Biography

Edwin Vermulst has practiced international trade and EC law and policy in Washington DC and Brussels since 1985 and is a founding member of the law firm. He is a member of the Brussels bar. Mr. Vermulst graduated from the University of Utrecht in 1983 and obtained LL.M. and SJD degrees from the University of Michigan Law School in 1984 and 1986. Mr. Vermulst was a WTO Panelist and has been involved in WTO dispute settlement proceedings as a member of the delegation.

He has (co-)authored six books, including landmark comparative analyses of the anti-dumping systems of Australia, Canada, the EC and the United States with Professor John Jackson in 1989 and of rules of origin with Jacques Bourgeois and Paul Waer in 1994, and numerous articles. Mr. Vermulst is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Trade and of Law and Economics in International Trade and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Legal Issues of European Integration. He is a Member of the Faculty of the World Trade Institute in Bern and teaches at the Amsterdam Law School. Mr. Vermulst is invariably selected as a leading trade practitioner by publications such as Legal 500, Chambers Global, Who’s Who in Trade and the Rushford Report.

Selected publications

 

BOOKS

"The WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement: A Commentary", Oxford (2006) (Edwin Vermulst)

"Customs And Trade Laws As Tools Of Protection: Selected Essays", 995 pages, Cameron May (2005) (Edwin Vermulst, Folkert Graafsma)

"WTO Dispute Settlement: Anti-Dumping, Countervailing Duties and Safeguards", Cameron May (2002) (Edwin Vermulst, Folkert Graafsma)

"Customs and Trade Laws of the European Community," Kluwer (1999) (Stefano Inama, Edwin Vermulst)

"EC Anti-Dumping Law and Practice", Sweet & Maxwell (1997) (Edwin Vermulst, Paul Waer)

"Rules of Origin in International Trade: A Comparative Study", The University of Michigan Press, Simon & Schuster (1994) (eds. Edwin Vermulst, Paul Waer, Jacques Bourgeois)

"Anti-Dumping Law and Practice: A Comparative Study", The University of Michigan Press, Simon & Schuster (1990) (eds. Professor John Jackson, Edwin Vermulst)

"Anti-Dumping Law and Practice in the United States and the European Communities", Elseviers Science Publishers (1987) (Edwin Vermulst)

 

SELECTED ARTICLES

- "Recent EC Safeguards Policy: Kill Them All and Let God Sort Them Out?", 38:6 Journal of World Trade, 955 - 984 (2004) (Edwin Vermulst, Marta Pernaute, Krista Lucenti)

- "Zeroing in on zeroing", The Wall Street Journal Europe, 6 (9 August 2001) (Edwin Vermulst, Brian Hindley); reprinted in The Asian Wall Street Journal (9 August 2001)

- "WTO Dispute settlement with respect to Trade Contingency measures-Selected Issues", 35:2 Journal of World Trade, 209 - 229 (2001) (Edwin Vermulst, Folkert Graafsma)

-"EC Customs Classification Rules: Should Ice-cream Melt?" 15:4 Michigan Journal of International Law, 1241 - 1325 (1994) (Edwin Vermulst)

-"Rules of Origin as Commercial Policy Instruments - Revisited," 26:6 Journal of World Trade, 61 - 102 (1992) (Edwin Vermulst)

-"Injury in Anti-Dumping Proceedings - the Need to Look Beyond the Uruguay Round Results," 28:5 Journal of World Trade, 61 - 96 (1994) (Edwin Vermulst, Angelos Pangratis)

-"Adopting and Implementing Anti-Dumping Laws: Some Suggestions for Developing Countries," 31:2 Journal of World Trade, 5 - 24 (1997) (Edwin Vermulst)

-"Disclosure of Confidential Information in Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings Under U.S. Law: A Framework for the European Communities," 21 The International Lawyer, 43 - 71 (1987) (Edwin Vermulst, James Taylor)