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Christopher Whytock is Professor of Law  and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, and a faculty affiliate of the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture and the John & Marilyn Long U.S.-China Institute for Business and Law. He has taught courses on international law, international relations, foreign relations law, civil procedure, and business associations. His research focuses on transnational litigation, conflict of laws, international law, and the role of domestic law and domestic courts in global governance. His scholarship has appeared in law journals including Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review and New York University Law Review, and peer-reviewed social science journals including International Security.

Professor Whytock previously taught at the University of Utah College of Law and practiced law as an associate at O’Melveny & Myers LLP and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Duke University; his J.D. and M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law; and his B.A. in political science from UCLA.

Expertise: Transnational litigation, international law, conflict of laws, empirical legal studies

Current Courses: Procedural Analysis

Prior Courses Taught: Procedural Analysis, Business Associations, Civil Procedure, Foreign Relations Law, International Law, International Legal Analysis, International Relations Theory, Conflicts of Law

In the News:

• Article by Prof. Whytock cited in Supreme Court Ruling

Recent Publications:

• Forum Non Conveniens and the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, 111 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 1444 (2011) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson)
• The Evolving Forum Shopping System, 96 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 481 (2011)
• The New Multipolarity in Transnational Litigation: Foreign Courts, Foreign Judgments, and Foreign Law, 18 SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 31 (2011) (symposium contribution, with Marcus S. Quintanilla)
• Transnational Judicial Governance, 2 ST. JOHN'S JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW 55 (2012) (symposium contribution)
• Private-Public Interaction in Global Governance: The Case of Transnational Commercial Arbitration, BUSINESS & POLITICS, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2010) (peer reviewed)
• Foreign Law in Domestic Courts: Different Uses, Different Implications, in GLOBALIZING JUSTICE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND THE CROSS-BORDER MIGRATION OF LEGAL NORMS (Donald W. Jackson, Michael Tolley & Mary Volcansek, eds.) (2010) (peer edited)
• Myth of Mess? International Choice of Law in Action, 84 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 719 (2009)
• Domestic Courts and Global Governance, 84 TULANE LAW REVIEW 69 (2009)
• Prof. Whytock's Scholarly Papers on SSRN