Academia Origins: Before retiring in 2014 from Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP (now Locke Lord), O’Neill balanced his international legal and arbitrator practices with his academic career. The author of two national security books published by Oxford University Press, he was also an adjunct professor at BC Law for thirty-four years. Global Impact: As a counselor at Edwards & Angell, he guided counter terror finance efforts in Saudi Arabia after 9/11. In international litigation, he opposed North Korea’s illicit funding of weapons of mass destruction. A longtime participant in the Democratic party’s foreign and defense policy brain trust, O’Neill advised presidential candidates for decades. Legacy: In 2004, O’Neill chaired Senator John Kerry’s foreign policy task force on relations with Arab and Islamic nations.
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Phillip D. O’Neill
Philip O’Neill, an active international and domestic arbitrator, was recently appointed by a panel of the European Commission to resolve sovereign trade disputes. His many past roles include adjunct professorships at leading national law schools, including BC Law.
