Professor Dodge Participates in Workshop of Experts on International Claims Commission for Ukraine

On June 13, Professor William S. Dodge participated in a workshop of experts to discuss the possibility of establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine. Professor Dodge was invited to participate by the International Claims and Reparations Project at Columbia Law School, which the government of Ukraine has asked to advise it on various questions of international law.

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 and a founding editor of the Transnational Litigation Blog (TLB). He served as Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State from 2011-2012 and as a reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law from 2012-2018. 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 70 other publications in books and law reviews.