

In recent years, Professor Taylor has devoted many of her efforts to developing skills-based curriculum on international business transactions and international arbitration. Professor Taylor’s scholarship has been largely devoted to regionalism in international trade and to the work of the World Trade Organization (WTO), particularly its dispute settlement system.


During her career at the law school, Professor Taylor has been an active member of the International Economic Law Interest Group at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and has served both as a Vice-Chair and Chair of the interest group. trade legislation, on multilateral trade issues, and on regional trade agreements.

At Steptoe, Professor Taylor worked for the International Trade group of the firm and focused on import relief actions, Section 301 cases, and advising clients on U.S. She practiced law, after completing a judicial clerkship with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, with the Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the faculty of the law school, Professor Taylor received her JD at the University of Georgia and her LL.M in International Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She has developed the international economic law curriculum of the law school and teaches courses on international business transactions (International Business Transactions, Transactional Skills: International Business Transactions) and international trade (NAFTA: Trade & Transactions, World Trading Systems). Taylor is a Director of the Institute for International Legal Practice & National Security (IILP & NS) at South Texas College of Law Houston. A location in downtown Houston for putting on programs (lunches, panels, conferences) related to any aspect of international trade and business under the sponsorship of STCLH and the Institute.Westlaw, Hein Online – with an established readership A journal available on all electronic platforms – LEXIS.What can the journal and the Institute offer Houston? Lawyers, business leaders, and economists willing to serve a board members for the newly reimagined journal.
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Lawyers, business leaders, and economists willing to suggest ideas and speakers for a regular symposium series in the journal devoted to areas of international practice of significance to Texas, and therefore the United States (either annual or biennial).As part of this re-launch, CURRENTS: JIEL would like to establish even closer connections to the global marketplace represented by the city of Houston b y reaching out to the business community for the following: Now the journal has embarked on a multi-issue re-launch of the journal as it approaches 25 years of publication. In 2016, as it became the journal of the law school’s Institute for International Legal Practice & National Security, the journal adopted its new name. Consequently, the journal started out as CURRENTS: Journal of International Trade Law. International labor law as it connects to trade and transactionsĬURRENTS: JIEL was such an early entrant into this area that the field of international economic law did not yet have a name.International environmental law as it connects to trade and transactions.International Dispute resolution (including ADR, international commercial arbitration, international investment arbitration).Financing of international transactions.International antitrust/competition law.Areas of law relating to international business transactions (dealing with the sale and distribution of goods/services intellectual property rights and licensing of such rights foreign direct investment (and dispute resolution connected to such investment).International trade in goods and services at the multilateral, regional and unilateral level.The journal began in the early 1990s when there were few journals focused on all of the areas now considered part of international economic law: CURRENTS: JIEL is a law journal at South Texas College of Law Houston.
