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Christopher A. Whytock

Professor Whytock joined the faculty in 2007.  He received his law degree from Georgetown University, where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law, and a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University.  Before his doctoral studies, he practiced law with O’Melveny & Myers LLP and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP.  He also has taught interdisciplinary courses on international law and international relations at Duke University and U.C. Irvine, and participated in law reform projects in Eastern Europe and Mongolia through the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the University of Maryland IRIS Center.

Professor Whytock’s research focuses on transnational litigation, conflict of laws, international and comparative law, foreign relations law, and judicial decisionmaking.  He has published articles in both law and political science journals, and presented research at meetings of the American Society of International Law, the Law and Society Association, the American Political Science Association, and the International Studies Association, and at workshops at Duke, Harvard, and U.C. Irvine.

Professor Whytock teaches foreign relations law, a seminar on the judiciary and world politics, civil procedure, and business organizations. He received a university-wide Student Choice Teaching Award in 2008.

Scholarship Highlights


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Myth of Mess? International Choice of Law in Action, 84 New York University Law Review (forthcoming 2009).

Domestic Courts and Global Governance, 84 Tulane Law Review (forthcoming 2009).

Functionalism, Legal Origins, and the Future of Comparative Law, 2009 BYU Law Review (forthcoming 2009) (invited symposium article).


Foreign Law in Domestic Courts: Different Uses, Different Implications, in Globalizing Justice: Critical Perspectives on Transnational Law and the Cross-Border Migration of Legal Norms (Donald W. Jackson, Michael Tolley & Mary Volcansek, eds.) (forthcoming 2010).

Litigation, Arbitration, and the Transnational Shadow of the Law, 18 Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 449 (2008) (invited symposium article).

Taking Causality Seriously in Comparative Constitutional Law: Insights from Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Economy, 41 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 629 (2008) (invited symposium article).

Who Won Libya? The Force-Diplomacy Debate and Its Implications for Theory and Policy, with Bruce W. Jentleson, International Security, Winter 2005/2006, at 47 (peer reviewed).

A Rational Design Theory of Transgovernmentalism: The Case of E.U.-U.S. Merger Review Cooperation, 23 Boston University International Law Journal 1 (2005).

Thinking Beyond the Domestic-International Divide: Toward a Unified Concept of Public Law, 36 Georgetown Journal of International Law 155 (2004).

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

Restoring Public Law, Harvard Law School Workshop on Public Law, April 15, 2009.

Domestic Courts and Global Governance, presented at the joint annual meeting of the Law and Society Association and Canadian Law and Society Association, Montreal, Canada, May 29-June 1, 2008 (panel organizer, Transnational Litigation as a Response to Global Challenges: Promises and Perils).

Law and Politics in Transnational Judicial Governance: The Case of Forum Non Conveniens, presented at the Center for Research on International and Global Studies, University of California, Irvine, April 4, 2008.

Litigation, Arbitration, and the Transnational Shadow of the Law, presented at Duke Law School, February 15, 2008.

Domestic Courts and Global Governance, presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, March 28-31, 2007 (selected as one of 2007’s New Voices in International Law).

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Pennoyer’s Revenge: Forum Non Conveniens, Choice of Law, and the Decline of the Forum Shopping System

Beyond Hierarchy and Anarchy: The Real Differences Between Domestic and International Law



Contact

Phone: 801-581-6034
Fax: (801) 581-6897
Email: whytockc@law.utah.edu

S.J. Quinney College of Law
University of Utah
332 S. 1400 E., Room 101
Salt Lake City, UT 84112


Education

Ph.D., Duke University

J.D., M.S.F.S., Georgetown University

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles


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