Professor Dodge Files Amicus Brief with D.C. Circuit

Professor William S. Dodge has filed an amicus brief with the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Simon v. Republic of Hungary, a case brought by Holocaust survivors under the expropriation exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. The brief argues that the district court erred when it adopted a doctrine of prudential exhaustion and held that plaintiffs were required to exhaust their domestic remedies in Hungary before bringing suit in the United States.

Professor Dodge, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law, is an influential international law scholar. He serves as a Co-Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law: Jurisdiction and as a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law. He 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.