Dan Partan
Education
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
LL.B. 1958; LL.M. 1961 (international law)University of Cologne, Germany
Fulbright student, 1958-59 (labor law)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
A.B. 1955 (mathematics)
Academic Appointments
Boston University School of Law
Professor of Law, (1968-date)Boston University School of Law
R. Gordon Butler Scholar-in-Law (1990-date)Xiamen University Law School, Xiamen, China
Visiting Professor (Spring 2006)School of International Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China
Visiting Professor (Spring 2000 and Spring 2005)Tsinghua University Law School, Beijing, China
Distinguished Fulbright Professor (Fall 2003)Boston University Legal Institute, London, England
Professor of Law (Summer 2003 and 2006)School of International Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China
Visiting Professor (Spring 2000)Northeastern University School of Law
Visiting Professor (1988)Harvard Law School
Visiting Scholar (1977-78)Case Western Reserve University Law School
Visiting Lecturer (1976)Cambridge University, England
Visiting Scholar (1972)Boston University School of Law
Associate Professor of Law (1965-68)University of North Dakota College of Law
Visiting Associate Professor of Law (1964-65)Rule of Law Research Center, Duke University School of Law
Research Associate (1962-65)Harvard Law School
Research Associate (1961)Harvard Law School
Faculty Assistant (1959-61)
Areas of Teaching and Scholarship
International trade regulation
International lawmaking methodology
International economic institutions
International dispute settlement
Transnational litigation
Other Professional Activities
Member, Dispute Settlement Roster, World Trade Organization
Member, Chapter 19 Binational Panel Roster, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Member, Chapter 19 Binational Panel Roster, U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement
Member, Consultative Group on World Trade Law, American Law Institute
Member, Amicus Brief Committee, American Bar Association Section on Int'l Law and Practice
Legal Consultant at the following agencies: U. S. Department of State; American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS); American Bar Association (ABA); American Society of International Law (ASIL); Law & Population Programme of Tufts University; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); and United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) (various dates)
Law firm affiliation, Bracken & Baram, Boston, Mass. 1976-84 (environmental law)
Legislative Attorney, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1962
Courses Taught at Boston University School of Law
International Law Process (JD program)
International Trade Law (JD program)
Transnational Litigation (JD program)
International Economic Institutions (LL.M.Program in International Banking Law)
Academic and Professional Society Memberships
American Bar Association (ABA)
ABA Section of International Law and Practice
American Law Institute (elected member)
American Society of International Law (ASIL)
ASIL International Economic Law Group
American Branch of the International Law Association
Boston Area Teachers of International Law (convenor)
New England Center for International Law and Policy (Advisory Council)
Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS)
Commission to Study the Organization of Peace (elected member)
Publications
Selected Publications in reverse chronological order, 2006 to 1963
NAFTA Binational Panel decision, Oil Country Tubular Goods from Mexico, Final Results of Sunset Review of Antidumping Order, Decision of the Panel on Third Remand, USA-MEX-2001-1904-03 (December 22, 2006).
NAFTA Binational Panel decision, Oil Country Tubular Goods from Mexico, Final Results of Sunset Review of Antidumping Order, Decision of the Panel on Second Remand, USA-MEX-2001-1904-03 (July 28, 2006).
“Investment Disputes under NAFTA Chapter 11 and Bilateral Investment Treaties”, Collected Lectures of Xiamen University Law School, Xiamen, China, 2006.
NAFTA Binational Panel decision, Certain Softwood Lumber Products from Canada, Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, Decision of the Panel on Sixth Remand, USA-CDA-2002-1904-03 (March 17, 2006).
NAFTA Binational Panel decision, Oil Country Tubular Goods from Mexico, Final Results of Sunset Review of Antidumping Order, Decision of the Panel on Remand, USA-MEX-2001-1904-03 (February 8, 2006).
“Judicial ‘Activisim’ in the WTO’, Proceedings of the Conference on Legal Dimensions of the Doha Round, Hong Kong, December 2005.
NAFTA Binational Panel decision, Certain Softwood Lumber Products from Canada, Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, Decision of the Panel on Fourth Remand, USA-CDA-2002-1904-03 (October 5, 2005).
NAFTA Binational Panel decision, Certain Softwood Lumber Products from Canada, Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, Decision of the Panel on Third Remand, USA-CDA-2002-1904-03 (May 23, 2005).
NAFTA Binational Panel decision, Oil Country Tubular Goods from Mexico, Final Results of Sunset Review of Antidumping Order, Decision of the Panel, USA-MEX-2001-1904-03 (February 11, 2005).
NAFTA Binational Panel decision, Certain Softwood Lumber Products from Canada, Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, Decision of the Panel on Second Remand, USA-CDA-2002-1904-03 (December 1, 2004).
Interview on the American Presidential Elections, published in the “Sunnuntaisuomalainen” newspapers in Finland, Nov. 1, 2004 (in Finnish).
NAFTA Binational Panel decision, Certain Softwood Lumber Products from Canada, Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, Decision of the Panel on Remand, USA-CDA-2002-1904-03 (June 7, 2004).
“The New “National Security Strategy” of the United States: Implications for International Law” (Faculty Publications, Wuhan University School of Law, Wuhan, China, May 2004).
NAFTA Binational Panel decision, Certain Softwood Lumber Products from Canada, Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, Decision of the Panel, USA-CDA-2002-1904-03 (August 13, 2003).
“Sovereignty and International Criminal Justice”, 1 Revista Colombiana de Derecho Internacional 53-82 (with Predrag Rogic) (Bogota, Colombia, June 2003).
“Legal Controls on the Use of Defensive Force are Vital with Weapons of Mass Destruction”, Letters to the Editor, Financial Times, p. 12, col. 3, May 16, 2003.
The International Law Process: Cases and Materials, (revised classroom edition, Boston University, 2002).
The International Law Process: 1999 Documents Supplement, v, 290 pp., Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press (1999).
NAFTA, Article 1904 Binational Panel Review, Decision of the Panel, Gray Portland Cement from Mexico, USA-97-1904-02 (December 4, 1998).
NAFTA, Article 1904 Binational Panel Review, Decision of the Panel, Oil Country Tubular Goods from Mexico, USA-95-1904-04 (July 31, 1996).
"The Justiciability of Subsidiarity," ch. 3, pp. 63-80 in The State of the European Union, vol. III, Rhodes & Mazey, editors, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, and London: Longman Group Ltd. (1995).
Proposal for United States acceptance of the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, in American Bar Association Report on Improving the Effectiveness of the United Nations in Advancing the Rule of Law in the World: Recommendations on the International Court of Justice (Rapporteur on the International Court of Justice, ABA Working Group on Improving the Effectiveness of the United Nations, 1994), reprinted in The International Lawyer, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 293, 295-300 (1995).
The International Law Process: Teachers Manual, 100 pp., appendix, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1994.
U.S-Canada Free Trade Agreement, Binational Panel Decision, Certain Flat Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Sheet Products Originating in or Exported from the United States of America (Dumping and Negative Injury), CDA-93-1904-05 and CDA-93-1904-07 (panel decision issued May 18, 1994)
"The Globalization of International Lawmaking Theory," paper delivered at the First Congress on Caribbean Legal Studies, School of Law, University of Puerto Rico, April 1994.
"Merger Control in the European Community: Federalism with a European Flavor," in The State of the European Community, vol. 2, The Maastricht Debates and Beyond, chapter 17, pp. 285-302, Cafruny & Rosenthal, editors, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, and London: Longman Group Ltd., 1993.
"Subsidiarity in European Community Environmental Regulation," paper delivered at the Symposium on Subsidiarity and Harmonization: Defining European Federalism, Rutgers University School of Law, March 1993.
The International Law Process: Cases and Materials, xxxi, 883 pp., index, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1992.
The International Law Process: Documents Supplement, iv, 104 pp., Boston: Academic Joint Ventures, and Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1992.
"What the Court Ruled On in Kidnap Case," The New York Times, July 10, 1992, p. A28, col. 3.
"Retaliation in United States and European Community Trade Law," Boston University International Law Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 333-49 (Fall, 1990).
Corporate Disclosure of Environmental Risks: U.S. and European Law, edited with Michael S. Baram, Center for Law and Technology, Boston University School of Law, x, 359 pp., index, Salem, N.H.: Butterworth Legal Publishers, 1990.
The International Law Process: Cases and Materials, preliminary edition, 2 vols, iv, 800 pp., Boston: Boston University School of Law, 1990.
"Cause of Human Rights Takes a Step Forward," The New York Times, December 19, 1988, p. A16.
"The 'Duty to Inform' in International Environmental Law," in the Boston University International Law Journal, vol. 6, no. l, pp. 43-88 (Spring, 1988).
"Restructuring U.N. Economic and Social Machinery," report and policy recommendations prepared for the United Nations Association of Greater Boston and UNA-USA, June 28, 1988 (Boston, Mass., 1988).
"Terrorism: An International Law Offense," in the Connecticut Law Review, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 751-97 (1987).
Panel chairman, panel on "Military Responses to Terrorism," American Society of International Law, Proceedings of the 81st Annual Meeting, Boston, April 8-11, 1987, pp. 287-320, Washington: ASIL, 1990.
"No Gain for International Law in the Gulf of Sidra," The New York Times, April 3, 1986, p. A26.
"On Refugee Rights: Towns as Instruments of Sanctuary," The New York Times, January 11, 1986, p. 22.
"Increasing the Effectiveness of the International Court," reprinted in Richard Falk, Friedrich Kratochwil, and Saul H. Mendlovitz, editors, International Law: A Contemporary Perspective, ch. 4, "Lawmaking in International Society," pp. 205, 279-93 (Boulder & London: Westview Press, 1985).
"United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization," in the Encyclopedia of Public International Law, vol. 5, "International Organizations," pp. 314-19, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, B.V., 1983).
"Introduction to a Symposium on Canadian Regulation and Restriction of American Investment: Canadian Foreign Investment Review," with Ira Herman, in the Boston University International Law Journal, vol. 1, pp. 1-10 (1982).
Comments on the proposed "United States Academy of Peace Act," in U.S. Senate, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities, Hearing on S.1889 to Establish the United States Academy of Peace, pp. 29-30, 97th Congress, 2d Session, Washington, 1982.
"Preserving the Natural and Man-Made Environment," two-part article in the Brookline Chronicle-Citizen, "Brookline Voices," Brookline, Mass., November 26 and December 3, 1981.
"International Administrative Law," in the American Journal of International Law, vol. 75, pp. 639-44 (1981).
"The United Nations," (with Arthur Larson), survey article in Collier’s Encyclopedia, 1980 edition, vol. 22, pp. 637-63 (New York: MacMillan, 1980).
"On New Environmental Gambles: No Risk-Taking Without Representation," The New York Times, July 24, 1979, p. A14.
"Diesel Co-generation in Boston: An Unacceptable Threat to Air Quality," in The Environmental Forum, vol. l, no. 2, pp. 5 and 23 (1979).
The United States and the International Labor Organization: Twenty-Sixth Report of the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, Reporter for the Twenty-Sixth Report of the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, pp. 1-30 (New York: The Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, 1979).
"The United States and the International Labor Organization: Background Paper" with Paul C. Irwin, Twenty-Sixth Report of the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, pp. 35-132 (New York: The Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, 1979).
"Human Rights Aspects of Population Programs," in World Population and Development: Challenges and Prospects, Philip M. Hauser, editor, ch. 14, pp. 486-537 (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press for the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, 1979).
"Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy," Rapporteur's Discussion Group Report, in the Report of the Eighteenth Strategy for Peace Conference, pp. 11-22 (Muscatine, Iowa: The Stanley Foundation, 1977).
Comments on the proposed "Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation Act of 1977," in U.S. Senate, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Hearings on Oil Spill Liability and Compensation, pp. 335-36, 95th Congress, lst Session, Washington, 1977.
"Introduction [to] The United Nations, 31st Session: Increasing the Effectiveness of the International Court," in the Harvard International Law Journal, vol. 18, pp. 559-75 (1977).
"Population in the UN System," in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, vol. 7, pp. 207-29 (1975).
Documentary Study of the Politicization of UNESCO,vii, 174 pages (Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1975).
Documentary Record of the Politicization of UNESCO, ix, 1,000 pages (Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1975).
Committee Report, Committee on the Charter of the United Nations, American Branch of the International Law Association, in the 1973-1974 Proceedings and Committee Reports, pp. 97-99 (New York: American Branch of the International Law Association, 1974).
"International Organizations Sourcebook," in International Federation for Documentation, Sources, Organization and Utilization of International Documentation, pp. 504-10 (The Hague: International Federation for Documentation, 1974).
Population in the United Nations System: Developing the Legal Capacity and Programs of UN Agencies, xv, 219 pp., Leiden, The Netherlands: A.E. Sijthoff, 1973).
"Population and the United Nations," in Law and Population: Lectures and Reading Materials compiled from the Seminar on Law and Population, vol. I, ch. 12, Medford, Mass.: Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 1973.
"International Organizations Sourcebook," working paper prepared for the UNITAR International Symposium on Documentation of the United Nations and Other Intergovernmental Organizations, Geneva, 1972, United Nations document UNITAR/EUR/SEM.1/WP.III/4 (1972).
"Steps that might be taken by the General Assembly to enhance the effectiveness of the International Court of Justice," Committee Report, American Branch of the International Law Association, in the 1971-1972 Proceedings and Committee Reports, pp. 142-69 (New York: American Branch of the International Law Association, 1972).
Legal Problems of International Administration: Constitutional and Administrative Problems of International Organizations with Louis B. Sohn, lxv, 1298 pages, Preliminary Edition, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Law School, 1968.
"Legal Aspects of the Vietnam Conflict," reprinted in The Vietnam War and International Law, Richard A. Falk, editor, vol. I, pp. 201-36 (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press for the American Society of International Law, 1968).
"Peaceful Settlement of Peripheral Conflict," paper prepared for the Washington World Conference on World Peace Through Law, 1965, published in World Peace Through Law Center, World Peace Through Law: The Washington World Conference, p. 733 (St Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co., 1967).
"The Development of International Law by the International Labor Organization," address at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, 1965, reprinted in the World Rule of Law Booklet Series, No. 37 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University, 1966).
"Peaceful Settlement and the Cold War," reprinted in the World Rule of Law Booklet Series, No. 36 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University, 1966).
"Individual Responsibility under a Disarmament Agreement in American Law," reprinted in the World Rule of Law Booklet Series, No. 32 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University, 1966).
"Legal Aspects of the Vietnam Conflict," in the Boston University Law Review, vol. 46, pp. 281-316 (1966).