Hannah L. Buxbaum
UC Davis School of Law
Hannah Buxbaum is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law. Her research on private international law and jurisdiction focuses on transnational economic regulation. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the International Academy of Comparative Law, and the Advisory Committee on Private International Law for the U.S. Department of State. She currently serves as the U.S. member on the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law.
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