Professor Dodge speaks at Utrecht University in the Netherlands

On Oct. 30, Professor William S. Dodge spoke at Utrecht University in the Netherlands on the topic of “Reasonableness and Comity in the Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law.” He explained some of the differences in approach to determining the geographic scope of federal statutes between the Restatement (Third), which was published in 1987, and the Restatement (Fourth), which was published this year.

Professor Dodge is a Martin Luther King Jr. professor of law at UC Davis School of Law. He is an influential international law scholar, who served as Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State from 2011 to 2012 and as co-reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law from 2012 to 2018. Professor Dodge is a co-author of the casebook Transnational Business Problems 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 50 other publications in books and law reviews.