Hannah Buxbaum

Hannah Buxbaum is a leading expert in international jurisdiction, international litigation, and comparative law. She joined UC Davis in 2025 from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where she had been a member of the faculty since 1997. She served in a number of administrative leadership positions at Indiana University, including as the university’s Vice President for International Affairs (2018-2025) and as Interim Dean (2012-2014) and Executive Associate Dean (2009-2012) of the Maurer School of Law.

Professor Buxbaum is the co-author (with Detlev Vagts, William Dodge, and Harold Koh) of Transnational Business Problems (Foundation Press), a leading casebook on international business transactions. She is the editor of Extraterritoriality in Comparative Perspective (Brill, 2025) and co-editor (with Thibaut Fleury-Graff) of Extraterritoriality/L’extraterritorialité (Brill, 2022). She has also authored over 50 scholarly articles and book chapters. Over the course of her teaching career, she has held visiting appointments at universities including the London School of Economics, Humboldt University, Université Paris II, and UC Berkeley. She has also delivered courses for the Hague Academy of International Law in The Netherlands and in Buenos Aires.

She is active in many national and international organizations, including as an elected member of the American Law Institute and the International Academy of Comparative Law. She is currently President of the American Society of Comparative Law and has held a number of leadership roles in the American Society of International Law, most recently as Vice President. Professor Buxbaum serves on the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law, as the U.S. member of the Hague Academy of International Law’s academic governing council, and on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.

Prior to joining Indiana University, Buxbaum practiced in the area of international securities transactions in the New York and Frankfurt offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell. She received a B.A. in English Literature from Cornell University, a J.D. from Cornell Law School, and an LL.M. from the University of Heidelberg.