Hannah Buxbaum
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis d'Amérique
- Année d'élection
- 2025
Fonction(s) actuelle(s)
- Professor of Law
- President, American Society of Comparative Law
Domaine(s) d’expertise
- private international law;
- international jurisdiction;
- international litigation.
Biographie
Hannah Buxbaum is an expert in international jurisdiction, international litigation, and comparative law. She joined UC Davis in 2025 from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where she had been a member of the faculty since 1997. She served in a number of administrative leadership positions at Indiana University, including as the university’s Vice President for International Affairs (2018-2025). Professor Buxbaum is author or editor of three books and over 50 scholarly articles and book chapters. Over the course of her teaching career, she has held visiting appointments at universities including the London School of Economics, Humboldt University, Université Paris II, and UC Berkeley. She has also delivered courses for the Hague Academy of International Law in The Netherlands and in Buenos Aires. She is active in many national and international organizations, including as an elected member of the American Law Institute and the International Academy of Comparative Law. She is currently President of the American Society of Comparative Law and has held a number of leadership roles in the American Society of International Law, most recently as Vice President. Professor Buxbaum serves on the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law, as the U.S. member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, and on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. Prior to joining Indiana University, Buxbaum practiced in the area of international securities transactions in the New York and Frankfurt offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell. She received a B.A. in English Literature from Cornell University, a J.D. from Cornell Law School, and an LL.M. from the University of Heidelberg.
Publications sélectionnées
- Extraterritorial Legislation in Comparative Perspective (ed., Brill, 2025)
- Extraterritoriality/L’extraterritorialite (with T. Fleury Graff eds., Brill, 2022)
- Transnational Business Problems (with D. Vagts, W. Dodge and H. Koh, 2024)
- Public Regulation and Private Enforcement in a Global Economy (399 Recueil des Cours 267, 2019)
- National Jurisdiction and Global Business Networks (17 Ind. Journal of Global Legal Studies 165, 2010)
- Territory, Territoriality, and the Resolution of Jurisdictional Conflict (57 American Journal of Comparative Law 631, 2009)
- Conflict of Economic Laws: From Sovereignty to Substance (42 Virginia Journal of Int’l Law 931, 2002)
