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Faculty
Debra S. Lee has been teaching Legal English and legal writing courses at several prestigious U.S. law schools for nearly 15 years. She regularly leads workshops and seminars for law schools in Europe and has been recognized as an English as a Second Language (ESL) expert by the U.S. State Department. She is a co-author of American Legal English, one of the leading textbooks in the field. Ms. Lee is the president of Language 4 Law, Inc., an organization which develops online tools to assist lawyers improve English language skills. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee Law School, and is currently pursuing her doctorate in education technology at the same institution.
Laurence Wiener is a partner at Wiener, Soto, and Caparros Law Firm in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a senior U.S. attorney resident in South America, Mr. Wiener represents a broad cross-section of clients ranging from international banks, corporations and multilateral institutions to medium-sized companies and their individual owners and officers. He regularly serves a senior advisor on stock and asset purchases, capital market issues and project finance transactions. Mr. Wiener currently serves as vice-chairman of the U.S. Lawyers Abroad Committee of the American Bar Association. He is a graduate of the University of California—Davis School of Law.
Alejandro M. Garro is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School in NYC and a Senior Research Scholar of the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law of Columbia University. His areas of teaching focus on comparative law and international commercial law (international sales, secured transactions, international arbitration and litigation. He has taught courses on Latin American law and the inter-American system for the protection of human rights. He is the author of a treatise on the Vienna Convention on CISG entitled "Compraventa Internacional de Mercaderias". Mr. Garro is a frequent lecture in Europe and Latin America, and he regularly is invited to sit on arbitral panels in Latin America, Europe and the United States. He was awarded the degree of Master of Laws (LL.M.) by Louisiana State University School of Law and the degree of Doctor of Laws (J.S.D.) by Columbia University and is admitted to practice before the bars of Buenos Aires, Madrid, and New York.
Kit Williams, Managing Director
Kit Williams is the Managing Director of Georgetown Law's International Commercial Practice Series. He has spent the last decade creating, teaching, and delivering U.S. law school-based education programs for lawyers and law students around the world. He is an instructor in the Georgetown Law online program for lawyers across Latin America and frequently speaks in-person to groups of lawyers and law students across the region. He has worked with thousands of lawyers and students to sharpen their professional skills and grow their practice. Mr. Williams is the former director of the LL.M. and international programs at Louisiana State University (LSU Law) and served as visiting professor at several law schools in Argentina and Costa Rica. He is a graduate of LSU Law Center with a Doctor of Jurisprudence and post-graduate certificate in Civil Law. He is fluent in Spanish and professionally conversant in Portuguese.
Andrew Sherman is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Jones Day, with over 2,400 attorneys worldwide. Mr. Sherman is a recognized international authority on the legal and strategic issues affecting small and growing companies. Mr. Sherman is an Adjunct Professor in the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) program at the University of Maryland and Georgetown University where he has taught courses on business growth, capital formation and entrepreneurship for over twenty-two years. Mr. Sherman is the author of seventeen books on the legal and strategic aspects of business growth and capital formation. His eighteenth book, Road Rules Be the Truck. Not the Squirrel. is an inspirational book which was published in the fall of 2008. The third edition of his M&A practice guide Mergers + Acquisitions from A to Z was published in October 2010.
John Rooney is a partner at Shutts & Bowen Law Firm in Miami, Florida. He serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Universities of Miami and Loyola (New Orleans) law schools. Mr. Rooney is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and is an active panelist for commercial arbitrations throughout the Americas. He can often be found throughout Latin America working with clients or fulfilling his duties as chair of the International Arbitration Law Committee of the Inter-American Bar Association. Mr. Rooney is a graduate of the University of Texas with a Juris Doctor and a Master of Arts in Government.
Professor Byrne is an international tax lawyer and consultant specializing in taxation of investment in Latin America . He has represented various multinational corporations with respect to their international tax strategy, and has advised the governments of Bolivia, Colombia, Lithuania, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Peru and others on tax reform. He is a former co-chair of the International Tax Committee of the American Bar Association's International Section. From 1993 to 1996, Professor Byrne was Deputy Director of the International Tax Program at Harvard Law School and Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Prior to that he was an attorney with the International Tax Counsel's office at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he participated in tax treaty negotiations with Bulgaria, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and others, as well as numerous Tax Information Exchange Agreement negotiations. He has published numerous articles and spoken regularly on the topic of taxation in Latin America. He is a 1986 graduate of Harvard Law School , and studied at Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, as a Fulbright Scholar. Professor Byrne is fluent in Spanish and has been listed as one of the International Tax Review's "top U.S. tax advisers for Latin America.