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Philip McBride Johnson is an attorney currently located in Washington, D.C. with a major national law firm. His focus for 45 years has been on the U.S. laws and regulations governing the futures and options markets. He originally authored and is now co-author with professor Thomas Lee Hazen of the leading 3-volume legal treatise on the subject [Derivatives Regulation, Aspen Law & Business] in continuous print for 25 years through 4 editions. He also founded and served as first chairman of the derivatives law committees for both the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association. From 1981 to 1983, he was chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the futures industry's federal regulator. He has served twice of the governing board of the Futures Industry Association and on five CFTC federal advisory committees.