Professor Dodge's amicus brief relied on by D.C. Circuit

On Dec. 28, the D.C. Circuit released its opinion in Simon v. Republic of Hungary, rejecting Hungary’s argument that victims of the Holocaust should have to exhaust their remedies in Hungary before bringing expropriations claims in U.S. court under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Professor William S. Dodge filed an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs and arguing against an exhaustion requirement. The opinion in Simon relied on Professor Dodge’s brief for the proposition that Hungary’s argument would not function as a traditional exhaustion requirement, since the plaintiffs would likely be prevented from returning to U.S. court by principles of res judicata if their claims were denied in Hungary.

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.”