Daniel C. K. Chow
Professor Chow received his B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. After law school, he served as a law clerk on the Southern District of New York and then was an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York.
In the late 1990s, he lived in China and worked as in-house counsel for a large multi-national enterprise. Professor Chow handled all legal matters for the multi-national company, including protection of the company's intellectual property against piracy and theft. In 2004, Professor Chow was featured on CBS' 60 Minutes program. In "The World's Greatest Fakes," he said "We have never seen a problem of this size and magnitude in world history. There's more counterfeiting going on in China now than we've ever seen anywhere."
Professor Chow is also the co-author of two other casebooks, International Business Transactions (with T. Schoenbaum, Aspen 2005) and International Intellectual Property (with E. Lee, West 2006).
Education
B.A., Yale University
J.D., Yale University
Thomas J. Schoenbaum
Professor Schoenbaum is visiting George Washington University from the International Christian University in Japan, where he serves as a Professor of International Studies. He has taught at the law schools of the University of North Carolina, Tulane University, and the University of Georgia. At Tulane he served as associate dean and at Georgia he was executive director of the Dean Rusk Center of International and Comparative Law. He has practiced law extensively as special counsel for several law firms and has litigated corporate, environmental, and admiralty cases in the federal courts. Professor Schoenbaum has received six Fulbright awards and has held teaching posts in many countries, including Germany, Belgium, the UK, South Africa, Austria, Russia, and Japan. He has served as visiting fellow at St. John’s College, Oxford and as principal fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Centre of International Law at Cambridge. Professor Schoenbaum specializes in international commercial and environmental law. He is the author of many articles and books, including The World Trade Organization: Law, Policy and Practice (2003), Admiralty and Maritime Law (3d ed. 2001), and Environmental Policy Law (2002). He is currently working on new books in the areas of international environmental law and international business transactions.
Education
B.A., St. Joseph's College
J.D., University of Michigan
D.E.S.S., University of Louvain
Ph.D., University of Cambridge