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Edwin Vermulst

Edwin Vermulst

Work Department

International and EU trade law

Position

Partner (Co-founder)

Career

Edwin Vermulst has practiced international trade and EC law and policy in Washington DC and Brussels since 1985 and is a founding partner of the law firm.

He was a WTO Panellist in Mexico - High Fructose Corn Syrup from the US, and has been involved in WTO dispute settlement proceedings as a member of the delegation, most recently in China — AD/CVD on Wine (Australia), Ukraine – Ammonium nitrate, EU – Biodiesel (Indonesia) and EU – Footwear from China. He has (co)-authored nine books, including landmark comparative analyses of the anti-dumping systems of Australia, Canada, the EC and the United States with Professor John Jackson in 1989 and of rules of origin with Jacques Bourgeois and Paul Waer in 1994, and numerous articles. His indispensable books on EU and WTO anti-dumping law and practice were published by Sweet & Maxwell and Oxford University Press in 2010 and 2006 respectively.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Trade and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Legal Issues of European Integration.

Mr. Vermulst is invariably selected as a leading trade practitioner by publications such as Who’s Who Legal Trade and Customs (trade lawyer of the year for seven years), Chambers, Legal 500, Euromoney and the Rushford Report. He is a Member of the Faculty of the World Trade Institute in Bern and of the AIELPO program in Athens and a member of the Board of ECIPE, the European Centre for International Political Economy.

Memberships

Member of the Brussels Bar (A-List); Editor-in-Chief Journal of World Trade, Board member Global Trade and Customs Journal, contributor Regulating Globalisation; Faculty member World Trade Institute (Bern) and EPLO (Athens), Advisory Board member ECIPE, European Centre for International Political Economy (Brussels).

Education

S.J.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), USA  (1986) LL.M., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), USA  (1984) Master of Laws, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands  (1983) Bachelor of Laws, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands  (1978)

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