Professor Dodge Presents Draft of Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law

On May 18, Professor William S. Dodge and his co-reporters presented their latest draft of the Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law at the American Law Institute's annual meeting in Washington, DC. The membership tentatively approved the draft, which covers questions of jurisdiction to prescribe and jurisdiction to adjudicate in civil cases. The current project on jurisdiction is scheduled for completion in 2017.

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 40 other publications in books and law reviews