University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

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Colin Picker The Daniel L. Brenner/UMKC Scholar & Professor of Law A.B. (Bowdoin College); J.D. (Yale Law School) email 816-235-5928 Vita Class Links Professor Picker, while born in the United States, grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. He first went to university in London to study mathematics and astrophysics. Deciding, however, that the time was not yet ripe for studying, he spent the next few years traveling the world (Asia, South America, etc.) financed through commercial fishing in Alaska. Years later, he returned to academia and received an A.B., summa cum laude, from Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1992 and was enrolled as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After taking more time for travel, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his Juris Doctoris in 1996. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable José A. Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In addition, during his final year at law school and during his judicial clerkship, he was also an assistant to the first state-to-state NAFTA arbitration panel (U.S. v. Canada). Following his clerkship, from 1997 to 2000, he was an associate attorney in the International Group of the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. His practice included international litigation, international transactions and congressional policy work. He was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1997, the District of Columbia Bar in 1998, and the Court of International Trade in 1998. Professor Picker has published widely in the last few years. Most recently in the area of International Trade/International Economic Law, but also in the areas of International Law and in Comparative Law. He has published in many journals, including in the Yale Journal of International Law, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, and in the Tulane Law Review. He is also a co-author of COMPARATIVE LEGAL TRADITIONS: TEXTS, MATERIALS AND CASES ON WESTERN LAW, 3rd Edition (Thomson West), and chief-editor of recent books on international economic law. A full list of his publications is available in his Resume/C.V. at the link above. Professor Picker is the co-chair of the Founding Committee of the Society of International Economic Law, a new global academic organization for international economic law. He has also been active in the International Economic Law Group of the American Society of International Law (Co-Chair 2005-2007), and in the American Society of Comparative Law (Chair of the Young Comparativists Committee), and is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law. He is also a Salzburg Seminar Fellow. Professor Picker teaches or has taught in the United States and abroad: U.S. Constitutional Law (Powers and Structures); International Law; International Business Transactions; Comparative Law; International Trade and Finance; International Human Rights; and Conflicts of Law (Private International Law). You can access my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=386588