Charles T. Kotuby Jr. (Chuck)

Associate

Charles Kotuby's practice covers all phases of litigation, with a focus on dispositive motions, memorials, and appeals. He has authored or coauthored briefs in more than a dozen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and has argued cases concerning federal statutory and constitutional issues before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Sixth, and Ninth Circuits. He has experience, both as an author and an advocate, with international investment protections and Bilateral Investment Treaty arbitrations under the ICSID and UNCITRAL rules. He also has considerable experience with European Union law and has counseled clients and briefed contentious matters before the Court of Justice of the European Communities. His background spans a variety of substantive areas but 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 arbitral awards, and treaty issues.

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 also has authored dozens of scholarly works on matters of public and 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.