David J. Bederman - Atlanta, GA

• Sole Practitioner, since 1991

• Admiralty & Maritime Law 30%
• Constitutional Law 20%
• International Law 30%
• Litigation & Appeals 20%

• 80%

• Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1003 (1992)
• Smith v. United States, 507 U.S. 197 (1993)
• Hess v. Port Authority Trans-Hudson, 513 U.S. 30 (1994)
• Idaho v. Coeur d'Alene Tribe, 117 S.Ct. 2028 (1997)
• California v. Deep Sea Research, 118 S.Ct. 1464 (1998)
• In re Straight, 143 F.3d 1387 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit 1998)
• In re Burke, 146 F.3d 1313 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit 1998)
• In re Rose, 187 F.3d 926 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit 1999)
• Lapides v. Bd. of Regents Univ. System of Georgia, 535 U.S. 613 (U.S. Supreme Court 2002)
• Syngenta Crop Protection Corp. v. Henson, 537 U.S. 28 (U.S. Supreme Court 2002)
• Norfolk Southern Rwy Co. v. Kirby, 543 U.S. 14 (U.S. Supreme Court 2004)
• Republic of Austria v. Altmann, 541 U.S. 677 (U.S. Supreme Court 2004)
• R.M.S. Titanic, Inc. v. Wrecked Vessel, 435 F.3d 521 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit 2006)
• Ministry of Defense v. Elahi, 546 U.S. 450 (U.S. Supreme Court 2006)
• Adkins v. Rumsfeld, 464 F.3d 456 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit 2006)
• United States v. Tatoyan, 474 F.3d 1174 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit 2007)
• Gulf Petro Trading Co. v. Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., 512 F.3d 742 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit 2008)
• Casale v. Tillman, 558 F.3d 1258 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the11th Circuit 2009)
• Ministry of Defense v. Elahi, 129 S.Ct. 1732 (U.S. Supreme Court 2009)
• R.M.S. Titanic, Inc. v. Wrecked Vessel, 2010 WL 3239112 (U.S. District Court, E.D. Va. 2010)

• Georgia, 1987
• District of Columbia, 1988

• American Society of International Law, 1988 - Present
• Maritime Law Association of the US, 1992 - Present

• Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 2006 - Present

• Professor of Law, Emory University, 1991 - Present

• American Journal of International Law, Board of Editors, 1999 - Present
• Journal of Maritime Law & Commerce, Board of Editors, 1999 - Present
• Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute, President, 1996 - Present
• Antarctic & Southern Ocean Coalition, General Counsel, 2005 - Present

• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Hon. Charles E. Wiggins, Law Clerk, 1987 - 1988
• Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, Law Clerk, 1988 - 1989
• Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., Associate, 1989 - 1991
• Emory University School of Law, Professor, 1991 - Present

• University of London, London, England, 1996
  Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy in Laws
• Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, Netherlands, 1991
  Diploma in Public International Law
• University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1987
  J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
  Honors: Order of the Coif
  Law Journal: Virginia Journal of International Law, Research & Projects Editor, 1985 - 1987
• London School of Economics, London, U.K., 1984
  M.Sc., Master of Science
  Major: Sea-Use Law
  Major: Economics
  Major: Policy-Making
• Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs), Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 1983
  A.B., Bachelor of Arts
  Honors: summa cum laude

• International Law Frameworks, Foundation Press, 2010
• International Claims: Their Settlement by Lump Sum Agreements, 1975-1995 (with Burns H. Weston and Richard B. Lillich), Transnational Publishers, 1999
• Admiralty Jurisdiction, 31 J. Mar. L. & Com. 189, 2000
• Deference or Deception: Treaty Rights as Political Questions, 70 U. Col. L. Rev. 1439, 1997
• Admiralty and the Eleventh Amendment, 72 Note Dame L. Rev. 935, 1997
• Uniformity, Delegation and the Dormant Admiralty Clause, 28 J. Mar. L. & Com. 1, 1997
• The Curious Resurrection of Custom: Beach Access and Judicial Takings, 96 Colum. L. Rev. 1375, 1996
• Globalization and International Law, Palgrave MacMillan, 2008
• Admiralty Cases and Materials, LexisNexis, 2004
• The Spirit of International Law, Univ. of Georgia Press, 2002
• International Law: A Handbook for Judges, American Society of International Law, 2003
• Salvage, Benedict on Admiralty, vol. 8, 2001
• The Contemporary Contours of Admiralty Jurisdiction, 31 Tul. Mar. L.J. 291, 2007
• Refusing Salvage, 6 Loyola Mar. L.J. 31, 2008

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