Robert Muse is a lawyer in Washington, D.C. with long and substantial experience in U.S. laws relating to Cuba. He has testified on legal issues involving Cuba before the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate; the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Standing Committee of the Canadian House of Commons; the Trade Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and the External Economic Relations Committee of the European Parliament (Brussels) as well as the Parliament’s inter-party group on Cuba (Strasbourg). Mr. Muse has delivered papers on the Helms-Burton Act and other U.S. laws pertaining to Cuba at conferences sponsored by the National Policy Association, The Economist, the Brookings Institution and various legal and international relations foundations based in London, Miami, Washington, D.C., Brussels, Toronto, Ottawa, Havana, Madrid, Barcelona, and Amsterdam.
Mr. Muse is a member of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association, the American Society of International Law, and the American Branch of the International Law Association.
Mr. Muse began practice in Washington, D.C. in 1984. Before establishing a firm specializing in international law in 1991, Mr. Muse was associated with the New York firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler. A native of Southern Arizona, Mr. Muse is a graduate of Georgetown University’s Law School. Before beginning legal studies and practice in Washington, D.C., he qualified as a barrister (Middle Temple) in England.