An elected member of the American Law Institute, Professor Brower has taught and written about Human Rights, International Business Transactions, International Commercial Arbitration, the Law of Armed Conflict, and Public International Law for over a decade.   Among other places, his publications have appeared in the American Journal of International Law, Arbitration International, the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Columbia’s Yearbook of International Investment Law and Policy, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and the Virginia Journal of International Law.   He has also contributed chapters to several books.

In addition to his academic work, Brower is an arbitrator who currently serves on the Commercial Panel of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the AAA’s delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, and as Chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration’s Academic Council.  Brower also serves as co-editor-in-chief of World Arbitration & Mediation Review, and as co-chair of the ABILA-ASIL Joint Study Panel on Transparency in International Commercial Arbitration.

In previous years, Brower has received appointments to serve as Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University’s Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, as Tillar House Fellow at the American Society of International Law (ASIL), and as Visiting Associate Professor and Scholar-in-Residence at American University. He has also served as Advocate for the Government of the Republic of Costa Rica in advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice, as a member of the ASIL’s Executive Council, co-chair of the ASIL’s 97th Annual Meeting, and co-chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration’s 18th Annual Workshop.

Brower received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Vermont and his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Virginia Law Review. He enjoys membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and the Order of the Coif