William J. Davey
Guy Raymond Jones Chair Emeritus
Phone: 217-333-0104
Email: wdavey@illinois.edu
B.A., J.D. University of Michigan
Courses
International Trade Policy (in 2009)William J. Davey is the Guy Raymond Jones Chair Emeritus at the College of Law, where he has taught courses in international trade law, European Union law, international business transactions, and corporate/securities law since 1984. From 1995-99, he was on leave and served as the Director of the Legal Affairs Division of the World Trade Organization. He retired in August, 2008.
In 2007, the University of Berne conferred an honorary doctor of laws degree on Professor Davey, inter alia, "for his fundamental work in the development and evolution of the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement system." In 2004, he received the University of Illinois' Distinguished Faculty Award for International Achievement.
Professor Davey is the author of Legal Problems of International Economic Relations (fifth edition 2008, with Jackson & Sykes); Enforcing World Trade Rules: Essays on WTO Dispute Settlement and GATT Obligations (2006); European Union Law (second edition 2002, with Bermann, Goebel & Fox); Pine & Swine: Canada-United States Trade Dispute Settlement (1996); and Handbook of WTO/GATT Dispute Settlement (1991-2000, with Pescatore & Lowenfeld), as well as the editor of The Future of International Economic Law (2008, with Jackson). He has also written many articles on various international trade law issues. Professor Davey is Associate Editor of The Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford) and co-General Editor of the Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law book series.
After graduating from law school in 1974, Professor Davey clerked for Judge J. Edward Lumbard and Justice Potter Stewart. He then worked in Brussels and New York for Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.
