Professor Dodge Writes on China Judgments Case for New York Law Journal

In a column for the New York Law Journal on June 17, Professor William S. Dodge criticized a recent New York state court decision denying recognition and enforcement of a Chinese judgment on the ground that China lacks independent tribunals and procedures compatible with due process.

Professor Dodge pointed out that the decision is contrary to how other U.S. courts have considered the question and threatens the enforceability of U.S. judgments in China, which enforces foreign judgments only on the basis of reciprocity. The column draws on Professor Dodge’s article on China-U.S. judgments reciprocity with Professor Wenliang Zhang of Renmin University, which was published last year.

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.