Jeffery Atik

AB, with distinction, University of California Berkeley
JD, Yale Law School
PhD, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Jur. Dr. (honoris causa), Lund University 

Background

Jeffery Atik writes on international finance and on international trade, intellectual property and competition law issues with a focus on technology transfer.  Atik has also taught at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), Boston College, Indiana-Bloomington, Lund (Sweden), Suffolk, and UCLA law schools, and at Washington-St. Louis and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.  Atik is a member of the United States' NAFTA Chapter 19 roster and has served on three NAFTA binational panels, including the review in Softwood Lumber from Canada.  He first practiced in Shearman & Sterling New York City and later with law firms in Boston, Milan and St. Louis.  He is a member of the New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Missouri bars.

Selected Scholarship

• On the Efficiency of Health Measures and the ‘Appropriate Levels of Protection’, in Denise Prevost & Geert Van Calster (eds.), Research Handbook on Environment, Health and the WTO (forthcoming Edward Elgar 2012)
• Basel II and Extreme Risk Analysis, in 6 Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law (International Monetary Fund 2012)
• ACTA and the Destabilization of TRIPS, in Hans Henrik Lidgard, Jeffery Atik & Tu Thanh Nguyen (eds.), Sustainable Technology Transfer (Kluwer 2011)
• Inventing Trade Remedies in Response to Climate Change, 18 Sw. J Int’l L. 53 (2011)
• Basel II: A Post-Crisis Post-Mortem, 19 Trans. L. & Contemp. Prob. 731 (2011)