Peter Gerhart Bio

Peter Gerhart, a professor at Case Western Reserve Law School, was the dean of the law school from 1986 to 1996. He now specializes in issues of globalization and legal theory. In addition to law school courses in International Trade and in International Intellectual Property, Mr. Gerhart also teaches Global Economic Issues in the EDM program of the Weatherhead School of Business and Intellectual Property at the Central European University in Budapest. His recent series of articles on the World Trade Organization proposes that we understand the WTO as an organization that advances global, participatory democracy. He is therefore exploring the nature of cooperation in, and the use of power through, the WTO. In legal theory, Professor Gerhart seeks to explain the justificational underpinnings of the law. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and Columbia Law School.