Professor Dodge Lectures in France on Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts

Professor William S. Dodge recently gave two lectures in France on human rights litigation in U.S. courts. On April 14, he spoke to students at the Institute of International Humanitarian Studies of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Aix-Marseille University. On April 19, he lectured at Salle 102, a joint workshop of the Universities Paris 1 and Paris 2 focusing on private international law. A video of the second talk is available here. Professor Dodge was in France for two weeks to teach a short course to Masters students at the University Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) titled Droit International Privé et Coordination des Système Juridiques.

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.