Alene & Allan F. Smith Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School

Robert Howse is Alene and Allan F Smith Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada), Harvard Law School, The University of Paris 1(Pantheon-Sorbonne),Tel Aviv University, Tsinghua University (Beijing), and the Academy of European Law (Florence). He was born in Toronto, Canada in 1958 and educated at the University of Toronto (B.A. HIgh Distinction, LLB, Hons.) and Harvard Law School (LLM). His research and teaching interests are focused on international economic law (trade, investment and finance) and legal and political philosophy (theorizing law and governance beyond the state, and especially the thought of Alexandre Kojeve and Leo Strauss). His recent books include The Regulation of International Trade, Third Edition, co-authored with Michael J. Trebilcock, released n the US in October 2005, The Federal Vision, co--edited with Kalypso Nicolaidis (2001) and Alexandre Kojeve Outline of a Phenomenology of Right (2000) (co-translator with Bryan Frost and principal author of the interpretative commentary). Prof. Howse has also authored or co-authored opinion essays in general interest publications such as The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Policy Review, and Legal Affairs. He is series editor of the Oxford Commentaries on WTO Law and serves on the editorial advisory board of the European Journal of International Law. In collaboration with Petrus van Bork and Deborah Coyne (as of November 2005), he is a frequent consultant or adviser to government agencies and international organizations such as the OECD, UNCTAD, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, the Law Commission of Canada and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. He has been a Reporter for the American Law Institute on WTO Law. He has acted as a consultant to the investor's counsel in several NAFTA investor-state arbitrations. He is a core team member of the Renewable Energy and International Law (REIL) project, a private/public partnership that includes, among others, Yale University, the law firm of Baker, Mackenzie and the investment bank Climate Change Capital. Howse's hobbies include cooking and fiction writing (a sample of his first novel can be found at www.mozartnovel.com).