Gregory W. Bowman

Education

• B.A., Economics and International Studies, West Virginia University, 1990
• M.A., Economics of the European Community, University of Exeter (England), 1992
• J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, 1994

Awards

• WVU Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2014
• WVU College of Law Professor of the Year, 2010–2011

Biography

Gregory W. Bowman was appointed the William J. Maier, Jr. Dean of the West Virginia University College of Law effective May 1, 2015. Before being named Interim Dean in July 2014, he served as the College’s Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. A nationally recognized scholar in international trade law and remedies, he joined the faculty in 2009.

A native of West Virginia, Bowman earned a B.A. in International Studies and Economics summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at WVU. He studied in Denmark as a Rotary Exchange Student and received his M.A. in Economics (with distinction) from the University of Exeter, England. He earned his J.D. cum laude from the Northwestern University School of Law.

Dean Bowman received the WVU Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2014 and was named Professor of the Year in 2011 by WVU Law students. He is the founding director of the College of Law’s Geneva Study Abroad Program.

Prior to his teaching career, Bowman practiced law in Chicago and Washington, D.C. with the international law firm Baker McKenzie.

Publications

• The Rise of the Creative Law School, 50 Toledo Law Review 255 (2019)
• A Prescription for Curing U.S. Export Controls, 97 Marquette Law Review 595 (2013)
• The Feng Shui of Study Abroad Programs, 1 Journal of Transnational Legal Issues 20 (Winter 2012) (peer-reviewed)
• U.S. and Canadian Federalism: Implications for International Trade Regulation, 114 West Virginia Law Review 1007 (2012)
• Of Haves and Have-Nots: A Review of Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trade Regime: The Failure and Promise of the WTO’s Development Mission, 3 Trade, Law and Development 242 (2011)
• Anti-dumping and Countervailing Duty Law & Practice: The Mexican Experience, 7/8 Global Trade & Customs Journal 267 (2010) (with David A. Gantz, Nick Covelli, & Ihn Ho Uhm)
• Trade Remedies in North America: Laws, Economic Analyses and Practice (Kluwer Law International, 2010) (with David A. Gantz, Nick Covelli, & Ihn Ho Uhm)
• Reviewed in Kevin C. Kennedy, Book Review, 19 Michigan State Journal of International Law 145 (2010), and Canadian Bar Association Bulletin, Mar. 2010
• The Domestic and International Policy Implications of “Deep” versus “Broad” Preferential Trade Agreements, 19 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 497 (2009)
• The Comparative and Absolute Advantages of Junior Law Faculty in the Classroom: Implications for Teaching and the Future of American Law Schools, 2008 BYU Education & Law Journal 171
• Thinking Outside the Border: Homeland Security and the Forward Deployment of the U.S. Border, 44 Houston Law Review 189 (2007) (lead article)
• Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Reconceptualizing State and Government Succession, 51 New York Law School Law Review 581 (2007) (reviewing Tai-Heng Cheng, State Succession and Commercial Obligations (2006))
• E-Mails, Servers, and Software: U.S. Export Controls for the Modern Era, 35 Georgetown Journal of International Law 319 (2004)
• Excerpted in Ralph H. Folsom et al., International Business Transactions: A Problem-Oriented Casebook (8th ed. 2005 & 9th ed. 2006)
• International Trade Aspects of Information Technology, in Encyclopedia of Information Technology Law 4003 (Stephen Saxby ed., 2003) (with Carol George, Sunwinder Mann, & Alison Stafford Powell)
• The Harbor Maintenance Tax on Exports: The Conflict Between the Federal Budget and the U.S. Constitution, in Loyola Law Forum v. V No. 1 (1998) (with Lynn S. Baker)
• Economic Integration in the Americas: A Work in Progress, 14 Journal of International Law & Business 493 (1994) (with Kenneth W. Abbott)
• Economic Integration for the Asian Century: An Early Look at New Approaches, 4 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 187 (1994) (with Kenneth W. Abbott)
• Excerpted in International Business Transactions: A Reader (Ralph H. Folsom et al. eds., 1997)
• Case Note, Fifth Amendment—Substantial Exculpatory Evidence, Prosecutorial Misconduct and Grand Jury Proceedings: A Broadening of Prosecutorial Discretion, 83 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 718 (1993)

Teaching Experience

West Virginia University College of Law, Morgantown, WV

• Dean, 2015–present
• Interim Dean, 2014–2015
• Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, 2013–2014
• Professor, 2013–present
• Associate Professor, 2011–2013
• Visiting Associate Professor, 2009–2011

Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson, MS

• Associate Professor, 2007–2011 (tenured 2009)
• Assistant Professor, 2004–2007

University of Mississippi School of Law, Oxford, MS

• Visiting Professor, Spring 2008

Practice Experience

• Judicial Clerk, The Hon. Pierce Lively, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Danville, KY, 1994–1995
• Associate, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (formerly Katten Muchin Zavis), Chicago, IL
  • Corporate & International Trade Departments, 1995–1996
  • Summer Associate, Summer 1993
• Associate, Baker McKenzie, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, IL
  • International Trade & Corporate Compliance Practice Groups, 1996–2004
  • Homeland Security Practice Group, 2002–2004