Michael D. Ramsey's international law scholarship

Michael D. Ramsey

Professor of Law, University of San Diego Law School

PRINCIPAL ARTICLES:

International Law Scholarship

· International Law Limits on Investor Liability in Human Rights Litigation, 50 Harvard Int’l L.J. 271 (2009).

This article evaluates the international law implications of suits in U.S. court that seek to hold investors liable under the Alien Tort Statute and similar laws for human rights violations committed by their host governments.

· The Empirical Dilemma of International Law, 41 San Diego L. Rev. 1243 (2004)

This article considers the difficulties U.S. courts encounter in determining the content of customary international law.

· Escaping International Comity, 83 Iowa L. Rev. 893 (1998)

A criticism of the ways courts use the phrase “international comity,” this article argues that decisions frequently invoke it in a misleading way to refer to several distinct doctrines that would be better applied individually.

· Acts of State and Foreign Sovereign Obligations, 39 Harv. Int’l L.J. 1 (1998)

This article addresses the challenges the act of state doctrine imposes for the enforceability of international business contracts with foreign governments, and concludes that the purposes of that doctrine are not served by applying it in the contracting context.

SYMPOSIUM ARTICLES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

· International Materials and Domestic Rights: Reflections on Atkins and Lawrence, 98 Amer. J. Int’l. L. 69 (2004) (contribution to “Agora: The United States Constitution and International Law”).

· International Law as Non-Preemptive Federal Law, 42 Virginia J. Int’l L. 555 (2002) (commenting on Ernest Young, Sorting out the Debate over Customary International Law, 42 Va. J. Int’l L. 365 (2002)).

· Multinational Corporate Liability under the Alien Tort Claims Act: Some Structural Reservations, 24 Hastings Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 361 (2001).

· International Law as Part of Our Law: A Constitutional Perspective, 29 Pepperdine L. Rev. 187 (2001).

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BOOK:

The U.S. Supreme Court and International Law: Continuity or Change? (Cambridge Univ. Press, forthcoming 2010) (David L. Sloss, Michael D. Ramsey & William S. Dodge, editors)