Edward T. Hayes

Edward T. Hayes focuses his practice both on litigation and international trade and business. Mr. Hayes has extensive litigation experience, dating back to 1996 when he clerked for the Honorable Gerald P. Fedoroff of the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana. Since that time, Mr. Hayes has represented domestic and international clients in products liability, insurance, maritime, warranty/redhibition, and medical malpractice cases in state and federal courts throughout the Gulf South region. Highlights of his experience in these areas include the representation of automobile and component manufacturers in premature tire wear, crashworthiness and passive restraint device cases; tire manufacturers in tread separation and rollover cases; and medical device manufacturers in products liability defect cases. He is the co-author, along with Jerry L. Saporito, of an instructional paper titled “Discovery and Cross-Examination of Plaintiff’s Liability Expert,” which was presented at the 2001 International Association of Defense Counsel Trial Academy.

Mr. Hayes also has substantial experience handling insurance coverage and defense matters, as well as class action and mass casualty cases. Highlights of his experience in these areas include representation of primary and excess property and general liability insurance carriers in mass casualty and construction defect cases, including work on the mass casualty arising out of the 1999 Mother’s Day bus crash in New Orleans, LA and the maritime claims arising out of the allision between the M/V Bright Field and the New Orleans Riverwalk.

In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Hayes also maintains an international trade and business practice.

Mr. Hayes’ current international practice focuses on a wide variety of international trade and business matters, including import/export transactions, disputes under bilateral investment treaties, antidumping, countervailing duty, and other proceedings before the various United States international trade agencies and courts. Mr. Hayes also advises businesses and state and local governments on trade capacity and economic development issues associated with international free trade agreements, including the World Trade Organization, North American Free Trade Agreement, Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement, and numerous bilateral/regional Free Trade Agreements. Mr. Hayes has published several articles and numerous papers on international trade topics and is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School and Loyola School of Law, where he teaches courses on international trade practice and the World Trade Organization.

Areas of practice: Products Liability; Insurance Defense; Warranty/Redhibition; International Trade and Business

Education: B.A., 1994, University of Colorado, at Boulder (Boulder, CO); J.D., cum laude, 1998, Loyola University Law School (New Orleans, LA); LL.M., with distinction, 2004, Georgetown University Law Center (Washington, DC)

Member: Louisiana State Bar Association; District of Columbia Bar Association; American Bar Association; New Orleans Bar Association; Federal Bar Association; Adjunct Professor of Law, Tulane University Law School & Loyola University School of Law; World Trade Center of New Orleans (Government Affairs Committee); Trade Capacity Building Institute (Board of Directors); World Affairs Council of New Orleans; New Orleans Board of Trade; American Society of International Law; Washington International Trade Association; Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana; Office of the U. S. Trade Representative (Advisory Board Member); St. Thomas More Inn of Court (Barrister); U. S. Department of Commerce, LA District Export Council (Member).

•	In the Wake of the M/V Bright Field: A Call for Abandoning the Shipowner’s Limitation of Liability Act, 44 Loyola Law Review 135 (1998)
•	Changing Notions of Sovereignty and Federalism in the International Economic System: A Reassessment of WTO Regulation of Federal States and the Regional and Local Governments Within their Territories, 25 Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business 1 (2004)
•	A Comparative Analysis of the Regulation of State and Provincial Governments in NAFTA and GATT/WTO, 5 Chicago Journal of International Law 605 (2005)
•	Discovery and Cross-Examination of Plaintiff’s Liability Expert, 2001 International Association of Defense Counsel Trial Academy
•	An Overview of Panama’s World Trade Organization Commitments (2005)
•	A New Era of International Banking in Louisiana (2005)
•	The United States International Trade Advisory Committee System: An Opportunity for State and Local Governments to Participate Directly in International Trade Negotiations (2005)
•	An Overview of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s Legal System and Financial Services Laws (2005)
•	Maximizing the Benefits and Minimizing the Risk: Building the Capacity to Trade with the United States (2005)
•	Tradition Guiding Our Future: Fostering International Economic Development With Our Historical Partners in Latin America, (2005)
•	Louisiana Bar Journal, International Law Recent Developments (ongoing)

•	Speaker, 2004 World Trade Center Panama Trade Mission Program
•	Speaker, 2005 University of New Orleans Latino Entrepreneurship Roundtable
•	Participant, 2005 World Trade Organization 6th Ministerial Conference, Hong Kong, China
•	Participant, 2006 European Union Visitors Program, Belgium & Luxembourg
•	Speaker, 2006 Guatemalan American Chamber of Commerce International Trade Export Certification Program, Guatemala City
•	Speaker, 2007 Guatemala Trade Mission, New Orleans
•	Speaker, 2007 Jamaican Executive MBA Program, World Trade Center, New Orleans
•	Speaker, 2007 JUS Gentium International Law Society Symposium, Loyola University School of Law, New Orleans
•	Teacher, 2008 Tulane Law School Summer International Program, London