Joel Trachtman is Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Recognized worldwide as a leading authority on international law, he has published eight academic books and over 100 scholarly articles. He has lectured at the American Law Institute, Berkeley, Cambridge, Chicago, Columbia, Duke, European University Institute, Georgetown, Hamburg, Harvard, Hong Kong, the London School of Economics, NYU, the OECD, Oxford, Singapore, UCLA, the United Nations, Virginia, the World Trade Organization, Yale, and other leading organizations and universities around the world. Before entering academia he practiced law with a Wall Street law firm in New York and in Hong Kong.