Biography

William J. Davey is the Guy Raymond Jones Chair at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he has taught courses in international trade law, European Union law, international business transactions, and corporate/securities law since 1984. Since its founding in 2001, he has been on the faculty of the Masters Program in International Law and Economics at University of Berne in Switzerland and is a Faculty Associate of the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown Law Center. He has also taught at the Academy of International Economic Law and Dispute Settlement in Geneva and the Academy of International Trade law in Macau and was Jean Monnet Professor at the University of Bielefeld in Germany in 1994.From 1995-99, he was on leave from the College and served as the Director of the Legal Affairs Division of the World Trade Organization. Since leaving the WTO he has served on WTO arbitral panels in respect of international trade disputes between Canada and Brazil, the European Union and Korea, and the European Union and the United States.

Selected publications

• Legal Problems of International Economic Relations (St. Paul, Minnesota: WestPublishing Co., 4th ed. 2002) (co-authors John H. Jackson & Alan O. Sykes)
• European Community Law: Cases and Materials (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co. 2d. edition 2002) (co-authors G. Bermann, E. Fox & R. Goebel)
• Proposals for Improving the Working Procedures of WTO Dispute Settlement Panels, in Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann (ed.), Preparing the Doha Development Round: Improvements and Clarifications of the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding 27-39 (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute 2002)
• "Introduction" & "The Case for a WTO Permanent Panel Body", 6 [Oxford] Journal of International Economic Law, no. 1 (2003)
• WTO Dispute Settlement relating to GATT 1994, in E.-U. Petersman et al (eds.), WTO Jurisprudence 1995-2001: Law and Dispute Settlement Practice of the World Trade Organization, Kluwer Studies in Transnational Economic Law (forthcoming 2003)
• WTO Institutional Arrangements, in P. McCrory et al (eds.), The Kluwer Companion to the World Trade Organization (forthcoming 2003)
• A Permanent Panel Body for WTO Dispute Settlement: Desirable or Practical?, inDaniel L.M. Kennedy & James D. Southwick (eds.), The Political Economy ofInternational Trade Law: Essays in Honor of Professor Robert E. Hudec 496-527(Cambridge University Press 2002)
• Has the WTO Dispute Settlement System Exceeded Its Authority?: A Consideration ofDeference Shown by the System to Member Government Decisions and Its Use of Issue-Avoidance Techniques, in 4 Journal of International Economic Law 79-110 (2001) andin T. Cottier & P. Mavroidis (eds.), The Role of the Judge: Lessons for the WTO 43-79 (The University of Michigan Press 2003)

Personal webpage: http://www.law.uiuc.edu/faculty/directoryresult.asp?name=Davey,+William