David A. Wirth

A.B. 1976, Princeton University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; A.M. 1978, Harvard University; J.D. 1981, Yale Law School; admitted to practice in District of Columbia, Virginia, and New York; law clerk to Judge William H. Timbers, Second Circuit Court of Appeals, New York City, 1981-82; legal fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., New York City, 1982-83; attorney adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Dept. of State, Washington, D.C., 1983-86; Resident Fellow, Center for Studies and Research, Hague Academy of International Law, fall 1985; Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, spring 1989; senior attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1986-90; Assistant Professor of Law, 1990-95; Pew Faculty Fellow in International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1992-93; Associate Professor of Law, 1995-98; Director, Trade, Health, and Environment Program, Community Nutrition Institute, Washington, D.C., 1996 (while on sabbatical leave from Washington and Lee); Fulbright Scholar, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Regional Research Program, 1996-97; Visiting Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, spring 1997; Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, 1998 . Member, Council on Foreign Relations, 1998- ; Member, Environmental Advisory Council, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1995-98; Member, Management Committee for Environmental Management System (EMS) component of National Accreditation Program (NAP), American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 1997 - ; Member, Advisory Council, Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute (PAIL), 1998 - ; Member, Commission on Environmental Law, World Conservation Union (IUCN), 1995 - ; Member, Advisory Board, Environmental Law Center, Vermont Law School, 1993 - ; Member, International Council of Environmental Law. On leave 1998-99. Summer faculty, Vermont Law School, 1992 - .

Courses:

Administrative Law; Environmental Law; Foreign Relations Law; International Law.

Legal Publications:

At War With the Environment, 84 Va. L. Rev. 315 (1998)(review of Stephen Dycus, National Defense and the Environment (1996))

International Trade Agreements: Vehicles for Regulatory Reform?, 1997 U. Chi. Legal F. 331

Economic Assistance, the World Bank, and Nonbinding Instruments, in International Compliance with Nonbinding Accords 219 (Edith Brown Weiss ed. 1997)

Government by Trade Agreement, in Joining Together, Standing Apart: National Identities After NAFTA 111 (Dorinda G. Dallmeyer ed. 1997)

Trade Implications of the Basel Convention Amendment Banning North-South Trade in Hazardous Wastes, 19 Int'l Env't Rep. (BNA) 796 (1996)

Trade and the Environment: Equilibrium or Imbalance?, 17 Mich. J. Int'l L. 563 (1996) (with Douglas J. Caldwell) (review of 4 books on trade and environment)

Public Participation in International Processes: Environmental Case Studies at the National and International Levels, 7 Colo. J. Int'l Envtl. L. & Pol'y 1 (1996)

Risky Reform, 95 Colum. L. Rev. 1857 (1995)(with Ellen Silbergeld)

The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development: Two Steps Forward and One Back, or Vice Versa?, 29 Ga. L. Rev. 599 (1994)

Book Review, 89 Am. J. Int'l L. 244 (1995)(review of Greening International Law (Philippe Sands ed. 1993))

The Role of Science in the Uruguay Round and NAFTA Trade Disciplines, 27 Cornell Int'l L.J. 818 (1994)(reprinted as monograph no. 8 in United Nations Environment Program's Environment and Trade series)

Reexamining Decision-Making Processes in International Environmental Law, 79 Iowa L. Rev. 769 (1994)

Book Review, 15 Mich. J. Int'l L. 687 (1994) (review of Bartram S. Brown, The United States and the Politicization of the World Bank: Issues of International Law and Policy (1992))

International Decisions, 87 Am. J. Int'l L. 626 (1993)(analysis of Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Massey, 986 F.2d 528 (D.C. Cir. 1993))

The Uneasy Interface Between Domestic and International Environmental Law, 9 Am. U.J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 171 (1993)

Book Review, 14 Mich. J. Int'l L. 465 (1993), reprinted in 5 Int'l Envtl. Aff. 280 (1993) (review of Participation and Litigation Rights of Environmental Associations in Europe: Current Legal Situation and Practical Experience (Martin Fuehr & Gerhard Roller ed. 1991))

The International Trade Regime and the Municipal Law of Federal States: How Close a Fit?, 49 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1389 (1992), reprinted in Trade and the Environment: Law, Economics, and Policy 33 (Durwood Zaelke, Paul Orbuch & Robert F. Housman ed. 1993)

The North American Free Trade Agreement and U.S. Environmental Law, 86 Proc. Am. Soc'y Int'l L. 155 (1992)

A Matchmaker's Challenge: Marrying International Law and American Environmental Law, 32 Va. J. Int'l L. 377 (1992), reprinted in United States Environmental Protection Agency, The Greening of World Trade 204 (1993)(report to United States Environmental Protection Agency from Trade and Environment Committee of National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology) and in An Environmental Law Anthology 503 (Robert L. Fischman, Maxine I. Lipeles & Mark S. Squillace ed. 1996)

Beyond Vienna and Montreal: A Global Framework Convention on Greenhouse Gases, 2 Transnat'l L. & Contemp. Probs. 79 (1992)(with Daniel Lashof)(update and revision of Beyond Vienna and Montreal -- Multilateral Agreements on Greenhouse Gases), reprinted in A Global Warming Forum: Scientific, Economic, and Legal Overview 509 (Richard A. Geyer ed. 1992)

Book Review, 2 Y.B. Int'l Envtl. L. 479 (1991) (review of International Law and Pollution (Daniel Barstow Magraw ed. 1991))

Legitimacy, Accountability, and Partnership: A Model for Advocacy on Third World Environmental Issues, 100 Yale L.J. 2645 (1991)

Remarks, in The Role of Law in the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development 14 (1991) (monograph from conference sponsored by American Bar Association and President's Council on Environmental Quality)

Multilateral Lending Activities/Development Assistance and Sustainable Development, 1 Y.B. Int'l Envtl. L. 211 (1990)

Remarks, 84 Proc. Am. Soc'y Int'l L. 145 (1990)

International Technology Transfer and Environmental Impact Assessment, in Transferring Hazardous Technologies and Substances: The International Legal Challenge 83 (Guenther Handl & Robert E. Lutz ed. 1989)

Remarks, 82 Proc. Am. Soc'y Int'l L. 45 (1988)

Remarks, 79 Proc. Am. Soc'y Int'l L. 310 (1985)

Private Rights of Action and Judicial Review in Federal Environmental Law, 70 Cornell L. Rev. 403 (1985) (with William H. Timbers)

Trade Union Rights in the Workers' State: Poland and the ILO, 13 Den. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 269 (1984)

Multilingual Treaty Interpretation and the Case of SALT II, 6 Yale Stud. World Pub. Ord. 429 (1980)

Book Review, 7 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 121 (1980)

Other Writing:

Public Access to Information and Documentation at the United Nations Development Program: Issues Findings, and Recommendations (1996) (report prepared for United Nations Development Program)

Risk-Based Regulatory Reform and Public Participation, in Technical Expertise and Public Decisions 242 (1996) (proceedings of Seventh International Symposium on Technology and Society)

A Climate for Change, Envtl. Sci. & Tech., Jan. 1996, at 45A (review of Negotiating Climate Change: The Inside Story of the Rio Convention (Irving M. Mintzer & J. Amber Leonard ed. 1994))

Environment and the International Financial Institutions: The Next Steps (1992) (report prepared for Sierra Club Center for Environmental Innovation)

Environmental Reform of the Multilateral Development Banks (1992) (monograph reprinting report to the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation)

Beyond Vienna and Montreal -- Multilateral Agreements on Greenhouse Gases, 19 Ambio 305 (1990)(with Daniel Lashof), reprinted in Greenhouse Warming: Negotiating a Global Regime 13 (Jessica T. Mathews ed. 1991)

Catastrophic Climate Change, in World Security: Trends and Challenges at Century's End 381 (Michael T. Klare & Daniel C. Thomas ed. 1990) (update and revision of Climate Chaos)

Climate Chaos, Foreign Policy, Spring 1989, at 3, reprinted in Econ. Impact, Fall 1989, at 72

Greenhouse Implications of Energy Policies of Multilateral Development Institutions, in Coping with Climate Change 660 (John C. Topping, Jr. ed. 1989)

Environmental Impact Statements and Climate Change, Environment, Mar. 1989, at 44 (with Glenn T. Prickett)

Keeping the Courthouse Door Open, 3 Forum for Applied Research & Pub. Pol'y 85 (1988)

The World Bank and the Environment, Environment, Dec. 1986, at 33

Cooling the Chemical Summer, Amicus, Fall 1986, at 13 (with David D. Doniger)

FDA on Food Additives and Salt, Environment, Feb. 1984, at 3

FDA Flip-Flops on Antibiotic Hazard, Environment, June 1983, at 4