Trade Security Authority (Kathleen Claussen)

The Edinburgh Centre for Global and International Law presents

Trade Security Authority

Professor Kathleen Claussen, University of Miami Law School 

 

About the seminar

The trade-security nexus is at the heart of contemporary instability in the global trading system. This paper analyses the concept of trade-security authority in U.S. law by studying the separation of powers between Congress and the executive in trade and security.  It engages with the rise of the 'trade executive agreement', by which the executive is empowered by congressional security delegations to engage in a greater lawmaking role in trade; accordingly, the executive now acts as the manager-agent in U.S. trade-security affairs.  

 

About the speaker 

Kathleen Claussen joined the Miami Law faculty in 2017 after spending several years at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in the Executive Office of the President of the United States as Associate General Counsel.  Earlier in her career she served as Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and as deputy chief of office for a member of the European Parliament.  She holds a master's degree from Queen's University Belfast and a law degree from the Yale Law School.

 

This event is free and open to all with no registration necessary.