Background
Hall Abbey, Michael was born on October 29, 1963 in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States.
Hall Abbey, Michael was born on October 29, 1963 in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States.
Duke University (Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, 1985). University of Virginia (Juris Doctor, 1989).
Worked at Steptoe & Johnson LLP (Washington, DC) specializing in International Transactions, Trade and Law. Admitted to the bar, 1990, District of Columbia. Articles Review Board Editor, Virginia Law Review, 1988-1989.
Author: Taxation and Registration of Securities in Kazakstan, BNA's Eastern European Reporter Volume 5 No. 12 (June 1995). Co-Author: Kazakstan -- New Foreign Investment Law: Tax Holiday Over, Foreign Investment Rights Strengthened, East/West Executive Guide, Volume 5, No. 3 (March 1995); Case by Case Privatization in Kazakstan: Who Does What? What Should Be Changed?' Survey of East European Law, Volume 6, Nos.
2 and 3 (February 1995). Kazakstan: Competition and the State Antimonopoly Committee of Kazakstan, State Antimonopoly Committee of Kazakstan (published in Russian) (June 1994). Transitional Relief for Russia Under the United States.
Trade Laws, United States. - Russia Business Council (August 1993). Distribution, Commercial Representation, Franchises, chapter in Doing Business in the USA, Commission of the European Community (1993).
Exhaustion of Intellectual Property Rights Under the EEA Agreement Does Not Apply to Third Country Goods, 6 European Competition Law Review 231 (1992). Summary of the Maastricht Treaty in EC Newsletter, Lovell White Durrant (February 1992). Summary of the European Economic Area Agreement in EC Newsletter, Lovell White Durrant (September 1992).
American Bar Association Special Task Force on EC 1992, Report of the Working Group on the Environment (April, 1990). State Plant Closing Legislation and National Free Trade, 75 Virginia Law Review, 845 (May, 1989). (Moscow, Russia and Almaty, Kazakstan Offices).