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Biography

Patrick L. Schmidt is an attorney in Washington D.C., focusing primarily on matters relating to Latin America and the Caribbean. He also teaches a course on comparative politics in the Government Department of American University’s School of Public Affairs. He received a BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, a JD from Georgetown University, and an MIPP from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Schmidt also completed graduate studies in the PhD program of the University of Madrid (Complutense) Faculty of Law. He first examined the history of the Department of Social Relations in his undergraduate honors thesis at Harvard, interviewing 28 of its faculty and other key players. 

 Other Writing

“The United States Can Help Pull Suriname Back from the Brink,”  The National Interest, August 10, 2023.

“The Global Transition to Renewable Energy: Can the Caribbean Lead the Way? Part 2 – The Challenges,”  with Nick Sangermano, Renewable Energy World, June 21, 2017.

“The Global Transition to Renewable Energy: Can the Caribbean Lead the Way? Part 1 – The Potential,”  with Nick Sangermano, Renewable Energy World, June 20, 2017.

“Obama y America latina: el espíritu de Roosevelt y Kennedy,”  El Cronista Comercial, January 16, 2009.

“The Process and Prospects for the U.N. Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement to Become Customary International Law: A Preliminary Assessment,”  35 Georgetown Journal of International Law 483 (Spring 2004).