Kramer, Ross

Charles Kotuby's practice covers all phases of litigation, with a focus on dispositive motions and appeals. He has authored or coauthored briefs in more than a dozen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and has argued numerous cases concerning federal statutory and constitutional issues before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Sixth, and Ninth Circuits. His experience spans a variety of substantive areas but primarily focuses on novel issues of public and private international law, including the scope of federal jurisdiction, the extraterritorial application of federal law, forum non conveniens, choice of law, proof of foreign law, foreign sovereign immunity, the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, and international treaty issues. Representative clients in recent matters include Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tires, Chevron Corporation, and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

Prior to joining Jones Day, Charles served as a legal fellow at the Max Planck Institute on Foreign and Private International Law in Hamburg, Germany and as a stagiaire attorney with the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in the Netherlands. He has participated in numerous joint U.S.-European Union academic symposia on issues of international judicial cooperation and private international law treaties. He also has authored several scholarly works on matters of private international law. Charles is currently the U.S. editor for Conflict of Laws.net (www.conflictoflaws.net), an online publication in cooperation with the Journal of Private International Law and the University of Birmingham in England.