Max Planck Lecture Series
11:00 / 19 January 2016
Speaker: Peter D. Trooboff

Within the Committee’s framework, Mr. Peter Trooboff (Curatorium, Hague Academy of International Law; Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP) will deliver a lecture on “Conflicts over Extraterritoriality: U.S. Government Search Warrants for Content of Emails Stored in Other Nations – The Microsoft Case”.

Participation in this event is open to the public.

Peter D. Trooboff is Senior Counsel in the Washington office of Covington & Burling LLP. and has for over forty years advised and represented United States and foreign clients on U.S. regulation of trade and on international dimensions of domestic and foreign litigation and arbitration.
He is a graduate Columbia College (A.B.) (Junior Year, Institut d' Études Européennes, Paris), the Harvard Law School (LL.B.) and the London School of Economics (LL.M). A former president of the American Society of International Law (1990-92) and an honorary member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, Mr. Trooboff has served member since 1991 on the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law and is a long-standing member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law. He is an adviser to the American Law Institute’s proposed Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States and serves on the Members Consultative Committee for the proposed Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws. Mr. Trooboff has lectured and published widely on international legal issues.