Restatement of the Law Fourth,

The Foreign Relations Law of the United States

This Restatement will cover topics not addressed in the previous Restatement Fourth volume on selected topics in treaties, jurisdiction, and sovereign immunity, as well as selected topics that have emerged since publication of the Restatement Third.
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The Council approved the initiation of this project in January 2023. ALI members may join the Members Consultative Group.

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Curtis A. Bradley University of Chicago Law School
Chicago, IL
William S. Dodge University of California, Davis School of Law
Davis, CA
Oona A. Hathaway Yale Law School
New Haven, CT
Chair
John B. Bellinger, III Arnold & Porter
Washington, DC
Harold Hongju Koh Yale Law School
New Haven, CT
Advisers
Catherine M. Amirfar Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
New York, NY
David J. Barron U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
Boston, MA
James E. Boasberg District of Columbia Superior Court
Washington, DC
David Bowker WilmerHale
Washington, DC
Ingrid Brunk Vanderbilt University Law School
Nashville, TN
Todd F. Buchwald U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC
José A. Cabranes U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
New Haven, CT
Donald Earl Childress III Pepperdine University, Caruso School of Law
Malibu, CA
Kathleen Claussen Georgetown University Law School
Washington, DC
Kristina Daugirdas The University of Michigan Law School
Ann Arbor, MI
Ashley S. Deeks University of Virginia School of Law
Charlottesville, VA
Brian J. Egan Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Washington, DC
Kristen Eichensehr University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Agniescka M. Fryszman Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC
Washington, DC
Jean Galbraith University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Philadelphia, PA
Jack Landman Goldsmith Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA
Monica Hakimi Columbia Law School
New York, NY
Stephen A. Higginson U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
New Orleans, LA
Duncan B. Hollis Temple University Beasley School of Law
Philadelphia, PA
Rebecca Ingber Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardoza School of Law
New York, NY
Clifton Johnson U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser
Washington, DC
Peter Douglas Keisler Sidley Austin LLP
Washington, DC
Chimène Keitner University of California, Davis School of Law
Davis, CA
Jane Kelly United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gerard E. Lynch U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
New York, NY
Michael Mattler U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC
M. Margaret McKeown U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
San Diego, CA
Jeffrey Alker Meyer United States District Court, District of Connecticut
New Haven, CT
Patricia Ann Millett U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
Washington, DC
David H. Moore Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School
Provo, UT
Randolph D. Moss U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Washington, DC
Sean David Murphy George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC
William Nardini United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
New York, NY
Andrew Olson United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Washington, DC
Michael D. Ramsey University of San Diego School of Law
San Diego, CA
Cristina M. Rodriguez Yale Law School
New Haven, CT
Ryan Scoville Marquette University Law School
Milwaukee, WI
Michael Y. Scudder, Jr. United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
Chicago, IL
Linda J. Silberman New York University School of Law
New York, NY
Paul B. Stephan University of Virginia School of Law
Charlottesville, VA
David P. Stewart Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, DC
Edward T. Swaine George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC
Carlos Manuel Vázquez Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, DC
David M. Zionts Covington & Burling LLP
Washington, DC
International Advisory Panel
Dapo Akande St. Peter's College, University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Helmut Aust Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Congyan Cai Fudan University School of Law
Shanghai, China
Yuji Iwasawa International Court of Justice
The Hague, Netherlands
Catherine Kessedjian University Paris-Panthéon-Assas
Paris, France
Campbell Alan McLachlan Victoria University of Wellington Law School
Wellington, New Zealand
August Reinisch University of Vienna, Section of International Law
Vienna, Austria
Alejandro Rodiles Friedrich Schiller Unversitat Jena
Jena, Germany
Prabhakar Singh BML Munjal University School of Law
Kapriwas, India
Philippa Webb King's College London
London, England
Hannah Woolaver University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Sienho Yee China Foreign Affairs University
Beijing, NY, China
Liaison
Andrew Keller United States Senate, Foreign Relations Committee
Washington, DC
Members Consultative Group
Mark D. Agrast World Justice Project
Washington, DC
Raquel E. Aldana University of California, Davis School of Law
Davis, CA
Charles H. Brower II Wayne State University Law School
Detroit, MI
Jonathan G. Cedarbaum George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC
Steve Charnovitz George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC
Yee Wah Chin Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti, LLP
New York, NY
Margaret Chon Seattle University School of Law
Seattle, WA
Jack J. Coe, Jr. Pepperdine University, Caruso School of Law
Camarillo, CA
Michael S. Coffee Washington, DC
Jacob Katz Cogan University of Cincinnati College of Law
Cincinnati, OH
Harlan G. Cohen University of Georgia School of Law
Athens, GA
Martin S. Flaherty Fordham Law School
New York, NY
Eric L. Hirschhorn Winston & Strawn LLP
Washington, DC
Roscoe Jones, Jr. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Washington, DC
Christopher M. Klein U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of California
Vancouver, WA
Ajay B. Kundaria Google LLC
San Francisco, CA
C. Scott Maravilla U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
Washington, DC
D. Stephen Mathias United Nations Office of Legal Affairs
New York, NY
Sean David Murphy George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC
Kenneth M. Rosen University of Alabama School of Law
Tuscaloosa, AL
Victoria Shannon Sahani Boston University School of Law
Boston, MA
Timothy R. Schnabel Uniform Law Commission
Chicago, IL
Mark Sidel University of Wisconsin Law School
Madison, WI
Aaron D. Simowitz Willamette University College of Law
Salem, OR
Matthew D. Slater Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Washington, DC
Adam N. Steinman University of Alabama School of Law
Tuscaloosa, AL
David P. Stewart Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, DC
Elizabeth S. Stong U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York
Brooklyn, NY
Guy Miller Struve Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (Retired)
New York, NY
Edward T. Swaine George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC
Louise Ellen Teitz Roger Williams University School of Law
Bristol, RI
Pierre-Hugues Verdier University of Virginia Law School
Charlottesville, VA
David B. Wilson Sherman & Howard L.L.C.
Denver, CO
Eric H. Zagrans Zagrans Law Firm LLC
Columbus, OH