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Steve Charnovitz (born 1953) is a scholar of public international law
International law

Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of states and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond domestic legal interpretation and enforcement....
, living in the United States. He teaches at The George Washington University Law School
The George Washington University Law School

The George Washington University Law School, commonly referred to as GW Law, is the law school of The George Washington University. It was founded in 1865 and is the oldest law school in Washington, D.C....
 in Washington, DC, and is best known for his writings on the linkages between trade and environment and trade and labor rights.

novitz is a native of Savannah
Savannah, Georgia

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, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

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. He was an analyst in the U.S. Department of Labor from 1975 to 1986 in international labor issues. During 1984-1985, he was an American Political Science Association
American Political Science Association

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 Congressional Fellow in the offices of Senator Carl Levin
Carl Levin

Carl Milton Levin is a Democratic Party United States Senate from Michigan and is the Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services....
 and House Majority Leader Jim Wright.






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Steve Charnovitz (born 1953) is a scholar of public international law
International law

Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of states and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond domestic legal interpretation and enforcement....
, living in the United States. He teaches at The George Washington University Law School
The George Washington University Law School

The George Washington University Law School, commonly referred to as GW Law, is the law school of The George Washington University. It was founded in 1865 and is the oldest law school in Washington, D.C....
 in Washington, DC, and is best known for his writings on the linkages between trade and environment and trade and labor rights.

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Charnovitz is a native of Savannah
Savannah, Georgia

Savannah is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Chatham County, Georgia, Georgia , United States. Savannah was established in 1733 and was the first colonial and state capital of Georgia....
, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
. He was an analyst in the U.S. Department of Labor from 1975 to 1986 in international labor issues. During 1984-1985, he was an American Political Science Association
American Political Science Association

The American Political Science Association is an professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903, it publishes three academic journals ....
 Congressional Fellow in the offices of Senator Carl Levin
Carl Levin

Carl Milton Levin is a Democratic Party United States Senate from Michigan and is the Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services....
 and House Majority Leader Jim Wright. From 1987-1989, he was a legislative assistant to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Jim Wright
Jim Wright

James Claude Wright, Jr. , usually known as Jim Wright, is a former Democratic United States Congressman from Texas who served 34 years in the United States House of Representatives and was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989....
, and served once again in 1989-1991 for Speaker Tom Foley
Tom Foley

Thomas Stephen Foley is an United States politician of the United States Democratic Party, having served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and ambassador to Japan....
. In 1991, Charnovitz became Policy Director of the newly established Competitiveness Policy Council
Competitiveness Policy Council

The Competitiveness Policy Council was an independent federal advisory committee chartered in 1988 to advise the President and the Congress on more effective policies to promote U.S....
. In 1995, he co-founded and directed the Global Environment & Trade Study (GETS
Gets

gets is a function in the C standard library, declared in the header file stdio.h, that reads a line from the standard input and stores it in a buffer provided by the caller....
) located at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. After several years in private practice at the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, which also goes by the shorter market name WilmerHale, is an United States law firm with twelve offices across the USA, Europe and Asia....
, he joined the faculty of The George Washington University in 2004.

Charnovitz serves on several editorial boards in scholarly journals including the American Journal of International Law, the Journal of Environment & Development, the Journal of International Economic Law, and the World Trade Review. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C....
 and is affiliated with the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University. He has been a longtime advocate of free trade combined with pro-competitiveness policies by governments to assist workers who are hurt by economic change and globalization
Globalization

Globalization in its literal sense is the process of transformation of local or regional phenomena into global ones. It can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together....
.

He received a B.A. degree from Yale College
Yale College

Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887. The name now refers to the undergraduate part of the university. Each undergraduate student is assigned to one of 12 residential colleges....
 in 1975, an M.P.P.
Master of Public Policy

The Master of Public Policy , one of several public policy degrees, is a master degree level professional degree that provides training in policy analysis and program evaluation at public policy schools....
 degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government
John F. Kennedy School of Government

The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is a public policy school and public administration school, and one of Harvard's graduate and professional schools....
 in 1983, and a J.D. degree from the Yale Law School
Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, Doctor of Laws#United States, and Master of Studies in Law degrees in law....
 in 1998.

Works

Charnovitz is the author of Trade Law and Global Governance, which was launched in June 1992 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is a United States Presidential Memorial that was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution by an act of Congress in 1968....
. He is also the author of over 100 articles in edited volumes and scholarly journals, and the co-editor of Law in Service of Human Dignity. In recent years, he has written extensively on the history of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In 1997, he proposed the thesis that the impact of non-governmental organization on international policymaking was cylical rather than upwardly sloping.

He is known for his neologisms on international policy issues. For example, he coined the term "ecolonomy" to demonstrate that ecology and economy were interlinked. He also coined the term "SCOO" as an acronym for the trade sanction in the World Trade Organization called "suspension of concessions or other obligations".

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