Christine Streatfeild

Practice Areas

Christine Streatfeild is a Partner in the Washington DC Office and the North America lead of the Global Trade Remedies Practice. She focuses on trade remedies and unfair competition cases, including forced labor investigations, antidumping and countervailing duty cases, safeguard measures, duties imposed for national security purposes (Section 232 duties), and Section 337 intellectual property and trade secrets disputes. She appears before the US International Trade Commission (ITC), US Department of Commerce (DOC), and in state and federal courts. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Christine served as the acting deputy director of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and in the Environment and Natural Resources division of the Office of the United States Trade Representative.

She has also served as an adjunct professor at the Krieger School, Johns Hopkins University, where she taught Global Trade, Policy and Competition. She is also on the 2024 USMCA Dispute Settlement Panels Roster (on behalf of the United States), a position she has held since 2019 (under the NAFTA).

Professional Memberships

• American Bar Association - International Law and Litigation Sections

• Women's Bar Association - Member

• National Association of Women Lawyers - Member

• District of Columbia Bar - International Arbitration Section

Publications

Publications

• Author, "Opening a GATE to Reduce Global Emissions: Getting Over and Into the WTO," 44(5) Journal of the World Trade, October 2010

• Author, "Challenging By the Rules of the Game: Certainty Through Procedural Harmonisation of Challenges," 13(3) Int’l Arb. L. Rev., September 2010

• Author, "A Call for Material Girls: Securing Property Rights for Women in Developing Countries," 94(2) Women Lawyers Journal, Fall 2009

Speaking Engagements

• Guest lecturer, "The Dragon’s Forays into Africa: The Surge of Sino-African Trade and Investment Ties and Its Policy Implications," Trapca Conference, Arusha, Tanzania, November 2010

• Guest lecturer, "International Trade and Development: Promises and Pitfalls," Cornell 6th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Ithaca, New York, Cornell Law School, April 2010

Expert in these Jurisdictions

USA

Languages Spoken

English

Education