One of legal education's foremost authorities on public and private international law, Robert Lutz has held the top posts in several of the most influential organizations in the international law community. He brings tremendous real-world experience to the classroom.

Professor Lutz chaired the Section of International Law of the American Bar Association, as well as the international law sections of the Association of American Law Schools and the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and was a co-founder of the California State Bar Section of International Law. He was also the first editor of two of its international publications: the California Bar International Law Section Newsletter and the California International Practitioner (now The California International Law Journal). In 2014, the State Bar of California's International Law Section honored him with the Warren M. Christopher International Lawyer of the Year Award for his extraordinary service to the profession in the field of international law.

The U.S. State Department, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the U.S. Trade Representative and other entities often seek Professor Lutz's counsel. He serves as a member of the State Department Legal Adviser's Advisory Committee on International Law and of the NAFTA Advisory Committee on Private Commercial Dispute Resolution. He has been a member of arbitration panels under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, was founding Board of Directors Chair of the Center for International Commercial Arbitration, and a member of the WTO panel on goods and services disputes.

Professor Lutz joined Southwestern in 1978, and has since been the recipient of the Irwin R. Buchalter, Paul E. Treusch and Justice Marshall F. McComb Professorships. He has also received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship at the Universities of Munchen and Augsburg.