roncass@ruleoflaw.org
Great Falls, VA, specializing in strategic advising and writing projects for companies and law
firms on matters concerning international trade, intellectual property, anti-trust law,
administrative law and regulation. He also serves as an international arbitrator in NAFTA,
ICSID, UNCITRAL and AAA cases. He served Presidents Reagan and Bush as Vice Chairman
and Commissioner of the US International Trade Commission, and is Dean Emeritus of Boston
University School of Law, where he served as Dean from 1990-2004 and Melville Madison
Bigelow Professor of Law from 1995-2004.
Mr. Cass is Chairman of the Federalist Society Practice Group on International Law and
National Security. He currently serves as co-Chair of the American Bar Association
International Law Section, Intellectual Property Committee, and also serves as the liaison
between the Section of International Law and the Section of Intellectual Property Law. Mr.
Cass is a past Chairman of the American Bar Association Section on Administrative Law and
Regulatory Practice and former Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. He is also the
author of numerous books and articles, including The Rule of Law in America (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2001), International Trade Law (with Michael Knoll, Ashgate Publishing Co.,
2003), and Administrative Law (with Colin S. Diver and Jack M. Beermann, 5th ed., Aspen Law
& Business, 2006). He is currently working on a book Laws of Creation: Property Rights in the
World of Ideas on intellectual property rights with Keith N. Hylton.
He is a distinguished lecturer and visiting professor at Université d'Aix-Marseille III in Aix-en-
Provence, France, where he teaches a course on intellectual property, and is a senior fellow
at the International Centre for Economic Research in Torino, Italy. Mr. Cass also serves as the
Rapporteur for a joint US-EU Task Force on Intellectual Property in Brussels, Belgium, for the
Trans Atlantic Policy Network. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the Université Lyon III
in France, and Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala.
Mr. Cass is a member of many organizations, including the American Law Institute, American
Bar Foundation, the Mont Pelerin Society, and the London Court of International Arbitration
North America Users Group. He serves on the boards of several non-profit enterprises. He
also lectures around the world on international trade, anti-trust, property rights and other Rule
of Law issues.
He received his B.A. with high distinction from the University of Virginia in 1970, and is a
graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he received his J.D. with honors in
1973.