The Future of Arbitration in The United States:
The Arbitration Fairness Act
Venue: Cracow, ul. Bracka 12, room 200
Time: Friday, 27 February 2009, 5:30 PM
PETER B. “BO” RUTLEDGE is an associate professor and his teaching and research interests include international dispute resolution, arbitration, international business transactions and the Supreme Court.
He is co-author with Gary Born of the book International Civil Litigation in the United States (Aspen Publishers, 2007) and has published numerous articles in journals such as theUniversity of Chicago Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the University of Georgia Law Review and the Journal of International Arbitration. He also regularly advises parties on matters of international dispute resolution (litigation and arbitration).
In 2008, the Supreme Court appointed Rutledge to brief and argue the case of Irizarry v. United States as amicus curiae in defense of the judgment below. He subsequently won the case, joining the ranks of a select few advocates who have successfully defended a judgment below when the government refused to do so. A former law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Clarence Thomas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit for Chief Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Rutledge regularly files briefs and advises lawyers in matters before the Supreme Court and lower courts.
An accomplished teacher, he was selected “Professor of the Year” by law students at the Catholic University of America for four straight years (2003-07).
In addition to his academic and legal work, Rutledge regularly comments on public policy matters. He has testified on several occasions before Congress, regularly has spoken to broadcast and print media and given speeches around the country on matters such as international dispute resolution, arbitration and the Supreme Court.
Before entering the teaching academy, Rutledge practiced at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering (now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr), where his practice included international dispute resolution and Supreme Court matters, and at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where his practice concentrated on international arbitration.
He holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University, an M.Litt. in Applied Ethics from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and a J.D. with high honors from the University of Chicago, where he served as executive editor of The University of Chicago Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.
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