Samuel P. Baumgartner is an Associate Professor of Law at The University of Akron School of Law. His area of expertise is in the field of international public and private law. He teaches International Law, Conflict of Laws, International Investments and International Trade. Professor Baumgartner has been admitted to Canton Bern State Bar in Switzerland. His memberships include Canton of Bern, ad hoc law revision, International Law Association, Committee on International Civil and Commercial Litigation, and ILA Observer, Hague Conference on Private International Law. Prior to joining Akron Law in 2004, Professor Baumgartner was employed at the Section of Private International Law at the Federal Department of Justice and Police in Bern, Switzerland, where he served as deputy head. He has been a Lecturer at the University of Bern Law School and the University of Lucerne School of Law. During summer 2001, he was the Director of Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law, and in spring 2003, he was a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School. Professor Baumgartner received an LL.B., magna cum laude, and Dr.iur, summa cum laude, from the University of Bern, Switzerland; an M.A. in Legal Institutions at the University of Wisconsin; and LL.M. at the University of Wisconsin. His scholarship work has appeared in the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International and Economic Law. Professor Baumgartner is also a recipient of the Hug Prize for best dissertation in law.
Articles
Switzerland, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Society Science's (2009)
Switzerland has the traditional Austro-German representative association procedures. Debate on adoption of other models, given...
Class Actions and Group Litigation in Switzerland, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business (2007)
Class actions have gone global. Foreign parties are no longer a rarity in U.S. class...
How Well Do U.S. Judgments Fare in Europe?, George Washington International Law Review (2007)
Transnational cases have become a prominent part of the litigation landscape in the United States....
Is Transnational Litigation Different?, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law (2004)
During the last fifteen years, there has been a growing interest in litigation transcending national...
Human Rights and Civil Litigation in United States Courts: The Holocaust- Era Cases, Washington University Law Quarterly (2002)
This is a comment on an article by Professor Burt Neuborne, in which he describes...
Books
THE PROPOSED HAGUE CONVENTION ON JURISDICTION AND FOREIGN JUDGMENTS, TRANS-ATLANTIC LAWMAKING FOR TRANSNATIONAL LITIGATION (2003)
In June 1993, a small working group of the Hague Conference on Private International Law...
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Outside the Scope of the Brussels and Lugano Conventions (with Gerhard Walter), Civil Procedure in Europe (2000)
Despite common roots, litigation practice in the various European countries can be remarkably different. Attempts...
Other
Transnational Litigation in the United States: The Emergence of a New Field of Law (reviewing Gary B. Born & Peter B. Rutledge, International Civil Litigation in the United States (2007)). (2007)
In this essay, I review the fourth edition of Gary Born's International Litigation in United...