Just who is this Bart Fisher??? well this is from their home page ...
Bart S. Fisher is Counsel with the law firm of Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur in Washington, DC. From 1972 through April, 1994, he practiced law with Patton, Boggs in Washington, DC, where he was a partner as of January 1, 1978. While at Patton Boggs he was on the Management Committee and Chair of the International Trade Practice Group. From May, 1994, until August 1, 1995, he was a partner with the law firm Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn in Washington, DC.
He attended Harvard Law School (JD 1972), The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, and Bologna, Italy (MA 1967 and PhD 1970) and Washington University (BA 1963). He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Washington University, and awarded the Brookings Institution Fellowship in 1968.
Dr. Fisher is an Adjunct Professor in International Relations at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and has been a Professorial Lecturer in International Relations at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Senior Lecturer in International Transactions at the International Institute of George Mason University. He was a Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Division at the Brookings Institute (1968 to 1969).
He is a member of the International Bar Association and an ex-officio member of the Board of Governors, International Practice Section, Virginia State Bar. He serves on the Program Committee of Georgetown University Leadership Seminar, which he co-founded in 1981, as a Director of The Institute at Mars Hill College, as a participating member of the International Trade Working Group of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, and is a nationally syndicated columnist for NewsUSA.
He is Managing Parnter of Capital House Merchant Banking, LLC, and President of Capital Baseball, Inc. From 1991-1994 he was Vice President of the Prince William Cannons Professional Baseball Club and a member of its Board of Directors. He formerly served as a Director of Total Health, a New York-based health maintenance organization.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Marrow Donor Program, The Marrow Foundation, and the Aplastic Anemia Foundation (which he founded in 1983), and has served as President of the Aplastic Anemia Foundation. He is a member of the American Legion Parkville Post.
Dr. Fisher is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in America.
His publications include the following books: The International Coffee Agreement: A Study in Coffee Diplomacy (Praeger, 1972); Regulating the Multinational Enterprise: National and International Challenges, ed., with Jeff Turner (Praeger, 1985); Barter in the World Economy, ed., with Kathleen M. Harter (Prager, 1985); and International Trade and Investment: Regulating International Business, co-author with John Barton (Little, Brown & Company, 1986), which is used as the standard casebook on international trade in many law schools in the United States.
Dr. Fisher has also written numerous articles published in business and law journals, including:
"Protection Against Unfair Foreign Competition: Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930", 13 Virginia Journal of International Law (Winter 1971)
"Enforcing Export Quota Commodity Agreements: The Case of Coffee", 12 Harvard International Law Journal (Summer 1971)
"The Multinationals and the Crisis in United States Trade and Investment Policy", 53 Boston University Law Review (March, 1973)
"The Antidumping Law of the United States: An Economic and Legal Analysis", 5 Law and Policy in International Business (November, 1973)
"United States Safety Standards as Non-tariff Trade Barriers", 4 The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Review (1975)
"The Multinationals At Bay: The Foreign Tax Provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1975", George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics (April, 1976)
"U.S. Commodity Policy: What Response to Third World Initiatives?", Law and Policy in International Business (1977)
"Dumping: Confronting the Paradox of Internal Weakness and External Challenge", University of Michigan Yearbook of International Legal Studies (July, 1979)
"Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974: Protection for U.S. Exporters of Goods, Services and Capital", Law and Policy in International Business (1982)
"The Enforcement by Private Citizens of United States Rights Under International Trade Agreements", Current Legal Aspects of Trade Law (American Bar Association, 1983)
"Making the World Trade Regime Work: An Agenda for GATT", The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Review (1986)
"Lobbying for U.S. Interests Abroad", The Virginia Lawyer (July, 1994) |
