Harry M Flechtner

Harry M. Flechtner, Editor Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Harry M. Flechtner is professor of international and domestic commercial law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 1984 after three years of private law practice in Washington, D.C. He is the first four-time recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Student Bar Association at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, and he has received the Chancellor's...See more

Harry M. Flechtner, Editor Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Harry M. Flechtner is professor of international and domestic commercial law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 1984 after three years of private law practice in Washington, D.C. He is the first four-time recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Student Bar Association at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, and he has received the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Pittsburgh. He has authored a variety of books, articles and chapters on commercial law topics, with special emphasis on international sales law, and has been cited by the Solicitor General of the United States as one of the leading academic authorities on the [United Nations Sales] Convention. He received his J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard Law School, an M.A. in English and American Language and Literature from Harvard University, and an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Harvard College. Professor Flechtner is one of two National Correspondents for the United States to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), and was one of five experts appointed by UNCITRAL to prepare the initial draft of the UNCITRAL Digest of Case Law on the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods. He co-organized, with Professor Brand, three major symposia on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Ronald A. Brand, Editor Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Legal Education, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Ronald A. Brand isProfessor of Law and Director of the Center for International Legal Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He received his B.A. from the University of Nebraska and his J.D. from Cornell Law School. He regularly teaches courses in International Business Transactions, International Trade Law, and Transnational Litigation, as well as an Introduction to American Law course for foreign law students. His books include Fundamentals of International Business Transactions (Kluwer International Publishers 2000), International Civil Dispute Resolution (with Baldwin, Epstein, and Gordon; West 2004), Beyond the Draft UNCITRAL Digest (with Ferrari and Flechtner; Sellier 2004), and Private Law, Private International Law, & Judicial Cooperation in the EU-US Relationship, (West 2005). Professor Brand was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Special Commission and Diplomatic Conference of The Hague Conference on Private International Law that concluded the 2005 Convention on Choice of Court Agreements. He is a past-Chairperson of the Interest Group on International Economic Law of the American Society of International Law, a former Fulbright Scholar in Belgium, and a former Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna. Professor Brand has been the organizer of four major symposia on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Mark S. Walter, Editor Chief of Party, USAID Doha WTO Accession Project Mark S. Walter currently heads the U.S. Agency for International Development Doha Project for WTO Accession in Ethiopia, a project implemented by Booz, Allen Hamilton. Mr. Walter is a trade lawyerwith experience in ten different countries implementing and leading legal education and capacity building programs with a focus on international commercial law. He has served as Assistant Director for the Center for International Legal Education at the University of Pittsburgh, as an Adjunct Professor of Law and as... See less