Jotwell Review Praises Professor Dodge's Forthcoming Duke Law Journal Article
In a review published by Jotwell on Oct. 10, University of Texas School of Law Professor Linda S. Mullenix praised “The Many State Doctrines of Forum Non Conveniens,” a forthcoming Duke Law Journal article by Professor William S. Dodge, Cornell Law School Professor Maggie Gardner and UC Irvine School of Law Professor Christopher A. Whytock.
“Dodge, Gardner, and Whytock have undertaken the definitive study of state doctrines of forum non conveniens, which I view with no small degree of admiration,” Mullenix writes. “The authors are to be commended for delving into the largely ignored landscape of state procedural law, which is always a challenging task. Their study answers practically everything you might ever want to know about federal and state forum non conveniens and provides law professors with substantial data to voice something more than passing reference to state doctrines. More importantly, the authors locate their findings in a conversation about procedural federalism—how courts and rule makers spread procedural innovations throughout the state and federal systems through a process of diffusion.”
Professor Dodge is Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law and John D. Ayer Chair in Business Law at UC Davis School of Law. He is a leading expert on international law, international transactions, and international dispute resolution and a founding editor of the Transnational Litigation Blog (TLB). He served as Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State from 2011 to 2012 and as a reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law from 2012 to 2018. Professor Dodge is a co-author of Transnational Business Problems and Transnational Litigation in a Nutshell, and a co-editor of International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: Continuity and Change, which won the American Society of International Law’s 2012 certificate of merit. He has authored more than 70 other publications in books and law reviews.