David J. Bederman

Law Firm Overview

Areas of Practice

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

Honors and Awards

• Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, July 1, 2006 - Present

Published Works

• Admiralty Cases and Materials, Lexis-Nexis, 2005
• International Law: A Handbook for Judges, American Society of International Law, 2003
• The Spirit of International Law, University of Georgia Press, 2002
• 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
• Contemporary Contours of Admiralty Jurisdiction, 31 Tulane Mar. L. J. 291, 2007
• Reforming the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 40 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 489, 2001
• Globalization and International Law, Palgrave MacMillan, 2008
• Salvage, Benedict on Admiralty, vol. 8, 2001
• Refusing Salvage, 6 Loyola Mar. L.J. 27, 2008

Classes and Seminars

• Professor of Law, Emory Universiy School of Law, 1991 - Present

Representative Cases

• 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)
• United States v. Locke, 529 U.S. 89 (U.S. Supreme Court 2000)
• Lapides v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, 535 U.S. 613 (U.S. Supreme Court 2002)
• Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. v. Henson, 537 U.S. 28 (U.S. Supreme Court 2002)
• Norfolk Southern Railway 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)
• Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line, Ltd., 125 S.Ct. 2169 (U.S. Supreme Court 2005)
• RMS Titanic, Inc. v. Wrecked and Abandoned Vessel, 435 F.3d 521 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 2006)
• Northern Ins. Co. of NY v. Chatham County, Georgia, 126 S.Ct. 1193 (U.S. Supreme Court 2006)
• United States v. Tatoyan, 474 F.3d 1174 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 2007)
• Ministry of Defense v. Elahi, 546 U.S. 450 (U.S. Supreme Court 2006)
• 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)

West Practice Categories

Admiralty & Maritime Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, Litigation & Appeals