Stephen Zamora
University of Houston Law Center, 100 Law Center
Houston, Texas 77204-6060
Phone: (713) 743-2100
Fax: (713) 743-2122
e-mail: szamora@uh.edu
Teaching Experience :
Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center, 1995 - present.
Dean and Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center, 1995 - 2000.
Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center, 1981-present
Associate Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center, 1978-1981
Courses: International Business Transactions, International Trade, NAFTA, Contracts, International Banking and Finance, Mexican Law
Professional Activities:
Director, Mexican Legal Studies Program, University of Houston, 1978-1994
Director, International Law Institute, 1994-95
Fulbright Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 1982-1983
Visiting Research Fellow, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas (UNAM), 1992-1993
Academic Visitor, Faculty of Law, London School of Economics, London, England, 1985-1986
Lecturer, Academy of American and Internat'l Law, Southwestern Legal Foundation, 1989-1995
Lecturer, International Banking Law, University of San Diego Summer Program, London, 1991
USIA Amparts Lecturer, Lima, Peru, 1988 (lectures in Spanish on U.S. judicial system)
Visiting Professor, Yale Law School, Spring 1994
Panel member, NAFTA Chapter Twenty Dispute, United States v. Canada,"Tariffs Applied by Canada to Certain U.S.-Origin Agricultural Products", decision dated December 2, 1996.
Professional Associations :
National College of District Attorneys (Board of Regents 1998- 99)
Houston World Affairs Council (Director, 1997-98)
The Bretton Woods Committee
Member of the California and District of Columbia Bars
American Society of International Law (Executive Council, 1987-1990)
ASIL International Economic Law Interest Group (Chairman, 1991-1993
American Journal of Comparative Law (Board of Editors)
American Bar Association, International Law Section (Counselor, 1995-1997)
U.S.-Mexico Law Institute, Board of Directors
Association of American Law Schools (Chairman, Section on North-American Cooperation, 1995)
Hispanic Bar Association of Houston
Houston Bar Association, International Law Section (Executive Council)
Legal Education: J.D., 1972, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Academic Honors :
Graduated first in class (highest three-year average in class of 280 students)
Order of the Coif
California Law Review (Chief Articles and Book Review Editor, 1971-1972)
National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, 1971-1972
Bartley Cavanaugh Crum Scholarship, 1970-1971 (awarded to the student with the highest academic average at the end of the first year)
Undergraduate Education:
B.A., 1966, Stanford University (Political Science); Stanford University Scholarship, California State Scholarship
Previous Employment:
1976 to 1978 Attorney, Legal Department, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
1974 to 1976 Associate Attorney, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton Washington, D.C.
1973 to 1974 Postgraduate Fellowship, University Consortium for World Order Studies,
Geneva, Switzerland
1972 to 1973 Clerkship, Justice Raymond Sullivan, California Supreme Court
1971 to 1971 Summer Intern, Office of the Legal Adviser, United States Department of State
1967 to 1969 Peace Corps Volunteer, Colombia, South America
Book :
Basic Documents of International Economic Law (editor and contributor, with Prof. Ronald Brand; Commerce Clearing House, 1990). Two-volume reference work with documents and commentary.
Computer Database :
Founding editor, Database on International Economic Law (General editor, with Ronald Brand and Marilou Righini). This on-line database, available on LEXIS and WESTLAW, contains the major international agreements dealing with international economic law.
Articles and Book Chapters :
"A El Derecho Internacional y la Economica Mundial a Finales del Siglo XX", in La Ciencia del Derecho Durante el Siglo XX 229-249 (1998)
"A Allocating Legislative Competence in the Americas: The Early Experience Under NAFTA and the Challenge of Hemispheric Integration", in Vol. 19, Houston Journal of International Law 615-642 (1997).
"A International Economic Law", in Vol. 17, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Economic Law 63-67 (1996).
"NAFTA and the Harmonization of Domestic Legal Systems: The Side Effects of Free Trade", in Vol. 12, Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law 401-428 (1995).
"Economic Relations and Development", in Vol. I, The United Nations Legal Order 503-576 (O. Schachter and C. Joyner, eds.; Cambridge U Press, 1995).
"Regulating the Global Banking Network -- What Role (If Any) for the IMF?", 62 Fordham Law Review 1201-1221 (1994).
"The Americanization of Mexican Law: Non-Trade Issues in the North American Free Trade Agreement", 24 Law and Policy in International Business 391-459 (1993).
Comments on the Regulation of Financial Services in Mexico Under NAFTA, 1 U.S.-Mex. Law.Journal. 77-80. (1993).
"Foreword: Searching for the Mexican Model of Government", 12 Houston Journal of International Law 181-189 (1990).
"Is There Customary International Economic Law?", 32 German Yearbook of International Law 9-42 (1990).
"Sir Joseph Gold and the Development of International Monetary Law", 23 The International Lawyer 1009-1026 (1989), reprinted in Festschift for Sir Joseph Gold 439 (Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, 1990).
"El Poder Presidencial y la Economia de los Estados Unidos", Vol. II, Derecho Constitucional Comparado México-Estados Unidos, 841-875 (J. Smith, ed., 1990; UNAM, Mexico City).
"Exchange Control in the Spanish Empire, XVIth to XVIIIth Centuries", Essays in Honor of Guillermo Margadant (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1989).
"Exchange Controls and the Global Financial Market", Chapter 8 in Prospects for International Lending and Rescheduling (J. Norton, ed.) (Matthew Bender/SMU Series, Institute on International Finance, Vol. III, 1988).
"Recognition of Foreign Exchange Controls in International Creditors' Rights Cases: The State of the Art", 21 The International Lawyer 1055-1082 (1987).
"Mexico and the Global Financial Market: Capital Flight as a Factor in National Economic Policymaking", 18 California Western Journal of International Law 35-52 (1987).
"Mexican Exchange Controls: A Case Study in the Application of IMF Rules", 7 Houston Journal of International Law 103-135 (1984).
"Peso-Dollar Economics and the Imposition of Foreign Exchange Controls in Mexico", 32 American Journal of Comparative Law 99-154 (1985), reprinted in Doing Business in Mexico
(S. Lefler, ed.; Matthew Bender, 1984). A Spanish translation appears in the Revista del Tribunal Fiscal de la Federación, 2A. Epoca, Ano V., Num. 52 (April, 1984).
"Common Law", in Diccionario Jurídico Mexicano, published by Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
"Regulating Foreign Bank Operations in Texas", 19 Houston Law Review 427-499 (1982).
"Voting in International Economic Organizations", 74 American Journal of International Law 566-608 (1980). Translations of this article have been published in Japan (Nihon Hogaku Journal of Law, Vol. 48, Nos. 1 & 2 (Oct. 1982 & Jan. 1983), and in Mexico (Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, UNAM, Derecho Internacional Económico, Vol. 3 (1984).
"Carrier Liability for Damage or Loss to Cargo in International Transport", 23 American Journal of Comparative Law 391-450 (1975).
"UNCTAD III: The Question of Shipping", 7 Journal of World Trade Law 91-115 (1973).
"Filing Fees for Indigents: Ferguson v. Keays", 60 California Law Review 785-794 (1972).
"Rate Regulation in Ocean Transport: Developing Countries Confront the Liner Conference System", 59 California Law Review 1299-1332 (1971).
Book Reviews :
Adjudication of International Trade Disputes in International and National Economic Law , by E. Petersmann and G. Jaenicke, eds., reviewed in the American Journal of Comparative Law 755 (1992).
United States Foreign Trade Law, by Bruce E. Clubb, reviewed in 14 Houston Journal of International Law 79 (1992).
International Monetary Collaboration , by Richard W. Edwards, Jr., reviewed in 34 American Journal of Comparative Law 400 (1986).
Emerging Financial Centers: Legal and Institutional Framework. Ed. By Robert Effros, reviewed in 79 American Journal of International Law 224 (1985).
International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, Vol. XVII (State and Economy) Ch. 25: Universal Economic Organizations , by Petersmann, Tomuschat, and Bleckmann, reviewed in 31 American Journal of Comparative Law 377 (1983).
The Legal Framework of UNCTAD in World Trade , by A.M. Koul, reviewed in 26 American Journal of Comparative Law 665 (1978).
Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations, by R. Barnet and R. Muller; International Regulation of Multinational Corporations, by D. Wallace; and U.S. Power and the Multinational Corporation, by R. Gilpin, reviewed in 26 Catholic University Law Review 449 (1977). This review has been reprinted in E. Owens, International Aspects of U.S. Income and Taxation, Vol. l at pp. 15-22 (1980; Harvard Law School International Tax Program).
Academic Papers Published:
"Exchange Control and External Indebtedness: The Case of Mexico", published in American Society of International Law, Proceedings of the 78th Annual Meeting (1984), at 246-250.
"International Reaganomics and the IFI's", published in American Society of International Law, Proceedings of the 76th Annual Meeting (1982), at 215-227
"Basic Human Needs: The International Law Connection", published in American Society of International Law, Proceedings of the 72nd Annual Meeting (1978), at p. 33.
"New Frontiers in the Regulation of International Money Movement in the Wake of BCCI", published in American Society of International Law, Proceedings of the 86th Annual Meeting (1992), at 201-204.
Unpublished Reports:
Final Report to the U.S. Agency for International Development, "The Role of Law in Social Change in Latin America and the Caribbean (1978)". (As Rapporteur of the American Society of International Law Panel on the above subject, I cooperated with other panel members in writing the final report to USAID, which funded the project. The report deals with legal aid, law reform and public interest law programs in the region.)
Foreign Languages: Spanish (fluent), French.
Personal:
Born June 26, 1944. Married to Lois Parkinson Zamora, Interim Dean for College of Humanities, Fine Arts and Communications, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Houston; two children (born 1972 and 1974). Home address: 1707 Milford Street, Houston, Texas 77098, (713) 526-1937.