PETER L. FITZGERALD
Professor of Law

B.A., College of William & Mary
J.D., University of California, Hastings College of Law
LL.M.,University of Exeter, United Kingdom


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Professor Fitzgerald teaches Contracts I & II,  International Business Transactions, International Trade Regulation, and International Trade and the Environment. He also occasionally teaches the Electronic Commerce Seminar and International Law, and has also taught shorter subjects in Stetson's Scandinavian/Baltic Institute on Emerging Markets and Transitional Democracies summer program in Tallinn, Estonia, and the St. Mary's University School of Law Innsbruck Institute on World Legal Problems summer program in Austria. During the 2003-2004 academic year Professor Fitzgerald was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Research Fellow at the AHRB Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law teaching International Trade and Information Technology Law at the University of Edinburgh School of Law in Scotland. Professor Fitzgerald  is also a recipient of the "Golden Apple" Teaching Award and the Homer and Dolly Hand Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship.

Professor Fitzgerald writes and speaks widely on international trade and technology matters, and is a co-author of a leading casebook on International Business Transactions. He has appeared before the Congressionally created Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Assets Control, the Cambridge University International Symposium on Economic Crime, the International Bar Association, and the Organization of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations.  Appointed to the NAFTA Chapter 19 Bi-National Dispute Panel Roster by the U.S. Trade Representative to hear cases involving anti-dumping and countervailing duty disputes among Canada, Mexico and the United States, Professor Fitzgerald served on Panels reviewing challenges to the Canadian dumping determination in the Certain Household Appliances Case, CDA-USA-2000-1904-03, and the Commerce Department's administrative review of the dumping determination in the Oil Country Tubular Goods Case, USA-MEX-2001-1904-05. Additionally, Professor Fitzgerald was invited to provide evidence to the British House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee in connection with its inquiry into the impact of economic sanctions in the United Kingdom; and he also served as the the only non-European participant in the Swedish Foreign Ministry's Ad Hoc Working Group on Targeted Financial Sanctions, which was formed as an outgrowth of the ongoing intergovernmental "Stockholm Process" aimed at improving the operation of the U.N. Sanctions Committees. The Working Group's findings are published as the Swedish Institute of International Law's Report to the Swedish Foreign Office on Legal Safeguards and Targeted Sanctions. 

From 1981 to 1996, Professor Fitzgerald was a member of the IBM Law Department and held a variety of positions at locations in the United States and abroad. This included serving as counsel to IBM's Export Regulation Office in Washington, D.C., with responsibility for the company's worldwide export policy, licensing, and compliance operations. In addition to his other duties in this role, Professor Fitzgerald helped develop training programs and conducted workshops on the regulation of international trade for multinational audiences in thirteen countries on five continents. Professor Fitzgerald also managed the legal office of an IBM Federal Systems Division manufacturing and development facility, served as a competition law specialist at IBM's European Headquarters in Paris, supported regional sales and marketing operations based in Maryland and Georgia, and was a member of the litigation staff at IBM's Corporate Headquarters in Armonk, New York. 

Professor Fitzgerald earned his B.A. in Economics from the College of William & Mary in 1973; and his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1976, where he served on the editorial board of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. After graduating from law school, Professor Fitzgerald was a law clerk for the Honorable Patrick E. Higginbotham, who was then a U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Texas. He conducted post-graduate research in comparative law at the London School of Economics & Political Science, and earned his LL.M. in European Legal Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom in 1981. Prior to coming to Stetson, Professor Fitzgerald was also a member of the adjunct faculty of the George Washington University Law School, where he taught International Business Transactions.

A member of the New York, Texas, and U.S. Supreme Court Bars, as well as the Law Society of England and Wales, Professor Fitzgerald is also a Director of the American Society of Comparative Law and serves on the Advisory Board of the BNA/ACCA Corporate Compliance Manual.

Professor Fitzgerald shares an office with a Golden Retriever named "Hamish," a certified therapy dog who visits at local hospitals and nursing homes.

Professor Fitzgerald's publications include:

Books

Articles, Book Chapters, and Commentary

 

 

 

 

International Arbitral Decisions

 

For an overview of U.S. economic sanctions practices and policy, see also the  Final Report To Congress, Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Asset Control (January 2001).

For other articles addressing trade controls and sanctions, see the 
Economic Sanctions, Trade Controls, and Foreign Policy Symposium Issue 
of the Stetson Law Review, Vol. 27, No.4 (Spring 1998).


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fitz@law.stetson.edu 
Phone:   727 562-7874
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