{{short description|International Law legal scholar}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Gregory Shaffer | image = Gregory Shaffer in 2019.png | alt = | caption = | occupation = Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of International Law at the Georgetown University Law Center | education = Dartmouth College (BA)<br>Stanford University (JD) | website = [https://www.gregshaffer.com/ Gregory Shaffer's Website] | known_for = International Law<br>International Trade Law<br>Globalization<br>World Trade Organization }} '''Gregory Shaffer''' is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of International Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gregory Shaffer |url=https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/gregory-shaffer/|website=Georgetown University Law Center |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref> From 2022-2024 he served as President of the American Society of International Law.<ref>{{cite web |title=Governance |url=https://www.asil.org/about/governance |website=American Society of International Law |access-date=23 May 2021}}</ref> He is known for his work on international law, with a specialization on international trade law, and law and globalization.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gregory Shaffer |url=https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/gregory-shaffer/|website=Georgetown University Law Center |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref>
==Biography==
Shaffer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gregory Shaffer |url=https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/gregory-shaffer/ |website=Georgetown University Law Center |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref> He previously was a Chancellor's Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, was a Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, held the inaugural Wing-Tat Lee Chair at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and was a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was Co-Director of the Center on World Affairs and the Global Economy and of the European Union Center of Excellence.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gregory Shaffer |url=https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/gregory-shaffer/|website=Georgetown University Law Center |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref>
== Professional work == Before entering academia, Shaffer was a member of the Paris bar, working at the law firms of Coudert Frères and [https://www.bredinprat.fr/en/ Bredin Prat].<ref>{{cite web |title=Gregory Shaffer |url=https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/events/14915 |website=American Bar Foundation |access-date=23 May 2021}}</ref>
== Personal life == Shaffer is married to Michele Goodwin, author, advocate and law professor.<ref>{{cite web |title=Michele Goodwin's Website |url=https://www.michelebgoodwin.com/ |access-date=24 May 2021}}</ref> They have two children.
== Scholarship == Shaffer is a leading international trade expert, author, and consultant on the World Trade Organization (WTO), European Union law, globalization, transnational legal orders, and transnational legal ordering.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gregory Shaffer |url=https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/gregory-shaffer/|website=Georgetown University Law Center |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref> He introduced the concepts of public-private partnerships and legal capacity in the WTO dispute settlement system, examining how they work in practice in the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India, and China.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shaffer |first1=Gregory |editor1-first=Yasuhei |editor1-last=Taniguchi |editor2-first=Alan |editor2-last=Yanovich |editor3-first=Jan |editor3-last=Bohanes |title='Public–private partnerships' in WTO dispute settlement: The US and EU experience |journal=The WTO in the Twenty-first Century |series=WTO Internal Only |date=2007 |pages=148–184 |doi=10.1017/CBO9781139162067.008 |isbn=9781139162067 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/wto-in-the-twentyfirst-century/publicprivate-partnerships-in-wto-dispute-settlement-the-us-and-eu-experience/8C5D795CB1383E3B5D3AF1072B98D680|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Shaffer has written major books on the international law and politics governing genetically modified foods, transatlantic relations, and works in the tradition of legal realism and socio-legal studies.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gregory Shaffer's Books |url=https://www.gregshaffer.com/gregshafferbooksresearch.html |website=Gregory Shaffer's Website |access-date=23 May 2021}}</ref> His publications include nine books and over 100 articles and book chapters, including, [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/emerging-powers-and-the-world-trading-system/260AE77E88428799AD0B400C831806A0 ''Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law''] (2021), [https://www.amazon.com/Constitution-Making-Transnational-Comparative-Constitutional-Policy/dp/1108473105 ''Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order''] (Ginsburg and Halliday, 2019), [https://www.amazon.com/Transnational-Orders-Cambridge-Studies-Society/dp/1107641136 ''Transnational Legal Orders''] (Halliday, 2015), and [https://www.amazon.com/Transnational-Ordering-Cambridge-Studies-Society/dp/1107026113 ''Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change''] (2013).
==Selected writings== ===Books=== * [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/emerging-powers-and-the-world-trading-system/260AE77E88428799AD0B400C831806A0 Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law] (2021) * [https://www.amazon.com/Constitution-Making-Transnational-Comparative-Constitutional-Policy/dp/1108473105 Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order] (Ginsburg and Halliday, 2019) * [https://www.amazon.com/Transnational-Orders-Cambridge-Studies-Society/dp/1107641136 Transnational Legal Orders] (Halliday, 2015) * [https://www.amazon.com/Transnational-Ordering-Cambridge-Studies-Society/dp/1107026113 Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change] (2013) * [https://www.amazon.com/Transnational-Orders-Cambridge-Studies-Society/dp/1107069920 Transnational Legal Orders], Cambridge University Press (with Terence Halliday). * [http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/socio-legal-studies/transnational-legal-ordering-and-state-change Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change], Cambridge University Press. * [http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5634876/?site_locale=en_GB Dispute Settlement at the WTO: The Developing Country Experience], Cambridge University Press. * [http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/InternationalStudies/?view=usa&ci=9780199567058 When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods], Oxford University Press. * [http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2003/defendinginterests.aspx Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation], Brookings Institution Press. * [http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5eDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0742509311 Transatlantic Governance in the Global Economy], Rowman & Littlefield.
===Articles=== * [https://ssrn.com/abstract=2004640 The Empirical Turn in International Legal Scholarship], 106 American Journal of International Law 1 (with Tom Ginsburg). * [https://ssrn.com/abstract=1901952 Transnational Legal Process and State Change], 37 Law and Social Inquiry 229-264. * [https://ssrn.com/abstract=1426123 Hard vs. Soft Law: Alternatives, Complements and Antagonists in International Governance], 94 Minnesota Law Review 706-799 (with Mark A. Pollack). * [https://ssrn.com/abstract=1405437 Varieties of New Legal Realism: Can a New World Order Prompt a New Legal Theory?], 95 Cornell Law Review 61 (with Victoria Nourse). * [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=85914 Other Publications on SSRN]
==External links== * [https://www.gregshaffer.com/ Gregory Shaffer's Website] *[https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/gregory-shaffer/ Profile on the Georgetown University Law Center website] *[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0XBOolAAAAAJ&hl=en Profile on Google Scholar] *[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=85914 Profile on SSRN]
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