Mark B. Feldman has been engaged in U.S. foreign relations law and
transnational litigation since 1965, including sixteen years at the U.S.
Department of State, twenty years teaching at the Georgetown University
Law Center, and extensive private practice. At the State Department, he
worked on important legal regimes, including the Foreign Sovereign
Immunities Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Iran Claims Agreement,
U.S. maritime boundaries, and the UNESCO Convention on Cultural
Property. In practice, he argued for the United States at the ICJ in the Gulf
of Maine Maritime Boundary Case, established the treaty exception to the
federal act of state doctrine in Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Co. v The Ethiopia,
and helped draft arbitration procedures for the Disney Park in France.