Faculty Profile

Joseph R. Brubaker is the Chair of the International Section at Kirton McConkie and a member of the firm’s board of directors.  Joseph Brubaker assists companies in taking products, services, intellectual property, and businesses globally. With extensive regulatory and litigation experience with governments worldwide, he helps U.S. companies successfully expand internationally and helps foreign companies invest in the U.S. market.

Mr. Brubaker has lived in England, France, Israel, Mongolia, and Russia, and his experience includes litigation, regulatory, and transactional matters relating to over 150 countries. He has served as legal counsel to the Republic of Bulgaria, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of the Philippines, Romania, and the Republic of Uzbekistan and as legal counsel opposite of the Argentine Republic and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. He has also assisted in constitutional reform in the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal as well as advised on the United States’s trade treaty negotiations with Japan and China’s trade negotiations in The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization. 

Mr. Brubaker currently serves as chair of the Utah District Export Council, as a former board member of the World Trade Center Utah, as a former board member of 47G (f/k/a the Utah Aerospace & Defense Association), on the Utah Advisory Committee for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, and as former chair of the International section of the Utah Bar. He has taught international litigation and international arbitration at Catholic University of America and currently teaches U.S. Foreign Relations Law and Comparative Legal Traditions at BYU Law School.