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Mary Footer

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Mary Footer has been Professor of International Economic Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law since 2006, having previously taught at the University of Amsterdam, the Erasmus University Rotterdam and University College London, and as a guest-lecturer at several universities in Europe, North America and China. She has been Senior Program Legal Counsel at the International Development Law Organization, Rome (1995-199) and has held research positions at the British Institute of International & Comparative Law, London (1992-1994), and the European University Institute, Florence (2010). Mary holds a PhD with distinction (Erasmus), an LLM in public international law (UCL), a JD in civil law (UNA) and a BA (Hons) in European History (UEA). She is a Member of the Executive Council, British Branch of the International Law Association (ILA) and a Member of the ILA International Trade Law Committee. She was co-chair and one of founding members of the ESIL International Economic Law Interest Group (2007-2010) and Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on International Law and Biotechnology (2006-2010). She has been a consultant to governments and to international organisations (WTO, UNCTAD and European Commission). Her publications are mainly in the field of public international law, international economic law and the international regulation of agrobiotechnology; she is author of An Institutional and Normative Analysis of the World Trade Organization (2006). She is currently researching the role of soft law in international economic law, with funding from the Nuffield Foundation.