Steve Charnovitz
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Steve Charnovitz (born 1953) is a scholar of public international law living in the United States. He now teaches at George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, and is best known for his writings on the linkages between trade and environment and trade and labor rights.
[edit] Biography
Charnovitz is a native of Savannah, Georgia. He was an analyst in the U.S. Department of Labor from 1975 to 1986 covering international labor issues. During 1984-85, he was a Congressional Fellow. From 1987-89, he was a legislative assistant to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Jim Wright, and served once again in 1989-91 for Speaker Tom Foley. In 1991, Charnovitz became Policy Director of the newly established U.S. Competitiveness Policy Council. In 1995, he co-founded and directed the Global Environment & Trade Study located at Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. After several years in private practice, he joined George Washington University in 2004.
Charnovitz serves on several editorial boards in scholarly journals including the American Journal of International Law, the Journal of Environment & Development, the Journal of International Economic Law, and the World Trade Review. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is affiliated with the Institute of International Economic Law. He has been a champion of free trade combined with pro-competitiveness policies by governments to assist workers who are hurt by economic change and globalization.
He received a B.A. degree from Yale College in 1975, an M.P.P. degree from the Kennedy School of Government in 1983, and a J.D. degree from the Yale Law School in 1998.
[edit] Works
Professor Charnovitz is the author of Trade Law and Global Governance (Cameron May, 2002), and the author of over 100 articles in edited volumes or scholarly journals. He is also the co-editor of Law in Service of Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2005). In recent years, he has written extensively on the history of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
[edit] Links
Faculty webpage at GWU Law Profile and Bibliography Living in an Ecolonomy (1994) NGO Accountability in Global Governance
