Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States, Tentative Draft No. 1, will be presented to ALI membership for discussion and approval and addresses the topics of executive agreements and diplomatic and consular immunities. The Draft contains the Introductory Note and §§ 321-326 from Chapter 2 on Executive Agreements and Nonbinding Instruments, and §§ 471-474 from Chapter 7 on Privileges and Immunities of Foreign Officials and Diplomatic and Consular Premises.

In the below video, Reporters Curtis A. Bradley of the University of Chicago Law School, William S. Dodge of George Washington University Law School, and Oona A. Hathaway of Yale Law School explore how the Restatement Fourth of Foreign Relations Law of the United States addresses diplomatic immunity, executive agreements, and the evolving role of international law in the U.S. legal system.

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Curtis A. Bradley

Reporter – Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States

Curtis Bradley is the William Van Alstyne Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke University, as well as a co-director for the Center for International and Comparative Law.  His scholarly expertise spans the areas of international law in the U.S. legal system, the constitutional law of foreign affairs, and federal jurisdiction, and his courses include International law, Foreign Relations Law, and Federal Courts.  He was the founding co-director of Duke Law School’s Center for International and Comparative Law and serves on the executive board of Duke's Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security.  Since 2012, he has served as a Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement project on The Foreign Relations Law of the United States. In 2016, he received a Carnegie Fellowship to support his work on comparative foreign relations law. He is currently the co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law.

William S. Dodge

Reporter – Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States

William S. Dodge is the John D. Ayer Chair in Business Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. He specializes in international law, international transactions, and international dispute resolution. He previously served as Co-Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law from 2012 to 2018.

Oona A. Hathaway

Reporter - Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States

Oona A. Hathaway is is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, professor of political science at the Yale Department of Political Science, faculty at the Jackson School of Global Affairs, and director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges.

Pauline Toboulidis

The American Law Institute