Biography

Steve Charnovitz teaches at George Washington University Law School and writes on international trade, international law, U.S. foreign relations law, and environmental sustainability.

Steve Charnovitz hails from Savannah, Georgia. He received a B.A. from Yale College, a J.D. from the Yale Law School, and an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Prior to joining the Faculty in 2004, he practiced law for six years at the firm now known as Wilmer Hale in Washington, D.C.

From 1995 to 1999, he was Director of the Global Environment & Trade Study (GETS) located at Yale University.

From 1991 to 1995, he was Policy Director of the Competitiveness Policy Council. The Council issued four reports to the U.S. Congress and President. Here is the First Annual Report (1992) and the Second Annual Report (1993).

From 1987 to 1991, he was a Legislative Assistant to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (Wright and Foley).

Early in his career, he was an analyst at the U.S. Department of Labor where his assignments included investigating foreign labor conditions, trade adjustment assistance, and technical cooperation with Saudi Arabia. In 1983, he helped to implement one of the first worker rights conditions in an international trade program. These negotiations were conducted in Haiti, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, and Honduras ("Caribbean Basin Initiative: Setting Labor Standards," Monthly Labor Review, November 1984).

Professor Charnovitz serves or has served on the Editorial Boards of the World Trade Review, Cosmopolis. A Review of Cosmopolitics, the Journal of Environment & Development, the American Journal of International Law, and the Journal of International Economic Law. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute.

He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of four books and over 240 articles, essays, or book reviews.

He is admitted to the bar in New York and the District of Columbia.

He is a member of the bar of the US Court of International Trade, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the US Supreme Court.

He blogs at International Economic Law and Policy Blog.

He is on Twitter @SteveCharnovitz.

His ORCID is 0000-0001-9349-4609.