Dean's Special Lecture

Luiz Olavo Baptista
Member Appellate Body, World Trade Organization
Professor of International Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil

"Facts and Rules in the WTO"

Luiz Olavo Baptista delivered the Dean's Special Lecture at the University of Michigan Law School. This event was in recognition of his many distinguished achievements on the occasion of the completion of his first term at the Appellate Body of the WTO, his reappointment to a second term at the WTO, and of his retirement as professor of international trade at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Professor Baptista also has been a member of the International Chambre of Commerce (ICC) Institute for International Trade Practices and of its Commission on Trade and Investment Policy since 1999. In addition, he has been one of the arbitrators designated under Mercosur's Protocol of Brasilia since 1993. He was a member of the Brazilian delegation at the OCDE Treaty Against Corruption of Foreign Officers, Paris, 1997, and he was chair of Panel E4A of the UN Compensation Commission (UNCC) where he decided more than 5,000 Kuwaiti claim cases. He is a senior partner at the L.O. Baptista Law Firm in São Paulo, Brazil.

Professor Baptista also presented in a University of Michigan conference on Friday, October 21, 2005, titled "Perspectives on the WTO Doha Development Agenda Multilateral Trade Negotiations" and was a panelist for "WTO Jurisprudence and Governance" together with Michigan Law Professor Robert Howse. Papers and panelist comments have been published as a special issue of the on-line Global Economy Journal.

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