JEFFREY WOOL
jeffrey.wool@awg.aero; jawool@uw.edu
CURRENT POSITIONS:
1. Condon-Falknor Professor of Global Business Law
University of Washington School of Law
2. Senior Research Fellow and Associate Law Faculty Member
Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford
3. Head of Aerospace Law and Policy
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
4. Secretary General
Aviation Working Group
ACADEMIC: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA
Condon-Falknor Professor of Global Business Law
(appointed in 2014). Prior to that, Affiliate Professor of Law (2012 – 2014) and Assitant Affiliate Professor of Law and Coordinator, Comparative Commercial Law Institute (1993-1995).
Areas of instruction - transactional commercial law (‘TCL’). Previously taught comparative/historical commercial law and international contracting.
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD/ HARRIS MANCHESTER
COLLEGE, Oxford, England
Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College and Associate Member of the Law Faculty (appointed in 2014). Prior to that, Visiting Lecturer in Commercial Law (1996-1998): co-instructor of course on TCL developed jointly with Professor Roy Goode. Course focused on movements
towards, and problems and policies associated with, the harmonization of commercial law with references to specific harmonizing instruments and techniques.
CAPE TOWN CONVENTION ACADEMIC PROJECT 2011~
Executive Director. A joint Oxford – University of
Washington project that facilitates the study and assessment of the Cape Town Treaty for the benefit of scholars, practicing lawyers, judges, and governmental officials. Serves as General Editor of related Journal. See
RADZYNER SCHOOL OF LAW 2008-2010
INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER, Herzliya, Israel Visiting Professor of Law.
Taught TCL in the international business law tract.
PROFESSIONAL: FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER LLP 2006-Present (London)
Head of Aerospace Law and Policy
Directs overall law and policy assessment on aviation matters for one FBD, one of the leading international law firms. See www.freshfields.com.
AVIATION WORKING GROUP (‘A.W.G.’) 1994 – Present
Secretary General
Coordinates AWG's policy development and government consultations across a wide range of commercial and international law and regulatory issues, including with government and international organizations around the world (e.g., OECD, Unidroit, ICAO, Uncitral, the EC and others). See www.awg.aero.
On the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (major treaty ratified by the US, the ‘Cape Town
Treaty’ or the ‘Treaty’)(i) has been and remains involved in
all aspects of the development and implementation of the Treaty and promotion and assessment of compliance with the Treaty, (ii) chaired the group that prepared the initial draft of the Aircraft Protocol to the Treaty, (iii) chairs of the International Registry Advisory Board under the Treaty, and (iv) leads consultations with countries around the world on the ratification and national law implementation of the Treaty.
PERKINS COIE LLP, Washington, D.C. 1988-2006
Partner. Worked in the Firm's Seattle, London and
Washington, D.C. offices. Elected to the partnership in 1996. Specialized in treaty-based international commercial law reform. Practiced in the area of international business and commercial transactions, with a particular emphasis on cross-border structured finance and banking.
NORTON ROSE, Paris, France 1995-1996
Secondment from Perkins Coie. Worked on a variety of
international financing transactions, including European banking and financing transactions.
LONG-TERM CREDIT BANK OF JAPAN, Tokyo,
Japan 1991–1992 Secondment from Perkins Coie. Worked
as an International Legal Counselor, Merchant Banking Group. In LTCB's Airlines and Aerospace Division, worked on a wide range of cross-border transactions representing the interests of LTCB Head Office, LTCB's leasing
subsidiaries and LTCB's worldwide network of branches, agencies and representative offices. Supervised and/or participated in multinational legal teams. Assisted in formulating and implementing LTCB's overall aviation policy.
OTHER ITEMS: UNIDROIT FOUNDATION (RENAMED FROM THE
UNIFORM LAW FOUNDATION) 2007-Present
President (as of May 2013). The (Dutch) Foundation is a
charitable organization that supports inter alia the work of UNIDROIT.
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL
UNIFORM LAW 2007-Present
Chair. The Foundation is a charitable organization that
supports inter alia the work of UNIDROIT.
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE UNIFICATION OF
PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW (UNIDROIT) 1997-
First appointed as an Unidroit country correspondent for the United States of America. Currently (since 2005) Special
Advisor to UNIDROIT on international equipment financing.
EDUCATION: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
Juris Doctor, 1988
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 1986-88
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Arts, 1985 Valedictorian
Phi Beta Kappa - Outstanding Initiate Select Publications:
Author (with Roy Goode, Herbert Kronke and Ewan McKendrick), Transnational Commercial Law. Oxford University Press, 2005; Second edition, 2012.
Consultant on academic version (cases and
materials) of Transnational Commercial Law. Oxford University Press: 2007. [NB: Will be the specialized editor on new chapter in the second edition
addressing the relationship between TCL and national law.]
Author (with Andrej Jonovic), The Relationship between Transnational Commercial Law Treaties and National Law – a
framework as applied to the Cape Town Convention, The
Cape Town Convention Journal (2013, Issue 2, 65 et seq) Author, Treaty Design, Implementation, and Compliance Benchmarking Economic Benefit– a framework as applied to
the Cape Town Convention, UNIFORM L. REV./REVUE DE
DROIT UNIFORME (2012-4, 633 et seq)
Author, Economic Analysis and Harmonised Modernisation
of Private Law, UNIFORM L. REV./REVUE DE DROIT
UNIFORME 46 (2003, 389 et seq)
Author [with Lorne Clark], Entry into Force of Transactional
Private Law Treaties Affecting Aviation, 66 J. Air L. & Com,
1403 [2001]
Author [with Anthony Saunders, Arnand Srinivasan and Ingo Walter], Economic Implications of International Secured
Transactions Law Reform: A Case Study, 20 U.PA.J.INT'L
ECON.L.309 (1999).
Author, The Case for a Commercial Orientation to the Proposed Unidroit Convention as Applied to Aircraft
Equipment, IV UNIFORM L.REV./REVUEDEDROIT
UNIFORM289 (1999-2). (An updated version of this article was published at 31 Law & Policy Int’l Bus. 79 (1999)) Author, The Next Generation of International Aviation Finance Law: An Overview of the Proposed UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment as
Applied to Aircraft Equipment, 20 U.PA.J.INT'L ECON.L.499
(1999).
Author, Rethinking the Notion of Uniformity in the Drafting of International Commercial Law: A Preliminary Proposal for the
Development of a Policy-Based Model, UNIFORM L.
REV./REVUE DE DROIT UNIFORME 46 (1997-1)
Main Academic Interests
(1) global teaching of transnational commercial law – founding member of international group advancing that aim;
(2) rethinking the basic models on which treaty-based international commercial law reform is based, including the creation and implementation of, and compliance with,
(3) the macro and micro economic implications of
international commercial law reform (and the potential for and limitations of their quantification);
(4) comparative commercial law and the history of commercial law;
(5) the political economy of international economic and commercial law reform, including the incentives and
disincentives of governmental and nongovernmental actors in the process and the implications of drafting style and techniques;
(6) developing the theoretical framework for the
establishment of transnational commercial law as a distinct teaching and research discipline);
(7) articulating the differing assumptions underlying public law treaties and private law treaties and developing the drafting, sphere of application and procedural implications on these differences;
(8) encouraging the convergence of the international commercial and international economic law reform processes; and
(9) historical development of jewish commercial and business laws and its impact on the development of such laws in different legal systems.
PERSONAL: Married (Veronique) with three daughters (Yaël, Sarah and Avigail).
