Education:

• J.D., cum laude, Northwestern University School of Law
  Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology
• M.A., with distinction, University of Exeter, England
  Dissertation: "Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment: An Overview of Recent US-EC Trends"
• B.A., summa cum laude, West Virginia University
  Phi Beta Kappa

Judicial Clerkships :

• Hon. Pierce Lively, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  

Areas of Expertise:

• International Trade
• International Business
• International Law
• National Security Law
• Administrative Law
• Contracts
• Comparative Law
• Law and Economics
  

Professional Experience:

• Associate Professor, Mississippi College School of Law, 2007-present
• Assistant Professor, Mississippi College School of Law, 2004-2007
• Baker & McKenzie, Washington, D.C., 1999-2004
• Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, IL, 1996-1999
• Adjunct Professor of Law, John Marshall School of Law, 1998-1999
• Katten Muchin & Zavis, Chicago, IL, 1995-1996
• Junior Officer Intern, U.S. State Department , London, England, 1989

Publications:

• Thinking Outside the Border:  National Security and the Forward Deployment of the U.S. Border, 44 Houston L. Rev. 189 (2007) (lead article)

• Seeing the Forest and the Trees:  Reconceptualizing State and Government Succession, 51 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 581 (2007) (reviewing Tai-Heng Cheng, State Succession and Commercial Obligations (2006)) 

• E-Mails, Servers, and Software: U.S. Export Controls for the Modern Era, 35 GEORGETOWN J. INT’L L. 319 (2004)
  

• International Trade Aspects of Information Technology, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW 4003 (Stephen Saxby ed., rev. 37 2003) (with Carol George, Sunwinder Mann, and Alison Stafford Powell)
  
  
• The Harbor Maintenance Tax on Exports: The Conflict between the Federal Budget and the U.S. Constitution, in LOYOLA LAW FORUM Vol. V No. 1 (1998) (with Lynn S. Baker)
  
  
• A Section by Section Analysis of the Mod Act, in ABA SECTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND PRACTICE, INTERNATIONAL PRACTITIONERS' WORKSHOP SERIES V. VIII (1995) (with Lynn S. Baker)
  
  
• Economic Integration in the Americas: A Work in Progress, 14 J. INT'L L. & BUS. 493 (1994) (with Kenneth W. Abbott)
  
  
• Economic Integration for the Asian Century: An Early Look at New Approaches, 4 TRANS. L. & CONTEMP. PROB. 187 (1994) (with Kenneth W. Abbott)
  
  
• Case Note, Fifth Amendment—Substantial Exculpatory Evidence, Prosecutorial Misconduct and Grand Jury Proceedings: A Broadening of Prosecutorial Discretion, 83 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 718 (1993)
  
  
• Integrating the Americas: Lessons from Asia, CHRISTIAN SCI. MON., Jul. 26, 1994 (with Kenneth W. Abbott)
  
  

Lectures, Panels & Presentations

• Panelist and Moderator, The Globalization of Business Law (2008 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting)
  
  

• Symposium Panelist, Assessing the Impact of Existing Bilateral and Multilateral U.S. Trade Agreements and Attempting Policy Recommendations for the Future (Feb. 2008, Indiana International & Comparative Law Review)
  
  
• Panelist, AALS Section on New Law Professors, Panel on New Faculty as Catalysts for Change (2008 AALS Annual Meeting)
  
  
• Panelist, Jus Gentium (Sept. 2007, Loyola New Orleans Coll. of Law)
  
  
• Moderator, Administrative Preemption of State Tort Law Panel (2007 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting)
  
  
• Moderator, Getting Involved in SEALS Panel (2007 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting)
  
  
• Panelist, Works-in-Progress Panel on International Trade Law (2007 AALS Mid-Year Meeting, Conference on International Law)
  
  
• Presenter, Faculty Forum (Feb. 2007, Mississippi Coll. School of Law)
  
  
• Panelist and Moderator, Hurricane Katrina:  A Legal Symposium (Aug. 2006, Mississippi Coll. School of Law)

• Moderator, New Scholars Panel on International Law (2006 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting)

• New Scholars Panelist, Thinking Outside the Border: National Security and the Forward Deployment of the U.S. Border (2005 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting)
  
  
• Moderator, Import Cargo Security Panel: Legal Issues in the Campaign Against Terrorism (2003 Spring Meeting, ABA Section of International Law)
  
  

LAw School Activities:

• Law School Faculty Appointments Committee
• Scholarship Committee
• Capital Campaign Committee
• Faculty Co-Chair, Annual Giving Campaign
• Faculty Adviser, MCSOL International Law Society
• Founder & Coordinator, Mississippi College International Law Speaker Series
• Faculty Adviser, MCSOL Public Interest Law Group
  
  

Professional Activities:

• American Bar Association, Section of International Law

• Southeastern Association of Law Schools, New Scholars Committee, 2005-Present
  
• Barrister, Charles Clark American Inn of Court, Jackson, Mississippi, 2007-present
• National Council on International Trade Development, 2000-2004
• Vice Chair, American Bar Association Customs Law Committee, 1999-Present
  
• Customs and International Trade Bar Association, Publications Committee, 1998-2002
  
  

Bar Admissions:

• Illinois
• District of Columbia
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• U.S. Court of International Trade
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois