Professor Dodge speaks to Yale Law School group

On Oct. 28, Professor William S. Dodge gave a talk (via Zoom) to the National Security Group at Yale Law School on “Human Rights Cases Before the U.S. Supreme Court.” Dodge discussed two sets of cases in which he has filed amicus briefs. In Nestlé/Cargill, the Supreme Court will decide whether corporations can be sued for human rights violations under the Alien Tort Statute (amicus brief here). In Simon/Philipp, the question is whether Holocaust expropriation claims against Hungary and Germany can be dismissed under a doctrine of international comity abstention (amicus brief here).

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, who 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 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 60 other publications in books and law reviews.

 

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