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 Peter D. Ehrenhaft Peter Ehrenhaft focuses primarily on transnational transactions, such as technology transfers, the formation and dissolution of joint ventures, import relief proceedings, and export control matters. He has represented foreign governments in their negotiation of trade agreements, and both domestic and foreign clients seeking changes in U.S. law affecting international trade. He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary and Special Counsel (Tariff Affairs) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Arbitration of international contract and intellectual property disputes are also an active part of his practice. Mr. Ehrenhaft served as one of the 12 members of the American Bar Association's Commission on Multi-jurisdictional Practice that, in 2002, proposed far-reaching changes in the present geographic basis of lawyer regulation and continues efforts to facilitate cross-border legal practice. He has been serving for more than 11 years on what is now called the USTR/Secretary of Commerce Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Service and Finance Industries. He has served on the Council of the American Bar Association Section of International Law for more than 20 years and was the Section's International Legal Scholar and Chair of its Transnational Practice Committee. At the American Law Institute, he has worked on Model Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure and its current Projects on International Jurisdiction and Trade Law. He is a member of the International Arbitration Committee of the American Arbitration Association and has served as an arbitrator or counsel in AAA, ICC and ad hoc arbitrations as well as a mediator under the programs of the District of Columbia Superior Court and DC federal District Court. He is a member of the Advisory Boards to Georgetown University's International Law Journal and the BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and George Washington University Law Schools. In 2006 he was the "Distinguished Practitioner in Residence" at the American University Law School conducting a class in "International Business Transactions" and a seminar on "International Arbitration." He is listed in the current Who's Who in America, The Best Lawyers in America and the Who's Who Legal and Who’s Who in International Arbitration. Mr. Ehrenhaft is fluent in German. Mr. Ehrenhaft has authored more than forty articles and book reviews on international trade and arbitration, including in the last decade: "'Right to Counsel' in WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings," 2 J. Int. Eco. L. 159 (1998), "The Limits of United States Trade Law Remedies," 9 Cal. Int. Pract. No. 2 at 2 (1999), "Discovery in International Arbitration Proceedings," Proceedings of the 42d Annual Symposium, Int’l & Comp. Law Center of the Southwestern Legal Foundation at 9-1 (2000), "The Role of Lawyers in the World Trade Organization,” 34 Vand. J. Trans. Law 963 (2001), "Is Interface of Antidumping and Antitrust Laws Possible?" 34 Geo. Wash. Int. L. Rev. 363 (2002), "E-Lawyering and Multi-Jurisdictional Practice," 2 J. N Y State Jud. Inst Prof Law, No. 1 at 78 ( 2002), "A Photographic Review of the 1961 Term," 25 Supreme Court Historical Soc. Q. No. 2, at 4 (2004), "What Would Warren Say Now? Can Brown and Baker Be Reconciled?" [2004] Cosmos 53 (2004), "Re-evaluating the Rules of the Guild," The European Lawyer No. 48 at 62 (May 2005); "Remedies Against Unfair International Trade Practices," and "International Joint Ventures: Setting Them Up; Taking Them Apart,” ALI-ABA, Fundamentals of International Business Transactions 131. 325 (2008 ed.). For nine years (ending in 2008) he was Treasurer and a Board Member of the DC Appleseed Center for Justice in Washington, DC, concerned with governance issues in the Nation’s Capital. In 2008 he joined the Board of Compassion & Choices, a national organization supporting individual rights to make end-of-life choices. Mr. Ehrenhaft served as Senior Law Clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren at the United States Supreme Court and a Motions Clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Mr. Ehrenhaft received his LL.B. and M.I.A. from Columbia University Schools of Law and International Affairs in 1957, and his A.B. from Columbia University in 1954, all with honors. He is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia and the bars of the United States Supreme Court, United States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Federal, Second and Third Circuits and the United States Court of International Trade. Phone: (202) 973-7609 |