Private International Law: Avoiding and Resolving Conflict of Laws

Professor James A.R. Nafziger is the Thomas B. Stoel Professor of Law; Director of International Law Programs at Willamette University College of Law. He received his J.D. from Harvard University, where he was the note and comment editor for the Harvard International Law Journal; his M.A. and B.A. are from the University of Wisconsin, where he was Phi Beta Kappa with high honors. Nafziger was a Henry Luce Fellow and Administrative Director of the American Society of International Law. Professor Nafziger is also Honorary Professor of the East China University of Politics and Law. He has been a member of the full-time law faculties at the University of Oregon, Marquette University (as the Boden Visiting Professor), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (as a Fulbright Lecturer), and the National and Otgontenger Universities in Mongolia (as a Fulbright lecturer). He has also taught extensively at the University of California-Davis, University of Wisconsin, Trinity College in Dublin, the University of Barcelona, and other institutions. At Willamette, Professor Nafziger has taught and written extensively in the fields of international law and dispute resolution, conflict of laws, international business transactions, cultural heritage law, sports law, immigration and refugee law, comparative law, and international arbitration and litigation. He initiated and served as a reporter of Oregon's codification of choice-of-law rules (the world's first common law jurisdiction to do so). Professor Nafziger is the former president and chair of the executive committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association (ILA) and currently serves as a Vice Chair of the ILA. He also serves as secretary of the American Society of International Law and as a member of its Executive Council and Executive Committee. Professor Nafziger has authored or edited a dozen books, more than 135 published articles and chapters in books, and 100 other writings.