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Professor Rogers to convene new ASIL roundtable on transnational law


UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The American Society of International Law (ASIL) has named Penn State Law professor Catherine Rogers as the first convener of its new Detlev F. Vagts Annual ASIL Roundtable on Transnational Law.

The new roundtable will convene annually and include presentations and discussions on transnational law that will then be presented for publication in a book or journal. The topic for the first roundtable, to be convened by Rogers, is Professional Responsibility for International Lawyers and will center on recommendations from ASIL’s International Professional Responsibility task force. Rogers served on the task force, which was chaired by the late Detlev F. Vagts.

Vagts, who died in 2013, was a Harvard law professor and renowned international law scholar with an expertise in transnational business problems and the laws affecting international commerce. He served on the faculty at Harvard from 1959 until his retirement in 2005. His family established the Detlev F. Vagts ASIL Roundtable on Transnational Law in his memory to promote the scholarship of younger academics in transnational law, support the exchange of ideas across jurisdictions, and maintain connections between scholars and practitioners in international law.

Rogers is the Paul and Marjorie Price Faculty Scholar at Penn State Law and professor of ethics, regulation & the rule of law at Queen Mary, University of London, where she is also co-director of the Institute on Ethics & Regulation.

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