Contracts, International Business Transactions, International Trade and the Environment, International Trade Regulation

Professor Fitzgerald is a co-author of four books and has written numerous articles on international commercial and economic law. He appeared before the congressionally created Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Assets Control, and was invited to provide evidence to both the Swedish Foreign Ministry's Ad Hoc Working Group on Legal Safeguards and Targeted Sanctions, and to the British House of Lords' Economic Affairs Committee’s Inquiry into the Impact of Economic Sanctions. Additionally, the U.S. Trade Representative appointed Professor Fitzgerald to the NAFTA Bi-national Chapter 19 Panel Roster, and he has served as an arbitral judge on two separate international dispute resolution panels established under the NAFTA agreement. 

Professor Fitzgerald taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Law in Scotland as a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Research Fellow, and has also taught at the George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C.; the Scandinavian/Baltic Institute on Emerging Markets and Transitional Democracies summer program in Tallinn, Estonia; and the Innsbruck Institute on World Legal Problems summer program in Austria. He is a recipient of the "Golden Apple" Teaching Award, the Homer and Dolly Hand Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship, and the Outstanding Faculty Service Award.

Prior to joining Stetson’s faculty, Professor Fitzgerald spent 15 years in-house with the IBM legal department. He served as counsel to the IBM Export Regulation Office in Washington D.C., along with a variety of other assignments at IBM's corporate headquarters in New York, its European headquarters in Paris, France, and at regional sales and manufacturing locations in Maryland and Georgia. He began his career as a law clerk to the Hon. Patrick E. Higginbotham at the U.S. District Court in Texas; and formerly served as a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve Intelligence Program with assignments in Washington D.C., London, and Brussels. Professor Fitzgerald is licensed to practice both in the United States and in the United Kingdom.

Professor Fitzgerald is active in Golden Retriever Rescue of Mid-Florida and shares an office with "Hamish," a certified therapy dog who visits at local hospitals and nursing homes.