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            Ryan Scoville

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                                          Ryan Scoville

                                          Professor of Law
                                          Courses Taught Civil Procedure, International Law, U.S. Foreign Relations Law, Conflict of Laws
                                          Areas of Law Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, International Law
                                            Email: ryan.scoville@marquette.edu
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                            Biography

                              Professor Scoville teaches and writes on U.S. foreign relations law and international law. His research has appeared in leading academic journals, influenced federal legislation, and been discussed in a number of national media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the L.A. Times, The Atlantic, and Foreign Policy. He is a periodic contributor at Lawfare and serves as an Adviser for the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. He is also a Fulbright Scholar and a former managing editor for AJIL Unbound. Since 2022, Yale Law School's Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic has represented him in a lawsuit that challenges and seeks to reform the State Department's chronically slow responses to FOIA requests.

                              Before entering academia, Professor Scoville worked as a litigation associate in the Tokyo office of the law firm of Morrison & Foerster, and served as a law clerk for Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Neil V. Wake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. He also worked briefly at the Arms Control Association and the Defense Department's Office of the General Counsel (International Affairs).

                              Professor Scoville holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was an executive editor for the Stanford Law Review, and a B.A. from Brigham Young University. He speaks Japanese (JLPT N2).

                              Books

                              The International Agreements of U.S. Cities and States (under contract with Oxford University Press)

                              U.S. State Commitments with Foreign Governments (W.S. Hein & Co., 2024) (co-edited with Mitchell Knief) (New Product Award for 2025 from the American Association of Law Libraries)

                              Selected Law Review Articles

                              The International Commitments of the Fifty States, 70 UCLA L. Rev. 310 (2023) [SSRN]

                              U.S. Foreign Relations Law from the Outside In, 47 Yale J. Int'l L. 1 (2022) [SSRN]

                              Unqualified Ambassadors, 69 Duke L.J. 71 (2019) [SSRN]

                              Who Studies International Law? Explaining Cross-National Variation in Compulsory International Legal Education, 30 Eur. J. Int'l L. 481 (2019) (with Mark Berlin) [SSRN]

                              Ad Hoc Diplomats, 68 Duke L.J. 907 (2019) [SSRN]

                              Finding Customary International Law, 101 Iowa L. Rev. 1893 (2016) [SSRN]

                              Legislative Diplomacy, 112 Mich. L. Rev. 331 (2013) [SSRN]

                              Professional and Academic Memberships Hide Show

                                  American Society of International Law, State Bar of California, State Bar of Idaho, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

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