Professor Dodge Speaks on Supreme Court Human Rights Decision at Federalist Society Webinar

On July 6, Professor William S. Dodge addressed the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Nestlé v. Doe at a webinar with Ilya Shapiro (Cato Institute) and Professor Julian Ku (Hofstra University) hosted by the Federalist Society. A recording is available here. In Nestlé, the Supreme Court held that claims against U.S. companies for aiding and abetting child slavery in Ivory Coast were impermissibly extraterritorial. Dodge filed an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs in the case and has analyzed the implications of the decision in a blog post for Just Security.

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, who 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 60 other publications in books and law reviews.