IBTBlog

The International Business Transactions Blog

About the IBTBlog

Welcome to the International Business Transactions blog, hosted by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law!  This blog was founded in 2020 and will post periodic updates on major new developments in the field of international business law. The Editor, Aaron Fellmeth, hopes you enjoy the Blog and find it useful.  Feel free to contact us if you wish to submit a post yourself!

About the Editor:

Aaron Fellmeth, M.A., J.D., is the Dennis S. Karjala Professor of Law, Science & Technology at Arizona State University College of Law.  In law school, Professor Fellmeth clerked at the U.S. International Trade Commission and was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of International Law as well as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal.  

He practiced international business law, public international law, and intellectual property law for seven years at major law firms in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.  While in practice, he counseled Fortune 100 firms on their transnational contractual and corporate needs, as well as in export controls, import regulation, trade remedies, and multinational intellectual property registration.  He also advised several foreign governments on their obligations under international trade and intellectual property agreements, advised the government of Morocco during its free trade agreement negotiations with the United States, and represented the government of Kuwait in its claims against Iraq before the United Nations Compensation Commission.

Professor Fellmeth has taught International Business Transactions at ASU since 2005.  He has published many articles on the subject, as well as two textbooks: The Law of International Business Transactions (West Academic, 2009 & 2d ed. 2011) and Introduction to International Business Transactions (Edward Elgar 2020). Introduction to IBT comes as both a full-color, hardcover print book and an e-book, and includes a 462-page teacher’s manual.

Professor Fellmeth’s full biography and publications are here: https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/730670