William S. Dodge, Professor of Law

Professor Dodge joined the Hastings faculty in 1995.  He attended Yale College, where he sang with the Whiffenpoofs and graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in History in 1986.  Professor Dodge spent a year and a half teaching English in Tianjin, China before attending Yale Law School. He was a Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal, served as Director of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Project, and earned his J.D. in 1991.  After graduation, Professor Dodge clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court. From 1993 to 1995, he was an attorney at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. Professor Dodge is a co-author (with Detlev Vagts and Harold Koh) of the casebook Transnational Business Problems (4th ed. Foundation Press 2008) and a co-editor (with David Sloss and Michael Ramsey) of International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: Continuity and Change (Cambridge University Press 2011). During the 2011-12 academic year Professor Dodge is on leave, serving as the Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.

Courses Taught: International Business Transactions and Contracts.

What I hope you get from a legal education at Hastings is... a knowledge of how our legal system fits with the rest of the world, knowledge that is indispensible for lawyers practicing in the twenty-first century.