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Conference Announcement: Extraterritoriality in US Law

By Trey Childress

Beyond Borders: Extraterritoriality in American Law

Southwestern Law School, Nov. 12, 2010

On Friday, November 12, 2010, Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, California is hosting a symposium titled Beyond Borders: Extraterritoriality in American Law.  

This one-day symposium will bring together leading legal figures from throughout the country to analyze critical issues related to transnational litigation and extraterritorial regulation.  Do U.S. law stop at the border?  If not, when do they ? or when should they ? govern the conduct of people abroad?  From the controversial extraterritorial application of U.S. domestic law, to the contentious uses of universal jurisdiction in the human rights context, to debates over the extent to which the U.S. Constitution applies outside U.S. territory, a flurry of recent scholarship has involved disputes over the geographic reach of domestic law.

The symposium will bring together leading scholars to discuss the history, doctrine, and current issues related to extraterritoriality.  The proceedings will be published in the Southwestern Law Review and distributed widely.  The following professors are participating in the symposium (listed alphabetically):

• Jeffery Atik, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
• Hannah Buxbaum, Professor of Law, Indiana Univ. Maurer School of Law
• Lea Brilmayer, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
• William Dodge, Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
• Stephen Gardbaum, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
• Andrew Guzman, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
• Max Huffman, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana Univ. School of Law
• Chimene Keitner, Associate Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
• John Knox, Professor of Law, Wake Forest Univ. School of Law
• Caleb Mason, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
• Daniel Margolies, Professor of History, Virginia Wesleyan College
• Jeff Meyer, Professor of Law, Quinnipiac Univ. School of Law
• Trevor Morrison, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
• Austen Parrish, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
• Tonya Putnam, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
• Kal Raustiala, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
• Bartholomew Sparrow, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
• Peter Spiro, Professor of Law, Temple Univ. Beasley School of Law
• Christopher Whytock, Acting Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law

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Full post as published by Conflict of Laws on September 23, 2010 (boomark / email).