rights Under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Withdrawal and the Continuing Right of International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards, 34 Virginia Journal of International Law 749-830 (Summer 1994) (Number 4)

1996a

On the Way to the Forum: The Reconstruction of Article 2(7) and the Rise of Federalism under the United Nations Charter, 31 Texas International Law Journal 353-450 (Summer 1996)

1996b

Sovereignty, Freedom, and Civil Society: Toward a New Jerusalem, 45 Catholic University Law Review 851-860 (Spring 1996)

1996c

Notes on an International Civil Society: A Comment on the Report of the Commission on Global Governance in Civil Society and Social Reconstruction 242-66 (Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, George F. McLean ed. 1996)

1996d

Review Essay: Who Killed Sovereignty? 14 Wisconsin International Law Journal 464-90 (Spring 1996)

1997a

To Judge Between the Nations: Post Cold War Transformations in National Security -- Beating Nuclear Swords into Plowshares in an Imperfectly Competitive World, 20 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 331-412 (Winter 1997)

1997b

The Passive Virtues and the World Court: Pro-Dialogic Abstention by the International Court of Justice, 18 Michigan Journal of International Law 399-444 (Spring 1997)

1998

WTO and U.N. Law: Institutional Comity in National Security, 23 Yale Journal of International Law 301-81 (Summer 1998)

2000

The Perils of Pinochet: Problems for Transitional Justice and a Supranational Governance Solution, 28 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 175-221 (Spring 2000)

2001a

The International Recognition of Judgments: The Debate Between Private and Public Law Solutions, 19 Berkeley Journal of International Law 44-89 (2001)

2001b

U.S. Federalism and Spanish Autonomy – Lessons from U.S. Federalism for the External Activities of Substate Entities, XVII Anuario Espanol de Derecho Internacional 79-129 (2001)

2001c

The Modern Relevance of Legitimate Authority and Right Intention in the Just War Tradition, 51 Catholic University Law Review 15-26 (Fall 2001)

2002

Review Essay: International Antitrust at the Crossroads: The End of Antitrust History or the Clash of Competition Policy Civilizations?, 33 Law & Policy in International Business 527-54 (Spring 2002)

2003a

An Alternative to The Hague in Trilateral Perspectives on International Legal Issues: Conflict and Coherence 109-25 (Carmody, Iwasawa & Rhodes, eds. 2003)(Proceedings of Third Trilateral Conference of the U.S., Japan and Canadian Societies of International Law)

2003b

De-legalization of Arms Control – A Democracy Deficit in De Facto Treaties of Peace?, 4 University of Chicago Journal of International Law 19-39 (Spring 2003)

2005a

Legal Frameworks for Economic Transition in Iraq – Occupation under the Law of War vs. Global Governance under the Law of Peace, 18 Transnational Lawyer 53-72 (2005)

2005b

Moral Communities or a Market State: The Supreme Court’s Vision of the Police Power in the Age of Globalization, 42 Houston Law Review 637-725 (2005)(with Robert Delahunty)

2005c

The International Atomic Energy Agency in the changing structure of international organization law: A Cold War Institution Facing an Age of Terror, CURSO DE DERECHO INTERNACIONAL, Vol. XXXII 2005, 509-62 (Luis Toro Utillano ed., OAS Secretariat, Wash. DC 2006)

2005d

Civil Society and International Discourse, in Civil Society as Democratic Practice 71-88 (Antonio F. Perez, Semou Pathé Gueye and Fenggang Yang eds., The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2005)

2006a

The Impact of Economic Integration on Choice of Law Doctrine --

Lessons from the Interaction of U.S. Federalism and Choice of Law for the Evolution of Private International Law within the Context of EU Integration, Direito Comparado Perspectivas Luso-Americanas 263-74 (Dário Moura Vicente, ed. 2006)

2006b

Traditional Paradigms for the Causes of War Applied to the International Trading System: Nation-State Institutions in a World of Market-States in

Trade as the Guarantor of Peace, Liberty and Security? Critical, Historical and Empirical Perspectives 178-91 American Society of International Law Press, Studies in Transnational Legal Policy: A Series of Books) (Padideh Alai, Tomer Broude and Colin B. Picker, eds. 2006)

2006c

The Inter-American Juridical Committee and Private Law in the Americas (Or a Roadmap for Making the Best the Enemy of the Good?) in El Comité Juridíco Interamericano: Un Siglo de Aportes al Derecho 299-336 (OAS Secretariat, Rio de Janeiro, 2006)

2007

Mechanisms for the Protection of Democracy in the Inter-American System: Lockean vs. Aristotelian Constitutions, CURSO DE DERECHO INTERNACIONAL, Vol. XXXIII 2006, 217-40 (Luis Toro Utillano ed., OAS Secretariat, Wash. DC 2007)

Brief Notes and Reviews

1991

A Road Paved with Good Intentions: State and Local Efforts to Conduct Foreign Policy, Federal Bar News & Journal 405-09 (September 1991)

1993a

Recognition and Non-recognition of States: Ciskei, 1 Cumulative Digest of U.S. Practice of International Law, 1981-88, 272-76 (Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State: Washington, D.C., 1993)

1993b

Recognition and Non-recognition of Governments: Angola, 1 Cumulative Digest of U.S. Practice of International Law, 1981-88, 277-95 and 298-99 (Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State: Washington, D.C., 1993)

1993c

Other Subjects of International Law: U.N. Council for Namibia, 1 Cumulative Digest of U.S. Practice of International Law, 1981-88, 486-94 (Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State: Washington, D.C., 1993)

1995a

Economic Sanctions: South Africa -- The Extension of Sanctions to Namibia; Subsequent Legislation and Proposals, 3 Cumulative Digest of U.S. Practice of International Law, 1981-88, 3005-3014 (Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State: Washington, D.C., 1995)(with John R. Byerly)

1995b

Economic Sanctions: South Africa -- Prohibition of Uranium and Uranium Oxide Imports and Iron and Steel Imports, 3 Cumulative Digest of U.S. Practice of International Law, 1981-88, 3014-18 (Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State: Washington, D.C., 1995)

1995c

ASIL Briefing on UN Conference on Fish Stocks, American Society of International Law Newsletter 13-14 (June-August 1995) (report on remarks by David Balton, Office of the Legal Adviser, Dept. of State)

1995d

Book Review: Rights in Conflict: The United Nations and South Africa. By Louis B. Sohn. New York: Transnational Publishers, Inc., 89 American Journal of International Law 658-661 (July 1995)

2000

U.S. v. Microsoft: DOJ’s New Antitrust Paradigm Resurrects Outdated Economics, Legal Backgrounder (Washington Legal Foundation), Vol. 15, No. 11, February 4, 2000.

2002a

Does U.S. Government Misrepresentation About the Circumstances of the Spouse of a U.S. Citizen in Foreign Government Custody Give Rise to a Constitutional Tort Action Protecting the U.S. Citizen's Right to Access to Court?, Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases, No. 6, pp 307-11 (March 13, 2002) (ABA Division for Public Education)

2002b

The Adequacy of International Law for Arms Control -- Post Sept. 11: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Proceedings of the 96^th Meeting of the American Society of International Law, pp. 273-75 (March 13-16 2002, Wash. DC)

2004a

May a Foreign Plaintiff Sue a Foreign Defendant for Conduct Outside the U.S. That Caused Antitrust Injury Outside the U.S.?, Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases, No. 7, pp. 380-85 (April 12, 2004) (ABA Division for Public Education)

2004b

The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 in 2 Major Acts of Congress 100-06 (Brian K. Landsberg ed., 2004)

2005

Book Review, Jack Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner, The Limits of International Law (Oxford University Press 2005), ABILA Newsletter, Issue No. 71, May 2005 (Newsletter of the American Branch of the International Law Association)

2006a

Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, Vol. 2, 817-18 (Paul Finkelman ed. Routledge 2006)

2006b

Snepp v. United States, 444 U.S. 507 (1980), Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, Vol. 3, 1491-92 (Paul Finkelman ed. Routledge 2006)

MEDIA APPEARANCES

Various media appearances including CNN International (interviewed on the international law ramifications of the Canadian seizure on the high seas of the Spanish fishing ship, The Estai) and Christian Science Monitor (concerning whether Helms-Burton legislation imposing economic sanctions against Cuba violated international law), VOA’s Convercemos (on Patriot Act), and Northern Virginia’s Newschannel 8’s Newstalk Live (on the international law ramifications of the war against terrorism).

OTHER SERVICE ACTIVITIES, PRESENTATIONS, AND REPORTS

Conference on Jerusalem: Dimensions of a Unique City, sponsored by The Catholic University of America with the Embassy of Israel, October 24, 1995; moderator for Panel on Jurisprudence and the Issue of Jerusalem, and presented paper entitled "Sovereignty, Freedom, and Civil Society: Toward a New Jerusalem"

Panelist, Association of American Law Schools Workshop for New Law Teachers, Panel: "Issues Confronted by New Law Teachers," Wash., D.C., July 22, 1995

Moderator for Panel Discussion: "Allocation of Legislative Competence and Institutional Structures for Legislation: Federalism, Subsidiary and Legitimacy," Conference on Institutions for International Economic Integration; American Society of International Law and the International Economic Law Interest Group, Bethesda, Md., May 17, 1996

Moderator for Panel Discussion: "An Introduction to Alternate Dispute Resolution in the U.S.," Training Program for Arbitrators and Mediators at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, co-sponsored by The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, The Arab Studies Society, and The Jerusalem Arbitration Institute, September 1, 1996

Expert Evaluation of Manuscript for Catholic University of America Press: Christopher R. Rossi, The Scale Destroyed: James Brown Scott and the Great Chain of Being; Evaluation Submitted on October 22, 1996

Panelist, The World Court's Advisory Opinion on the Lawfulness of the Use of Nuclear Weapons, International Law Weekend, American Branch of the International Law Association; Presentation on ICJ’s Advisory Opinion Jurisprudence; New York, N.Y., November 2, 1996

Recovering Losses in Russia, Conference Sponsored by Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, and Bequeath Brown International, Inc.; Presentation on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments; Washington, DC on October 19, 1998

Panel on International Civil Litigation, Trilateral Meeting of American, Canadian and Japanese Societies of International Law; Presentation on WTO Approach to Problem of Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments; Ottawa, Canada, October 25, 2000

Panel on Regional Free Trade Agreements, Conference on EU-Israel Relations at the Center for European Studies at the Hebrew University; Presentation on Comparative Value of Regionalism vs. Multilateralism, with special attention to the NAFTA; Jerusalem, Israel, Jan. 12-13, 2002

Lecture to Judicial School, University of Barcelona, Spain, concerning U.S. Patriot Act and other anti-terrorism measures, Digital Video Conference sponsored by U.S. State Department, March 7, 2002 (delivered in Spanish)

Introductory Remarks to Annual Meeting of American Society of International Law, International Security Interest Group Meeting, Panel on Arms Control and Non-proliferation Policy Issues After September 11, published in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting

Lecture to John Paul II Catholic Lawyers Guild of the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, April 9, 2002, “Jesus and Socrates: Are They in Conflict for Law Teachers and Their Students?”

Lecture on Just War Theory, Conference on Law & Religion sponsored by Wilberforce Project, Wash. DC, May 10, 2002

Presentation, International Criminal Law and Law of War, Conference on International Law, International Relations, and Terrorism, Program on Global Security and Cooperation, Project on International Law and International Relations, Social Science Research Council, Wash. DC, November 14, 2002

Presentation, The Impact of Economic Integration on Choice of Law Doctrine, Conference on Comparative Federalism, University of Lisbon, Portugal, March 6, 2003

Lecture, University of Shanghai, PRC, concerning U.S. Patriot Act and other anti-terrorism measures, Digital Video Conference sponsored by U.S. State Department, May 22, 2003

Presentation, Legal Frameworks for Economic Transition in Iraq, International Law Symposium at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, February 20, 2004

Presentation, U.S. Embassies and Consulates in Canberra, Sydney, and Perth, Australia, concerning “Balancing Anti-Terrorism with Civil/Human Rights,” Digital Video Conference sponsored by U.S. State Department,

April 7, 2004

Participant, Panel Discussion on “Security: The War on Terrorism,” McNeil-Lehrer Newshour’s “By the People” Program, recorded at Princeton, University, May, 8, 2004 (panel of experts’ briefing for non-expert audience prior to group meetings) (see http://www.pbs.org/newshour/btp/events/5-8-princeton.html)

Panelist at debate sponsored by U.S. Embassy and Spanish Council on Foreign Relation (FRIDE) on the Patriot Act and the War on Terror, Madrid, Spain, July 7, 2004 (transcript available at FRIDE.com)

Presentation, U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines, concerning U.S. Anti-terrorism law and legislation, Digital Video Conference sponsored by U.S. Department of State, Dec. 7, 2004

Panelist, Panel on Trade, War & Peace in the Twenty-First Century, Conference on “Trade as the Guarantor of Peace, Liberty and Security?,” American Society of International Law International Economic Law Group & American University, Washington College of Law International Legal Studies Program (presented paper entitled “Traditional Paradigms for the Causes of War Applied to the International Trading System: Nation-State Institutions in a World of Market-States”), Wash. DC, Feb. 25, 2005

Moderator, Debate on Weapons of Mass Destruction, International Institutions, and World Order (between former Assistant Secretary of Energy in the Clinton Administration, Rose Gottemuller, and current Assistant Secretary of State, Steve Rademaker), Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, April 1, 2005

Lectures, “The IAEA in the Changing Structure of International Organization Law: A Cold War Institution Facing an Age of Terror,” Annual Course of the Inter-American Juridical Committee, Organization of American States, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 4-5, 2005 (in English and Spanish)

Lecture, Legal Aspect of the Preemptive Use of Force, Seminar on Preemptive War: Normative Dimensions, program on “Arms against a Sea of Troubles” at Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) in Oslo, Norway on September 9, 2005

Lecture, A Democratic Just War Theory: Right Intention in an Era of Popular Sovereignty, Panel on New Issues in Just War, American Maritain Association, Twenty-Nine Annual International Meeting, Philosophy and Vocation: Conditions for Renewal Commemorating Vatican II, in Washington, DC, October 15, 2005

Moderator, Panel: Environmental Law and Our Communities -- Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Harms Under the Alien Tort Claims Act: Does Sosa Close the Door?, Hispanic National Bar Association Annual Meeting, in Washington, DC, October 17, 2005

Presentation, U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico, concerning U.S. system for the protection of human rights, Digital Video Conference sponsored by U.S. Department of State, Dec. 14, 2005 (delivered in Spanish)

Presentation, Mechanisms for Defense of Democracy in the Inter-American System, Joint American Society of International Law and Inter-American Juridical Committee Workshop on Democracy, in Washington, DC, March 27, 2006

Lecture, Mechanisms for Defense of Democracy in the Inter-American System, Annual Course of the Inter-American Juridical Committee, Organization of American States, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 10, 2006

Presentation, U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia, Civil Liberties in the U.S. post 9/11, Embassy Roundtable Series on Human Rights and Democracy, Digital Video Conference sponsored by U.S. Department of State, Dec. 11, 2006

Presentation, Antitrust on the International Stage: Has the Concept of Comity Become Passé?, Washington Legal Foundation Media Nosh, April 17, 2007 (webcast at www.wlf.org)(with William Kolasky and Ronald Cass)

Commentator, Potomac Foreign Relations Law Roundtable on Friday, May 11, 2007, at the George Washington University Law School

U.S. Speaker Series Program, Norway, May 20-24, U.S. State Department Grant, meetings with law students and faculty at the University of Bergen, staff and researchers at the human rights organization Raftohuset, government officials, researchers at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, and NGO representatives, including several events hosted by Ambassador Whitney and DCM Johnson respectively, as well as press appearances (including a television interview on the weekly NRK program URIX, and print interviews with Bergens Tidene (Norway’s largest regional newspaper) and Juristkontakt, a professional magazine for lawyers), concerning issues in the law of war and domestic civil liberties in the war against terror

Miscellaneous Reports, Opinions and other Submissions for the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States (available on OAS website):

Reexamen de las convenciones sobre Derecho Internacional Privado y la CIDIP-VII, CJI/Res.83 (LXVI-O5/05), Managua, Nicaragua, March 9, 2005 (with co-rapporteurs Ana Elizabeth Villalta Vizcarra, and João Grandino Rodas);

COMITÉ JURÍDICO INTERAMERICANO. Opinión del Comité Jurídico Interamericano sobre el esfuerzo conjunto de las Américas en la lucha contra la corrupción y la impunidad (CJI/doc.181/05 rev.4), Managua, Nicaragua, March 10, 2005 (with Working Group: Ana Elizabeth Villalta Vizcarra, Stephen Vasciannie, and Mauricio Herdocia Sacasa);

Nota para el Comité Jurídico Interamericano sobre la Cidip-VII/Notes for the Inter-American Juridical Committee on CIDIP-VII (CJI/doc.192/05), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 22, 2005;

Comentarios sobre la agenda de la Cidip-VII/Comments on the Cidip-VII Agenda (CJI/doc.196/05 rev.1), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 12, 2005 (with João Grandino Rodas and Ana Elizabeth Villalta Vizcarra);

COMITÉ JURÍDICO INTERAMERICANO: Séptima Conferencia Especializada Interamericana sobre Derecho Internacional Privado [CJI/Res.100 (LXVII-O/05) and CJI/doc.196/05 rev.1], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 18, 2005 (with co-rapporteurs João Grandino Rodas and Ana Elizabeth Villalta Vizcarra);

Septima Conferencia Especializada Interamericana Sobre Derecho Internacional Privado (CIDIP-VII) [CJI/doc.227/06], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 9, 2006;

Cuestiones Sobre Ley Aplicable [CJI/doc. 230/06 corr.1], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 18, 2006)(with João Grandino Rodas);

Cuestionario para los Estados Miembros de la OEA respecto a la LEGISLACIÓN sobre Acceso a la INFORMACIÓN y la Protección de Datos Personales En Vista de la Posible Elaboración de un Instrumento Jurídico [CJI/doc.232/06 rev.1], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 17, 2006 (with Jaime Aparicio);

Informe Sobre La CIDIP-VII Con Respecto a La Negociación De Instrumentos Legales Concernientes A La Protección Al Consumidor/Report on CIDIP with Respect to the Negotiation of Legal Instruments Concerning Consumer Protection [CJI/doc. 43/07], San Salvador, El Salvador, 23 February 23, 2007;

Explicación de Voto en Disidencia Relative a la Resolución Sobre el Alcance del Derecho a la Identidad [CJI doc. 285/07, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 10, 20007;

Explicación de Voto en Disidencia relativo a la resolución sobre el Seguimiento de la aplicación de la Carta Democrática Interamericana [CJI doc.284/07], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 10, 2007

LANGUAGES

Spanish (fluent); French and Portuguese (reading)

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	Antonio F. Perez Professor pereza@law.edu Since coming to The Catholic University of America in 1993, Professor Perez has taught public international law, international economic regulation, international regulation of telecommunications, national security and foreign relations law, a special seminar in homeland security issues, antitrust, contracts, torts, constitutional law, and conflict of laws. He has published widely in international law topics, including United Nations peacekeeping and use of force, nuclear non-proliferationinternational trade, the recognition and enforcement of judgments international judgments, and international human rights. His experience before coming to CUA included several years at the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, where his areas of responsibility included international civil and criminal mutual legal assistance, economic sanctions, peaceful nuclear cooperation and nuclear non-proliferation issues. Prior to that, he was as a corporate lawyer in the Antitrust Group of Shearman Sterling in New York. He is a former editor of the Columbia Law Review and has served as a faculty adviser to CUA Law Review, as well as an advisor to the Jessup Moot Court Team. In 2006, Professor Perez accepted life membership on the Council on Foreign Relations. The independent, nonpartisan think-tank and research organization has become a widely-known and deeply influential voice in U.S. foreign policy since its founding in 1921. He is also a member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States, to which he was elected by the OAS General Assembly held in Quito, Ecuador in June 2004, after being nominated by the Bush Administration. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Committee of International Legal Materials, a publication of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), as chairman of the ASIL's International Security Interest Group, and a member of the amicus Committee of the Hispanic National Bar Association. In addition to serving on the Study Group on Judgments of the State Department's Private International Law Advisory Committee and the roster of arbitrators for NAFTA chapter 19 antidumping and countervailing duty disputes, Professor Perez regularly briefs international visitors from Latin America on the U.S. legal system and issues of international and constitutional law. He has appeared on "CNN International," Voice of America TV, and a number of radio news analysis shows. Professor Perez was also selected by the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia as one of its “Rising Legal Stars” for 2006. EMPLOYMENT The Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America Assistant Professor: 1993 - 1997 Associate Professor: 1997 - 2002 Professor: 2002 - present Courses: Contracts (1993-2003, 2005, and 2007), Public International Law (1994, 1995, and 1997), Antitrust (1996-1999, 2003, and 2005), International Economic Regulation (1996 and 1997), Foreign Relations and National Security (1996), International Regulation of Telecommunications (1998, 1999, and 2000), Constitutional Law (1999, 2002, and 2003), International Environmental Law (2000); Torts (2000, 2004, 2005, and 2007); Conflict of Laws (2000, 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2007), Homeland Security Law Seminar (2004), Comparative Law (2005); International Business Transactions (2005 and 2006); and Social Jurisprudence and the Law (2006). Committee Work: Curriculum Committee (Chairman 2001-02); Admissions Committee, Academic Policy Committee, Law Review Advisor (1999-2003), Jessup Advisor (1993 - present) Honors: “Mary, Mirror of Justice Lecture,” Selected by CUA Catholic Lawyers Guild (April 2002); Best First-Year Professor Award, Day Division (2002, 2003, and 2006); Best Evening Division Professor Award (2004); Rising Legal Star Award, Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Wash. DC, Nov. 1, 2006 Visiting Scholar, Universidade de la Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 2001 Office of the Legal Adviser, State Department Attorney Adviser: Nuclear Non-proliferation (1991 - 1993) African Affairs (1988 - 1991) Law Enforcement and Intelligence (1987 - 1988) Administrative: Attorney Recruitment Committee (1989 - 1990) Sherman & Sterling, New York, N.Y. Associate: Litigation Group (1986 - 1987) Antitrust Group (1985 - 1986) EDUCATION Columbia Law School (J.D., 1985) Columbia Law Review (staff, 1983 - 1984; editor, 1984 - 1985) Harvard College (A.B. cum laude, 1982) BAR ADMISSIONS New York, 1986; District of Columbia, 1987 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Council on Foreign Relations, Term Member (1991 -- 1996), Life Member (elected 2006) Inter-American Juridical Committee, Organization of American States (nominated by the U.S. and elected by OAS General Assembly to a four-year term, effective Jan. 1, 2005); private sector member of United States Delegation to the General Assembly of the OAS, Quito, Ecuador (June 5-8, 2004) Member of Roster of Arbitrators, NAFTA Chapter 19, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Arbitration (2002- present) American Society of International Law Editorial Advisory Committee, International Legal Materials (1996 -- 2004) Chair, Arms Control Interest Group (1998-2004) D.C. Bar, International Law Section Co-Chair, Committee on Public International (2000 -- 2002) Hispanic National Bar Association Amicus Committee (1999-2001) PUBLICATIONS *Major Articles and Book Chapters* 1995 Survival of Rights Under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Withdrawal and the Continuing Right of International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards, 34 Virginia Journal of International Law 749-830 (Summer 1994) (Number 4) 1996a On the Way to the Forum: The Reconstruction of Article 2(7) and the Rise of Federalism under the United Nations Charter, 31 Texas International Law Journal 353-450 (Summer 1996) 1996b Sovereignty, Freedom, and Civil Society: Toward a New Jerusalem, 45 Catholic University Law Review 851-860 (Spring 1996) 1996c Notes on an International Civil Society: A Comment on the Report of the Commission on Global Governance in Civil Society and Social Reconstruction 242-66 (Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, George F. McLean ed. 1996) 1996d Review Essay: Who Killed Sovereignty? 14 Wisconsin International Law Journal 464-90 (Spring 1996) 1997a To Judge Between the Nations: Post Cold War Transformations in National Security -- Beating Nuclear Swords into Plowshares in an Imperfectly Competitive World, 20 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 331-412 (Winter 1997) 1997b The Passive Virtues and the World Court: Pro-Dialogic Abstention by the International Court of Justice, 18 Michigan Journal of International Law 399-444 (Spring 1997) 1998 WTO and U.N. Law: Institutional Comity in National Security, 23 Yale Journal of International Law 301-81 (Summer 1998) 2000 The Perils of Pinochet: Problems for Transitional Justice and a Supranational Governance Solution, 28 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 175-221 (Spring 2000) 2001a The International Recognition of Judgments: The Debate Between Private and Public Law Solutions, 19 Berkeley Journal of International Law 44-89 (2001) 2001b U.S. Federalism and Spanish Autonomy – Lessons from U.S. Federalism for the External Activities of Substate Entities, XVII Anuario Espanol de Derecho Internacional 79-129 (2001) 2001c The Modern Relevance of Legitimate Authority and Right Intention in the Just War Tradition, 51 Catholic University Law Review 15-26 (Fall 2001) 2002 Review Essay: International Antitrust at the Crossroads: The End of Antitrust History or the Clash of Competition Policy Civilizations?, 33 Law & Policy in International Business 527-54 (Spring 2002) 2003a An Alternative to The Hague in Trilateral Perspectives on International Legal Issues: Conflict and Coherence 109-25 (Carmody, Iwasawa & Rhodes, eds. 2003)(Proceedings of Third Trilateral Conference of the U.S., Japan and Canadian Societies of International Law) 2003b De-legalization of Arms Control – A Democracy Deficit in De Facto Treaties of Peace?, 4 University of Chicago Journal of International Law 19-39 (Spring 2003) 2005a Legal Frameworks for Economic Transition in Iraq – Occupation under the Law of War vs. Global Governance under the Law of Peace, 18 Transnational Lawyer 53-72 (2005) 2005b Moral Communities or a Market State: The Supreme Court’s Vision of the Police Power in the Age of Globalization, 42 Houston Law Review 637-725 (2005)(with Robert Delahunty) 2005c The International Atomic Energy Agency in the changing structure of international organization law: A Cold War Institution Facing an Age of Terror, CURSO DE DERECHO INTERNACIONAL, Vol. XXXII 2005, 509-62 (Luis Toro Utillano ed., OAS Secretariat, Wash. DC 2006) 2005d Civil Society and International Discourse, in Civil Society as Democratic Practice 71-88 (Antonio F. Perez, Semou Pathé Gueye and Fenggang Yang eds., The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2005) 2006a The Impact of Economic Integration on Choice of Law Doctrine -- Lessons from the Interaction of U.S. Federalism and Choice of Law for the Evolution of Private International Law within the Context of EU Integration, Direito Comparado Perspectivas Luso-Americanas 263-74 (Dário Moura Vicente, ed. 2006) 2006b Traditional Paradigms for the Causes of War Applied to the International Trading System: Nation-State Institutions in a World of Market-States in Trade as the Guarantor of Peace, Liberty and Security? Critical, Historical and Empirical Perspectives 178-91 American Society of International Law Press, Studies in Transnational Legal Policy: A Series of Books) (Padideh Alai, Tomer Broude and Colin B. Picker, eds. 2006) 2006c The Inter-American Juridical Committee and Private Law in the Americas (Or a Roadmap for Making the Best the Enemy of the Good?) in El Comité Juridíco Interamericano: Un Siglo de Aportes al Derecho 299-336 (OAS Secretariat, Rio de Janeiro, 2006) 2007 Mechanisms for the Protection of Democracy in the Inter-American System: Lockean vs. Aristotelian Constitutions, CURSO DE DERECHO INTERNACIONAL, Vol. XXXIII 2006, 217-40 (Luis Toro Utillano ed., OAS Secretariat, Wash. DC 2007) *Brief Notes and Reviews 1991 A Road Paved with Good Intentions: State and Local Efforts to Conduct Foreign Policy, Federal Bar News & Journal 405-09 (September 1991) 1993a Recognition and Non-recognition of States: Ciskei, 1 Cumulative Digest of U.S. Practice of International Law, 1981-88, 272-76 (Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State: Washington, D.C., 1993) 1993b Recognition and Non-recognition of Governments: Angola, 1 Cumulative Digest of U.S. Practice of International Law, 1981-88, 277-95 and 298-99 (Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State: Washington, D.C., 1993) 1993c Other Subjects of International Law: U.N. Council for Namibia, 1 Cumulative Digest of U.S. Practice of International Law, 1981-88, 486-94 (Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State: Washington, D.C., 1993) 1995a Economic Sanctions: South Africa -- The Extension of Sanctions to Namibia; Subsequent Legislation and Proposals, 3 Cumulative Digest of U.S. Practice of International Law, 1981-88, 3005-3014 (Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State: Washington, D.C., 1995)(with John R. Byerly) 1995b Economic Sanctions: South Africa -- Prohibition of Uranium and Uranium Oxide Imports and Iron and Steel Imports, 3 Cumulative Digest of U.S. Practice of International Law, 1981-88, 3014-18 (Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State: Washington, D.C., 1995) 1995c ASIL Briefing on UN Conference on Fish Stocks, American Society of International Law Newsletter 13-14 (June-August 1995) (report on remarks by David Balton, Office of the Legal Adviser, Dept. of State) 1995d Book Review: Rights in Conflict: The United Nations and South Africa. By Louis B. Sohn. New York: Transnational Publishers, Inc., 89 American Journal of International Law 658-661 (July 1995) 2000 U.S. v. Microsoft: DOJ’s New Antitrust Paradigm Resurrects Outdated Economics, Legal Backgrounder (Washington Legal Foundation), Vol. 15, No. 11, February 4, 2000. 2002a Does U.S. Government Misrepresentation About the Circumstances of the Spouse of a U.S. Citizen in Foreign Government Custody Give Rise to a Constitutional Tort Action Protecting the U.S. Citizen's Right to Access to Court?, Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases, No. 6, pp 307-11 (March 13, 2002) (ABA Division for Public Education) 2002b The Adequacy of International Law for Arms Control -- Post Sept. 11: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Proceedings of the 96^th Meeting of the American Society of International Law, pp. 273-75 (March 13-16 2002, Wash. DC) 2004a May a Foreign Plaintiff Sue a Foreign Defendant for Conduct Outside the U.S. That Caused Antitrust Injury Outside the U.S.?, Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases, No. 7, pp. 380-85 (April 12, 2004) (ABA Division for Public Education) 2004b The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 in 2 Major Acts of Congress 100-06 (Brian K. Landsberg ed., 2004) 2005 Book Review, Jack Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner, The Limits of International Law (Oxford University Press 2005), ABILA Newsletter, Issue No. 71, May 2005 (Newsletter of the American Branch of the International Law Association) 2006a Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, Vol. 2, 817-18 (Paul Finkelman ed. Routledge 2006) 2006b Snepp v. United States, 444 U.S. 507 (1980), Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, Vol. 3, 1491-92 (Paul Finkelman ed. Routledge 2006) MEDIA APPEARANCES* Various media appearances including CNN International (interviewed on the international law ramifications of the Canadian seizure on the high seas of the Spanish fishing ship, The Estai) and Christian Science Monitor (concerning whether Helms-Burton legislation imposing economic sanctions against Cuba violated international law), VOA’s Convercemos (on Patriot Act), and Northern Virginia’s Newschannel 8’s Newstalk Live (on the international law ramifications of the war against terrorism). OTHER SERVICE ACTIVITIES, PRESENTATIONS, AND REPORTS Conference on Jerusalem: Dimensions of a Unique City, sponsored by The Catholic University of America with the Embassy of Israel, October 24, 1995; moderator for Panel on Jurisprudence and the Issue of Jerusalem, and presented paper entitled "Sovereignty, Freedom, and Civil Society: Toward a New Jerusalem" Panelist, Association of American Law Schools Workshop for New Law Teachers, Panel: "Issues Confronted by New Law Teachers," Wash., D.C., July 22, 1995 Moderator for Panel Discussion: "Allocation of Legislative Competence and Institutional Structures for Legislation: Federalism, Subsidiary and Legitimacy," Conference on Institutions for International Economic Integration; American Society of International Law and the International Economic Law Interest Group, Bethesda, Md., May 17, 1996 Moderator for Panel Discussion: "An Introduction to Alternate Dispute Resolution in the U.S.," Training Program for Arbitrators and Mediators at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, co-sponsored by The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, The Arab Studies Society, and The Jerusalem Arbitration Institute, September 1, 1996 Expert Evaluation of Manuscript for Catholic University of America Press: Christopher R. Rossi, The Scale Destroyed: James Brown Scott and the Great Chain of Being; Evaluation Submitted on October 22, 1996 Panelist, The World Court's Advisory Opinion on the Lawfulness of the Use of Nuclear Weapons, International Law Weekend, American Branch of the International Law Association; Presentation on ICJ’s Advisory Opinion Jurisprudence; New York, N.Y., November 2, 1996 Recovering Losses in Russia, Conference Sponsored by Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, and Bequeath Brown International, Inc.; Presentation on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments; Washington, DC on October 19, 1998 Panel on International Civil Litigation, Trilateral Meeting of American, Canadian and Japanese Societies of International Law; Presentation on WTO Approach to Problem of Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments; Ottawa, Canada, October 25, 2000 Panel on Regional Free Trade Agreements, Conference on EU-Israel Relations at the Center for European Studies at the Hebrew University; Presentation on Comparative Value of Regionalism vs. Multilateralism, with special attention to the NAFTA; Jerusalem, Israel, Jan. 12-13, 2002 Lecture to Judicial School, University of Barcelona, Spain, concerning U.S. Patriot Act and other anti-terrorism measures, Digital Video Conference sponsored by U.S. State Department, March 7, 2002 (delivered in Spanish) Introductory Remarks to Annual Meeting of American Society of International Law, International Security Interest Group Meeting, Panel on Arms Control and Non-proliferation Policy Issues After September 11, published in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting Lecture to John Paul II Catholic Lawyers Guild of the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, April 9, 2002, “Jesus and Socrates: Are They in Conflict for Law Teachers and Their Students?” Lecture on Just War Theory, Conference on Law & Religion sponsored by Wilberforce Project, Wash. DC, May 10, 2002 Presentation, International Criminal Law and Law of War, Conference on International Law, International Relations, and Terrorism, Program on Global Security and Cooperation, Project on International Law and International Relations, Social Science Research Council, Wash. DC, November 14, 2002 Presentation, The Impact of Economic Integration on Choice of Law Doctrine, Conference on Comparative Federalism, University of Lisbon, Portugal, March 6, 2003 Lecture, University of Shanghai, PRC, concerning U.S. Patriot Act and other anti-terrorism measures, Digital Video Conference sponsored by U.S. State Department, May 22, 2003 Presentation, Legal Frameworks for Economic Transition in Iraq, International Law Symposium at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, February 20, 2004 Presentation, U.S. Embassies and Consulates in Canberra, Sydney, and Perth, Australia, concerning “Balancing Anti-Terrorism with Civil/Human Rights,” Digital Video Conference sponsored by U.S. State Department, April 7, 2004 Participant, Panel Discussion on “Security: The War on Terrorism,” McNeil-Lehrer Newshour’s “By the People” Program, recorded at Princeton, University, May, 8, 2004 (panel of experts’ briefing for non-expert audience prior to group meetings) (see http://www.pbs.org/newshour/btp/events/5-8-princeton.html) Panelist at debate sponsored by U.S. Embassy and Spanish Council on Foreign Relation (FRIDE) on the Patriot Act and the War on Terror, Madrid, Spain, July 7, 2004 (transcript available at FRIDE.com) Presentation, U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines, concerning U.S. Anti-terrorism law and legislation, Digital Video Conference sponsored by U.S. Department of State, Dec. 7, 2004 Panelist, Panel on Trade, War & Peace in the Twenty-First Century, Conference on “Trade as the Guarantor of Peace, Liberty and Security?,” American Society of International Law International Economic Law Group & American University, Washington College of Law International Legal Studies Program (presented paper entitled “Traditional Paradigms for the Causes of War Applied to the International Trading System: Nation-State Institutions in a World of Market-States”), Wash. DC, Feb. 25, 2005 Moderator, Debate on Weapons of Mass Destruction, International Institutions, and World Order (between former Assistant Secretary of Energy in the Clinton Administration, Rose Gottemuller, and current Assistant Secretary of State, Steve Rademaker), Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, April 1, 2005 Lectures, “The IAEA in the Changing Structure of International Organization Law: A Cold War Institution Facing an Age of Terror,” Annual Course of the Inter-American Juridical Committee, Organization of American States, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 4-5, 2005 (in English and Spanish) Lecture, Legal Aspect of the Preemptive Use of Force, Seminar on Preemptive War: Normative Dimensions, program on “Arms against a Sea of Troubles” at Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) in Oslo, Norway on September 9, 2005 Lecture, A Democratic Just War Theory: Right Intention in an Era of Popular Sovereignty, Panel on New Issues in Just War, American Maritain Association, Twenty-Nine Annual International Meeting, Philosophy and Vocation: Conditions for Renewal Commemorating Vatican II, in Washington, DC, October 15, 2005 Moderator, Panel: Environmental Law and Our Communities -- Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Harms Under the Alien Tort Claims Act: Does Sosa Close the Door?, Hispanic National Bar Association Annual Meeting, in Washington, DC, October 17, 2005 Presentation, U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico, concerning U.S. system for the protection of human rights, Digital Video Conference sponsored by U.S. Department of State, Dec. 14, 2005 (delivered in Spanish) Presentation, Mechanisms for Defense of Democracy in the Inter-American System, Joint American Society of International Law and Inter-American Juridical Committee Workshop on Democracy, in Washington, DC, March 27, 2006 Lecture, Mechanisms for Defense of Democracy in the Inter-American System, Annual Course of the Inter-American Juridical Committee, Organization of American States, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 10, 2006 Presentation, U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia, Civil Liberties in the U.S. post 9/11, Embassy Roundtable Series on Human Rights and Democracy, Digital Video Conference sponsored by U.S. Department of State, Dec. 11, 2006 Presentation, Antitrust on the International Stage: Has the Concept of Comity Become Passé?, Washington Legal Foundation Media Nosh, April 17, 2007 (webcast at www.wlf.org)(with William Kolasky and Ronald Cass) Commentator, Potomac Foreign Relations Law Roundtable on Friday, May 11, 2007, at the George Washington University Law School U.S. Speaker Series Program, Norway, May 20-24, U.S. State Department Grant, meetings with law students and faculty at the University of Bergen, staff and researchers at the human rights organization Raftohuset, government officials, researchers at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, and NGO representatives, including several events hosted by Ambassador Whitney and DCM Johnson respectively, as well as press appearances (including a television interview on the weekly NRK program URIX, and print interviews with Bergens Tidene (Norway’s largest regional newspaper) and Juristkontakt, a professional magazine for lawyers), concerning issues in the law of war and domestic civil liberties in the war against terror Miscellaneous Reports, Opinions and other Submissions for the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States (available on OAS website): Reexamen de las convenciones sobre Derecho Internacional Privado y la CIDIP-VII, CJI/Res.83 (LXVI-O5/05), Managua, Nicaragua, March 9, 2005 (with co-rapporteurs Ana Elizabeth Villalta Vizcarra, and João Grandino Rodas); COMITÉ JURÍDICO INTERAMERICANO. Opinión del Comité Jurídico Interamericano sobre el esfuerzo conjunto de las Américas en la lucha contra la corrupción y la impunidad (CJI/doc.181/05 rev.4), Managua, Nicaragua, March 10, 2005 (with Working Group: Ana Elizabeth Villalta Vizcarra, Stephen Vasciannie, and Mauricio Herdocia Sacasa); Nota para el Comité Jurídico Interamericano sobre la Cidip-VII/Notes for the Inter-American Juridical Committee on CIDIP-VII (CJI/doc.192/05), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 22, 2005; Comentarios sobre la agenda de la Cidip-VII/Comments on the Cidip-VII Agenda (CJI/doc.196/05 rev.1), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 12, 2005 (with João Grandino Rodas and Ana Elizabeth Villalta Vizcarra); COMITÉ JURÍDICO INTERAMERICANO: Séptima Conferencia Especializada Interamericana sobre Derecho Internacional Privado [CJI/Res.100 (LXVII-O/05) and CJI/doc.196/05 rev.1], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 18, 2005 (with co-rapporteurs João Grandino Rodas and Ana Elizabeth Villalta Vizcarra); Septima Conferencia Especializada Interamericana Sobre Derecho Internacional Privado (CIDIP-VII) [CJI/doc.227/06], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 9, 2006; Cuestiones Sobre Ley Aplicable [CJI/doc. 230/06 corr.1], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 18, 2006)(with João Grandino Rodas); Cuestionario para los Estados Miembros de la OEA respecto a la LEGISLACIÓN sobre Acceso a la INFORMACIÓN y la Protección de Datos Personales En Vista de la Posible Elaboración de un Instrumento Jurídico [CJI/doc.232/06 rev.1], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 17, 2006 (with Jaime Aparicio); Informe Sobre La CIDIP-VII Con Respecto a La Negociación De Instrumentos Legales Concernientes A La Protección Al Consumidor/Report on CIDIP with Respect to the Negotiation of Legal Instruments Concerning Consumer Protection [CJI/doc. 43/07], San Salvador, El Salvador, 23 February 23, 2007; Explicación de Voto en Disidencia Relative a la Resolución Sobre el Alcance del Derecho a la Identidad [CJI doc. 285/07, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 10, 20007; Explicación de Voto en Disidencia relativo a la resolución sobre el Seguimiento de la aplicación de la Carta Democrática Interamericana [CJI doc.284/07], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 10, 2007 LANGUAGES Spanish (fluent); French and Portuguese (reading) Last Revised 17-Sep-07 01:21 PM.
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