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Jack J. Coe Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of Law

Office: School of Law (SOL)
E-mail: jack.coe@pepperdine.edu

  • Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science, 1999
  • LL.M., University Exeter, Exeter, England, 1982
  • J.D., Loyola Marymount School of Law, 1979
  • B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1975, with distinction

A specialist in private international law, Professor Coe's training includes advanced studies in Europe. He received his LL.M. at Exeter, where he was a Rotary International Graduate Fellow, the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He clerked for the Honorable Richard C. Allison at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, the Hague and now consults with governments and multinational corporations in relation to commercial and direct investment disputes under the NAFTA and Bilateral Investment Treaties. Professor Coe, a regular speaker in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, has helped organize numerous conferences and programs related to international dispute resolution. He has taught in international programs for Notre Dame and University of San Diego Law Schools. He has authored numerous articles on arbitration, private international law, and related topics and authored the books Protecting Against the Expropriation Risk in Investing Abroad (co-authored with R.C. Allison) (1993), International Commercial Arbitration-American Principles and Practice in a Global Context (1997), and NAFTA Chapter 11 Reports (ed., with Brower and Dodge) (2006). He also is on the editorial panel for Oxford University Press' investor-state arbitration project.

Professor Coe is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and an associate reporter for the Restatement (Third) on the Law of International Commercial Arbitration. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, admitted to practice in California and Washington, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London. He has been chair of the Disputes Division of the ABA International Law Section, and chairs the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. Professor Coe has argued international arbitral claims under NAFTA, and served as an expert in investor-state arbitrations. Coe is also an arbitrator listed on the panel of the International Centre for Dispute resolution (AAA).

Professor Coe teaches Commercial and International Dispute Resolution, Corporations, Commercial Law-Sales, International Business Transactions, International Commercial Arbitration, International Investment Disputes, International Litigation, and International Public Law.

Selected Works:
  • Client Expectations in Investor-State Cases, TRANSNATIONAL DISPUTE MANAGEMENT (forthcoming).
  • Toward a Complementary Use of Conciliation in Investor-State Disputes--A Preliminary Sketch, 4 TRANSNATIONAL DISPUTE MANAGEMENT (2007).
  • Developments in Investor-State Arbitration--Reflections From the Classroom, 101 AM. SOC'Y INT'L L. PROC. 454 (2007).
  • International Legal Developments in Review: 2005, Developments in International Commercial Dispute Resolution, 40 INT'L LAW. 251 (2006).
  • Reflections on Teaching International Commercial Dispute Resolution and the Case for Reality-Based Simulations, 22 ARB. INT'L 249 (2006).
  • Transparency in the Resolution of Investor-State Disputes--Adoption, Adaptation, and NAFTA Leadership, 54 U. KAN. L. REV. 1339 (2006).
  • Toward a Complementary Use of Conciliation in Investor-State Disputes--A Preliminary Sketch, 12 U.C. DAVIS J. INT'L L. & POL'Y 7 (2005).
  • Planning for International Disputes (and What Makes Them Distinctive), 5 Pepp. Disp. Resol. L.J. 385 (2005).
  • The Case for the Model Law in Modernizing the FAA, 4 ABA INT'L ARBITRATION NEWS 2 (Fall 2004).
  • Domestic Court Control of Investment Awards: Necessary Evil or Achilles Heel Within NAFTA and the Proposed FTAA?, 19 J. INT'L ARB. 185 (2002); abridged version printed in 12(1) CAL. INT'L PRACTIONER 7 (2003).
  • NAFTA Chapter Eleven Arbitration: Architectural Highlights and Docket Patterns, 17(1) NEWS & NOTES INST. TRANSNAT'L ARB. (Winter 2003) at 1.
  • International Legal Developments in Review: 2002; International Commercial Dispute Resolution, 37 INT'L LAW. 445 (2003).
  • From Anecdote to Data-Reflections on the Global Center's Barcelona Meeting, 20(1) J. INT'L ARB. 11 (Feb. 2003).
  • Denial of Justice and NAFTA Chapter Eleven The Mondev Award, 3 (1) INT'L ARB. NEWS,Winter/Spring 2003 at 2.
  • International Legal Developments in Review: 2003, Developments in International Commercial Dispute Resolution in 2003, 38 INT'L LAW. 265 (2004).
  • Taking Stock of NAFTA Chapter Eleven in Its Tenth Year: An Interim Sketch of Selected Themes, Issues and Methods, 36 VANDERBILT TRANSNAT'L L.J. 1381 (2003).
  • Fair and Equitable Treatment ? A Textual Analysis, 96 ASIL PROC. 17 (2002).
  • Pre-Hearing Techniques to Promote Speed and Cost-Effectiveness, 2 PEPP. DISP. RESOL. L.J. 53 (2002), MEALEY'S INT'L ARB. REP. (May 2002), and 3(2) MEALEY'S QUARTERLY L. REV. 67 (2002).
  • The Serviceable Texts of International Commercial Arbitration: An Embarrassment of Riches, 10 WILLAMETTE J. INT'L L. & DISP. RESOL. 143 (2002).
  • Jack J. Coe, Jr. & Clyde C. Pearce, Arbitration under NAFTA Chapter Eleven: Some Pragmatic Reflections Upon the First Case Filed Against Mexico, 23 HASTINGS INT'L & COMP. L. REV. 311 (2000), 16 MEALEY'S INT'L ARB. REP. 1 (Jan. 2001).
  • Jack J. Coe, Jr. & Clyde C. Pearce, Putting Teeth into NAFTA's "Fair Treatment" Provisions, 8 LATIN AM. L. & BUS. REP. 3 (2000).
  • Jack J. Coe, Jr., Charles H. Brower & William S. Dodge, NAFTA CHAPTER ELEVEN REPORTS, VOLUME II (Kluwer Law International, forthcoming).
  • Bilateral Investment Treaties to which the United States is a Party, in INVESTMENT TREATIES (Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming).
  • Conciliation and the Role of Third-Party Neutrals in Investor-State Disputes, in ENFORCEMENT OF ARBITRAL AWARDS AGAINST SOVEREIGNS (R. Doak Bishop ed., Juris Publishers forthcoming).
  • Circulation of Draft Awards under the 2004 U.S. Model BIT, in THE FUTURE OF INVESTMENT ARBITRATION (Roger Alford & Catherine Rogers eds., Oxford University Press 2009).
  • The Transparency Features of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, in THE IRAN-U.S. CLAIMS TRIBUNAL AT 25: THE CASES EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW FOR INTERNATIONAL AND INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION (Chris Drahozal & Chris Gibson eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2007).
  • Jack J. Coe, Jr., Charles H. Brower & William S. Dodge, NAFTA CHAPTER ELEVEN REPORTS, VOLUME I (Kluwer Law International 2006).
  • Jack J. Coe, Jr. & Noah Rubins, Regulating Expropriation and the Tecmed Case: Context and Contributions, in INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW AND ARBITRATION: LEADING CASES FROM THE ICSID, NAFTA, BILATERAL TREATIES AND CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW (Todd Weiler ed., Cameron May 2005).
  • The Mandate of Chapter Eleven Tribunals-Jurisdiction and Related Questions, in NAFTA INVESTMENT LAW AND ARBITRATION: PAST ISSUES, CURRENT PRACTICE, FUTURE PROSPECTS (Todd Weiler ed., Transnational Pub. 2004).
  • Metalclad-A Retrospective, in NAFTA ARBITRATION REPORTS (J.C Thomas & J.C. Mowatt eds., Cameron May 2002).
  • Pre-Hearing Techniques to Promote Speed and Cost-Effectiveness, in THE ARBITRATION PROCESS: COMPARATIVE LAW YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (D.Campbell ed., Kluwer Law International 2002).