Peter Ehrenhaft focuses primarily on transnational transactions, such as technology transfers, the formation and dissolution of joint ventures, import relief proceedings, and export control matters. He has represented foreign governments in their negotiation of trade agreements, and both domestic and foreign clients seeking changes in U.S. law affecting international trade. He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary and Special Counsel (Tariff Affairs) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Arbitration of international contract and intellectual property disputes are also an active part of his practice.

Education

• Columbia University Schools of Law and International Affairs, 1957, LL.B., M.I.A., with honors
• Columbia University, 1954, A.B., with honors

Clerkships

U.S. Supreme Court
(Chief Justice Earl Warren)

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Honors and Professional Affiliations

• Listed in Who's Who in America
• Listed in Woodward/White Inc.’s The Best Lawyers in America
• Listed in Who's Who Legal
• Listed in Who’s Who in International Arbitration
• "Distinguished Practitioner in Residence" at the American University Law School (2006)
• Qualified as an arbitrator of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA")
• Member of American Bar Association's (“ABA’s”) Commission on Multi-jurisdictional Practice
• Member for more than 12 years of USTR/Secretary of Commerce Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Service and Finance Industries
• Served for over 20 years on the Council of the ABA’s Section of International Law and was the Section’s International Legal Scholar and Chair of its Transnational Practice Committee
• Member of American Law Institute (Consultative Committees on Restatement of Unfair Competition, Model Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure and International Jurisdiction; Advisor to Project on Trade Law) 
• Member of International Arbitration Committee of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) and served as an arbitrator or counsel in AAA, ICC and ad hoc arbitrations
• Member of Advisory Boards to Georgetown University's International Law Journal and BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal
• Board Member and Treasurer of Compassion and Choices, a National NGO supporting individual rights to make end-of-life choices
• Former Treasurer and Board Member (for nine years through 2008) of the DC Appleseed Center for Justice
• Served as mediator under programs of the Superior Court and U.S. District Court , D.C. Circuit
• 30 years as Judge Advocate in U.S. Air Force Reserve, retiring as colonel after service as a Judge on the AF Court of Military Review, the Reserve Executive to The USAF Judge Advocate General and the Reserve Staff Judge Advocate at U.S. Air Forces in Europe in Ramstein, Germany

Publications

• "'Right to Counsel' in WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings," 2 J. Int. Eco. L. 159 (1998)
• "The Limits of United States Trade Law Remedies," 9 Cal. Int. Pract. No. 2 at 2 (1999)
• "Discovery in International Arbitration Proceedings," Proceedings of the 42d Annual Symposium, Int’l & Comp. Law Center of the Southwestern Legal Foundation at 9-1 (2000)
• "The Role of Lawyers in the World Trade Organization,” 34 Vand. J. Trans. Law 963 (2001)
• "Is Interface of Antidumping and Antitrust Laws Possible?" 34 Geo. Wash. Int. L. Rev. 363 (2002)
• "E-Lawyering and Multi-Jurisdictional Practice," 2 J. N Y State Jud. Inst Prof Law, No. 1 at 78 ( 2002)
• "A Photographic Review of the 1961 Term," 25 Supreme Court Historical Soc. Q. No. 2, at 4 (2004)
• "What Would Warren Say Now? Can Brown and Baker Be Reconciled?" [2004] Cosmos 53 (2004)
• "Re-evaluating the Rules of the Guild," The European Lawyer No. 48 at 62 (May 2005)
• "Remedies Against Unfair International Trade Practices," and "International Joint Ventures: Setting Them Up; Taking Them Apart,” ALI-ABA, Fundamentals of International Business Transactions 131. 325 (2008 ed.)

Bar and Court Admissions

• New York
• District of Columbia
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Federal, Second and Third Circuits
• U.S. Court of International Trade