Jotwell Review Praises Professor Dodge's Article on Foreign Official Immunity

In a review published by Jotwell on Nov. 14, Professor Anthony Colangelo praised “A Roadmap for Foreign Official Immunity Cases in U.S. Courts,” an article by Professor William S. Dodge and Professor Chimène Keitner, published last year in the Fordham Law Review.

Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Samantar v. Yousuf (2010), holding that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act does not apply to foreign officials, U.S. courts have struggled with how to decide claims of foreign official immunity, particularly in human rights cases. Colangelo writes: “The Article is obligatory reading for anyone interested in the law of foreign official immunity in U.S. courts. It is both descriptive and normative—laying out the law clearly and precisely and offering analysis that brings coherence to a massively messy and massively important area of the 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 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 70 other publications in books and law reviews.