IEEM Visiting Professors

Education

* 1991 : Ph.D in Law; University of Heidelberg, Germany.
The EC "New Instrument of Commercial Policy and the US Section 301: their Compatibility with the GATT Rules and Public International Law".
* 1986 : LL.M in Law; University of California at Berkeley. Title of LLM thesis: The International Law compensation For Expropriation Standard: Sources of law.
* 1984 : LL.M in EC Law; Institut d'Etudes Europeénnes. (I.E.E), U.L.B, Brussels.
* 1982 : LL.B in Law; University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Law an Economic Science.

Work Experience

* 1996- Present : Professor of Law, University of Neuchâtel. Chair of Public International Law. Professor of European Community, International Economic And Publi

Biographical Information

Mitsuo Matsushita is a professor of law at Seikei University (Tokyo Japan) and a special adviser of the Tokyo law firm: Nagashima, Ohno & Tsunematsu. He is a member of Tokyo Bar (Daiichi Tokyo Bengoshikai).

He was a founding member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) from 1995 to 2000.

He obtained a Ph.D degree from Tulane University and a D.Jur degree from Tokyo University. He was a professor of law at Sophia University (1968-1983) and at Tokyo University (1984-1994). He was a member of a number of advisory councils attached to the government of Japan including: The Customs and Tariffs Council (the Ministry of Finance) and the Telecommunications Council (the Ministry of Telecommunications and Posts). He was a visiting p

Education

* University of Toronto (B.A. 1980, LL.B., 1989, co-editor in chief of the Law Review, 1998-1999)
* Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1990).

Work

* Professor of Law in the University of Michigan Law School ( joined In 1999)
* He has taught at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (granted tenure 1995/96)
* Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.
* Lecturer in the Academy of European Law, European University Institute, Florence.
* International fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute, Toronto
* Member of the faculty of the M.I.L.E. Program, World Trade Institute, Bern, Switzerland
* Editorial advisory boards of Legal Issues in Economic Integration and the European Journal of International Law.
* Betw

B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (University of Oxford, 1976).
M.Sc. in Economics (University of London, 1978).
Ph.D. in Economics (University of Reading, 1986).

Present position

Professor of International Economics, University of Reading (since 1993).

Visiting posts

* Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (March - April 1988; and March - April 1990).
* Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Toulouse (February 1990).
* Visiting Professor lecturing on the Economics of Technological Change, Rutgers University (September 1993; and October 1995).
* Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna (October 1999 -