ACWL Staff
Ms Tegan Brink
Ms Tegan Brink has been Counsel at the ACWL since September 2010. She was a member of Australia’s delegation to the WTO in Geneva from 2005 to 2008. In this capacity, she represented Australia in the WTO on intellectual property, technical barriers to trade (TBT) and trade and development matters, including in treaty negotiations and dispute settlement. She also participated as a speaker in several WTO- and WIPO-sponsored technical cooperation and training activities in Geneva and abroad.
Prior to her posting to Geneva, Ms Brink worked at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in Canberra in the Office of Trade Negotiations and the Legal Branch, providing policy and legal advice on a range of matters, including bilateral trade and investment treaties and WTO dispute settlement proceedings.
Before joining the Australian Government, she was a law clerk at Corrs Chambers Westgarth lawyers in Sydney, working principally in the litigation and private international law practice groups.
Ms Brink has a Masters of Laws (LL.M.) from Columbia University, which she attended as a Fulbright scholar. She also has First Class Honours degrees in Laws (LL.B.) and International Relations (B.A.) from the University of Sydney.
Ms Brink speaks English and French.
Her publications include:
- "What WTO Rules can a PTA lawfully breach? Completing the Analysis in Brazil - Tyres", Journal of World Trade 44, no. 4 (2010): 813–846.
- "What is a 'Public Body' for the Purpose of Determining a Subsidy after the Appellate Body Ruling in US – AD/CVD?", Global Trade and Customs Journal , Volume 6, Issue 6 (2011): 313-315.
- "Revisiting the Necessity Defense: Continental Casualty v. Argentina," (with José E. Alvarez), chapter in Karl P. Sauvant, ed., Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy, 2010-2011 (Oxford University Press, 2011).
- "The Reception of WTO Law in Australia", in Mavroidis, Bermann and Wu (eds.), The Law of the WTO: Documents, Cases & Analysis (American Casebook) (West Publishing, 2010).
To contact Ms Brink, please use the standard email format: name.surname@acwl.ch.