Howard Mann is a practising lawyer and the Senior International Law Advisor to IISD. Howard specializes in international sustainable development law, with a particular focus on international trade, investment and environmental law, and legal policy. Howard is the lead author of IISD's Model International Agreement on Investment for Sustainable Development, and represented IISD in its precedent-setting amicus curiae intervention in the NAFTA case between Methanex Corp. and the United States. He is also working with other civil society groups on the first NAFTA case in Canada's federal Court of Appeal.
From 1988 to 1993, Howard was a lawyer for the Government of Canada, and was actively involved in the negotiation of several international environmental agreements, including on climate change and the NAFTA environmental agreement. He has a Masters of Laws and PhD in international law from the London School of Economics, and has been an Adjunct Professor of international law at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. He is widely published in his areas of specialization, and is a frequent speaker at international conferences. Howard has also served on two special advisory committees on international investment law and trade law to the Government of Canada, and is frequently called upon to assist different international governmental and non-governmental organizations in the development of international investment law and agreements for sustainable development. More information on Howard Mann can be found at his private practice site at http://www.howardmann.ca
A Thirst for Distant Lands: Foreign investment in agricultural land and water
Paper: Carin Smaller, Howard Mann, 2009
Clean Energy Investment: Policymakers' Summary
Paper: Aaron Cosbey, Jennifer Ellis, Mahnaz Malik, Howard Mann, 2008
Clean Energy Investment: Project synthesis report
Paper: Aaron Cosbey, Jennifer Ellis, Mahnaz Malik, Howard Mann, 2008
International Investment Agreements, Business and Human Rights: Key Issues and Opportunities
Paper: Howard Mann, 2008
Is Let’s Make a Deal Now Dead at the WTO? Approach to trade negotiations might need to be revisited
Commentary: Mark Halle, Howard Mann, 2006
The Final Decision in Methanex v. United States: Some New Wine in Some New Bottles
Commentary: Howard Mann, 2005
A Southern Agenda on Investment? Promoting Development with Balanced Rights and Obligations for Investors, Host States and Home States
Book: Howard Mann, Konrad von Moltke, 2005
IISD Model International Agreement on Investment for Sustainable Development - Negotiators' Handbook
Book: Howard Mann, Konrad von Moltke, Aaron Cosbey, Luke Eric Peterson, 2005
IISD Model International Agreement on Investment for Sustainable Development
Paper: Howard Mann, Konrad von Moltke, Aaron Cosbey, Luke Eric Peterson, 2005
Comments on ICSID Discussion Paper, “Possible Improvements of the Framework for ICSID Arbitration”
Paper: Howard Mann, Aaron Cosbey, Luke Eric Peterson, Konrad von Moltke, 2004
International Economic Law: Water for Money's Sake
Paper: Howard Mann, 2004
Amicus Curiae post-hearing submission to the NAFTA Chapter 11 Tribunal: Methanex Corp. v. the United States of America
Paper: Howard Mann, Martin Wagner, 2004
NAFTA Need Fixing? It Sure Does! Prime Minister Martin market tests amending NAFTA before top US media executives
Commentary: Howard Mann, 2004
Towards A Southern Agenda on International Investment: Discussion Paper on the Role of International Investment Agreements
Paper: Konrad von Moltke, Howard Mann, 2004
Investment and Sustainable Development: A Guide to the Use and Potential of International Investment Agreements
Book: Aaron Cosbey, Howard Mann, Luke Eric Peterson, Konrad von Moltke, 2004
Amicus Curiae submissions to the NAFTA Chapter 11 Tribunal: Methanex Corp. v. the United States of America
Paper: Howard Mann, Don McRae, 2004
The Free Trade Commission Statements of October 7, 2003, on NAFTA's Chapter 11: Never-Never Land or Real Progress?
Commentary: Howard Mann, 2003
The State of Trade and Environment Law 2003: Implications for Doha and Beyond
Book: Stephen Porter, Howard Mann, 2003
Who Owns "Your" Water? Reclaiming Water as a Public Good Under International Trade and Investment Law
Paper: Howard Mann, 2003
Investment, Doha and the WTO
Paper: Luke Eric Peterson, Konrad von Moltke, Howard Mann, Aaron Cosbey, 2003
Protecting Investor Rights and the Public Good: Assessing NAFTA’s Chapter 11 (English, Spanish)
Paper: Konrad von Moltke, Howard Mann, 2002
Standards for Sustainable Trade: Overview of the Issues and Outline of the Project
Paper: Tom Rotherham, Howard Mann, 2002
Review of the Decision on Jurisdiction of the Methanex Tribunal, August 7, 2002
Paper: Howard Mann, 2002
Private Rights, Public Problems: A guide to NAFTA's controversial chapter on investor rights
Book: Howard Mann, 2001
Assessing the Impact of NAFTA on Environmental Law and Management Processes
Paper: Howard Mann, 2000
First North American Symposium on Understanding the Linkages Between Trade and Environment
Paper: Howard Mann, 2000
NAFTA's Chapter 11 and the Environment: Addressing the Impacts of the Investor-State Process on the Environment
Paper: Konrad von Moltke, Howard Mann, 1999