Debra Pauline Steger

EDUCATION

University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. - 1983
\x94\xF7L.M., Graduate studies in law, specializing in international trade, antitrust, constitutional and public regulatory law.

University of Victoria Faculty of Law, Victoria, B.C., Canada - 1979
\x94\xF7L.B., Undergraduate studies in law with an emphasis on public law, including competition, administrative and constitutional law.

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada - 1975
?.A. (Hons), First class honours degree in history.

Southern Okanagan Secondary School, Oliver, B.C., Canada - 1970
\x8E\xE4econdary School Diploma

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

2002 ? Present Senior Counsel
Thomas & Partners, Ottawa, Canada

2001 - 2002 Visiting Distinguished Professor
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Toronto, Canada

• Teaching courses in international trade law and regulation and supervising graduate students? theses on international trade law.

1995 - 2001 Director, Appellate Body Secretariat
World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

• Chief legal advisor to the Appellate Body.
• Responsible for providing legal advice and opinions on matters relating to interpretation of the WTO Agreement, dispute settlement procedures, international economic law, and public international law generally.
• Under her supervision, lawyers researched and analyzed the legal issues in each appeal or arbitration, assisted the Appellate Body in preparing for oral hearings and in drafting opinions and decisions of the Appellate Body.
• Duties included conducting and supervising legal research and analysis; hiring, training and supervising professional legal and administrative staff; preparation and administration of Appellate Body budget.
• Responsible for providing professional and administrative support to the Appellate Body of the WTO in appeals from panel reports and arbitrations relating to implementation of dispute settlement decisions.?Responsible for managing a team of 10 lawyers and 4 administrative staff which supports the Appellate Body.

1995 - Hyman Soloway Professor of Business and Trade Law
?niversity of Ottawa, Faculty of Law (Common Law), Ottawa, Canada

• Teaching senior and graduate courses in international trade law. ?reparing publications on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its dispute settlement system.?Contributor in book project coordinated by Professors John Jackson and Alan Sykes on Implementing the Uruguay Round. Organizing and presenting papers at conferences and workshops on the WTO and international trade issues.

1991-1995 General Counsel, Canadian International Trade Tribunal, Ottawa, Canada

• Chief Legal Advisor to the Tribunal, head of the Legal Services Division and Member of Senior Management Committee of the Tribunal.?Responsible for managing a team of eight lawyers and two administrative personnel.?Duties included conducting and supervising legal research, hiring, supervising and training professional legal and administrative staff, administration of Legal Services budget, participation in Senior Management Committee's overall operation and policy direction of the Tribunal.
• Responsible for providing legal advice and opinions to Chairman, Tribunal Members, the Secretary, the Executive Director - Research and staff of the Tribunal on matters relating to international trade law, including the Special Import Measures Act, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal Act, the Customs Act, the Customs Tariff, the GATT, the WTO and the NAFTA, and administrative law.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining the Rules Governing Practice and Procedures of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, a Manual for Tribunal Members, and a quarterly Review on Administrative and International Trade Law as well as contributing to Tribunal Bulletin, Annual Report and other publications.?Contributed in the development and amendment of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and the NAFTA Chapter 19 - Binational Panel Rules of Procedure, as well as amendments to Canadian trade legislation required by the NAFTA and the WTO Agreement.
• Represented the Tribunal in several FTA Binational Panel and Federal Court of Appeal administrative reviews of Tribunal decisions.

1988 - 1994? Senior Negotiator and Principal Legal Advisor, Multilateral Trade Negotiations, External Affairs and International Trade Canada, Ottawa, Canada

• Principal counsel responsible for legal drafting of Uruguay Round agreements and senior negotiator and coordinator responsible for developing and negotiating the Canadian positions on safeguards, dispute settlement and institutional issues, including Canadian proposal for the establishment of a World Trade Organization.
• Responsible for supervising a team of lawyers and coordinating provision of legal advice to Canadian senior negotiators on all aspects of the Uruguay Round negotiations.
• Advice and consultations with other government departments, the provinces and private sector International Trade Advisory Committee and Sectoral Advisory Groups on International Trade (including ITAC Task Forces on MTN Institutional Issues, Labour Practices and Trade Rules).

1987 - 1995?djunct Professor of Law, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law (Common Law), Ottawa, Canada

• Teaching senior and graduate courses in International Trade Regulation and International Business Transactions, and supervising graduate students' theses on international trade law.
• Organizing annual University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and Centre for Trade Policy and Law conferences on International Trade, preparing papers and editing conference volumes for publication.

1987 - 1988?Lawyer, Fraser & Beatty, Barristers & Solicitors, Ottawa, Canada

• Engaged in the practice of law, relating to competition and restrictive business practices, international trade (including customs and tariff matters, import and export restrictions, antidumping and countervailing duties, rules of origin, packaging and labelling, and other non-tariff restrictions), intellectual property, advertising, food and drug and other public regulatory law.
• Extensive marketing and public relations activities, including preparing publications, public speaking, media interviews and organizing conferences on the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the GATT and international trade issues.

1985 - 1987?Lawyer, McCarthy & McCarthy, Barristers & Solicitors, Toronto, Canada

• Engaged in the practice of corporate/commercial law, with an emphasis on international trade regulation, competition and restrictive business practices, advertising, packaging and labelling, and other public regulatory law.
• Extensive marketing and public relations activities including publications, public speaking, media interviews and organizing conferences on the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement negotiations, the GATT and international trade issues.

1983 - 1985?egal Consultant, Toronto, Canada

• Prepared legal papers and assisted in research projects on competition and international trade law and policy for Consumer & Corporate Affairs Canada, the C.D. Howe Institute, the Government of British Columbia and management consulting firms.
• Completed Law Society of Upper Canada Bar Admission course.

1983?Visiting Professor, University of Victoria, Faculty of Law, Victoria, B.C., Canada

• Taught courses in public international law and conflict of laws and supervised directed research projects in international law.

1981 - 1982?rticled Student, Lang, Michener, Farquharson & Wright, Barristers & Solicitors, Toronto, Canada

• General articles of clerkship, including experience in litigation, corporate/commercial and real estate law.?Major legal research projects for Restrictive Trade Practices Commission inquiry into the petroleum industry, competition law and aboriginal law.

1979 - 1980?ntergovernmental Affairs Officer and Secretary, Legislation Committee of Cabinet, Ministries of Intergovernmental Relations and Deregulation, Government of British Columbia, Victoria, B.C., Canada

• Coordination of Cabinet memoranda and draft legislation to Legislation and Economic Policy Committees of Cabinet.?Preparation of memoranda to Cabinet and policy papers on government restructuring, economic regulation and parliamentary procedures.
• Preparation of Government of British Columbia's position and participation in federal/provincial negotiations on the Constitution, 1980.

MEMBERSHIPS, EXECUTIVE POSITIONS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS

• Vice-Chair, Committee C1(Trade and Customs Law), Section on Business Law, International Bar Association
• Member, International Trade Law Committee, International Law Association
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford University Press)
• Member of the Executive, Section on International Law and Practice, Canadian Bar Association
• Member, Board of Advisers, UNCTAD Project on Building Capacity through Training in Dispute Settlement in International Trade, Investment and Intellectual Property Council Member, World Trade Law Association
• Member, Human Rights and International Trade Project (MacArthur Foundation, ASIL, Georgetown University Law Center, Max Plank Institute, World Trade Forum)
• Member, Law Society of Upper Canada
• Member, Section on International Law and Practice, American Bar Association
• Member, Canadian Council on International Law (Member of the Executive Committee, 1987-1989)

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

I.BOOKS

1. A Concise Guide to the Canadian-United States Free Trade Agreement (Toronto: Carswell,1988).

2.with M. Smith (eds.), Trade Policy in the 1990s (Ottawa: Centre for Trade Policy and Law,1993).

3.with M. Hart (eds.), In Whose Interest??Due Process and Transparency in International Trade
(Halifax:?Centre for Trade Policy and Law and Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1991).

4.with R. Dearden and M. Hart (eds.), Living with Free Trade:?Canada, the Free Trade Agreement and the GATT
(Halifax:?Centre for Trade Policy and Law and Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1990).

5.with D.M. McRae (eds.), Understanding the Free Trade Agreement and the GATT
(Halifax:?Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1988).

II.??ARTICLES AND PAPERS

1. "The Rule of Law or the Rule of Lawyers?", 3 J. of World Investment 5 (2002), 769.

2. BOOK REVIEW: "Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization", By Claude E. Barfield, The AEI Press, Washington 2001, 5J. of Int'l. Econ. L. (2002), 565.

3. "Facing the Legitimacy Challenges in the World Trade Organization",?9??Canada Watch 1 (September 2002), 62.

4. "Peace and Prosperity Through Trade", in The Permanent Court of Arbitration/Peace Palace Papers, Strengthening Relations with Arab and Islamic Countries Through International Law:?E-Commerce, the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism and Foreign Investment, Kluwer Law 2002, 175.

5. "Afterword: The 'Trade and ...' Conundrum -- A Commentary", 96 Am. J. Int'l. L. 135 (2002).

6. "Amicus Curiae: Participant or Friend?The WTO and NAFTA Experience", in Armin von Bogdandy, Petros C. Mavroidis, Yves M?y (eds.), European Integration and International Coordination: Studies in Honour of Claus-Dieter Ehlermann, (Kluwer Law Int'l. 2002), 419-450.

7. "Appellate Body Jurisprudence Relating to Trade Remedies", 35 J. World Trade 5 (2001), 799.