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Merit E. Janow (born May 13, 1958) is an American lawyer who is a professor in the practice of international trade at
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, where she was dean from 2013 to 2021.


Biography

Janow teaches graduate courses in international economic and trade policy at SIPA and international trade law and international antitrust at
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. Janow has also served on the
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since November 2003. Since 1997 she has also been an executive director of a new international competition policy advisory committee to the attorney general and assistant attorney general for antitrust at the
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From February 1990 through July 1993, she was deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for
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and
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at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Her responsibilities within USTR included the development, coordination, and implementation of U.S. trade policy and negotiating strategy toward Japan and the People's
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. Before joining USTR, Janow was an associate with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and international corporate transactions. From 1980 to 1985, Janow was on the staff of the
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, based initially in Tokyo and then in New York. Janow received a BA from the
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and a JD from
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. She is a member of the
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, the
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,
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, and the Japan Society, among others. In 2009, she became a member of the International Advisory Council of the Chinese
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. She is also an affiliated faculty member of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. From 2013 to 2021, she served as dean of Columbia University's
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. In 2022, she was named Board Chair of the Japan Society. She is also Independent Chair of Mastercard.


Selected publications

* "The Future of Competition Policy in the WTO" (Kluwer Law International 2003) * Unilateral and Bilateral International Approaches to Competition Policy: Drawing on the Trade Experience (Brookings Trade Forum 1998) * "Competition Policy and the WTO" in The Uruguay Round and Beyond, edited by Jagdish Bhagwati and Matthias Hirsch (University of Michigan Press 1999) * "U.S. Trade Policy Towards Japan and China" in Trade Policies for a New Era (Council on Foreign Relations Press 1998)


See also

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Janow, Merit University of Michigan alumni Columbia Law School alumni Columbia School of International and Public Affairs faculty Living people Members of the Appellate Body American women non-fiction writers 1958 births Weatherhead East Asian Institute faculty Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom people