Meredith Kolsky Lewis
Qualifications
BA(Hons) Northwestern, MSFS(Hons) JD(Hons) Georgetown
Profile
Meredith joined the Faculty of Law in January 2005. Meredith is the Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law. She teaches international trade law at the undergraduate and master’s level and has recently provided international trade law training to Indonesian law professors as well as to New Zealand and Vietnamese government officials. Meredith is a member of the International Trade Law Committee of the International Law Association; a Founding Executive Committee member and current Executive Vice President of the Society of International Economic Law; and a member of the Asian WTO Research Network.
Before joining Victoria, Meredith was a senior associate practising litigation and international trade with Shearman & Sterling LLP in Washington DC and Tokyo. Her practice included defending foreign corporations in antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard actions; counselling corporations and foreign governments on a wide variety of WTO and NAFTA-related issues; and representing clients in commercial litigation and arbitration. Meredith’s research interests include international economic law; international dispute settlement; and alternative dispute resolution.
Areas of supervision
- International Trade Law
- International Economic Law
Current research
- Critiquing the use and assessing the WTO consistency of “food miles” and other forms of “buy local” labelling
- Exploring the conflicting WTO jurisprudence on the permissibility of “zeroing”
- Identifying and attempting to reconcile tensions within the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Understanding
Selection of publications
- With Susy Frankel (eds) International Economic Law and National Autonomy (Cambridge University Press 2010).
- With Bryan Mercurio, Leon Trakman and Bruno Zeller International Business Law (Oxford University Press 2009).
- "The Prisoner’s Dilemma Posed by Free Trade Agreements: Can Open Access Provisions Provide an Escape?"11 Chicago Journal of International Law (forthcoming January 2011) SSRN.
- "The Lack of Dissent in WTO Dispute Settlement" (2006) 9 Journal of International Economic Law pp 895 SSRN.