Conference Announcement: Extraterritoriality in US Law

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