Sohan Dasgupta, JD, PhD, is a lawyer, executive, and public servant with leadership experience in law, trade, and national security. His work has included trial and appellate litigation, regulatory matters, and international trade and arbitration. He has argued cases before the federal courts of appeals and has briefed matters before the United States Supreme Court.
Dr. Dasgupta served as Assistant Secretary for Trade and Economic Security, responsible for a comprehensive national security portfolio. His duties included oversight of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), Team Telecom, the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), Information and Communications Technology and Services (ICTS), Arctic security initiatives, the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort (ICE) Pact, and related trade matters. Sohan Dasgupta also served as political head of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), supporting U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives. Previously, he had served as Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Dr. Dasgupta holds a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif; a PhD in international trade and arbitration from the University of Cambridge; MSc from the University of Oxford; and BA in Economics–Operations Research and History from Columbia University. He commenced his legal career with clerkships on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.
Dr. Dasgupta has addressed the Hungarian, Romanian, and Guatemalan parliaments, and has spoken at the invitation of Members of the U.S. Congress, the British Parliament, the European Union Parliament, the Congress of the Philippines, and the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.
Associate Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
Biography
James Y. Stern joined the William & Mary faculty in 2013. His scholarship centers on property and private law theory, intellectual property, and conflict of laws. His articles have been selected for publication in the California Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review. He currently teaches Torts, the Intellectual Property Survey Course, and an advanced property seminar. He was awarded the Temple Bar Scholarship by the American Inns of Court Foundation in 2011 and is an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association for England and Wales.
Professor Stern clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was awarded the Traynor Prize for the best paper by a graduating student and named a John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow. He was inducted into the Order of the Coif and the Raven Society, the university’s principal academic honor association.
Professor Stern received his undergraduate degree from Harvard, where he studied American history and literature and wrote his honors thesis on the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken. He was awarded the John Harvard Scholarship and was selected to serve as the Harvard-Shrewsbury Fellow upon graduation.
Before coming to William & Mary, Professor Stern was Research Assistant Professor at University of Virginia Law School.
