[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-jorge-schmidt":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8],"Jorge Schmidt is a Miami attorney who has advised The Seasteading Institute’s board of directors on legal questions since 2009. He presented research at the institute’s second conference in San Francisco that September, and the talk it produced, Legal Aspects of Seasteading, was published by the institute in January 2010.","He practises through Legal Schmidt PLLC on complex commercial and cross-border litigation and arbitration: contract disputes, antitrust, securities fraud and intellectual property claims, together with business formation, capital raising and transactional analysis. He also takes claims under USERRA, the statute protecting the reemployment rights of members of the Guard and Reserves, and has advised chief executives, chief financial officers and general counsel at businesses exposed to scrutiny by the Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Securities and Exchange Commission.","He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2004, holds a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law and a master’s degree in finance from Johns Hopkins, works natively in Spanish and has long experience of civil law systems. He is a special operations veteran and serves as judge advocate for his VFW post.","He has founded and run two startups in Latin America, and the industries he says interest him are aquaculture, logistics and robotics: between them, most of what a settlement on the water would have to solve before anyone could live on it.",1789144613364]