Professor Campbell McLachlan discusses new book

Professor Campbell McLachlan QC (Victoria University of Wellington) was scholar in residence at the Center for the month of September 2014. While visiting, he presented a seminar under the chairmanship of Professor Ferrari on “The Foreign State in International Civil Litigation before National Courts” with Professor Linda Silberman (NYU) and Professor Harold Koh (Yale). In the video-clip, Professor McLachlan talks about his new book Foreign Relations Law, published this month with Cambridge University Press. It is the first modern study of the law regulating the external exercise of the public power of states in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.