Jon H. Sylvester

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

• Corporate/Commercial Law
• International Legal Studies

• 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 Real Property Law Reporter 5 (2005).
• Deconstructing Development, 22 Wisconsin International Law Review 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).
• 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).

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