UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF LAW Tucson, AZ

Master of Law (LL.M) in International Trade Law, May 2004

International commercial transactions: payments in international trade, letters of credit, carriage contracts, e-commerce, secured transactions;

Comparative law: major legal families and their structure of law, contracts in comparative perspective.

UNIVERSITY OF MATEJ BEL, COLLEGE OF LAW Banska Bystrica, Slovakia

Magister of Law, June 2003

European Union Law, corporate law, financial law, public international law, private international law.

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade, Tucson, Arizona

Research Attorney: May 2004-

Participating in electronic documents, secured transactions, investment securities, and letter of credit projects;

Part of the working group that drafted the law on secured transactions for Guatemala Law offices of Peter A. Ricciardelli, Telluride, Colorado

Legal intern: Fall 2001- Spring 2002

Analyzed case files, participated in the drafting of pleadings, including discoveries, complaints, answers, edited motions and memoranda on legal issues; and Observed trials in which the law office participated as a counsel.

District Court Dolny Kubin, Slovakia Law clerk for Chief Judge Peter Bebej: July 2001 Analyzed court’s opinion on commercial-law-related issues;

Observed various stages of the judicial proceedings.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

United Nations, New York, Geneva

Delegate of the National Law Center: January and June 2005 meetings

Represented the National Law Center at the UN meetings on secured transactions and electronic commercial documents (The 3rd Trade Facilitation Forum).