Donald E. deKieffer, who practiced international trade law in Washington DC for nearly forty years, passed away suddenly of heart failure on February 18, 2011, while visiting Colorado.
From 1968-1971, Mr. deKieffer served on the professional staff of the United States Senate Republican Policy Committee. Graduating from Georgetown's laws school in 1971, Mr. deKieffer soon became a partner in the law firm of Collier Shannon Rill & Scott. In 1981, Mr. deKieffer joined the Reagan administration as General Counsel to the Office of the United States Trade Representative. In that capacity, he represented the United States before the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and acted as the Chief Trade Attorney for the United States government in both bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations.
Returning to private practice, Mr. deKieffer was a partner at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro for several years before leaving in 1993 to become a founding partner in deKieffer & Horgan, where he practiced international trade law for 18 years. Mr. deKieffer was a widely recognized expert in the field of international anti-counterfeiting and anti-diversion.
Mr. deKieffer was a prolific author, publishing numerous articles and several books on diverse topics including: Underground Economies and Illegal Imports: Legal and Business Strategies to Address Illegitimate Commerce (Oxford University Press 2010); The Citizens Guide to Lobbying Congress (Chicago Review Press 2007); and How Lawyers Screw Their Clients and What You Can Do About It (Barricade Books Inc. 1995).
Articles
Trade-Based Money Laundering, Center for Infrastructure Protection,
Investigating the Competition, Security Management, (April, 2008).
Trade diversion as a fund raising and money laundering technique of terrorist organizations, Counterfeiting – the Financing of Terrorism, eds. Thomas Biersteker & Sue E. Eckert (Routledge, 2007).
The Internet and the Globalization of Counterfeit Drugs, Journal of Pharmacy Practice, Vol. 19, No. 3 (2006).
Potential Liability for Counterfeit Medications, Journal of Pharmacy Practice, Vol. 19, No 4 (2006).
Counterfeit Drugs in the Supply Chain, Pharmaceutical Business Strategies (Sept./Oct. 2004).
GATT Strengthens
International Intellectual Property Protection,
U.S. Trade Policy Regarding Intellectual Property Matters, International Trade & Intellectual Property: The Search for a Balanced System, eds. George R. Stewart, Myra J. Tawfik and Maureen Irish (Westview Press, 1994).
Contingent
Justice, New Law Journal (
Export
Controls as an Instrument of
Balancing
the Debate: A Free Enterprise Analysis of Critical Issues in the NAFTA,
Critical
Legal Issues:
Working Paper Series,
American
Sanctions, New Law Journal (
Legal Considerations in Countertrade Transactions, Corporate Counsels International Advisor, Issue 72 ( May 1, 1991 ).
Exercise of
Force by the Japanese Self-Defense Force,
European
Community/Hungary Relations, Case
Foreign Policy Trade Controls and the GATT, 22 Journal of World Trade 73 (June 1988).
Current Issues in International Intellectual Property Protection, Corporate Counsel's International Advisor, Issue No. 30 (Nov. 1987).
Foreign
Policy Export Controls: A Proposal for Reform, 11
The Ripple
Effect of Trade Relief: The Steel Example, 6
Political and Policy Dimensions on Foreign Trade Zones: Expansion or the Beginning of the End? 18 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 481 (Summer 1985) (co-authored with George W. Thompson).
External U.S. Commitments Affecting Possible Additional Product for Sectoral Integration, 10 Conference Proceedings, The Legal Aspects of Sectoral Integration between the United States and Canada conducted under the Auspices of The Canada-United States Law Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Law, reprinted from Canada-United States Law Journal 101 (1985).
Definition
of Extraterritoriality,
Trade
Reorganization Necessity or Disaster?, 4 Public Law Forum 297,
The Role of Export Credits in International Trade, American Bar Association International Trade Policy (1984).
Policy
Perspectives on National Industrial Development: An Alternative to High
Tech, 6
International Trade Barriers to Control Importation of Food Products, Food Drug Cosmetic Law Journal, Vol . 38, No. 1 (January 1983).
The Purpose
of Sanctions, 15 Case
Extraterritorial
Application of
Speaking out: Donald E. deKieffer on Trade Reorganization, Inside The Administration, Vol . 2, No. 13 (July 1, 1983).
Antitrust
and the Japanese Auto Quotas, 8
When, Why
and How to Bring A Countervailing Duty Proceeding: A Complainant's
Perspective, 6
Act of State and Extraterritorial Reach: Problems of Law and Policy, Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Laws and U.S. Foreign Policy, Part II, "Effects on U.S. Trade", American Bar Association, Section of International Law and Practice (ABA 1981).
GATT Dispute Settlements: A New Beginning, Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business (Autumn 1980).
Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Dispute Settlement, Proceedings of the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law 129 (April 1980).
Antidumping, Countervailing Duty Laws and Section 337 - A Private View, Fifth Annual Fordham Corporate Law Institute: International Antitrust; Law & Business Inc. (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979).
The Foreign
Sovereign Immunities Act and Antitrust: A Hollow Promise, 7
Unfair
Trade Practices and Section 337 - Promises and Uncertainties,
Star
Industries: Expansion of Power to Set Tariffs?,
How to Prepare an Antidumping Complaint, Law Notes (Spring 1973).
A Legal and Economic Analysis of the Quota Provisions of the Proposed Foreign Trade and Investment Act of 1972, The International Lawyer (October 1972).
Other
Publications: Books
Underground
Economies And Illegal Imports: Legal And
Business
Strategies To Address Illegitimate Commerce
(
The Citizens Guide to Lobbying Congress (Chicago Review Press 1996; revised and updated 2008).
How Lawyers Screw Their Clients and What You Can Do About It (Barricade Books, 1995).
The International Business Traveler's Companion (Intercultural Press, 1993).
Doing Business in
Doing Business With The
New
Doing Business With
Doing Business in the U.S.A (Business Books International, 1984).
How to Lobby Congress, Dodd, Mead
&
Professional
Speaking
2010
Adjunct Professor,
2009
National Biopharmaceutical
Security Council (
Terrorism, Transnational Crime and
Adjunct Professor,
2008
Workshop on Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights; Commercial Law
Development
Centra Technologies (
FDA News webcast
Product and Brand Security Conference (AWA Conferences)
American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS),
Center for Business Intelligence Conference on Anti-Counterfeiting and
Antidiversion Strategies,
Rubicon
TV (
2007
Secure Pharma, Worldwide Business Research (
Global
Centra Technologies (
Authentication Connections Forum (Reconnaissance International) (
RAND Corporation (
2006
Supply Chain Optimization Congress, CBI Research, Inc. (
Authentication Connections Forum, Reconnaissance International, (
Imaging Supplies Coalition, (
2005
Tobacco Merchants Association
Institute for International Research TRAX
Pharma Secure Chain (Sponsored by
Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy (CACP) (
Committee on Government
National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators
2004
Barnett International Conference on Supply Chain Track-Trace Technologies
(
Center for Business Intelligence Pharmaceutical Product Security
Barnett International Conference on Pharmaceutical RFID Technologies (
International Bar Association (
Institute for International Research TRAX
Institute for International Research Pharmaceutical Auditing
Advantage Global Communications: Authenticating Pharmaceutical Products (
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (
International Quality and
2003
Institute for International Research (
Center for Business Intelligence Economic Crimes
Product Surety Conference
Supply Chain Security Conference (
2002
National Intellectual Property Law Institute (
Interpol (
Reconnaissance International
2001
Reconnaissance International (
Rotary International (
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight (
2000
Reconnaissance International
1999
International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition
National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators
National Institute for Government Innovation
National Military Intelligence Association
1998
National Association of Credit Management
Reconnaissance International
Federal Bureau of Investigation
International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition
1997
National Association of Credit Management
Reconnaissance International
Federal Bureau of Investigation
International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition
1996
Edmund S. Muskie Fellowship Program
National Association of Credit Management
1995
AIPLA
1994
National Contract Management Association
American Conference Institute
International Conference on Industrial and Intellectual
1993
National Public Radio: The Law Show
International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition
American Corporate Counsel Association
Manufacturers'
American Conference Institute
Customs Compliance Programs and Customs Audits
1992
World Affairs Conference,
1991
American Bar Association
Greater Cleveland International Lawyers Group
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
1990
American Bar Association
International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition
1989
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
South African Broadcasting Corporation
Cable News Network
American Management Association
World Affairs Conference,
Property: Perspectives of Integration in
University of
Brazilian Institute of Economics
National Intellectual Property Law Institute
Court TV "
International Anticounterfeiting Coalition International Law Society
1988
South African Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
1987
Canola Institute of
International Federal of Business Economics
National Association of Soybean Processors
International Law Institute
Electronics Industry Association
Effective Barter & Countertrade
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Greater Cleveland International Lawyers Group
1986
American Association of Law Libraries
American Management Association
American Enterprise Institute
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
International Association of Seed Crushers
1985
U.S. Canada Law Institute
Canadian Council on International Law
International Law Institute
1984
First Judicial
Bar Association of the
Symposium on Trade Association Law and Practice
International Club (
World Trade Institute
District of Columbia Bar
Practicing Law Institute
U.S.-Canada Law Institute
1983
Machinery & Allied Products Institute
American Society of Association Executives
American Iron & Steel Institute
Labor-Industry Coalition for International Trade (LICIT)
American Society of International Law
American Bar Association Section of International Law
Greater Cleveland International Lawyers Group
American Bar Association, Section of Public Contract Law
Practicing Law Institute
World Trade Institute
Section of International Law and Practice, American Bar Association
1982
International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition
American Mining Congress
Cast Metals Federation
National Petroleum Refiners Association
Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers
National Conference of Lieutenant Governors
International Trade & Tax Council, Federal Bar Association
World Trade Institute
National Foreign Trade Council, Inc.
Association of the Bar of the City of
Practicing Law Institute
American Bar Association
Interamerican Bar Association
American Mining Congress
International Management Development Institute,
American Chamber of Commerce,
Foreign Law Society
American League of Lobbyists
National Public Television
Canadian Broadcasting System
American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC )
National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC)
Columbia Broadcasting Corporation (CBS)
American Home Appliance Manufacturers' Association
National Association of Manufacturers
Construction Industry Manufacturers Association
1981
Direct Selling Association
American Footwear Industries Association
Association of the Customs Bar
Federal Bar Association
International Development Conference
American Arbitration Association
Sales Executive Club
The Secretary's Open Forum, Department of State
Interamerican Bar Association
District of Columbia Bar
International Communications Agency,
Interface III (International Law Institute)
American Bar Association
Federal Bar Association
AISI/SSCI Annual Meeting
National Pasta Association
ABA National Institute Antitrust Law
President's Commission on Executive Exchange
Western International Trade Group
Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network
Greater
National Broiler Council
Sports Goods Manufacturers Association
World Trade Institute
1980
American Management Association
American Bar Association (Section of International Law)
University of
1979
National Public Radio
Corporate Law Institute
Practicing Law Institute
World Affairs Council
Federal Bar Association
American Bar Association (Joint Program of International Law Section & Antitrust Law Section)
American Management Association
World Trade Institute
1978
World Trade Institute
1976
World Trade Institute
Propeller Club of
Allegheny Ludlum Industries Management/Labor Conference