Wayne State University Law School’s Program for International Legal Studies will host a lecture next week by University of Georgia Law Professor Peter Rutledge titled “Foreign Wars: The New Battleground in International Litigation.”
The lecture, the last in the Fall 2011 Speaker Series, will take place from 12:15-1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 3, in the Law School’s Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium.
“Federal courts in the United States are increasingly faced with lawsuits by foreign nationals alleging that their human rights have been violated in conflicts overseas,” said Gregory Fox, director of Wayne Law’s Program for International Legal Studies. On one hand, he said, “these cases present compelling stories of tragic suffering. On the other, one may well ask whether U.S. courts are the right place for these victims to seek compensation.”
Fox described Rutledge as one of the country’s leading authorities on transnational civil litigation.
Rutledge is a full professor whose teaching and research interests include international dispute resolution, arbitration, international business transactions and the Supreme Court.
He is the author of the forthcoming book Arbitration and the Constitution and co-author with Gary Born of the book International Civil Litigation in the United States.
In 2008, the Supreme Court appointed Rutledge to brief and argue the case of Irizarry v. United States as amicus curiae in defense of the judgment below. He subsequently won the case.
Rutledlge is a former law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III.
The event is free and open to the public, and lunch will be provided.
For more information regarding the event or the Program for International Legal Studies, visit www.law.wayne.edu/international-studies.
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