Steve Charnovitz

Steve Charnovitz (born 1953) is a scholar of public international law, living in the United States. He teaches at The 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.

Background

Charnovitz is a native of Savannah, Georgia. He was an analyst in the U.S. Department of Labor from 1975 to 1986 in international labor issues. During 1984-1985, he was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the offices of Senator Carl Levin and House Majority Leader Jim Wright. From 1987-1989, he was a legislative assistant to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Jim Wright, and served once again in 1989-1991 for Speaker Tom Foley. In 1991, Charnovitz became Policy Director of the newly established Competitiveness Policy Council. In 1995, he co-founded and directed the Global Environment & Trade Study (GETS) located at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. After several years in private practice at the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, he joined the faculty of The 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 at Georgetown University. He has been a longtime advocate 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.

Works

Charnovitz is the author of "Trade Law and Global Governance", which was launched in June 1992 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is also the author of over 100 articles in edited volumes and scholarly journals, and the co-editor of "Law in Service of Human Dignity". In recent years, he has written extensively on the history of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In 1997, he proposed the thesis that the impact of non-governmental organization on international policymaking was cylical rather than upwardly sloping [ Steve Charnovitz, "Two Centuries of Participation: NGOs and International Governance," "Michigan Journal of International Law", Vol. 18, Winter 1997, pp. 183, 268-270.] .

He is known for his neologisms on international policy issues. For example, he coined the term "ecolonomy" [Steve Charnovitz, "Living in an Ecolonomy: Environmental Cooperation and the GATT," Pacific Basin Research Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1994.] to demonstrate that ecology and economy were interlinked. He also coined the term "SCOO" ["The Dispute Settlement System in the Next Ten Years", p.921, 927, in Merit Janow, Victoria Donaldson & Alan Yanovich (eds.), "The WTO: Governance, Dispute Settlement & Developing Countries" (Huntington: Juris Publishing, 2008).] as an acronym for the trade sanction in the World Trade Organization called "suspension of concessions or other obligations".

References

External links

* [http://www.law.gwu.edu/Faculty/profile.aspx?id=7541 Faculty webpage at GWU Law]
* [http://www.geocities.com/charnovitz Profile and bibliography]
* [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=716381&high=%20charnovitz NGO Accountability in Global Governance]