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William M. Berenson |
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William M. Berenson is currently a principal attorney in the Department of Legal Services. Since 1980, he has served in various legal positions in the OAS, including General Counsel, Acting Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs, Director of the Department of Legal Services, and Legal Advisor to the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture. He is also an adjunct professor at American University's Washington College of Law, where since 1984, he has taught a survey course in United States law for foreign lawyers in the LL.M. international legal studies program. Mr. Berenson has worked in both the private and public sectors as a litigator and a legal advisor on a wide range of issues involving, inter alia, tax, labor, corporate, energy, antitrust, development banking, estate planning, contract, real estate, transportation, immigration, trade, administrative, and public international law. He has also advised on privatization efforts in Latin America. Mr. Berenson is the author of articles on privatization, telecommunications regulation, international banking, the inter-American system, and other legal and political subjects. He has also lectured throughout Latin American and the United States on issues related to his practice and teaching, including: the privileges and immunities of public international organizations; the relationship between the United Nations and OAS; technical cooperation for development; the OAS Charter; the OAS and democratic development; including the Democratic Charter; privatization; estate taxation and planning, particularly for non-resident aliens; and constitutional law. During 1972 and 1973, Mr. Berenson lived in Uruguay where he completed research on interest-group politics under a Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellowship. Since then, Mr. Berenson has traveled on business throughout Latin America. In 1997, 2001, and 2004, he was a visiting professor in the Post Graduate Studies in Comparative Law Program of the Law School of the Universidad Central in Caracas, Venezuela, where he taught a survey course in United States law. He is a veteran of many OAS Electoral Observation missions. Mr. Berenson received his J.D. from Boston University (1978), where he was Note and Case Editor of the Boston University Law Review. He received both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Vanderbilt University (1972 and 1975) and an A.B from Dartmouth College (1969). He also completed studies in statistics at the University of Michigan in 1970 and was a Research Fellow at the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ("MIT") during 1974. From 1990-92, he served as the Chairman of the International Development and Investment Committee of the Federal Bar Association. In 1982, Mr. Berenson was elected president of AYUDA, Inc., the non-profit bilingual legal services agency in the District of Columbia, where he served as a board member for many years. He is admitted to the practice of law in the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Massachusetts. Mr. Berenson is originally from Marblehead, Massachusetts (north of Boston). Presently, he resides in Arlington, Virginia. |
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