Professor Dodge speaks at ASIL workshop at Penn Law

On Dec. 7, Professor William S. Dodge presented a paper at a workshop of the American Society of International Law’s interest group on International Law in Domestic Courts, held at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia. The paper, entitled "The New Presumption Against Extraterritoriality," traces the history of this canon of statutory interpretation, describes the new version of the presumption that the Supreme Court articulated in 2010, and discusses what courts should do with a canon of interpretation that has changed since the time a statute was passed.

Professor Dodge is Martin Luther King Jr. professor of law at UC Davis School of Law. He is an influential international law scholar, who served as Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State from 2011 to 2012 and as co-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 50 other publications in books and law reviews.