Professor Dodge Discusses Extraterritorality at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

On Nov. 26, Professor William S. Dodge participated virtually in a panel organized by Institute of International Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the leading think tank on social sciences in the People’s Republic of China. Dodge’s talk, “A Century of Changes in Extraterritoriality,” discussed the development of international law governing extraterritoriality, including its implications for sanctions and export controls.

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.