Jon H. Sylvester

• BA, Stanford University
• MJ, University of California, Berkeley
• JD, Harvard University

• Arbitration
• Contracts Law

• Practiced with the Washington, DC offices of two major New York-based law firms.
• Has directed and/or taught in legal education programs in China, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Kenya, Malta, Panama and Turkey.
• Formally a Fulbright Scholar (East Africa 1992-93).
• Formerly a New York Times Fellow.
• Worked as a television news writer, reporter and producer.

• The Problem With Nominees, 28 CEB Real Prop. Law Rptr 5 (2005). With Roger Bernhardt.
• Deconstructing Development, 22 Wisconsin International LJ 1 (2004). With Ruth Gordon.
• It's Not Just A Job, It's An Adventure! 34 Univ. Toledo LR 165 (2002). With Anthony Pagano.
• Sub-Saharan Africa: Economic Stagnation, Political Disintegration and the Specter of Recolonization, 27 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1299 (1994).
• Is the Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act Potentially Unconstitutional? If So, Should the Texas Cure be Adopted Elsewhere? 25 Geo. Wash. J. Int'l L. & Econ. 737 (1991). With Richard J. Graving.
• Impracticability, Mutual Mistake and Related Contractual Bases for Equitably Adjusting the External Debt of Sub-Saharan Africa, 13 Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business 258 (1992).
• Validity of Post-Employment Non-Compete Covenants in Broadcast News Employment Contracts, 11 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L. J. 423 (1989).
• The Uncertain Status of Post-Employment Non-Compete Covenants in Texas, 14 T. Marshall L.Rev. 1 (1988).
• How California Governs the News Media, 26 Santa Clara L. Rev. 381 (1986).
• How the States Govern the News Media - A Survey of Selected Jurisdictions, 16 SW Univ. L. Rev. 723 (1986).
• Government Supports United States Exporters, 1 Int'l Fin. L. Rev. 13 (1982). With Anthony F. Essaye.

• Contracts
• International Commercial Dispute Resolution
• International Sales
• Remedies