John F. Coyle, William S. Dodge and Aaron Simowitz | April 26, 2023 | Conflict of Laws
Below is the abstract for “Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2022: Thirty-Sixth Annual Survey,” available for download on SSRN. This is the Thirty-Sixth Annual Survey of American Choice-of-Law Cases. It was written at the request of the Association of American...
William S. Dodge and Chimène Keitner | July 14, 2021 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
The below is the abstract of “A Roadmap for Foreign Official Immunity Cases in U.S. Courts,” forthcoming in Fordham Law Review. This Article provides a roadmap for cases involving foreign official immunity in U.S. courts. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court...
William S. Dodge | February 7, 2019 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
AbstractThis paper compares the treatment of international comity in the Restatement (Third) of Foreign Relations Law (1987) and the Restatement (Fourth) (2018). The Restatement (Third) generally avoided international comity and focused on restating international law....
William S. Dodge | June 13, 2017 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
This essay for the Yearbook of Private International Law discusses the draft Fourth Restatement of Foreign Relations Law on the topic of jurisdiction. The essay describes the Fourth Restatement’s division of jurisdiction into the three categories of jurisdiction to...
Anthea Roberts, Paul B. Stephan and William S. Dodge | March 31, 2017 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Sections of Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States, Jurisdiction, Sovereign Immunity, and Treaties, are on this year’s Annual Meeting Agenda. With member approval, these three portions of the project will be completed this year....
