Frederick Abbott is Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of International Law
at the Florida State University College of Law. He is Rapporteur for the
Committee on International Trade Law of the International Law Association, on
the Panel of Experts of UNCTAD’s Program on the Settlement of Disputes in
International Trade, Investment and Intellectual Property, consultant to the
UNCTAD Project on TRIPS and Development, to the World Bank Global HIV/AIDS
Program and to the Quaker United Nations Office (Geneva). He has served as
consultant to the WHO Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy.
Professor Abbott serves as arbitrator for the World Intellectual Property
Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center. He is on the editorial board of
the Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford). He is former Chair of the
American Society of Law Intellectual Property Interest Group and the
International Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools, and former
Director of the American Society of International Law Research Project on Human
Rights and International Trade. Professor Abbott is the author of numerous books
and articles in the fields of international economic law, international
intellectual property rights law, and public international law. In 2002, he
prepared a Study of the WTO TRIPS Agreement and Its Implications for Access to
Medicines in Developing Countries for the British Commission on Intellectual
Property Rights. His books include The International Intellectual Property
System: Commentary and Materials (with Thomas Cottier and Francis Gurry)
(1999), China in the World Trading System: Defining the Principles of
Engagement (1998), Public Policy and Global Technological Integration (1997),
and Law and Policy of Regional Integration (1995). His book on
treaty-making, Parliamentary Participation in the Making and Operation of
Treaties, edited with Stefan Riesenfeld, was awarded the American Society of
International Law Certificate of Merit. He has regularly served Visiting
Professor at University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law,
and he has served as Jean Monnet Professor at the University of Bonn, Visiting
Professor and Weickert Fellow at the University of Berne, Visiting Professor at
University of California, Hastings College of the Law and at Vanderbilt Law
School, and was Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Professor Abbott
regularly teaches on the faculties of the World Trade Institute in Berne and the
Central European University - World Law Institute in Budapest. Professor Abbott
holds BA and LLM degrees from UC Berkeley, and a JD from Yale Law School.
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