Professor Dodge speaks at conference on extraterritoriality at Willamette

Professor William S. Dodge spoke Jan. 25 at a conference on “The Extraterritorial State” sponsored by New York University’s Classical Liberal Institute and held at Willamette University College of Law.

Professor Dodge presented a paper titled “Reasonableness in the Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law,” which compared the case-by-case approach of the Restatement (Third) to the provision-by-provision approach of the Restatement (Fourth).

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.