Professor William S. Dodge Co-Chairs International Commercial Arbitration Conference

On March 23, 2011, Professor William S. Dodge co-chaired a half day conference in Washington DC: "Fault Lines in International Commercial Arbitration." The conference was the 8th annual conference co-sponsored by the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and the American Society of International Law.

Occasioned by the American Law Institute's drafting of the Restatement (Third) of the United States Law of International Commercial Arbitration, the conference explored issues that turn on the theoretical foundations of international commercial arbitration. The speakers were Gary B. Born, Donald F. Donovan, J. William Rowley QC, Professor Linda J. Silberman, and Judge Diane P. Wood. Professor Dodge is a member of the ITA Academic Council and the ALI's Members Consultative Group for the draft Restatement.

Professor Dodge also spoke at the American Society of International Law's annual meeting in Washington D.C. on the panel "Harmony and Dissonance in Extraterritorial Regulation." The panel, held March 25, 2011, examined the Supreme Court's recent decision in Morrison v. National Australia Bank and its implications for extraterritorial regulation in a variety of areas.