Elizabeth J Drake

Elizabeth J. Drake is an international trade attorney and partner at Stewart and Stewart. She has experience in a broad array of international trade law matters, including antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, section 301 petitions, China-specific safeguards, unilateral trade preference programs, international and bilateral trade agreements, government procurement, agricultural and environmental trade policy, and international labor standards. Ms. Drake has represented clients in proceedings before the Department of Commerce, the International Trade Commission, the U.S. Trade Representative, the Court of International Trade, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She has also advised clients on trade policy and legislative matters, as well as dispute settlement proceedings before the World Trade Organization.

Prior to joining Stewart and Stewart, Ms. Drake served for six years as an international policy analyst at the American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), where she advocated on behalf of the American labor movement on trade and international economic policies before the U.S. Congress, executive agencies, state-level policy makers, and international organizations such as the World Bank.

Ms. Drake has previously served on the Labor Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations to the U.S. Trade Representative and on the planning committee for the Court of International Trade’s 16th Judicial Conference.

She is the author and co-author of numerous publications on international trade matters, including reports on China's subsidy programs for key sectors such as agriculture and high-tech, as well as articles on climate change, exchange rate policies, balance of payments measures, Buy America laws, and trade and labor rights.

Ms. Drake has working knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese, and she has worked and studied abroad in Brazil.