Amy D. Westbrook
Teaching Faculty and Director of New York City Program
in International Finance and Law
A.B., Harvard College, 1987
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1992
University at Buffalo Law School
The State University of New York
711 O'Brian
Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
Phone:(716) 645-3107
Assistant:
Sandra Conti, 524 O'Brian Hall, Phone: (716) 645-2091
Biography:
Amy Deen Westbrook's teaching and research center on international, financial and transactional subjects. At UB Law School she has taught courses on international finance, securities regulation, international trade, and the North American Free Trade Agreement ("NAFTA"), as well as acquisition transactions and transactional practice. In 2002 she was awarded the Jacob B. Hyman Outstanding Faculty Award, which was presented to her by the Class of 2002 Students of Color for her encouragement and contribution to their success at the law school. Amy Westbrook also received the 2001 Faculty Award, presented by the Class of 2001 in appreciation of her outstanding service and dedication.
Amy Westbrook is the Director of the University at Buffalo New York City Program in International Finance and Law. Inaugurated in Spring of 2006, the NYC Program selects approximately two dozen UB Law students to spend a semester studying current developments in international finance in New York City. Students are taught in weekly modules by a variety of UB Law School faculty members, and also work in teams on long practice-oriented projects for New York City firms and financial institutions.
Amy Westbrook’s current
research and writing focuses on legal education for transactional practice,
as informed by her experience helping to develop the NYC Program. She also continues
her long-standing work on the use of trade remedies, particularly the different
economic, social and political impacts of economic sanctions and embargoes.
Selected Publications:
Forthcoming:
“Learning from Wall Street: A Venture in Transactional Legal Education”
Other Publications:
“Anti-Cuba Sanctions May Violate NAFTA, GATT, THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL”
(March 11, 1996), with Kenneth L. Bachman, Jr. and Ricardo A. Anzaldúa,
reprinted in The Foreign Assets Litigation Reporter (March 1996)
“One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment and Our Common
Future” (book review), Harvard Environmental Law Review (Fall
1991)
“Return to Europe: East European Economic Integration”, Harvard
International Law Journal (Spring 1990), with David A. Westbrook
