 Robert
E. Lutz
Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
B.A., Political Science, 1968, University
of Southern California; J.D., 1971, University of California,
Berkeley; Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, 1980 and
1984,at the Institute for International Law of the University
of Munich; Life Member of the American Law Institute and
the American Bar Foundation; Phi Beta Kappa; Member, California
State Bar
One of legal education's foremost authorities
on public and private international law, Robert Lutz has
held the top posts in several of the most influential organizations
in the international law community. He chaired the Section
of International Law of the American Bar Association, as
well as the international law sections of the Association
of American Law Schools and the Los Angeles County Bar Association,
and was a co-founder of the California State Bar Section
of International Law. He is appointed to the State Department's
Advisory Committee on International Law and the NAFTA Advisory
Committee on Private Commercial Dispute Resolution. He has
served on arbitration panels under the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement,
was founding chair of the Center for International Commercial
Arbitration, and a member of the WTD's panel on goods and
services disputes. He arbitrates commercial and public (e.g.
NAFTA & WTO) disputes. The U.S. State Department, the
World Trade Organization, the USTrade Representative and
other entities often seek his expertise. As the Chair of
the ABA's International Trade in Legal Services Task Forces
(ITILS), currently leads the U.S. legal profession's efforts
to arrange liberalized access for U.S. lawyers to a large
variety of foreign jurisdictions.
Professor Lutz is the author or editor
of several books as well as a myriad of book chapters and
articles on public international law, international business
law, and environmental law, and has served as editor-in-chief
of leading periodicals including The International Lawyer.
He has been a member of the editorial advisory boards of
close to a dozen international law journals, and has presented
papers at scores of legal conferences and public hearings
around the world.
Professor Lutz began his legal career as
a judicial clerk to Chief Judge Edward Schwartz of the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of California.
He subsequently practiced law with the firm of Pillsbury,
Madison & Sutro, served as Deputy Regional Counsel of
the Federal Energy Administration, directed the Institute
of Coastal Law and Management at the University of Southern
California, and served on the faculties of USC, UCLA, and
McGeorge Law Schools. Professor Lutz joined Southwestern
in 1978, and has since been recipient of the Irwin R. Buchalter,
Paul E. Treusch and Justice Marshall F. McComb Professorships.
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