The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership: Analysis and Commentary

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Dr Jorge A. Huerta-Goldman advises companies governments and other stakeholders on international trade and investment law and transactional law (including negotiation strategy and litigation). He is an experienced trade litigator (twenty-three WTO cases several arbitrations and court cases) with solid academic credentials (three books as author/co-editor and seventeen law-review articles and book chapters) and is currently teaching at Iteso University. As a former WTO trade negotiator Jorge practices and researches on three main areas: international trade law (from WTO FTAs and partial agreements to domestic trade laws); international investment law (from BITs to investorstate arbitration); and transactional law (from contract strategy negotiation and implementation to commercial arbitration). He holds a Ph.D. (University of Neuchatel Switzerland) an LL.M. (College of Europe in Belgium) an LL.M. (University of Arizona the US) a law degree (Iteso University Mexico) and was a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School in the US. David A. Gantz is Will Clayton Fellow in Trade and International Economics at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Arizona. He is an expert in international trade and investment law regional trade agreements international business transactions and international environmental law. David is the author co-author or editor of six books and more than seventy-five law-review articles and book chapters. He has served as an arbitrator in multiple proceedings under Chapters 11 19 and 20 of NAFTA and as a consultant for USAID the World Bank Group and the UN Development Program among others.