ACWL Staff
Mr. Niall Meagher
Niall Meagher has been Senior Counsel at the ACWL since September 2004. In this capacity, he has assisted ACWL Members and LDCs in several WTO dispute settlement proceedings before WTO panels, the Appellate Body, and arbitrators, and has prepared numerous legal opinions on issues of WTO law. He also participates in the ACWL’s training activities and is a frequent writer and speaker on issues of trade law.
Prior to joining the ACWL, Mr. Meagher was a partner in the international trade and dispute resolution practice of the law firms of Sidley Austin LLP, and, previously, Powell Goldstein LLP, in Washington, DC. He represented both governments and interested private parties in WTO dispute settlement proceedings, international investment disputes, and in domestic customs and trade remedy proceedings before national regulatory authorities. Mr. Meagher also gained extensive experience in all aspects of domestic anti-dumping, countervailing duty and safeguards proceedings and regularly argued trade and customs law cases before the US Court of International Trade and the US Court of Appeals.
Mr. Meagher was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1965. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Trinity College, Dublin, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Law School of the University of Chicago. He speaks English and French, and also reads Spanish.
Mr. Meagher’s recent publications include:
- "Fostering Developing Country Engagement in the WTO Dispute Settlement System: Outstanding Challenges and Governance Implications", in Carolyn Deere-Birkbeck, ed., Making Global Trade Governance Work for Development: Perspectives and Priorities from Developing Countries (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011).
- "Mexico – Olive Oil: Remedy without a cause?", World Trade Review (2010) 9:1, 85-116 (with Chad Bown).
- Book review of The Economic Structure of International Law, by Joel P. Trachtman, in World Trade Review (2009), 8:3, 468-471.
- "Comment: Turkey – Measures Affecting the Importation of Rice", World Trade Review (2009), 8:1, 179-186.
- "World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement", in The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Vol. II, 1196-1202 (Princeton University Press, 2009) (with David Palmeter).
- "Comment: European Communities – Customs Classification of Frozen Boneless Chicken Cuts", World Trade Review (2008), 7:1, 39-43.
- "So far, so good: but what next? The Sutherland Report and WTO Dispute Settlement", World Trade Review (2005), 4:3, 409-417.
To contact Mr. Meagher, please use the standard email format:
name.surname@acwl.ch