Professor Dodge Publishes Essay on Foreign Official Immunity in International Law

Professor William S. Dodge has published a short essay, entitled "Foreign Official Immunity in the International Law Commission: The Meanings of 'Official Capacity'," arguing that serious international crimes should not be considered official acts for purposes of immunity. The essay was solicited by AJIL Unbound, the online supplement to the American Journal of International Law, for a symposium on the immunity of state officials.

Professor Dodge 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.

"Foreign Official Immunity in the International Law Commission: The Meanings of 'Official Capacity'"