Merritt R. Blakeslee
mblakeslee@dhlaw.com
Complete list of Mr. Blakeslee's legal publications

Merritt R. Blakeslee has practiced in the field of international law and international trade law regulation since 1991. 

He has represented clients before a wide variety of government agencies, including the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the International Trade Administration, the Department of State, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.  His practice areas include antidumping investigations, administrative reviews, and sunset reviews; Section 201 investigations; Section 337 investigations; and appeals to the Court of International Trade and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Mr. Blakeslee also specializes in international commercial litigation and has represented a number of U.S. and foreign claimants, including the largest U.S. corporate claimant, in bringing claims against the Government of Iraq before the United Nations Compensation Commission for losses arising from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. 

Mr. Blakeslee is a 1991 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Georgia Law Review.  He also holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in medieval French literature from Tulane University and the degree of licence-ès-lettres from the Université de Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France. 

He is admitted to the practice of law in the District of Columbia and Georgia and is a member of the bars of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the U.S. Court of International Trade, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  He is a member of the American Society of International Law.

He is the co-editor of the three-volume series entitled National Treaty Law and Practice , published by the American Society of International Law (1999-2003) and the editor of The Language of Trade: A Glossary of Terms Frequently Used in the International Trading System, published by the U.S. Information Agency (2000), as well as the author of a number of articles.